New England bygones . )icturesqtie with the blue frocks and i<-(\.shirts of farm laborers, with ploughs and bonfires and oxenand children and slowly-moving carts. To the farmer there seems to be no end to spring and planting over, the upspringing seed is^to be care-fully watched and tended. Each day brings its weight of ever-varying cares. The New England farmer of moderate meanstruly gets his bread by the sweat of his i)row. The vegetablesand grains, which make up so large a portion of his fare, areraised by dint of prudent forecast, and the bringing to bear :SlliiyG-TIME ASD
New England bygones . )icturesqtie with the blue frocks and i<-(\.shirts of farm laborers, with ploughs and bonfires and oxenand children and slowly-moving carts. To the farmer there seems to be no end to spring and planting over, the upspringing seed is^to be care-fully watched and tended. Each day brings its weight of ever-varying cares. The New England farmer of moderate meanstruly gets his bread by the sweat of his i)row. The vegetablesand grains, which make up so large a portion of his fare, areraised by dint of prudent forecast, and the bringing to bear :SlliiyG-TIME ASD HAYING. 83 of much practical philosophy upon stingy soih Tn the spring,my grandfather and his one man-servant, with an occasionalday of foreign hel]), were equal to the work of the farm. Butin haying-time, thiice a day, a score or more of stout-limbed. laborers gathered around my grandfathers board, and the cup-board in the brown kitchen groaned under its weight of heartyviands. Sudden showers brought over willing neighbors, andnow and then a traveller would stop a day or two to lend a 84 ^I:\\ JLXULAM) /n(;(L\L\s. liclpiiiu- liaiifl. My grandinotlicr held tlicso ti-aiisioiHs in lowesteem. old New England wc^ro a|)t to Ik- Seed planting amihoeing their corn and potatoes, in dusty and uncouth attire,they seemed like patient animals. In talking
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