304 FARMING BY INCHES; 



and you can tell any of our city friends you write to that we 

 now keep a horse and cart. How much do you think 

 I paid for my team?" 



" I am sure I don't know." 



" Just fifty dollars for the wagon, horse, and harness. 

 It will carry our crops to market, and we can sell it when 

 we return to the city, if we ever do so." 



" Do you think there is any doubt about our re- 

 turn?" 



" Yes ; my health is so much better since I have lived in 

 the open air. that I am half inclined to stay out under the 

 sky for the rest of my days." 



"How about our support in that event?" 



"That is a question I imagine this rickety old wagon 

 will soon settle." 



It did settle it in a measure the very next day. Just 

 about daybreak the next morning Robert started off to 

 market for the first time. He returned in time for a late 

 breakfast, and as he rose to go to his work he placed a 

 blank book and a small roll of bills in my hand, saying, as 

 he did so, " Our first sales, Hattie." 



3 bushels of beet-tops, at 75c $2 25 



12 doz. lettuce, 50c 6 00 



6 " bunches of radishes, $100 600 



1 bbl. of peas 8 00 



$22 25 



