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till after school is out. At such times the young lady comes to 

 meet him on foot along the sidewalks that go a piece out of 

 town. He has learned that, when he meets her, he must turn 

 around and go back again ; so he watches all the little girls of 

 about her size as they cor/.e out of the school and come down 

 his way, turning his head and pricking up his ears while he 

 scrutinizes each miss to see whether she is the one he " belongs 

 to." Sometimes he seems somewhat undecided, and stops in 

 the road to take a better look. When he is satisfied the one in 

 question is not his " best girl " then he goes on for the next, 

 and so on. This brings in an interesting point just here : How 

 far can a horse see, and see plainly enough to distinguish one 

 person from another? I suggested that meddlesome people 

 might tie the horse up, thinking he was astray ; and they very 

 soon found that a card would have to be hung on to the har- 

 ness, to the effect, "You let me alone. I know where I am 

 going, and I am all O. K." After this, especially as the people 

 round about have " caught on," he made his daily trips with- 

 out hindrance. 



THE BARBER BERRY-FARM. 



This is about two miles directly north of Brunswick. It is 

 near what they call Stone Hill. As I pushed my wheel up the 

 neat graveled path under the trees, a pleasant-faced woman 

 met me with smiles, telling me her husband was just starting 

 off, but that I could stop him if it were attended to at once. 

 Friend Barber has been in the fruit-business from childhood up, 

 and he has perhaps 50 acres on a gravelly stony hill, devoted 

 entirely to fruits. This hill is a very high one. The slope to- 

 ward the west must be down a hundred feet or more ; and the 

 consequence is, he has his trees and berries loaded with fruit 

 grapes, plums, cherries, peaches, etc. It was a real pleasure to 

 me to find I was able to name not only his strawberries, but 

 nearly all his raspberries, currants, and some of the blackber- 

 ries. After experimenting some he has decided to plant the 

 Victoria currant almost entirely, and nothing else. For rasp- 

 berries he has the Cuthbert for red, and Gregg for black ; some 

 Shaffer's Colossal, and some Marlboro for early. He not only 

 uses the hill, but, like myself, he has a creek -bottom strawber- 

 ry-patch which is nice to start plants ; and when the frost holds 

 off it gives quite a lot of fruit. Various springs in the hillside 

 would probably fill a reservoir sufficient to irrigate his lower 

 grounds, and he is just now planning to have this done. 



