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He could not tell you. if he tried, why he 
did it. And George Harris’s brat looked 
at him for a moment and then slowly 
went to him. You will tell me that John 
Hall’s face was a strange pasture for love 
to enter, but it must have been there, for 
the child climbed on John’s knee, laid her 
little head against his coat, and burst into 
a very tumult of grief. 
Billy says he concluded this was no 
place for him, and he ran out the back 
door. The hired man from the next farm 
came over to borrow a paper, and looked 
in at the window. This man was of some 
local fame as a wrestler, and his descrip¬ 
tion of the scene is characteristic, at 
least: 
“Both of his knees were occupied. She 
had a strangle hold on him. and he ap¬ 
peared to be working for a half Nelson. 
The kid had hold of both !” 
When Billy finished the story he was 
silent for a moment, and then tried to 
sing. His voice reminds me of a bullfrog 
at night, but no one could laugh at him 
as he sang : 
“Of love unspeakable, 
Oh, promise me!” 
I wish that just such a catalyzer could 
enter some of the homes I know of. 
H. W. C. 
Getting Hay Out for Baling 
I will have about 75 tons of hay to sell, 
and as I understand that baled hay brings 
the best price, and there are more places 
of selling same when it is baled. I want 
to bale it. However, I would like to 
know if there is any way to get the hay 
out of the mow other than by pitching 
same by hand. This is a very hard job, 
especially after it has settled. I have two 
large hayforks that run on a track in 
the gable of the barn, and I was wonder¬ 
ing if I could not take the part into 
which the forks enter when they bring 
the load from the wagon up to the car, 
and place same over the mow, and use 
these forks to do the lifting, then carry 
same over to the baler; in other words, 
reverse the unloading operations. 
Lockport, N. Y. b. m. m. 
I have never tried getting hay out of 
a mow with a hay-fork. In an extra long 
barn where the hay press could not be 
moved up as each bent of the barn is 
baled it might work if the hay could be 
pulled loose, but if the press could be 
moved as each bent or section of the 
barn is emptied it would get the press 
nearer the hay and leave plenty of room 
for the baled hay. It would take about 
as many laborers to use the hay-fork as 
to do the work by hand only part of them 
need not be as strong men, but would 
need judgment. Such work would have to 
be done quickly and without much danger 
of a mishap or breakdown. If the same 
persons could put the hay in the mow and 
take it out they could do better than to 
have someone stick a horse-fork any¬ 
where in the mow and expect a nice 
lunch to come easily, for I am afraid it 
would not pull loose very often. If the 
hay could be moved away in some regu¬ 
lar order a small horse forkful in a lump 
if would no doubt come out better than if 
the hay was torn apart and pitched 
around the mow. j. b. l. 
Romulus, N. Y. 
I have never had experience with bal¬ 
ing hay from a mow, however, we know 
it can be done, but at what cost? Of 
course, a great deal depends on the pat¬ 
tern or model of the barn. Hay that is 
usually put in a mow by a hay-fork or 
by slings is, generally speaking, not 
moved away any too well, which means 
that to get it out by hand or pitchfork 
would make a lot of really hard tussling 
work. On the other hand, to reverse his I 
hay-fork, he must figure on the construc¬ 
tion of his barn. Can he re-inforce the 
gable enough directly above the mow to 
stand the strain of pulling a fair-sized 
forkful of hay out of a settled tangled- 
up mow full of hay? For, in my opin¬ 
ion, the hay would come out of the mow 
much harder than off the load. If B. 
M. M. can do this, re-inforcing at a little 
cost I really think his baling job would be 
very much simplified. Then, too, consid¬ 
ering the drop his hay would have from 
the roof peak, I should advise him to 
bale when the wind was not blowing as 
it has been in this section of the country 
today, or he would have to carry his 
baling job over on to his neighbor’s next 
neighbor. It may be that B. M. M. would 
be able to use a hay-knife in his barn to 
advantage for this job, that the practical 
man on the job with the job before him 
ought to be able to render the best judg¬ 
ment. w. G. M. 
New Kingston, N. Y. 
A passenger took the train at Lyons, 
entered a sleeper, and tipped the guard 
liberally to put him out of the train at 
Dijon. “I am a very heavy sleeper,” he 
said, “and you must take no notice of my 
protests. Seize me and put me out on 
the platform.” He slept. He awoke as 
the train steamed into Paris. In a raging 
fury he went to the guard and expressed 
some emphatic opinions in a varied vocab¬ 
ulary. “Ah,” said the guard calmly, “you 
have a bit of a temper, but it’s nothing 
compared with the chap I put out of the 
train at Dijon !”—Le Rire. 
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