. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . re compara-tively rare ; and as a rule the house is, to the i)asser-by, the sameold house year in and year out. It is not so with the rear of the premises. If one will keepwatch there, he will find change ccmtinual. A farmer seldom hasroom enough for his stock and crops, and his wagons and tools, sothat everything is handy and to his liking. He always feels theneed of an extra shed or two ; and if he finally gets that extra shedor two, he finds, after all, that he ought to have one or two the need seems imperative, and there is not time or m
. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . re compara-tively rare ; and as a rule the house is, to the i)asser-by, the sameold house year in and year out. It is not so with the rear of the premises. If one will keepwatch there, he will find change ccmtinual. A farmer seldom hasroom enough for his stock and crops, and his wagons and tools, sothat everything is handy and to his liking. He always feels theneed of an extra shed or two ; and if he finally gets that extra shedor two, he finds, after all, that he ought to have one or two the need seems imperative, and there is not time or moneyfor anything more elaborate, he builds a lean-to out of such boardsand slabs as he can pick up about the place. Nearly every winter the farmer takes a few logs to mill, andhas them sawed into boards and plank for his own private use. 77 V. BACK-DOOR NOTES 7^ He stows theni under the l)arn, or on the beams in one of thesheds, where they may be handy against a time of need. Beside the fresh boards stored, there are quantities of second-. iiACK-DooK Pets hand material and (jdds and ends set up in coiucnient eorners allabout the rear farm-buildings, both inside antl out. It is not easyto sa} just where all this rubbish comes from ; but there it alwavsis, and i( at times it suiTers de])letion on the occasion of somebuilding opeiation, this is only temi)orary. The average farmer is pretty sure to have a shop on his prem-ises, where he keeps a variety of the more common carpenters tools ;and when circumstances call for a tool he has not, he can usually
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