Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks 
By Rev. George B. Gilbert 
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Tiiosf: ITand-Saws. —Ono of thom dis- 
ai»j»oarod a long tinn! ago—certainly a 
year ago. Where in tlie world it went to 
vva.s more than tin; Parson coxild see. “A.s 
hig a thing as a .saw would show up sonie- 
wliere.” Put it didn't. tUiildren are so 
handy on a farm—you can lay every¬ 
thing to them. Put the children seldoin 
used the saws, and then they did not 
caiTy them off. At last tliis saw was 
given up us gone for good. 
^ Tiik Nkxt Ooe.s. —Then in the late 
Fall if the other saw—the best one— 
didn't disaitpear! The Parson had ju.st 
ha<l it tiled .and set and it went to 
fection. He had been making some 
for the cow mangers, with pulley.s 
p'ights, so that they lifted so easily, 
it mii.st be right around the barn some- 
\yhere. Put no. it could not be found, 
'flu; barn was cleaned and ransacked, but 
no saw. Then it was found that (Jeorge, 
•Ir.. had the saw in jnaking a marvtdous 
woodbox. He had it b.v the woodshed. 
He must have lost It—but where'/ The 
shed was thoroughly cleaned—the back 
Iiorch. too. At times it w.-is hard not to 
b(' cross to the boy—he certainly must 
h.ave lost that saw. In short, it is* feared 
the I'arson sometimes was short with 
him. 
Tiik Fiust Siiow.s Ur. —The Parson 
got desjterate for a saw—he had got to 
hax'C oile. It made him so mad to have 
to buy—lowning two good saws. He 
would i)orrow once or twice—they might 
show nil yet. The .second time lu' l)or- 
roued from a neighbor where last year 
he kept a couple of wagons housed. 
‘■Yes,” .said the woman, ‘‘I can let you 
take a saw. I thought I only had two, 
man fairly .shrieked. ‘‘IIou' can I get 
it'/" “Didn’t you h.ave it throwing that 
goldenrod over into the p.-istureV calmly 
answered the boy. “T saw it «lown there 
quite a while ago, but. of course, I did 
not disturb it. as .vou alway.s put things 
where they belong.” One need not carry 
the story furtlicr. 
SriaxG OF TiiE Y'^eab. —It is still cold 
.1 Boy MaTccs a. "Wooilhov 
enough—14 below last Saturday—but the 
sun is getting higher and the days are 
longer, and Spring is coining. Wh.at a jov 
and iirivilege to be alive this time of 
year I It takes about all the pleasure 
out of it this year to think of the many 
who cannot enjoy it at their own home.s. 
The hens are beginning to lay —^ sure 
'I'lic BtirKO)i'it liens Gel Biisii 
and there seems to b(- three around luu'e, 
Vou come and look at them.” .Sure 
enough! there was th(> long-lost saw— 
the very same. The I’aison himself had 
it up there fixing a wagon, and came off 
and left it. Put still wheie could the 
boy have j)ut that other om>? He per- 
.sists he left it right on the bench. Past 
week we had a big thaw—King Winter 
h.ad only a little ice to show for itself 
when it was over. Some one hapi»ened 
along in front of the henhouse. If there 
wasn’t that saw—the be.st one ! The ca.se 
looked bad fqr the Parson. He did fix 
those windows late in the Fall. It may 
have been after the work in the barn, or 
evmi after the woodbox was made! The 
sign of Sju’ing. Wo did n(>t r.aise many 
pullets la.st year, and so we just ki'pt 
our hens along through the tVinter. W'^e 
gave them little potatoes boiled .with a 
little wheat bran mixed in and some corn 
at night. Thus the cost was very slight. 
Hens will not lay, howevei', on too much 
boiled potato. It seems too bulky for 
the amount of egg feed. (Jive them to 
))igs rather than laying hems. Xow our 
hens will go on the ration of skim-jnilk 
and wheat bran and corn. The second 
boy gets five cents a dozen for the eggs , 
he brings in, and ])uts his money into< { 
thrift .stamps. We encourage the hens 
laying all over the barn, so that when 
they sit they will be more by themselves. 
T/ic Parson FisccH fhe Henhouse 
evidence was all against him -in short, it 
was very conclusive. 
•Y PiTCiiFOBK. —Tlie Parson once heal'd 
of a man who wjts alw.-iys scolding .about 
"putting things back where they belong.” 
He really made life mi.serable for all 
around him. One day the boy happened 
along down by the pasture and saw the 
be.st hayfork leaning uj) against the old 
rail fence. It was where his father left 
it when he cut out the goldenrod and 
threw it over into the pasture. He left 
the fork right there, and abided his time. 
One day the man was in a perfect fury 
over .some little thing the boy had left 
out of its place. ‘‘Too bad about that 
best foi'k. too.” remarked the lad. 
“Yes, it is!” shouted the man. “How 
I ve needed that fork! 1 need it right 
now! You’ve droi»ped it right down 
sttmewhere.” “If you need it so bad why 
don’t you go and get it’/” ciilmly r(>- 
niarked the boy. “do and get it!” the 
What excitement over the new nests 1 
D.addy runs across one ’most every day 
now, and teases the boys at night till 
they find it. For quite a while this 
Winter we never got an egg, but today, 
the la.st of February, we. got 18. 
March. —March never comes around 
but the P.'irson thinks of St. Patrick’s 
Day and such pranks as the college fel¬ 
lows used to put up on that day. The 
faculty must have alway.s di-eaded it, as 
something was sure to happen. On the 
campus stood a fine statue of Pishop 
Prownell, his arms outstretched in ble.ss- 
ing. Put on this morning the good man 
was in the clock repair business, with a 
great clock hung on one .arm and a great 
jeweller’s sign oti the other. 
We Htitdv E.vci.i.srr.—We certainlv 
used to have some great English recita¬ 
tions in tho.se b.almy Spring davs. One 
time the boys carried in .six alarm clocks, 
setting them JO minutes apart. Wo 
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