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 WHO SHOULD DO TIFK AFlLKINc; ? 



A niALOUI'R. 



^. Good evpiiintf, girls. 

 If/, tiooil evening, Surnli : we linvo called 

 ,r „ .. y.iu to walk (Villi us UiK pleasant evenin<;. 

 g S,ir.iH. Thank yon, I slmiild be very happy to: 

 )w l.ing slinll you be pone.' 

 l,ury. We tliouglii of g«\n'j up os Oiras " Plea- 

 nt I'ond," and return by 'Si|uirc R.'s to call on 

 :ii7.'ibetli. 



Sarah. O dear ! if you are poin^j so far il will 

 ever Jo fur inc lo go, for I must be ut homo to 

 ilk. 



Harriet. Why Surah! do you have to milk.' 

 Sarih. Ves, always — don 't you ? 

 HanicL No, indeed. Does your father re- 

 uire U of you ." 

 Sarah. Yes — my father is ono nf those old- 

 iliiMied soil of men that think «c ought to do as 

 ur ijr.indin.'tliera before us did. 



Lwii. Why, I hardly ihuuirht there was one 

 lan in a thousand that expected girls to milk now. 

 -days. 



.luat Polly. Why, Miss, where have you lived 

 II ynur dnys ? 



Lucy. Lived — in a fanner's family — where did 

 ou suppose • 



Aunt Polly. La, \ supposed ye lived in some 

 lapr.rt or village, where cows war'nt very plenty. 

 Litcy. Oh no — my fulher kecjp-j twelve cows, 

 od most of our neighbors as many, or more. 



HirrUl. Sarah, is n't that your brother Charles 

 jming with a load of hay .' I mean to ask him, 

 , for once at least, he will not milk your cows, so 

 lat you may walk with us. 



Sarah. You may — but I suspect it will be of 

 o use. 

 Charles Percy. Good evening, ladies. 

 Harriet. Good evening, Mr Percy. I have a 

 .vor to ask of you, no less than this — that you 

 ill do Sarah's milking for her to-nighc. 

 Charles. Why to-night ? 



Lucy. We are going to walk, and wish very 

 inch Sarah may go with us. 

 Charles. .\ walk — I am glad for once tUehorse 

 not to be harnessed. 



Harriet. Why, Charles, aintyouoneof those 

 Hat love to harness a horse? But now you will 

 iiilk for Sarah, wont you ? 



Chirks. Harriet, would you have us, after 

 orking hard in the field all day, milk at night? 

 Harriet. Ye^^, I would. I do think you ought 

 ot lo work so hard tliat you cannot save time and 

 rcni;lh to milk. 



Charles. Well, somehow I always thought it 

 Kie of those things girls perform better than we, 

 u that it IS best for them to do it. 



Harriet. Plausible reasoning, surely — tellin" 

 8 we do it better, will never make it any easier- for 

 le poor urrists, or any more within our sphere of 

 uties. 



Charles. Then, Harriet, you really think we 

 i«n ought to do nil the inilkin,' ? 



Harriet. Most surely I do. If we have to lake 

 are of the milk after it comes into the house, that 

 I our full share of iho work. Only tliiok how 

 luch there is to be done to it — to strain, skim, 

 utter lo make, Avork over and do up for market; 

 len the host of pans and pails to wash, &.c. 6lc. 

 think we have enough to do, in all conscience, 

 'itbout assisting you in your bamhold labors. 



Chart, s. I nckiiuw|i>il;fc llicro in much truth in 

 what you say, but what else can you fiiiil to do ? 



Lucy. "Find to do"! Idle c-eaturi's, aiiit we ! 

 If 80, why so great the want for female labor? 

 You well knoiv you can readily obtain ten men to 

 Work on tlio farm, whero you can find one girl to 

 Work in the house. 



Charles. I beg your pardon : [ did not mean 

 j to say you wore idle, but then you find much more 

 j time for walking, visiting, iVc. than wo do. 

 I Lucy. Good reason for it : we are eo cxpedi- 

 ; tioos we gel our house-work done up ; and nucdN' 

 I work, which is quite as important, wi- take with us 

 when wi; visit; but when gentlemen visit, llicy 

 I leave their work behind. 



, Emily. Come, girl--, if you talk much longer 

 , we shall lose our walk. 



Harriet. Never mind, when we are discussing 

 '■ so important n subject. 



I Charles. Here is my hay — when shall I unload 

 it, if [ go to milking? 



Harriet. Why, tomorrow morning (aflcr milk- 

 ing.) if you have not time before. 



Charle.i. But I never can take time to milk 

 twice a day. 



Lury. At my father's, the men expect to milk 

 as much as any other work on the firm, and for 

 my part, if I had oiit-door work to do, I should pre- 

 fer raking, hoeing, weeding, or many other kinds 

 of woik, to milking. 



Charlfs. Our girls have always done the milk- 

 ing, without making any objection, and I have 

 thought it all right. 



Sarah. True enough, we always do it, but 

 what use would it be to comfilain ? 



Cluirks. Emily I see is wishing to go, and toy 

 oxen are tired — so, Sarah, I'll milk to-night. Good 

 night, girls. 



Girls. Good night, Charles. 

 Harriet. Sarah, I think you must thank !^liss 

 Emily for your walk, fori suspect Charles would 

 never have been so complacent had she not been 

 with us. 



Sarah. I think as much : never did I know him 

 to milk so readily. 



Emily. Why me! I have hardly spoken to him. 

 Harriet. You were so absorbed in thinking 



how much would be expected of you when 



Lucy. Oh, how beautifully those lilies look. 

 Let us go round the other side and see if we can- 

 not gather some. 



[VVhen they returned from their walk, they found 

 Mr Percy sitting on the donr-step ] 



Charles. Oil, what beauliful lilies you have 

 found — I supposed tlity were out of blossom now. 

 Harriet. Mr Percy, will you accept of these ? 

 they may revive you after the labors of the day. 



Charles. Thank yon — after milking, you mean, 

 I suppose. 



Harriet. Yes — how did you succeed ? 

 Cltnrks. Oh I got a few quarts. 

 Lury. I saw it slated in a (arming periodiciil 

 not long since, that for some reasons there given, 

 that girls usually obtain more milk than men and 

 boys; but I always think that those that say so, 

 have an inveterate haired to milking themselves. 



CImrles. You mean for inc to take part of that, 

 I suppose. 



Lucy. Just as you please ; — but truly after 



Lury. I am gliiil to hear you gay tlnM much, 

 and HJiall hope lliiit ihe next time wo meet (fur 

 Emily's sake) to hear you nro fully inclined to 

 agree with 119. 



LETIII.A. 

 Ojr"Tlioiigli Aunt Polly says but a few wurds, 

 she hints a good lesson to the girls. An expcn- 

 aivu and efleminating piide in the daughters of llie 

 farmer desrrves a sneer. And Miss Harriet, Lu- 

 cy, Emily, or whatever else bo your name, if 

 Charles is induced by you in llio days of lii'i bud- 

 ding love, to gise up his opinions, for the sake of 

 atcommodating his talk lo your sentimentality, ho 

 is not worth marrying — However, we are very 

 glad to hear from "Lelitia" — and if our opinions 

 can be rel'utod by ari;umeiils and facts — if it can 

 be proved that it will be for the interest of the far- 

 mer's family that the men should do the milking, 

 wo will yield the victory to ony fair wielder of ihe 

 quill, with the most gallant grace that is possible. 

 — Eu. f.'. E. I". 



EDITORIAL NOTICES. 

 Mw ,'igricultural Paper. S. W. Cole, late edi- 

 tor of the Yankee Farmer, proposes to issue a 

 monthly paper, of the size of our own sheet, to be 

 called the " Farmer's Journal and Magazine of 

 Useful .-\rts." In a specimen No. he expresses the 

 design to commence the tirst of October. The 

 terms are 50 cents per year in advance, in all cases. 

 While the Yankee Farmer was under the care of 

 Mr Cole, it always indicated industry, inqiiisitive- 

 ness, and sound practical wisdom in matters per- 

 taining to agriculture. The proposed paper will 

 doubtless be well conducted, and will be well worth 

 the cost. We wish our worthy brother success. 



Liebig's Oriranic Chemistry. We are pleased 

 to learn that Professor Webster is preparin^f to 

 pulilish a second edition of Liebig's Chemistry. He 

 informs us that he will be gratified to learn from 

 agriculturists the results of any experiments they 

 may have made to test the correctness or worth of 

 any of Liebig's theories. His address is Cam- 

 bridge, Mass, 



Map of Boston and Vicinity. Nath'l Dearborn 

 has just published a little book to accompany his 

 map of Boston and vicinity. This book contains a 

 few "historical and geographical remarks" con- 

 cerning "each of the eightysix towns named on 

 the map." 



The Effect of Under Draining. There is a 

 field on the estate of the Earl of Leicester, at Long- 

 ford, in this county, which some years ago was oc- 

 cupied by Mr John Slierratt, and brought forth 

 rushes in such abundance, that ihe occupier gave 

 leave to any body to carry ihem away who would 

 be at the trouble to mow tliein. Three years ago 

 the field was drained, under the direction of .Mr T. 

 Harper, of Fostoii ; and this year, we are told, the 

 present occupier, Mr T. Robinson, has cut three 



tons an acre of as nice herbage as ever grew 



Derbyshire. Chroniclt. 



The Old Coat. It is bettor to turn the old coat, 

 said my aunt Prudence, than to run in debt for a 

 new one. But see, r''plicd I, there is a hole in it! 



thinking and talking thus long, are you not ready Never mind that, said >he — put in a patch ; a patch 

 to join with us in saying that girls ought not to be ' upon the sleeve is better than a writ upon the back ; 

 expected to milk ? j the old coat will set easier at home, than a new 



Chailes. I urn more than half inclined to. [one in prison. — Selected. 



