Tht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 27, 1924 
MALON EY Certified TREES 
Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks 
By Rev. George B. Gilbert 
He Knew It. —There used to be an 
old fellow round down county who ped¬ 
dled pop corn for a living. At last he 
got to be known as old Pop-corn Atkins. 
One day he overheard two fellows talking 
as they walked along behind him. “Do 
you know,” said one of them “that old 
Pop-corn Atkins is said to be the very 
best man in this town.” The old man 
told of this incident himself. “And 
didn’t that make you feel rather proud?” 
they asked him. “Not at all, not at all, 
far from it, far from it. I had known 
it for a long time anyway.” 
Fall and Winter. —So it is, we know 
that Fall and Winter are coming, and yet 
we never seem ready for it. So many 
jobs the Parson plans to get done on the 
farm during the Summer when the boys 
are at home and hardly half of them get 
done. There has not been really so much 
extra time. Shelley goes to practice on 
a pipe organ every morning and practices 
at home rill noon. He helps about the 
farm in the afternoon. George^ spent the 
bulk of the Summer on the R. F. I), route 
as a substitute. He liked this work and 
took in about .$150. He did enough at 
that about the farm so the Parson threw 
in the use of the old Ford and what gas 
he burned in her. The boys have put a 
new carburetor on her and she does have 
for most work. If the Parson were to 
buy again he would get one 34 ft. 
Marine Things. —At Woods Hole, 
way down on the southwestern point of 
Cape Cod, there seems to be a college for 
the study of marine life. They have a 
big boat that goes out and sort of mops 
up the sea to get these queer things. 
They literally drag a great mop after the 
ship, weighted down so it stays right on 
the bottom, and various kinds of living 
things like starfish and innumerable 
others get tangled up in this mop and 
are brought to light. Then, too, they 
catch in the nets all kinds of fish. They 
have a sort of platform wharf with trap 
doors and under these doors are the 
compartments for the fish with sea wa¬ 
ter seeping through. One curious kind of 
fish they had can swim backward about 
as well as forward. Sort of tubes run 
along the body lengthwise and it breathes 
by filling these tubes with water. If it 
ejects this water very forcibly it has the 
effect of a kicking gun and shoots the 
fish backward. Like some of us humans, 
he finds it as easy to go backwards as for¬ 
wards. This fish also, like a devilfish, 
has the power, if much frightened, to 
emit an inky fluid that forms sort of a 
smoke screen for its protection. 
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wonderful power and consumes a small 
amount of gasoline. It seems likely that 
George would again deliver mail for a 
vacation job next Summer, as the post¬ 
master said he should be looking for him. 
Closson had a good vacation and was 
away several weeks. But we got the ga¬ 
rage floor concreted, and it was quite a 
job, as we had to cart out a lot of dirt 
and then fill up with stone, and we also 
put a concrete foundation under one of 
the henhouses. Then, too, the Parson has 
not had to do nearly as much farm work 
this Summer as he used to have to do 
when we first came out here. 
They Take Time. —What a lot of 
time it takes to keep up two automobiles, 
especially when one is an old Ford. A 
Ford car is all right and a cheap car to 
operate, provided you have time or have 
boys with the time to “tinker on it.” If 
we should ever have another, the Parson 
hopes it will be a Ford ton truck. These 
trucks seem to give wonderful service, 
and he could pick up a large number of 
children and carry them to and from 
church in the country region. In the pic¬ 
ture you see a family 'that walks three 
miles each way over terrible roads. What 
a boon it would be to pick up whole fami¬ 
lies like this and carry them back and 
forth. This man has always done team¬ 
ing for sawmills, and they follow the 
sawmill here and there. Who could ever 
guess how many railroad ties this man 
has lifted on and off a wagon, and he is 
a very little man too. One thing, they 
always have a good dinner before start¬ 
ing on the long trip home from church. 
Painting a Church. —We have had 
quite a time painting one of the big 
churches down county. Mhen the Par¬ 
son lives so far away, 15 miles, the work 
seems to proceed rather slowly. We can 
only get off now and then a day. We 
were going to do a big business at it 
Labor Day, but it was too hot. around 
here to labor at painting or anything else. 
Weather being good we will all try to 
go down and finish up the job tomor¬ 
row. Just the material for this church 
will cost $75 or $S0. We expect to put 
three coats on two sides and two coats 
on the other two sides. That will make 
a good job. When you are at it and have 
the ladders and brushes and pails all to¬ 
gether it pays to do it so i't will last for 
a while. We bought an extension ladder. 
36 ft., to use in the work among the 
churches. It is a fine ladder hut too long 
world are always looking for a free ride 
through life. Many make it a business 
of “bumming” their way on autos. But 
the shark sucker has them all beaten. He 
seems to have a little vacuum place right 
under his lower jaw and thus he silently 
swims up to the sand shark and sticks 
his lower jaw on the back or side of the 
shark and takes a ride. He does not 
feed on the shark at all or apparently 
hurts the shark or even bothers it par¬ 
ticularly, just rides round with him. They 
had a sand shark in the aquarium there 
about three feet long and while we were 
watching one sucker glided gently up, 
stuck his low r er jaw to his back and pa¬ 
tiently waited for a free ride which he 
soon got. We stayed at Woods Hole over 
night, coming back the 170 miles the 
next day. On the way back we bad a 
curious experience with a rear tire. We 
had heard a creaking back there for some 
time, but could not imagine what it was. 
It seemed the rim had tried to creep on 
the wheel and this chafing had cut the 
stem of the inner tube half off, thus 
reaching the hole in the center of the 
stem and letting the air out. We had an 
old tube with us and just took the stem 
right out of that and put it in place of 
the one cut off, and did not have to dis¬ 
turb the regular “spare” on the back of 
the car at all. It is quite a trick to get 
those stems out of a tube, and takes 
quite a little muscle to get it back into 
another, but it can be done, and if the 
nut is screwed down tight, there will be 
no trouble. There were, of course, many 
free camping sites on the way, and up 
on the Capo there was a “community 
camping kitchen.” We did not go into 
this, but it looked commodious. 
Worthed.— Some of the cars you meet 
carry people with a worried look. Up ' 
this hill comes an old car and it is skip¬ 
ping terribly. It seemed to be saying: 
“Can I make it? Can I make it? Can 
I make it?” and you listened to hear it 
add: “I can’t.” It was no wonder the 
driver looked worried when we looked at 
the marker and it said Cleveland, Ohio. 
One wonders if he ever got there in that 
car. Another car had an extra plate in 
front which said “Today” and one in the 
rear read “Tomorrow.” This man seemed 
to be living in the present with the fu¬ 
ture behind him; not such a bad idea 
after all ! 
(Continued Next Week) 
