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now and then at the store, buying crockery, sheeting, &c., and 

 at the cabinet maker's ordering a bureau, and tables, and chairs. 

 These were paid for out of her wages. When the house was 

 finished and paid for, she became a joint occupant of it with 

 Watson, and people called her Miss Watson. 



If you had visited the village ten years afterwards, you would 

 have found the house enlarged and handsomely furnished, and 

 occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Watson, and several young Watsons 

 male and female. 



Old Mr. Graham had voted for Watson, not for governor, but 

 for member of congress, and had the satisfaction of knowing that 

 his vote was not thrown away. When he was declared elected, 

 the old man remarked, " I'm pretty well satisfied with a country 

 that will put forward men like that. He never had a journey- 

 man in his life: he has always done his own work, and he'll do 

 it now in congresss, you see if he don't." 



FRUIT AND FRUIT TREES OF YATES COUNTY. 



BY S. B. BUCKLEY. 



As climate has an important influence on the productions of a 

 country, especially its fruits, a few remarks on the climate of this 

 county will be given. Yates county is situated in 42 deg. 30 m. 

 north latitude, and its longitude is nearly the same as that of 

 Washington city. The Seneca and Crooked lakes, both of which 

 lie partly within the borders of this county, have an important 

 bearing on its climate. The Seneca lake, whose Indian name 

 was Canesaga, signifying beautiful water, is truly a beautiful 

 sheet of water, which owing to its great depth, and to its being 

 fed probably by springs, is never frozen over, and steam boats 

 ply on its surface during the winter. Fruit trees near the lake 

 bloom at least a week or ten days sooner than those which are 

 situated ten or twelve miles distant; also the wheat harvest com- 

 mences about two weeks before the harvest of many sections fif- 

 teen to twenty-five miles from the lake; so that laborers frequently 



