The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1043 
and city folks glad to pay it; the toma¬ 
toes were tremendously early for this 
section. This family sold 140 dozen ears 
of very early corn for 45c a dozen in one 
day. Another man with 200 hens sells 
a difference with the city grocer and 
huckster. One thing, while prices in 
town are apt to be pretty uniform, the 
wayside stand knows no trust or combi¬ 
nation. The other day corn was 50c in a 
$h elicit and Ifis Ford Racer 
The Pastoral Parson and His Country 
Folks 
(Continued from I’age 1040) 
take lessons on the piano, but has not, of 
course, Joined the orchestra proper. Mrs. 
Parson takes the piano part of the time, 
though Shelley can spell her it need be. 
Shelley has a new instrument now which 
he is getting used to, and is picking up 
rapidly. This is a tenor banjo. It was 
not quite new when he bought it; cost 
$45 at that, without a ease. Such instru¬ 
ments run high, hut we felt that he might 
pick up some money with it if he went 
away to school another year. It makes 
a line addition to the cornet, violin and 
piano in the orchestra. He is learning 
to play chords. Knowing the mandolin 
quite well, the banjo comes fairly easy. 
It spells him from playing ou the type¬ 
writer hour after hour. 
Another 11oy.—B esides our four boys, 
we now have another boy staying with 
us, probably for the rest of the Summer. 
His mother ’phoned out from the city. 
He had nothing to do. about the streets 
all day. riding around on trucks; could 
the Parson find him a place? He used 
to live out this way, and we knew him 
quite well. So he came out here. The 
Parson does not pay him anything hut 
his dinner and supper; he goes home 
nights, and he does not have to come il 
he does not want to. Just this precise 
second he is putting ice in the refrigera¬ 
tor. He does not have to work, only with 
the other boys, and no hard jobs without 
the Parson is along with them. Hoes this 
boy like to come out from the city on the 
farm and work for nothing? His sister 
told the Parson yesterday: “I ran hardly 
keep him back in the morning long enough 
to eat bis breakfast: lie is just crazy to 
get out there.” He never misses a day. 
His mother lmd a cottage for two weeks, 
and be was supposed to go camping with 
her. but nothing doing; be lias been right 
on band every morning. lie goes nlT to 
our parties a good deal with us, lie got 
into the games and square dances last 
time, and I tell you lie and Shelley and 
Old Daredevil Racer are going in to get 
his best clothes, and be is going again 
tonight. There has been much talk about 
it all day as they mixed up the concrete 
on the barn floor. 
A Fiet.p Day.— At one of our places 
we had a field day and picnic last Satur¬ 
day afternoon, and everyone had such a 
fine time that they are going to have an¬ 
other in a couple of weeks, with a clam¬ 
bake thrown in—two bushels of clams 
failed to arrive in time last week. The 
married men bad a wonderful game of 
ball with the single men, arid beat them. 
One reason we bad it was because when 
the city people come in the country it 
just spoils our nice little parties. We 
have our game> and plain old dances, and 
such good times, but these people must 
needs show oft’ their city swaggers and 
jazzes, and we will have nope of it. One 
fellow came expecting to dance in a bath¬ 
ing shirt! They apt as though they owned 
the place when they come. Perhaps these 
city young folks exercise manners and 
decency in the city. The Parson hopes 
they do. The Parson notices that in the 
Homelands the question of the effect 
of this influx of city folks In the country 
for the Summer is ope open for discus¬ 
sion. and the Parson most decidedly 
agrees with that magazine. Before the 
man on (he farm begins to talk about 
city boarders, let him make sure lie has 
extra conveniences in the house, extra 
vegetables for the table and extra help to 
do the work, and extra room, so that the 
whole family is not utterly dispossessed, 
and that he wants them for company for 
his children. 
Tub Flies. —We have gotten along bet¬ 
ter than usual with the flies this year. 
For a woman to come down in the morn¬ 
ing into the kitchen and hear that roar 
of flies is something awful. Ir will take 
the heart out of the bravest woman. It 
is largely the mini's job to keep out the 
flies—to fix up the screens in the doors 
and windows and to take thought and 
pains about (lies generally, We have 
screens on the back porch, and then a 
screen door from there to the kitchen; 
this double barrier helps a good deal. 
The Parson can reach the ceiling with a 
swatter, and he got most of them when 
he came down this morning. Someone 
told us of a liquid which you spray about 
the room every morning just as you spray 
a cow, using the same sprayer. This was 
supposed to drive out and keep out all 
flies. We got a can. but really il does 
not amount to much. 
That Tire Swim;.- -Have you put up 
a swing yet. made of an auto shoe or 
casing? How much the boys have en¬ 
joyed theirs this Summer. They have 
it hung by a long chain way up in a wil¬ 
low tree, and they have a short ladder 
and get up into the tree. and. sitting 
astride the tire, down they swing, way 
out over the lawn, whirling and swinging. 
Remember, you put an old piece of iron 
in the top of the shoe to put the chain 
around, so that it will keep its shape. 
It' you do not have an old telephone pole 
brace iron, then use an old wagon spring 
leaf; curve it down a little to (it the 
curve of the shoe. Ho out after supper 
tonight and make one for the boys. 
Wayside Markets.- -The wayside mar¬ 
ket business seems to rather grow iu this 
section beside all State roads. They must 
do a big business or there would not be 
so many of them. It is doing tremendous 
things for some poor families. One fam¬ 
ily sold early tomatoes for $4 a basket, 
every egg he can spare at the door, and 
no sign out. only the henhouse for the 
sign. The road from Hartford to New 
Haven seems to be lined with such mar¬ 
kets. all doing business. It must make 
village store, but on the way home the 
Parson saw corn for 40e, then 35c, then 
30c, and one place with plenty at 25c. 
If a City man buys corn at 40c at one 
stand and in a few miles sees just as go. d 
at 25c. be will probably do some talking 
to himself. But the Parson must go. as 
Shelley and Old Daredevil are waiting 
at the door. The latter is popping and 
skipping and snorting for a tight, as 
usual. He has the same old spirit— 
always ready for a brush mi the road* If 
lie can't catch a big car ou the level, be 
will bide his time for a long hill, and 
then reek sweet revenge. His muffler 
consists of two sections of old stovepipe, 
one sprung over the other, and stovepipe 
wire around them, so you can hear him 
sassing back. But the Parson heard one 
about a Fold muffler the other day—don’t 
breathe it. A man took the insides out 
before the case blew off. as it always does 
in a little while, and put the case right 
on again—just a majm* operation. The 
cop bears some noise, but there is the 
muffler as tight as you please, so he waves 
an apology for his searching glance for 
a cutout, and the Ford man pardons him 
kindly and sails on. 
Recently, in one of the public schools 
on the lower East Side of New York, the 
children underwent the Binet test. One 
of them, having been graded as subnor¬ 
mal, was sent to the Institute for the 
Feeble-minded, but. being considered nor¬ 
mal by its directors, was promptly re¬ 
turned. Her schoolmates, who thought 
that Minnie had gone permanently, were 
surprised to see her, and one of them ex¬ 
plained : “Minnie, she went away to get 
examined to be an idiot, but she didn’t 
pass.”—Everybody’s Magazine. 
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