The farmer's boy . , theyounger children were called in, and the hox got lonesome and blew out his candles, and stowed the Jack-o-lanterns away for another occasion. On davs following there was much corn husking inthe fields, at which the boy assisted, though the break-. Tlic boy helps Intsk iji The Farmers Boy ing off of the tough cobs was often no easy matter, andit made his wrists and lingers ache. Toward sundownthe farmer frecjuently brought home a load to husk inthe evening, or for employment on the morrow, shouldthe day chance to be rainy. During the autumn it wasquite common to do an ho
The farmer's boy . , theyounger children were called in, and the hox got lonesome and blew out his candles, and stowed the Jack-o-lanterns away for another occasion. On davs following there was much corn husking inthe fields, at which the boy assisted, though the break-. Tlic boy helps Intsk iji The Farmers Boy ing off of the tough cobs was often no easy matter, andit made his wrists and lingers ache. Toward sundownthe farmer frecjuently brought home a load to husk inthe evening, or for employment on the morrow, shouldthe day chance to be rainy. During the autumn it wasquite common to do an hour or twos work in the barnof an evening, though the boy did not fancy the arrange-ment much, and begged off when he could think of agood excuse. In October the apples had to be ])icked. The pickerswent to the orcliard armed with baskets, ropes, andladders, and the wagon brought out a load of barrelsand scattered them among the trees. It looked dan-gerous the way the boy would worm about among thebranches and ])ursue the apples out to llie lips of thesmallest limbs. He never fell, thougli he many timescame near doing so. The way he hung on seemed toconfirm llie Irulli of the tlieor\ tiial he was descendedfrom monkey ancestors. But llie bo} was on the groundmuch o
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