HOUSE AND GARDEN 
66 
January, 1912 
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The payroll for the first year was ar¬ 
ranged as follows: Mr. Mantell, $40 a 
month (IMr. Mantell, as he put it down, 
smiled to think of what his city friends 
would think. In more than one instance 
men working for him had drawn much 
more than that sum weekly). Mrs. Man¬ 
tell, $20 month—and Raffles smiled as 
that went down; he thought of the howl 
that the average farmer would emit if his 
wife at the end of the year should say, 
“Well, John, I reckon I’ve had tew work 
pretty early an’ late, lookin’ out for the 
victuals an’ churnin’ an’ washin’ an’ house- 
keepin’; I guess it's worth a bit better’n 
half what yon pay ‘Big Olaf. ’Spose yon 
call it $20 a month an’ board, an’ make 
me out a check f’r $240, or I reckon I’ll 
have tew quit.’ ” 
As to the rest of the budget, Robert and 
Helen were to receive $10 each, and in 
addition 20 per cent, of the profits of the 
poultry department. Raffles, for the first 
three months, $20 a month, and if he made 
good, thereafter $30. 
“Now just stop and figure things up,” 
said Raffles. “There’s $480, and $240, 
and two $i2os; there’s $960, and my $340 
makes a total of $1,300 for wages alone, 
to say nothing of the fact that we get only 
half the profit on the hens, and will have 
to hire some extra help. Perhaps you see 
now what I meant when I said that the 
farmer would probabl}^ stick it out longer 
than the fnll-of-theory city man, who was 
going to start in and do everything right 
up brown on a strictly cash business basis.” 
Mr. Mantell opened his eyes. He had 
never figured the thing out in just that 
light before, and Raffles went up still an¬ 
other peg in his estimation. 
“And if you were to figure $4 a week 
each for board, that would be $1,040 
more,” continued Raffles, “and make things 
look pretty serious; but it won’t cost that, 
or near it, especially in real money. Just 
the same, I don’t envy Mrs. IMantell her 
job.” 
IV. 
Not all the time at Pandora Cottage was 
spent in conferences, however. There was 
a lot of work to be done before spring and 
the best half of the winter was already 
over. 
The list that Mr. IMantell and Raffles 
drew up included, first of all, the repairing 
and making over of some of the farm 
buildings. They found that the support¬ 
ing posts and some of the crossbeams 
under the barn had succumbed to a dry 
rot, and had to be replaced. Squire Hun- 
derson happened to be going into town 
that day, and brought them out a tape-line 
and a square, and the following day Mr. 
Mantell and Raffles went to town. Raffles 
figured out that the small tools they would 
have to get at once would cost about $20. 
Thev included two forks, a shovel and a 
soade, two axes, and a wheelbarrow, be¬ 
sides quite an assortment of carpenter’s 
tools, such as a entting-ofif and a rip-saw, 
a hammer, a brace and an extension bit. a 
hatchet, a cheap level, a plane, nails, 
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