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dricks came to Butler, anil asked, " \vhere is the harness for the 

 off horse?" 



" Oh, I let Finkle have it last night. I didn't know as we 

 should want it to-day. Isn't there something else you can do to- 

 day?" 



" Yes, there is enough to do, if a body could ever get at it. 

 There he comes with the harness. You are sure you havn't lost 

 any of the linch pins?" 



" I guess not." 



" Well, it may be," said Hendricks to himself, " that some of 

 that corn will be saved after all." 



Tlie reader has had a si)eciraen of the mode of proceeding on 

 Mr. Butler's farm, and will be enabled to form a pretty shrewd 

 guess why it was that Mr. Butler, who had an excellent farm and 

 who was always busy about something, w^as not " deemed and 

 taken" by his neighbors to be a forehanded man. 



Hendricks with the aid of Saul, succeeded in getting in most 

 of the corn to which allusion has been made, so that Mr. Benton's 

 cows came home the next day, v;hich w^as the Sabbath, much 

 less well filled than ordinary. 



On Monday morning Hendricks was out by daylight, and at 

 work when Saul made his appearance, w^hich was not till he had 

 given the sun due precedence. Hendricks informed him that a 

 new leaf was to be turned over. " Things about the place are 

 going to be done this week as they ought to be done," said he. 



" I'm agreed" said Saul, who was quite willing to work, but 

 wished very much to be relieved from the responsibility of direct- 

 ing his own movements. 



" Mr. Butler," said John after breakfast, " has that axe come 

 to light yet?" 



" I havn't seen it." 



" Here it is," said Lizzy, " I found it in the grass in the gar- 

 den." 



" And took care of it like a sensible body," said John, taking 

 the axe from her hand, " Thankee." 



The compliment was not a very polished one, but it brought 

 over her beautiful countenance a blush which she hastened into 

 the pantry to conceal. 



" Now," said he, " if you and Saul will go at those potatoes, I 

 will put that fence in a shape that will keep Hyde's cattle out of 

 that meadow for some time I guess." 



" Hyde ought to put up part of it," said Butler. 



" I know he had, but he will never do it, you might as well try 

 to get a hen to do a sum in the rule of three, as to get him to do 

 anything worth while. Come let us have all those potatoes in, 

 and that fence up before sunset." 



