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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Among the Green Mountains 
Not all of us can occupy old home¬ 
steads, rich in stories of first settlers and 
old Indian times, but some of the less 
fortunate may perhaps find or invent 
Stories to satisfy the story-loving imagi¬ 
nation of childhood, and the imagination 
plays a large part in the early lessons. 
Our place was my father’s, but was un¬ 
occupied and unfarmed for 10 years fol¬ 
lowing his death. Then with the coming 
of the little folks they were much inter¬ 
ested in two large black-gray bowlders, 
each nearly as large as ordinary cottage, 
on the pasture hillside. Have you all 
read Ruskin’s dear little story, “The King 
of .the Golden River,” to your children? 
Our boys all love the story and seized the 
member the cooking utensils will come 
back home all smoke, but don’t scowl; a 
moist cloth dipped in ashes will quickly 
remove it. 
There was a small, closely covered 
enamel kettle, sheet-iron frying pan. tea¬ 
pot, water pail, evaporated milk, sugar, 
salt, pepper, tea, bread, white and molas¬ 
ses cookies, pail of cornmeal, cured pork 
and salt salmon. It was only one and a 
half miles “across lots,” so the-boy of 14 
came home all but one night to do the 
milking, and in the morning carried boiled 
potatoes, cooked string beans, soups, etc., 
and hot breads, so all husband had to do 
was to warm them. The camping was 
great fun for the boys, but the first night 
three hedgehogs disturbed their rest, and 
to keep them from gnawing into their 
box cupboard finally killed one, and the 
rest went away. Farther back on the 
mountain Old Bruin hooted, two dogs 
barked, perhaps on track and high up 
One occasionally sees a bird design for cross stitch embroidery, but it is rare indeed 
that one limis such a design formed entirely with crosses. Usually the design is first to be 
outlined and then tilled in with crosses, in the set that we have illustrated no other stitch 
but tlie cross stitch is used, yet we have the birds drawn true to detail, and when em¬ 
broidered they stand out in solid efTeet. The bird's are for blue, the nest brown, the flowers 
pink and the vines and leaves green. The designs are tinted on white eourtrai, and, with 
floss to complete embroidery, cost for the centerpiece. No. 1490, size, 27 in.. §1. The scarf. 
1496a, size, 18x.-,4 in., SI.2. Three doilies, 14901), size 8 in., 4oc. Tray cloth, 1496c, size 
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play idea that these stones were Schwartz 
and Hans, the Black Brothers who were 
turned into black stout's. Furthermore, 
no matter how dry the season, the spring 
at the foot of the hill never diminishes in 
its flow, but finds it way the whole length 
of the meadows. As you remember in 
Treasure Valley, “When all the country 
round was burnt up, there was still rain 
in the little valley ; and its crops were 
so heavy, and its bay so high, and its 
apples so red * * * that it was a 
marvel to everyone who beheld it. and 
was commonly called the Treasure Val¬ 
ley.” 
Through years of neglect of farm, fence 
and buildings it fell far below its original 
state, and now it is our and their part 
to restore it as best we can. Not a high 
ideal for a family of boys? I admit it, 
we are just common folks and common 
boys, and Lincoln said: "God must have 
loved common folks, lie made so many 
of them.” 
Our older ones have been camping in 
an old barn while cutting the hay on a 
farm where the house burned five years 
ago. Perhaps a few hints as to their 
ways may help someone else, as all boys 
like to camp, even if but a short distance 
from home. They build an arch of stones 
banked with dirt and cover the top with a 
piece of old stovepipe opened fiat, and cut 
two holes in it for kettle and spider. Re¬ 
above all “the mournful owl complained.” 
June was so hot and dry the hay crop 
is not as good as expected in May, and 
peas are scarce, so many farm wives will 
have few or none to can. Beaus are de¬ 
lighted with the weather, and so are the 
vines, and “the oldest inhabitant” cannot 
i emember a year when all kinds of wild 
berries were so abundant. Last year the 
June frost spoiled most of the berries, 
but they are bearing double crops this 
year; the meadows were full of straw¬ 
berries. the “choppings” with raspberries, 
the mountains with blueberries and the 
old pastures with blackberries. 
We are all putting up so much fruit 
our pocketbooks cannot afford many more 
glass jars, but several have tried and 
been successful “jugging” berries. Use 
a new jug, or if you can procure alcohol 
jugs from your physician or druggist, so 
much the belter. Cook the berries well 
in the open kettle method, rinse the jug 
well with boiling water (if a glass jug 
heat slowly and fill carefully), sterilize 
the cork, till jug to overflowing, carefully 
pound the cork in till it is a*bit lower than 
the tpp of the jug, and cover with paraffin. 
As sugar is scarce, we are canning the 
berries without sugar, and using the sugar 
in jams. 
While sugar is scarce perhaps you may 
want to try my aunt’s “hard times pud¬ 
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water, one teaspoon salt, two teaspoons 
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