fShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
791 
Lifting The Mortgage. —What a 
place for geese! That is what they all 
would say as they looked over the Pas¬ 
toral Parson’s farm. This brook here! 
This persistent grass along the brook I 
They eat no grain, only grass, and grow 
forthwith into great big geese and great 
big inonev. “I will buy goose eggs,” said 
the Parson, “and the cost of living will 
no longer be high.” So we bought four 
eggs for a dollar, and set them under a 
hen. 
The Hatch. —The boys and I took 
great pains and put a sod in tlie nest un¬ 
der the. eggs, and dipped them in warm 
water a few days before time to hatch, 
and in due time there came forth one lone 
goose! There was as much excitement 
over this new member of the barn farail.v 
as there would have been over the ad¬ 
vent of a new member of the house fam¬ 
ily. We made goosie and hen a warm 
piace in the cow stable, and then what to 
feed it was the question. We were told 
we must pick grass for it. Put it was 
yet cold and no grass, we had to go at 
least a quarter of a mile to pick grass 
around a spring hole. 
The End. —We did this faithfully, and 
already pictured a fat goose on the 
Thanksgiving table. Put it .seemed best 
to the Parson to give it different quarters, 
where it was not peniu'd in. only the hen 
in a box. This was fatal. Either the 
Parson was a goose or the goose was a 
goose, for he forthwith started out to 
make his fortune alone, got behind a 
l)iece of 4x4, did not know enough to go 
back, and there can.e to his end. 
('heer Ep.—P ut we would not be dis- 
cour.aged. Were there not two hens sit¬ 
ting tm eggs still? The next hen hatched 
three goslings. We took heart at this. 
As the grass had started a little, we 
took a box and put a board pen about it 
and the little fellows ate grars faster 
Mian Nebuchadnezzar could possibly have 
done. All went well till there came a 
rainy night, and a big wind, the carpet 
over' the box was blown off. the box 
leaked, and in the morning there were 
but two goslings. 
Py The Fire. —Then we heard that 
young geese should be put in the house 
on cold, damp nights. So we would 
bring the hen and two babies in back of 
the kitchen stove over night. It was a 
deal of work and bother, but would there 
not be two great, nice geese in the Fall 
that had lived and thrived on waste 
grass? To be sure, the hox and pen had 
to be moved at least every day if not 
oftener, as thev ate grass every minute 
from daylight till dark. 
Peuei.t.ion.—A bout this time a new 
trouble arose. IMrr.. Hen was growing 
more and more suspicious of her babies. 
Had she not called and called and called 
to them to eat corn, and had they not 
lireferred grass instead? How poorly 
they minded anyway. Her patience was 
exhausted—she would l.ave no more of it. 
f^o she refused to mother such children 
any more and we let her depart for the 
henhouse. 
Sth.e l^IORE Trouri.e. —One of the 
two that were left, it soon app(‘ared. was 
not growing. He seemed to prefer go.s- 
linghood to goosehotwl. One could hardl.v 
see that he had ever grown at all. And 
as we are made to grow better or wor.se 
and never stand still so this fellow grew 
worse and quietly passed away, 
third hen sat till no one on the _ 
could remember when she _ began, and 
never hatched an egg. I notice now that 
goose raisers advertise the early eggs for 
other people to set and keep the late oiu's 
to set themselves, when they hatch much 
better, and the young are much easier to 
raise. T wonder if they can square this 
all right with the Golden Rule! Rut, at 
any rate, the Parson and his boys have 
one gosling for all their trouble and fuss 
and money. 
Farm Trials. —The Parson suppose.s 
all occupations have their own iieculiar 
trials—he certainly has reason to know 
the ministry does—and yet this farm ex- 
lierience of having things die is certain¬ 
ly hard and trying. I know of nothing 
that tests our disposition more than this. 
“To have lost the money wouldn’t have 
seemed half as bad as losing that big 
horse,” a woman said to me the other 
day. What a time we used to have as 
children raising turkeys or better, trying 
to raise them. How a turkey loves to 
die! Father used to claim that a turkey 
was always bent on suicide—looking for 
some post hole to fall into or some loose 
board to knock down on itself. Once we 
decided to move the turkey coops over 
into the dry pasture near the woods, and 
what do you suppose happened then? A 
wild stray cat came out of the woods and 
caught theib'. 
First Aid. —I guess w’e ought to do all 
we can in helping our neighbors and es- 
liecially the new' comers, to keep things 
from dying. It i easy enough to hatch 
out a great lot of chickens, but quite an- 
■other thing to raise them. The Parson 
will mwer forget the look on a woman’s 
face as he met her one day coming out 
of her chicken-house with a wdiole bunch 
ot dead chickens in her apron. ?5he had 
staked so much and w’orked so hard on 
those chickens. The host of us are caught 
napping at times. The I’arson went out 
one morning and counted 27 good-sized 
chicks dead in one coop. As he placed 
that coop, he never noticed that it was in 
a slight hollow and a fearful shower came 
in the night and cleaned them out. How 
hard it is not to get cross and blue and 
take it out on .somebody or .something, 
when these terribly trying days come to 
all of us! 
Family Accidents. —While a farm is 
the one place in the world to bring up 
children, yet it furnishes many opportun¬ 
ities for accidents. Many things have to 
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Taking the Workers Home 
be looked out for and thought of where 
there are small children that would not 
be thought of otherwise. Will this ladder 
blow over and hit a child? Will the chil¬ 
dren play in this corner and this post fall 
on them? These rusty nails in this old 
board will never do. A loose board on 
the high beams will let them through on 
the barn floor. A child will surely sit on 
the end of that long board seat on the 
wagon. You will get up suddenly and 
let it right through between the wheels. 
Porn Unto Troi'ble. —The Par.sou’s 
little girl seems to have been “born unto 
trouble as the sparks fly upward.” First 
as a tiny baby, weighing four pounds, her 
right shoulder joint was badly sprained 
by the nurse and an abscess formed. It 
Mois only by the greatest efl'ort and con¬ 
trary to the doctor's expectations that 
the arm was saved. About the time she 
got so she could walk, she was taking a 
magazine upstairs for her mother, and 
just at the top she tripped on it and fell 
to the bottom, and when picked up her 
arm was broken. Then when three years 
old she went out to get a load of wood 
with the boys and the Parson, and while 
sliiling with’ the oldest boy. they went off 
the road into a deep brook. When the 
I’arson reached there, the boy was stand¬ 
ing in nearly shoulder deep water trying 
to keei) “Si’s'’ head above it. It took live 
stitches *0 sew a bad rock cut in her 
cheek. 
Still More Trocble.—T hen a short 
time ago. the boys were taking her out of 
the express wagon and her thumb caught 
under the side iron on the seat and was 
broken, and last of all. may it be the last, 
the wind blew the barn door against her, 
“O we gel along fine” 
throwing her against the wagon and cut¬ 
ting a bad hole over the eye that had to 
be sewed up. This last was the Parson’s 
fault. He had depended on a prop to 
hold that door, and projis are uncertain 
things. Now'be has put a big string hook 
on it as every big door ought to have. 
Other Trials. —If we don’t look out, 
sometimes the weather gets on our 
nerves. It has rained here now five days 
out of seven, and the Weather Pureau 
promises rain for to-morrow. Such 
weather makes it hard for us who are 
trying to feed the world. The Parson 
dug into the third planting of early string 
beans this morning and found that they 
too had rotted like the rest. Put then the 
rain is grand for the hay crop and the 
old saying still holds true. Much 
drought starves the farmer to death, 
while much rain scares him to death. 
"Why Not’/—T here certainly will be 
some interesting experiments in the po 
tato line this year. They ought to be re¬ 
corded and tabulated. How they thrive 
on front lawns and flower gardens, pas¬ 
ture lots and house lots will all be trief 
out. And then as to seed. Some are 
planting little more than the eye itself, 
while a man ’way down county reasoned 
that the more seed the more crop, so he 
has planted four whole potatoes to the 
hill. 
Helping Daddy. —“Mamma.” said lit¬ 
tle Clo.ssie the other day. “I think Sit 
and I can help Daddy most to-day by 
picking up stones.” He had heard Daddy 
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