. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . of. I suppose the explanationof this bristling peak is that the old ridge-boards were worn out,and the man has no proj^er material at hand with which toreplace them. He jnits off the getting of them till a more con-venient season, and leaves the roof-stagings up that he may getto the ridge handily ; but the seasons come and go, and that more convenient season never arrives. If in what has been described there are hints of shiftless-ness or of over-close economy, it is to be remarked that thesethings are incidental, not general, characteristics. P^nthe
. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . of. I suppose the explanationof this bristling peak is that the old ridge-boards were worn out,and the man has no proj^er material at hand with which toreplace them. He jnits off the getting of them till a more con-venient season, and leaves the roof-stagings up that he may getto the ridge handily ; but the seasons come and go, and that more convenient season never arrives. If in what has been described there are hints of shiftless-ness or of over-close economy, it is to be remarked that thesethings are incidental, not general, characteristics. P^nthermore,it may be affirmed that the bov brought up on a farm where,from necessity or habit, a somewhat vigorous economy is prac-tised, has a much better chance to win success in life than hewho is brought up under milder conditions. As to the aspectpresented to the eye by the farmers unconventional methods ofbuilding, much of it is \ery charming, i)oetically and artisticallyconsidered. Nor, in the main, is it offensive as a matter VI FINANCIERING ON A S^IALL FARM FARM people have about the same money experiences as otherpeople. There is a difference only in details. The chan-nels by which money comes are few, and are distinctly circum-scribed. The ways to spend money are endless, and the wantsare sure to outrun all ordinary possibilities of income. The farm people often figure on what they would do if theyhad a million dollars ; but no farm people of my acquaintancehave ever become possessed of such a fortune, and I do notknow positively what they would do if chance brought it theirway. When they have a few hundreds fall to them, they applyit to the farm mortgage, or, if there is no mortgage, they spenda small fraction of the money for something they have particu-larly wanted for a long time, and put the rest in the bank. A man with money at interest has some standing in the com-munity, and can take some pride in himself ; while it is a gooddeal of a bugbear to most to
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