HELPING WEED THE PASTURE 153 



I asked him if he would let us pick the Daisies 

 from his pasture. He saw I had my basket 

 with me. 



" Perhaps you'd rather I'd fill this basket with 

 cherries? " he said. 



" Grandmother has plenty of cherries," I told 

 him. 



He laughed at that and asked Philip how much 

 he wanted for clearing his pasture from white 

 weeds. 



" We'll do it for a quarter a hundred," Philip 

 said. 



" I can get it done cheaper," Uncle Hiram an- 

 swered. 



" Not by us," Philip told him very proudly. 



Uncle Hiram smiled again and asked me, " You 

 in this bargain? " 



I was going to tell him that I only wanted to 

 pick a great many Daisies to make a bouquet for 

 our veranda, when Philip pulled my sleeve and 

 winked, and Tommy nudged me in the back. I 

 said, " Yes." 



" Let me see," Uncle Hiram said, " if you each 

 pull a third of a hundred, that's less than thirty- 

 four apiece, and if you divide up the quarter it 

 gives you each a little more than eight cents. 

 Eight cents for pulling up thirty-four weeds is 

 pretty good pay." 



Philip said: "It's hard work pulling white 

 weeds." 



