CHAPTER LV 
THE OLD TIME FARM-HAND 
Wir all my industries thus increasing, the 
necessity for more help became imperative. 
French and Judson had their hands more than 
full in the dairy barns, and had to be helped out 
y by Thompson. Anderson could not give the 
swine all the attention they needed, and was 
assisted by Otto, who proved an excellent swine- 
herd. Sam had the aid of Lars’s boys with the 
poultry, and very efficient aid it was, consider- 
ing the time they could give to it. They had to 
| be off with the market wagon at 7.40, and did 
not return from school until 4 p.m. Lars was 
busy in the carriage barn ; and though we spared 
him as much as possible from driving, he had to 
be helped out by Johnson at such times as the 
latter could spare from his greenhouse and _ hot- 
beds. Zeb took care of the farm teams; but the 
winter’s work of distributing forage and grain, 
getting up wood and ice, hauling manure, and so 
forth, had to be done in a desultory and irregu- 
lar manner. The spring work would find us 
wofully behindhand if I did not look sharp. 
I had been looking sharp since January set in, 
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