HICK OR V CHIPS. 



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but Brindle would not touch them and he had to 

 plow them under for the beans and cabbages. 

 Guessem saj's that beets contain lots of substance, 

 which accounts for their being blood red. Enoch 

 figured on it all one day, and concluded that that 

 beet crop was worth ^75 in gold as a manure ; but 

 he said that he had rather mine his gold and bank 

 it in town than bury it. 



The beans were all blasted by being hoed while 

 the dew was on. This is a point which Guessem 

 does not mention, but every old gardener knows 

 about it. The cabbages had worms and club-root, 

 and the celery would not bleach itself. It is as- 

 tonishing how perverse some of these crops are, 

 when the books and catalogues certainly give us the 

 easily figured results. All that was necessary to be 

 done to that celery was to sow it and transplant it, 

 and it would bleach out as it went along. But 

 somehow it didn't, though Enoch was sure he had 

 bought the seed direct from the catalogue man who 

 told about it. 



About every two weeks Enoch borrowed a little 

 money at the bank — on my security — to help along 

 until the cabbages and celery were ripe. He kept 

 his accounts right up, he said, but for some rea- 

 son I could never have a chance to see them 

 until about the next Thanksgiving, when he hap- 



pened to leave his bureau drawer unlocked. 



the account ran thus : 





L'K . 



















93- 0 

















■ 9 









600 













19-50 













43-67 







$655.82 



Cr. 



130 bunches radishes @ .02 $2.60 



40 bushels beets @ .25 10.00 



I mess of beans sold to Mother 10 



1306 heads cabbage @ .03 39-i8 



201 1 crowns celery @ .07 i40-77 



192.65 



Balance in the bank (to my debit) I463-17 



Enoch says that the cow-lot pays better. And 

 all we shall do in the garden this year is to plant our 

 crops and take care of them in the old way ; we get 

 something ! R- T. Choke, 



T^oitnd and round in ghoulish dance 

 Do the gniesonie monslers run, 



And ever dolb ihcir gait enhance 

 Till the siiinincr's heat is done. 



