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March 26, 1921 
fft* RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
Let a Planet Jr. Work for You 
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garden 
seed at the 
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The hoes and cultivator teeth cut or uproot 
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Homely Joys of the Country 
Spring is iictuiilly here. We admit 
that it is only the first of March on 
the calendar, this assertion being based 
on th<‘ fact that little-sweet-voice has been 
heard in mir backyard, lie is a very tiny 
brown bird, and as far as we are con¬ 
cerned he has no scientific name, for it is 
the glad cheery song of him. shivering 
ont, there in 20° above zero that we know 
him by- a brave spirit hidden away in a 
bunch of brown feathers. h'lsie. dis¬ 
tressed over his stockingless condition, 
has planted a relief station on the shed 
roof, where, aided by Daddy, she put out 
crumbs for the little fellow. 
‘‘Tlut. mother,'’ mourns she. “how does 
he ever keep his feet warm? Such tiny, 
teeny toes, without anything to cover 
’em.” And then little-sweet-voice breaks 
into the conversation with his gay lilt and 
drives her doubts away. Mow could he 
sing like that if his toes were cold? 
To little two-year-old Jane, for whom 
music exists only in tlx* victrola, sleepy 
time songs and Daddy’s whistle, he is a 
puzzle, a mystery She looks along Dad¬ 
dy’s finger to the limb of the pear tree, 
hilt cannot see him sitting there, and in 
delighted bewilderment cries, “Where’s 
moozie?” 
Today the weather is warmer, but there 
is a hint of melting snow in the cool south 
breeze. The backyard is thawed out into 
soft black mud. and seems possessed of 
an anpetite for little girls' rubbers. We 
expect at any moment to hear the first 
robin. While darning sedately at the 
stockings we hear Daddy clattering about 
down cellar, putting another quantity of 
potatoes into the hath of corrosive sub¬ 
limate. I itlle Jane knows where there is 
a knot-hole in the floor that will let her 
look right down where Daddy is. Tt is 
fun. too. to put a finger through this hole 
to 1>»“ pulled, to let teaspoons, silver 
knives, pencils, down by it. So on knees 
and elbows little Jane watches Daddy 
work. She has seen it done so often that 
it has become an old story. Tt is light 
down cellar. There is a big pile of very 
large potatoes in each bin. a bin of red 
apples, a cupboard of canned fruit along 
one side, and rows of crates filled with 
potatoes from the piles. Daddy puts 
crates along a vat of swimming potatoes 
wh'eh be scoops out with a wire shovel 
till the crates are full. Then he sets them, 
up corner-wise against the wall to drip: 
the windows are open and the air sweeps 
through to dry them. Having accom¬ 
plished this much. Daddy gets more po¬ 
tatoes to put in the vat. and so on. Be¬ 
sides these. Mother has more in the front 
rooms, that she calls sun sprouts. Tt 
looks very interesting in there to little 
Jane; the brown rug is rolled up. and bow 
she would enjoy fingering about in the lug 
trays ;is Mother does, if only everyone 
were not so determined that she shouldn’t 
get in. 
This knot-hole is the quickest means of 
communication with the cellar, and now 
by knot-hole wireless we receive an nivi 
tation. “I’m going to burn the brush pile 
down by the woods. Want to com* 
along?” 
Stockings? Hurrying on our wraps we 
find Daddy collecting a bunch of kindling, 
a bottle of kerosene, and a few matches. 
Tiger Oeorge is taken by the nape of the 
neck and hustled out. too. He seems to 
fool that the occasion demands something 
spectacular, like ruling up to the top of 
the small cedar by D" house, but here he 
s : ts at the bo , *'-ni. whipping bis tail from 
v ; dc to sidi* ami gaz ! ng at a snot about 
half way mi (In* trunk which is encased 
in a short length of old stovepipe. Last 
Spring when birds began to nest he start¬ 
ed up one day to set* if the same robins 
had come back again. He made his usual 
getaway—a dart of tiger-striped fur. ex¬ 
tended claws and wild yellow eyes. Tint 
something went wrong about half way 
lip. His claws skidded on something hard, 
shiny and altogether Impenetrable; he 
came down with a thump. That was not 
all. either, for some peonle standing by 
saw him and laughed. How they laughed 
—until they saw how miserable it made 
him And from a position on the low 
truck wagon his brother Jimmy sat watch¬ 
ing; if cats ever smile there was a smile 
on Jimmy’s f‘>ce. 
Daddy takes out his watch, planning 
to he back in an hour and .”>0 minutes to 
take out the treated seed. "Dome on with 
us. George.” cries Elsie. We start out 
adventurously over the wet furrows, slip¬ 
ping lice. and saving by a quick step 
there, the nrschanee of a lost rubber. 
Daddy leading with l’ttle rod-headed Jane 
riding him horseback; Mother carrying 
the lighting materials and nicking out 
steps for seven-year-old Els : e, who in 
turn is encouraging a gray wisp of a cat 
that, is trailing behind, the late afternoon 
sun shilling d’nriv tb-ongh a haze of low- 
lying clouds. Past (In* row of four apple 
trees that are left from the old orchard, 
over the brink of the knoll where the sand 
lies deep and yellow, tempting Elsie to 
drop to her knees and run her hands 
about in it. causing little Jane’s knees to 
wiggle enviously ; sheering around the 
rim of the valley for dry footing to where, 
over in the northeast corner, is heaped 
the makings of a splendid fire. 
This brush that is about to be burned is 
the seraggly hedge tb-'t so often tempted 
Dan and Molly from the straight and nar¬ 
row path of cultivating last Summer. 
Personally 1 rather like the privacy of a 
hedge, but Daddy says that a well-rooted 
growth of wild cherry like this is given to 
intruding. Tt stops a little farther out 
from the fence every year, until you have 
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