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Something New. It would not seem 
as though wo could have anything new 
in the Old Church ‘way down county 
that we have not already had, but we did 
the other day. Tl was a wedding. Sun¬ 
day is a good day for a wedding in the 
country, and the country church is the 
place to have it. On this day it snowed 
furiously all tin* morning, and you can 
see from the picture how the ground is 
covered with snow. We ran into this 
snowstorm on the way down with the 
Ford, and came near regretting seriously 
we did not bring any chains, as it did not 
snow at all at home. 
The WEDDING M Alii it.—Shelley prac¬ 
ticed up on the Wedding March ail tin* 
evening before and some Sunday morn¬ 
ing. II was his first attempt at playing 
for a wedding. As soon as the people 
began to come, tin* ladies began selling 
the table, for were we not going to have 
the wedding breakfast right there in Ihe 
churchV Then we had morning service, 
and the Parson rend about the wedding at 
Cana of Galilee so long ago. Then we 
had a talk about, the part a home plays 
in our country. Next to an education, 
what, n great tiling it is to provide some 
way that our children may some time 
have homes of their own. To think of 
our children always renting, and never 
owning, always liable to have their rent 
raised or to be put out altogether, always 
lie can do this Spring without doing a 
stroke on the farm; but how can hi* give 
it up? All tile Winter lie has looked for¬ 
ward to poking around on the farm with 
Ta. What a bless 1 ng to be alive on a 
farm in the Spring! How the hens 
cackle and sing, and how young .Terry 
(hinder, Jr., veils at his ladies down in 
Ihe brook. Even now. the ninth of March, 
it is time to get the hotbed going. The 
windows for that will come off tin* hen¬ 
house, where they will not be needed 
much longer. George looks after the barn 
now, and, really, there is no need of the 
Parson going over all day long; but lmw 
can lie help it? In fact, he has just 
found an excuse to go over and take some 
potato parings. 
The Tail’ Paid. —The trip to the barn 
paid, as all barn trips may well pay— 
barn happenings are so interesting. On 
the haymow in the corner is one of the 
hen's most favorite nests. A While Leg¬ 
horn is standing on one leg, gazing 
toward tin* uest. She looks discouraged. 
She has hurried in to lay a nice, big egg 
worth three cents. There on her nest is 
a perfectly enormous, great white goose! 
This goose has no idea of laying there, 
as she laid yesterday, and will not lay 
today. Hut she. has come into the barn 
and given lip such a good time in the 
swamp just for fear some hen would get 
on that nest, which she stole from the 
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having to hog and tease to have any work 
done in their rooms, is something dread- 
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The Wedding.- Then, after the morn¬ 
ing sendee, we had l lie wedding, with 
Shelley playing the Wedding March ami 
all the ..pie of ihe congregation staying. 
Everything went off so nicely, and after 
I his there was a little reception, and 
then if we didn't all sit down to the wed¬ 
ding breakfast ! Such a nice firm* as we 
all had I There were broiled chicken and 
beef and fine brown gravy and led: pota¬ 
toes and celery and cranberry sauce and 
bread and coffee and cake, and more cake, 
and then—the wedding cake. At the 
proper time the bride cut the wedding 
cake, and everybody took a piece home, 
and it was unanimously voted that we 
might to have a wedding every Sunday. 
No one hurried off in the afternoon, and 
we just about spent n da.v of it at. Ihe 
church. 
Little Ta. —As the Parson writes 
Little Ta is standing before him. lie 
has his little grip in his hand, and a 
great pair of one of the hoy’s rubber 
hoots on over his shoes, lie went out 
about a minute ago, after having come 
clear hack to kiss the Parson good-hye. 
and now he is hack to ask the Parson if 
lie will not hitch up .Tim for him. “What 
do Min want .Tim for?'* "To go to Kanin 
Claus’ house.” lie has got it into Ids 
head lately that lie must go to Santa 
(’Inns’ house. Santa has not answered 
two letters lately, and he has to go and 
see about it. lie persists lie wants to 
get him a cart and an auto and a baby 
sister, and n baby brother! (Mrs. Par¬ 
son does not enthuse over Ibis trip.) 
.Tim Away. The Parson explains to 
him that old .Tim is away down county 
drawing lurch brush for his. health, and 
may not. lie hack for some time. "Then 
ymi can take the auto,” says Ta. But 
the Parson is so busy he cannot possibly 
lake (he unto and go today. Then the 
little fellow has a long spell of thinking, 
and says: “Can T walk alongside of the 
load?" "Hut where are you going?” I 
ask. “To Saida Clans’ house.” “And 
where is that?" “Uptown,” comes the 
answer. So now he is trudging down the 
walk with Ills great hoots and his little 
grippie. lie gels down as far as tile car¬ 
riage stone, and now he is coining hack 
again. Now he is back at the door, and 
sticks his little head in. "Will you go 
with me. pa?” How sweet he is. and how 
the Parson would like to go out with him. 
He is just lost when the children are all 
gone. In a few weeks he and the Parson 
will he seated side by side on the lumber 
wagon, with him driving old Jim. 
Srnr Horns. — What hours round 
about the farm, with each little one in 
i turn before they are big enough to go off 
to school! The Parson has more than 
heus, anyway. The Parson has sympathy 
for that hen. and gives the old goose a 
lesson in hoggishness by taking her by 
the neck and dragging ln*r out of the 
barn. Then ho fixes the door so tbot a 
hen can get in and a goose cannot, The 
Parson will bring the whole case into 
court, tonight before Judge George, ro see 
if the ge« se had not. better be put out: of 
the barn altogether. 
( H.n Tmv. < Hd Trix is u homely cat— 
one of the homeliest the Parson ever saw. 
One ear is partly gone, which does not 
enhance her beauty. The Parson spared 
one kitten of last. Summer's vintage, be¬ 
cause it looked so much like Old Mamma 
Kitty, and that makes three cats—one 
too ninny. But the Par sou hasn’t said 
a word about getting rid of Old Trix 
since yesterday morning. She met the 
Parson at. the barn door and told him at 
once she had something to show him. 
She led the way, purring and rubbing 
against him. away around in the stable 
by the pump, ami there was the half of 
a great rat. This is the time of Ihe year 
when rnis come up the brook looking for 
a home and nesting place. They do find 
a stopping place, and go no further. We 
generally find about, two pelts each 
Spring, and that is the end of it. A cat 
that will tackle a big wharf rat is a very 
valuable asset on a farm. Old Trix has 
a new lease on life. 
Making Skiis.— T n the Parson’s day 
a barrel stave on the end of a stick of 
wood, with a cross-piece on top. was 
dubbed a jumper, and such fun as we 
Used t>> have with these things. Hut this 
year the new-fangled skiis have come in at 
Crystal Brook Farm. Much lumber 1ms 
... sacrificed on this altar. The latest 
development was a piece of board about 
4 ft. ami 4 in, wide, nail a barrel stave 
to this lapping about half the stave’s 
length under the hoard, (in top. nail a 
board about T ft. long, with a groove, in 
the bottom to let a strap pass through, 
which buckles over the toe. This really 
makes quite a ski. 
From rut: Cm ,\ try. We read a good 
deal about big men coming from tin* coun¬ 
try, and with the virility of tin* Country 
blood, one often wonders what would be¬ 
come of the cities. In such reckoning 
places of over 2.500 people are called 
cities. All other is village or country. 
The Parson saw some statistics about 
this the other day. Of -If! Cabinet of¬ 
ficers during a certain period, nine were 
from the city and ”7 from the country. 
Of Ihe 25 Presidents we have had. two 
were from the city ami 2“ from the coun¬ 
try or village. In 1020 there were 45 
Governors in the conn try. of whom four 
were from the city and 41 from smaller 
places. 
The Country Boy. Most everybody 
(Continued on Page 463) 
Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks 
By Rev. George B. Gilbert 
