HENRY FIELD’S 
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“FOR THE MAN BEHIND THE HOE” 
-Published by Henry Field in the Print Shop- 
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Vol. XXIV 
Shenandoah , Iowa , April I, i940 
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Another Letter from 'Big-Boy'—They Make Garden 
You folks haven’t had a letter from “Big-Boy” or Henrietta 
for some time, so I know you’ll be glad to see this one. These 
are all my daughter Ruth’s children, as most of you know. 
They’re on the move all the time—always,got something going 
on and seem to get more fun out 
some of us worry-heads do all year 
5 minutes than 
1. Grandpa told me I sure should get my garden in early 
this year. I think he’s right, so I started right out. Susie> 
said she’d help me, if I’d pull her out to the play-yard in our 
wagon, so I did. Henrietta wouldn’t help. She just made fun 
and said we didn’t know how to make garden. 
2. So we just set to work and showed her. Susie and I 
just shoveled fast as we could. Baby Rose couldn’t help any. 
She’s too little. She’s only one and her birthday was last 
month. But we had to watch her so we let her sit in our 
wheelbarrow. 
3. Susie got all tired out real quick. Girls aren’t as strong 
as boys. But I just kept on working and made garden as 
fast as I could. I couldn’t get it nice and flat like Daddy’s; 
though. But then, he’s older. Baby Rose just threw dirt out 
of the wheelbarrow. She’s no help. 
4. I would of got all done, but Daddy and Mother came 
and stopped me. Daddy says I can help make his real garden. 
It’s going to be a big one with everything in it. Being the only 
boy I have to pull the wagon all the time—do you think that’s^ 
fair?—BIG BOY. 
