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An  Old-Fashioned  Farmhouse  in  Winter 
number  of  families.  "Can’t,  you  use  was  not  used  to  banks  and  rapped  on 
some  deer  meat  at  home?”  said  a  farmer  the  door.  They  shouted  “Come  in.”  lie 
Venison  and  Spare  Rib. — The  Pas¬ 
toral  Parson  has  just  been  eating  a  tine 
dinner,  the  heart  of  whieli  was  a  beauti¬ 
ful  roast  of  pork.  It  was  not  only  the 
flavor  of  that,  pork  that  was  so  delight¬ 
ful  but  it  was  what  the  Pastoral  Parson 
calls  the  aroma  that  pleased  him  most. 
The  flavor  of  a  piece  of  food  you  get  out 
of  it  yourself  but  the  aroma  is  something 
it  gives  off  of  its  own  accord.  And  the 
best  part  of  the  aroma  of  anything  is 
the  association  that  goes  with  it.  “Wo 
have  killed  the  pig.”  said  one  of  the  Par¬ 
son's  down-country  boys  as  he  entered  the 
kitchen  door  after  dark  last  Saturday 
night,  “and  there’s  a  spaivrib  in  the 
cellar  for  you.”  Now  the  Parson  does 
not  accept  such  gifts  on  the  ground  that 
he  is  a  parson,  or  that  he  is  poverty- 
struck.  but  rather  on  the  ground  of  a 
most  friendly  and  delightful  interchange 
of  farm  articles,  without  money,  weigh¬ 
ing  or  price  between  him  and  a  largo 
help  a  farmer,  besides  snapping  his  head 
off  because  he  may  have  the  impudence 
and  nerve  to  want  to  send  away  a  little 
freight!  It  was  really  a  delight  to  send 
things  off  at  that  station,  the  agent,  was 
so  helpful  and  cheerful.  .Sometime  after 
Iiis  death  the  local  paper  started  a  con¬ 
test  over  a  large  fine  kitchen  range.  Some 
one  mentioned  Mrs.  Stearns,  and  she  im¬ 
mediately  became  a  close  second  with  one 
of  the  leading  society  women  of  the  vil¬ 
lage.  The  excitement  ran  high  all  Win¬ 
ter  but  the  society  woman  persistently 
ran  a  little  ahead.  The  final  day  came 
right  in  mud  time  and  the  count  was 
down  in  the  old  White  River  Bank  Build¬ 
ing.  The  coupons  were  about  all  tallied 
up  and  the  society  lady  was  quite  a  little 
ahead  when  a  fierce  rattling  was  heard 
out  on  the  street.  The  counters  looked 
out.  There  they  saw  a  mud-covered  wag¬ 
on.  a  jaded  horse,  an  old  farmer.  He 
pulled  ui>  and  headed  for  the  bank.  lie 
Pastoral  Parson  on  the  Lonely  Road 
New  Year’s  on  the  Farm 
By  Rev.  Geo.  B.  Gilbert 
to  me  last  week  as  I  rose  from  a  meal  gingerly  pushed  his  head  through  the 
of  line  roast  venison.  “I  will  get  you  a  door.  “Is  this  where  they’re  counting 
bag  of  it  to  take  home.”  On  the  trip  be-  them  air  ballots  for  Charlie  Stearns* 
fore  that  I  met  a  woman  hurrying  along  widder?”  said  lie.  He  was  assured  that 
in  the  dark  as  I  was  going  to  got  my  it  was  the  place.  "Wall,  if  Charlie 
horse.  “I  left  a  bundle  on  the  seat  of  Stearns'  widder  wants  that  air  stove,  she 
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your  carriage”  said  she.  “We  were 
afraid  you  weren’t  coming  down  this  way 
in  time  to  get  it.”  And  so  a  large  roast 
kept  company  with  the  R.  I.  Red  rooster 
on  the  parson’s  dinner  table.  Now  it  hap¬ 
pened  that  the  Pastoral  1 'arson  had  a 
big  field  of  turnips  ibis  year  and  many 
of  his  families  had  none,  but  they  have 
had  turnips  to  oat  just  the  same  all  Win¬ 
ter  long. 
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to  get  a  good  price  for  a  thing,  give  it 
away.”  “Carrie,”  said  a  woman  to  her 
daughter,  "you  will  never  lie  in  want, 
you  give  so  much  away.”  In  fact  I 
often  get  so  much  more  than  a  thing  is 
worth,  that  I  feel  quite  ashamed  of  my¬ 
self.  A  fine  rib  roast,  for  a  bag  of  tur¬ 
nips  hardly  smacks  of  the  ffo-oent  dollar! 
Before  we  had  the  farm,  the  boys  and  I 
picked  some  pears  for  a  woman  at  the 
halves.  She  was  much  concerned  over 
getting  the  last  cent  for  hers  that  could 
bo  had.  I  believe  she  got  a  dollar.  What 
the  boys  and  I  didn't  want  we  gave  away 
to  the  neighbors  and  their  hoys.  If  there 
didn't  keep  coming  to  out*  back  door  all 
kinds  of  good  garden  things  till  Thanks¬ 
giving,  when  the  climax  arrived  in  a 
big.  fine  chicken  for  our  dinner!  “I 
don’t  think  I  ought,  to  lake  it,”  said  a 
down-county  boy  the  other  day  as  I  left 
a  good  beefsteak  in  his  wagon  by  the  curb 
up  street,  "Take  it  along,”  said  I, 
“your  mother  always  remembers  how  I 
love  pig’s  liver.” 
Charlie  Stearns'  Widokk.— “Is  ibis 
that  newspaper-coupon  stove?”  said  the 
Pastoral  Parson  as  he  washed  himself 
for  breakfast  one  morning  last  week. 
“Yes.”  said  the  daughter  of  Charlie 
Stearns’  widder,  “and  a  good  stove  it  has 
been.”  Then  we  had  to  go  over  file  story 
of  that  stove.  Charlie  Stearns  was  for 
many  years  the  station  agent,  and  how 
many  things  a  Station  agent  can  do  to 
better  have  it.”  ITe  thrust  liis  big  horny 
hand  in  one  of  his  pockets  and  pulled 
out  a  handful  of  coupons.  “The  old  mare 
and  I  have  been  ridin’  a  bit  up  beyond 
Mount  Hunger.”  said  lie,  “while  there 
won't  much  doin’  this  "Winter."  Then 
lie  thrust  his  hand  in  another  pocket  and 
hauled  out  u  lot  more,  then  in  an  inside 
pocket  and  out  came  another  half  peck. 
They  counted  and  counted — all  competi¬ 
tors  were  counted  out  and  still  came 
forth  coupons,  from  the  old  fellow’s  jeans. 
“She's  got  the  stove,”  they  shouted.  “Wit 
don’t  want  any  more.”  But  still  from 
somewhere  about  his  anatomy  the  emt- 
pons  came— no  one  ever  knew  just  how 
many  he  did  have.  Then  without  a  word 
lie  turned  about  the  mare,  headed  up  the 
White  River  Valley,  and  the  rattle  of  the 
old  wagon  grew  fainter  as  he  went  under 
the  dry  bridge  toward  Mount  Hunger, 
eight  miles  to  the  southwest. 
Lest  We  Forget. — One  time,  amidst 
mueli  distress  and  sickness,  there  was  no 
flour  with  whieli  to  make  bread  in  this 
same  stove.  In  the  early  morning  a  bar¬ 
rel  of  flour  was  found  on  the  side  porch, 
and  no  one  to  this  day  ever  kuow  where 
it  came  from.  On  leaving  this  same  house 
one  day  a  man  put  u  small  roll  of  bills 
on  the  table.  Amidst  violent  protests 
the  man  remarked  that  it  was  to  help 
pay  for  an  overcoat  given  him  in  that 
house  just  .'50  years  before. 
“M - ."  said  a  man  to  a  lawyer 
friend  of  the  Pastoral  Parson’s,  “you 
must  keep  a  good  share  of  this  forty-five 
dollars  you  have  collected  for  me  to  pay 
for  your  own  work."  “Hardly,”  said  the 
prosperous  lawyer,  “this  was  paid  for  in 
dried  beef  gravy  When  I  used  to  come  up 
to  the  farm  camping  years  ago.” 
Hens  and  Cold  Fi  i  t.  "They  won’t 
lay  with  their  feel  out  on  this  cold 
ground.”  said  a  wiseacre  to  the  Pastoral 
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12.15  to  28.65 
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