A Bad Harvest 



: confident expectation of the early opening of the 

 , long delayed railroad. 



The father and son had homesteaded two quarter 



; sections (three hundred and sixty acres) side by 



; side, and having worked hard, had this year two 



hundred acres of crop, so it was pretty obvious 



that if it was to be reasonably well harvested 



they wanted help. 



" I opine it's going to be a bad year," said Jones. 

 " Anyway," said I, " if you want help, I want 

 a job and money." 



" Will you come on for a week with your team 

 l^b; three dollars a day ? " said Jones. 



" What work have you for the bulls ? " I asked. 

 " Well," said he, " though a lot of the wheat 

 is badly froze, and I doubt will be hardly worth 

 threshing, there's a hundred acres of oats pretty 

 fair, and I figure we had better go to work and 

 stack them, or they may be snowed under before 

 we get the threshing outfit." 



t" But," said I, " three dollars a day is not 

 ough for self and team." 

 " Not for all the time," he answered, " but we 

 only want them for stacking." 



The arrangement seemed to me dubious, for 

 a man and team during harvest should be worth 

 more, so I looked at Andy with a smile and 

 remarked : 



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