The farmer's boy . theringof the pea and cucumber vines and irregular digging ofthe potatoes, that gave the garden its early forlomness. By August the pasture grass had been cropped short bythe cows, and the drier slopes had withered into it was deemed necessary to furnish the cowsextra feed from other sources of su])i)ly. The farmerwould mow with his scythe, on many evenings, in thenooks and corners about his buildings or along the road-side and in the lanes, and the results of these small mow-ings were left for the boy to bring in on his source of fodder
The farmer's boy . theringof the pea and cucumber vines and irregular digging ofthe potatoes, that gave the garden its early forlomness. By August the pasture grass had been cropped short bythe cows, and the drier slopes had withered into it was deemed necessary to furnish the cowsextra feed from other sources of su])i)ly. The farmerwould mow with his scythe, on many evenings, in thenooks and corners about his buildings or along the road-side and in the lanes, and the results of these small mow-ings were left for the boy to bring in on his source of fodder supply was tlie ticld of Ind-ian corn. Around the bases of the hills there sproutedmanv surplus shoots a foot or two in length kno^^n assuckers. These were of no earthly use where theywere, and the boy on a small farm often had the privilege,toward evening, of cutting a load of the suckers lor thecows. Among them he galiiered a good many lull-grownstalks thai had no ears on ihem. Possil)ly there was A Lit LI nin 5. A voyage on a log a patch of fodder corn sown in rows on some ])iecc oflate-ploughed ground, and a pan of ilu- time lie mightgather from that. He had to bring in as heaw a loadas he could wheel every night, and on Saturday an extraone to last o\er Sunday. The cows had to ha\e special attention from the boyone wav or another the year through. They were mostaggravating, ])erha])S, when in Sejitember the shortness Ii6 The Farmers Boy of feed in the pasture made them covetous of the con-tents of the adjoining fields. Sometimes the boy wouldsight them in the corn. His first great anxiety was notabout the corn, but as to whether they were his folkscows or belonged to the neighbors. He would muchrather warn some one else than undertake the cow-chasinghimself. If his study of the color and spotting of thecows proved they were his, he went in and told his mother,then got his stick and took a bee-line across the was wrathfully inclined when he started, and he be-cam
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