Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . y under barns and in hay-mows in the spring, and where protest-ing pigs meet a tragic doom in the latefall, and where apples grow profusely,and cider-casks stand in rows in Novem-ber with the bungs out and straws is tiresome in the country, aselsewhere, but the regular work of a farmis full of entertainment, especially for achange. Anglo-Saxon sport commonlyinvolves killing something. Men shootpartridges and various wild creatures,and chase foxes, at great cost of timeand money, often travelling great dis-tance
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . y under barns and in hay-mows in the spring, and where protest-ing pigs meet a tragic doom in the latefall, and where apples grow profusely,and cider-casks stand in rows in Novem-ber with the bungs out and straws is tiresome in the country, aselsewhere, but the regular work of a farmis full of entertainment, especially for achange. Anglo-Saxon sport commonlyinvolves killing something. Men shootpartridges and various wild creatures,and chase foxes, at great cost of timeand money, often travelling great dis-tances to do it. They are prone to neg-lect the simpler excitements which be-fall when the pampered tenants of a pig-pen meet their fate in the retirementof a barn-yard, and are inexorably re-solved into spare-ribs, bacon, sausage,souse, head-cheese, lard, and salt course pig-killing has its appallingside, but the country cant be quite thereal old country where there is no sau- C/5H m> H >H O H r- > N 70O o Hm r >•z O (/>n> m oft E. nn 3 X o. 832 HAKPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. sage-machine in the garret, and no blad-ders saved np against the summers swim-ming. And of course there ought to be acorn-field, and pumpkins, and mice andmoles under the corn-shocks as theystand in the field in the fall, and terriersto hunt them when the corn-stalks areborne away to the barn. All this, to besure, has to do with real farming, where-as it has been a more artificial and sup-plementary sort of country life that wehave been considering. But, after all,why shouldnt grandparents be realfarmers? When it comes to that, farm-ers in America have proved themselvesfar and away the most successful grand-parents the country has produced. Ithas been the rule that the vigorous menwho have forged ahead in the towns havecome from the country. Perhaps it isnot the rule now in quite so striking ameasure, but it is the rule still. In theslower life of the country the energyseems ever to be
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