SEED-TIME AND HARVEST, 
35 
Mother, what is an angel ?” “An angel? 
Well, an angel is a being that Hies.” “But, 
mother, why does papa always call my 
governess an angel? *’ “Well.*' explained 
the mother, after a moment’s pause, “she’s 
going to fly immediately.” 
A wealthy bank officer, on being applied 
to for aid by a needy Irishman, answered 
petulantly: “No, no, l can’t help. I have 
fifty such applicants as you every day” 
“Shure, and ye might have a hundred 
without costing ye much, if nobody gets 
more than I do. ’ was the witty response. 
Instructor in German, after astonish¬ 
ing the division by the announcement that 
the German words for “heaven” and “shirt** 
ha i the same root—“Mr. X.. can you see a 
difference between H> a,veil and a (clean) 
shirt, for instance?” Mr. X., hesitating— 
“Well, sir, they are both good things for a 
man to get into.” 
It is well to remember that the ground 
cannot be made too tich for vegetable cul¬ 
ture, and that none of the so-called commer¬ 
cial fertilizers can take the place of pre¬ 
pared stable or barn manure for the produc 
tion of succulent vegetables; guano, bone 
dust, etc., may be useful as supplementary 
stimulants, but the main dependenca must 
be the barn-yard. The term “heavy manur¬ 
ing” is variously construed, but in vege¬ 
table culture it means not less than thirty 
tons of yard or stable manure to the acre; 
if bonedust is applied, not less than one ton 
to the acre would be thought of. 
It w T as late yesterday morning when Mr. 
Willaby got up, and he was vaguely con¬ 
scious of a confused recollection of things, 
but he didn't say much and tried to appear 
as cheerful as he knew how. Presently 
breakfast was announced, and the family 
took their places at the table, but Mr. Wil¬ 
laby was amazed, as he sat staring at six 
little wooden boxes of axle grease ranged 
solemnly in front of his plate. “Where 
under the sun,” he said, with puzzled in¬ 
tonation, “what in thunder—where did all 
this axle grease come from, and what is it 
for? “Oh. is it axle grease?” asked his 
wife, with charming simplicity and inno¬ 
cence, just a trifle overdone. “You said 
last night when you brought these cans 
home that they were oysters and would be 
nice for bieakfast. I thought you had bet¬ 
ter eat them right away, as they didn't 
smell as though they would keep. 
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