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Hopkins + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Sandman: His Farm Stories + +Author: William J. Hopkins + +Illustrator: Ada Clendenin Williamson + +Release Date: May 22, 2011 [EBook #36185] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SANDMAN: HIS FARM STORIES *** + + + + +Produced by Eric Skeet, Beginners Projects and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<h1>THE SANDMAN.</h1> +<h1>HIS FARM STORIES</h1> +<p class="gap5"> </p> + +<div class="bbox" style="margin-left: 20%; margin-right: 20%"> + +<h2>Sandman Stories</h2> + +<h3>Each, one vol., 12mo, illustrated, $1.75</h3> + +<p> </p> +<h3>By William J. Hopkins</h3> + +<p class="center">The Sandman: His Farm Stories<br/> +The Sandman: More Farm Stories<br/> +The Sandman: His Ship Stories<br/> +The Sandman: His Sea Stories</p> +<p><br/></p> + + +<h3>By Harry W. Frees</h3> + +<p class="center">The Sandman: His Animal Stories<br/> +The Sandman: His Kittycat Stories<br/> +The Sandman: His Bunny Stories<br/> +The Sandman: His Puppy Stories</p> + +<p><br/></p> +<h3>By Jenny Wallis</h3> + +<p class="center">The Sandman: His Songs and Rhymes</p> + +<p><br/></p> +<h3>By W. S. Phillips (El Comancho)</h3> + +<p class="center">The Sandman: His Indian Stories</p> + +<p><br/></p> +<h3>By Helen I. Castella</h3> + +<p class="center">The Sandman: His Fairy Stories</p> + +<p><br/></p> +<h3>By Mae V. LeBert</h3> + +<p class="center">The Sandman: His Japanese Stories</p> + +<p><br/></p> +<p class="center">L. C. PAGE & COMPANY<br/> +53 Beacon Street Boston, Mass.</p> + +</div> +<p class="gap5;"> </p> +<div><a name="Frontispiece"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/005.png" alt="Little John raking the hay" /></div> + +<p class="gap5;"> </p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/tp.png" alt="Title page" /></div> +<p class="gap5;"> </p> + +<p class="center"><i>Copyright, 1902</i></p> +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">By The Page Company</span></p> + +<p class="center"><i>All rights reserved</i></p> + +<p class="center">Made in U.S.A.</p> + +<p class="center">PRINTED BY THE COLONIAL PRESS INC.<br/> +CLINTON, MASS., U.S.A.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + +<p class="center" style="font-family: 'Dauphin', Dauphin, fantasy;">To<br/> +that<br/> +Little John<br/> +of to-day<br/> +who has inspired these stories<br/> +of that other<br/> +Little John<br/> +of long ago<br/> +this volume is<br/> +most affectionately<br/> +dedicated</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p class="gap5;"> </p> + +<h2>PREFACE</h2> + +<p>Whatever may be thought of these +stories by older people, they have served, +with some others, to induce a certain little +boy to go to sleep, and for nearly three +years my one listener has heard them repeated +many times, and his interest has +never flagged. As the farm stories slowly +grew in number, they entirely displaced +the other stories, and that farm has become +as real in the mind of my audience +as it was in fact when little John was +driving the cows, or planting the corn, +seventy-five years ago.</p> + +<p>The detail, which may seem excessive +to an older critic, was in every case, until +I had learned to put it in at the start, the +result of a searching cross-examination. +If the bars were not put up again, the +cows might get out; and if the oxen did +not pass, on their return, all the familiar +objects, how did they get back to the +barn? It is the young critics that I hope +to please, those whose years count no +more than six. If they like these farm +stories half as well as my own young +critic likes them, I shall be satisfied.</p> + +<p style="text-align: right; margin-right: 20%"><span class="smcap">William J. Hopkins.</span></p> + +<p class="gap5;"><br/></p> + +<h2>CONTENTS</h2> + +<table summary="Contents"> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">CHAPTER</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><br/></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">PAGE</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">I.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page13">The Oxen Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">13</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">II.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page21">The Fine-Hominy Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">21</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">III.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page36">The Apple Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">36</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">IV.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page47">The Whole Wheat Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">47</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">V.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page59">The Stump Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">59</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">VI.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page64">The Horsie Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">64</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">VII.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page71">The Log Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">71</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">VIII.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page80">The Uncle Sam Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">80</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">IX.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page84">The Market Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">84</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">X.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page96">The Maple-Sugar Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">96</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">XI.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page110">The Rail Fence Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">110</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">XII.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page120">The Cow Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">120</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">XIII.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page135">The Hay Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">135</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">XIV.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page146">The Fireplace Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">146</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">XV.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page156">The Baking Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">156</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">XVI.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page165">The Swimming Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">165</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">XVII.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page175">The Chicken Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">175</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">XVIII.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page184">The Shawl Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">184</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">XIX.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page198">The Buying-Farm Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">198</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">XX.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page203">The Butter Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">203</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="right" style="margin-left: 20%; padding-right: 5mm">XXI.</td> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Page210">The Bean-Pole Story</a></td> +<td class="right" style="padding-left: 1cm">210</td> +</tr> + +</table> + +<p class="gap4"> </p> +<h2>LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS</h2> + +<table summary="List of Illustrations"> + +<tr> +<td ><br/></td> +<td class="right">PAGE</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Frontispiece">Little John</a></td> +<td class="right">Frontispiece</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_14">"And to wash their faces and hands"</a></td> +<td class="right">14</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_15">"Ran down the spout to the hogshead"</a></td> +<td class="right">15</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_17">"Uncle John took the bars down"</a></td> +<td class="right">17</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_25">"He put one grain of corn in each hole"</a></td> +<td class="right">25</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_27">"It was time to gather the corn"</a></td> +<td class="right">27</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_31">"On the outside of the building was a great enormous wheel"</a></td> +<td class="right">31</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_32">"Little John got down"</a></td> +<td class="right">32</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_38">"Uncle John gathered all the apples"</a></td> +<td class="right">38</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_43">"The juice ran out below into the keg"</a></td> +<td class="right">43</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_45">"The cider ran into the pitcher"</a></td> +<td class="right">45</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_49">"So they went all around the field"</a></td> +<td class="right">49</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_50">"Put the bag over his shoulder"</a></td> +<td class="right">50</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_56">"They made a great noise"</a></td> +<td class="right">56</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_60">"The places where the fields would be were all covered with trees"</a></td> +<td class="right">60</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_62">"They dug a trench"</a></td> +<td class="right">62</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_66">"He began to climb over the wall"</a></td> +<td class="right">66</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_69">"Ran along the road crying"</a></td> +<td class="right">69</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_74">"They rolled the great log up the little logs on to the sleds"</a></td> +<td class="right">74</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_77">"The end of the log came against the saw"</a></td> +<td class="right">77</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_82">"He tipped Uncle Sam right out"</a></td> +<td class="right">82</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_83">"He just got up and ran around the wall"</a></td> +<td class="right">83</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_85">"The old rooster crowed"</a></td> +<td class="right">85</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_87">"Aunt Deborah came out of the house"</a></td> +<td class="right">87</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_92">"The market-man took some money from his pocket"</a></td> +<td class="right">92</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_100">"Put a bucket under each spout"</a></td> +<td class="right">100</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_104">"Dropped it in the snow"</a></td> +<td class="right">104</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_112">"They cut down enough of these trees"</a></td> +<td class="right">112</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_117">"Put the posts in the holes"</a></td> +<td class="right">117</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_121">"Fixing the fire"</a></td> +<td class="right">121</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_128">"Little John ... opened the gate"</a></td> +<td class="right">128</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_137">"They put it down by the stone wall"</a></td> +<td class="right">137</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_138">"One of the other men began at the next place"</a></td> +<td class="right">138</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_143">"They piled the hay up in the cart"</a></td> +<td class="right">143</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_147">"There was a great enormous fireplace"</a></td> +<td class="right">147</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_150">"Filled it with water at the well"</a></td> +<td class="right">150</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_160">"Those were apple pies"</a></td> +<td class="right">160</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_162">"So she did until all the pies were baked"</a></td> +<td class="right">162</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_167">"They ran along in the water where it wasn't very deep"</a></td> +<td class="right">167</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_173">"There was Aunt Deborah with four pieces of gingerbread"</a></td> +<td class="right">173</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_178">"The old rooster ... crowed very loud"</a></td> +<td class="right">178</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_180">"Each of these hens laid one egg"</a></td> +<td class="right">180</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_181">"Little John found that nest"</a></td> +<td class="right">181</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_188">"They went to the island"</a></td> +<td class="right">188</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_195">"They thought the cloth and the shawls were very beautiful"</a></td> +<td class="right">195</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_201">"All the things had to be dragged in the wagons"</a></td> +<td class="right">201</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_206">"Put it in flat pans"</a></td> +<td class="right">296</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_207">"Aunt Phyllis took hold of the long handle"</a></td> +<td class="right">207</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_213">"He cut down each tree with one whack of the axe"</a></td> +<td class="right">213</td> +</tr><tr> +<td class="left; smcap"><a href="#Illus_216">"The bean vines kept on growing"</a></td> +<td class="right">216</td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<hr style="width: 15%;" /> + + + + +<h2>THE SANDMAN: +HIS FARM STORIES</h2> +<hr style="width: 15%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page13">I.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE OXEN STORY</h2> + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> + +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds, +and it stood not far +from the road. And +in the fence was a wide gate to let the +wagons through to the barn. And the +wagons, going through, had made a track +that led up past the kitchen door and +past the shed and past the barn and past +the orchard to the wheat-field.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_14"></a></div> + +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/gs02.png" alt="And to wash their faces and hands" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Not far from the kitchen door was a +well, with a bucket tied +by a rope to the end +of a great long pole. +And when they wanted +water, they let +the bucket +down into the +well and pulled +it up full of +water. They +used this water to drink, and to wash +their faces and hands, and to wash the +dishes: but it wasn't good to wash clothes, +because it wouldn't make good soap-suds. +To get water to wash the clothes, +they had +a great enormous +hogshead +at the +corner of the +house.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_15"></a></div> +<div class="figright"><img src="images/gs03.png" alt="Ran down the spout to the hogshead" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>And when it rained, +the rain fell on the roof, +and ran down the roof +to the gutter, and ran +down the gutter to the +spout, and ran down the +spout to the hogshead. +And when they wanted +water to wash the clothes, +they took some of the +water out of the hogshead. +But when it had not +rained for a long time, +there was no water in the hogshead. +Then they got out the drag and put +a barrel on it, and the old oxen came +out from the barn, and put their heads +down low; and Uncle John put the yoke +over their necks, and put the bows under +and fastened them, and hooked the chain +of the drag to the yoke. +There wasn't +any harness, and there weren't any reins.</p> + + +<p> +Then he said "Gee up there, Buck; gee +up there, Star." And the old oxen started +walking slowly along, dragging the drag, +with the barrel on it, along the ground. +And Uncle John walked along beside +them, carrying a long whip or a long +stick with a sharp end; and little John +walked along by the drag. +</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_17"></a></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/gs04.png" alt="Uncle John took the bars down" title="" /> +</div> + +<p> +And they walked slowly out of the yard +into the road and along the road until +they came to a big field with a stone wall +around it, and a big gate in the stone wall. +It wasn't a regular gate, but at each side +of the open place in the wall there was +a post with holes in it. And long bars +went across and rested in the holes. And +the old oxen stopped, and Uncle John +took the bars down and laid them on +the ground. Then the oxen started and +walked through the gate and across the +field until they came to the river. And +when they came to the river, they +stopped. +The little river and the field are not +there now, because the people put a great +enormous heap of dirt across, and the +river couldn't get through. The water +ran in and couldn't get out, and spread +out all over the field and made a big pond. +And they had some great pipes under the +ground, all the way to Boston. And the +water runs through the pipes to Boston, +and the people use it there to drink, and +wash faces and hands, and wash dishes, +and wash clothes.</p> + +<p>Well, when the old oxen stopped at the +river, Uncle John took his bucket and +dipped it in the river, and poured the water +into the barrel until the barrel was full. +Then he said "Gee up there," and the +old oxen started slowly walking across +the field. And the drag tilted around on +the rough ground, and the water splashed +about in the barrel, and slopped over the +top of the barrel on to the drag, and on +to the ground. And the oxen walked out +of the gate into the road and stopped. +And Uncle John put the bars back into +the holes, and the old oxen started again +and walked slowly along the road, until +they came to the farm-house, and in at the +big gate, and up to the kitchen door, and +there they stopped. And Uncle John unhooked +the chain from the yoke, and took +out the bows, and took off the yoke, and +the old oxen walked into the barn and +went to sleep. And they left the drag +with the barrel of water by the kitchen +door.</p> + +<p>And the next morning, when they +wanted water to wash the clothes, there +was the barrel of water, all ready.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page21">II.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE FINE-HOMINY STORY</h2> + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and it was painted white +and had green blinds, and it stood not far +from the road. And +in the fence was a wide gate to let the +wagons through to the barn. And the +wagons, going through, had made a track +that led up past the kitchen door and +past the shed and past the barn and past +the orchard to the wheat-field.</p> + +<p>Not far from the house there was a field +where corn grew; and when the winter +was over and the snow was gone and it +was beginning to get warm, Uncle John +got the old oxen out of the barn. And +the oxen put their heads down, and Uncle +John put the yoke over and the bows +under, and he put the plough on the drag +and hooked the drag chain to the yoke. +Then he said: "Gee up there, Buck; gee +up there, Star."</p> + +<p>So the old oxen started walking slowly +along the wagon track and out of the gate +into the road. Uncle Solomon and Uncle +John walked along beside them, and little +John walked behind; and they walked +along until they came to the corn-field. +Then the oxen stopped and Uncle John +took the bars down out of the holes in the +posts, and the oxen geed up again through +the gate into the corn-field.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John unhooked the chain +from the drag and hooked it to the plough +and said "Gee up" again, and the oxen +started walking along across the field, +dragging the plough. Uncle Solomon +held the handles, and the plough dug into +the ground and turned up the dirt into a +great heap on one side and left a deep +furrow—a kind of a long hollow—all +across the field where it had gone. And +the old oxen walked across the field, +around and around, making the furrow +and turning up the dirt, until they had +been all over the field.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John unhooked the chain +from the plough and hooked it on to the +harrow. The harrow is a big kind of a +frame that has diggers like little ploughs +sticking down all over the under side of it. +And the oxen dragged the harrow over the +field and the little teeth broke up the +lumps of dirt and smoothed it over and +made it soft, so that the seeds could grow.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John unhooked the chain +from the harrow and hooked it to the +drag and put the plough on the drag +and said "Gee up," and the oxen walked +along through the gateway and along the +road until they came to the farm-house. +And they went in at the wide gate and up +the wagon track until they came to the +shed, and there they stopped. Then Uncle +John unhooked the chain and took off the +yoke, and the old oxen went into the barn +and went to sleep; and Uncle John put +the drag in the shed.</p> + +<p>The next day Uncle John took a great +bag full of corn, and put it over his shoulder +and started walking along to the corn-field; +and little John walked behind. And +when they got to the corn-field, Uncle +John put the great bag of corn on the +ground and put some in a little bag and +gave it to little John. Then Uncle John +began walking across the field and little +John walked behind. And at every step +Uncle John stopped and made five little +holes in the ground; and then he took +another step and made five other little +holes. And little John came after and he +put one grain of corn in each hole and +brushed the dirt over. And they went all +over the field, putting the corn in the +ground, and when it was all covered over, +they went away and left it.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_25"></a></div> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs05.png" alt="He put one grain of corn in each hole" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Then the rain came and fell on the field +and sank into the ground, and the sun +shone and warmed it, and the corn began +to grow. And soon the little green blades +pushed through the ground like grass, and +got bigger and bigger and taller and taller +until when the summer was almost over +they were great corn-stalks as high as +Uncle John's head; and on each stalk +were the ears of corn, wrapped up tight +in green leaves, and at the top was the +tassel that waved about. +</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_27"></a></div> + +<div><img src="images/gs06.png" class="figright" alt="It was time to gather the corn" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Then, when the tassel got yellow and brown +and the leaves began to dry up, +Uncle John knew it was time +to gather the corn, for it was ripe. +Then Uncle Solomon and Uncle +John came out with great heavy, +sharp knives and cut down all the +corn-stalks and pulled the ears of +corn off the stalks. And little John +came and helped pull off the leaves +from around the ears. Then the old +oxen came out of the barn and +Uncle John put the yoke over their +necks and the bows up under and +hooked the tongue of the ox-cart to +the yoke. And he +said "Gee up there," and the old oxen +began walking slowly along, dragging the +cart; and they went out the wide gate and +along the road to the corn-field.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John and Uncle Solomon +tossed the ears of corn into the cart; and +when it was full, the old oxen started +again, walking slowly along, back to the +farm-house, in through the wide gate and +up the wagon track and in at the wide +door of the barn. And Uncle John put +all the ears of corn into a kind of pen in +the barn and the old oxen dragged the +cart back to the corn-field to get it filled +again; and so they did until all the ears of +corn were in the pen.</p> + +<p>And then Uncle John unhooked the +tongue of the cart and put the cart in +the shed, and he took off the yoke, and the +oxen went into the barn and went to +sleep.</p> + +<p>The next morning Uncle Solomon and +Uncle John and little John all went out +to the barn and sat on little stools—low +stools with three legs, that they sit on +when they milk the cows—and rubbed +the kernels of corn off the cobs. Then +Uncle John put all the corn into bags and +put it away; and he put the cobs in the +shed, to use in making fires.</p> + +<p>Then, one morning, Uncle John got out +the oxen, and they put their heads down, +and he put the yoke over their necks and +the bows up under, and he hooked the +tongue of the ox-cart to the yoke; and he +said "Gee up there," and they walked into +the barn. Then Uncle John put all the +bags of corn into the cart, and he put little +John up on the cart, and the old oxen +started again and walked slowly along, +down the wagon track, out the wide gate, +and into the road.</p> + +<p>Then they turned along the road, not +the way to the field where they got the +water, but the other way. And they +walked a long way until they came to a +place where there was a building beside +a little river. And on the outside of the +building was a great enormous wheel, so +big that it reached down and dipped into +the water.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_31"></a></div> + +<div><img src="images/gs07.png" class="figright" alt="On the outside of the building was a great enormous wheel" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>And when the water in the +little river flowed along, it made the great +wheel turn around; and this made a great +heavy stone inside the building turn +around on top of another stone. Now the building is called a Mill, and the big +wheel outside is called a Mill-Wheel, and +the stones are called Mill-Stones; and the +man that takes care of +the mill is called the +Miller.</p> + +<p> +Now the miller was +sitting in the doorway +of the mill; and +when he saw Uncle +John and little John +and the ox-cart filled +with bags, he got up +and came out, and +called to Uncle +John: "Good morning. +What can I +do for you this +morning?" + + + +And Uncle John said: "I've got some +corn to grind."</p> + +<p>So the oxen stopped, and little John got +down, and the miller and Uncle John took +all the bags of corn into the mill, and the +oxen lay down and went to sleep.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_32"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs08.png" alt="Little John got down" title="" /> +</div> +<p>Then Uncle John and little John sat down on +some logs in the mill, and the miller asked +Uncle John how he wanted the corn +ground. So Uncle John said he wanted +some of it just cracked, and some of it +ground into fine hominy, and some of it +into meal.</p> + +<p>Then the miller fixed the stones so they +would just crack the corn, and he poured +the corn in at a place where it would run +down between the stones, and he started +the stone turning. When the corn was +cracked, he put it into the bags again, and +tied them up.</p> + +<p>Then he fixed the stones so they would +grind the corn into fine hominy, and he +poured the corn in, and it came out +ground into fine hominy. Then he put +the fine hominy into the bags again and +tied them up.</p> + +<p>Then he fixed the stones so they would +grind the corn into meal, and he poured +the corn in, and it came out ground into +meal. Then he put the meal into the +bags again and tied them up. And the +miller kept two bags of each kind to pay +for grinding the corn; but the other bags +he put into the ox-cart.</p> + +<p>Then the oxen got up and little John +was lifted up and the old oxen started walking +slowly along home again. And they +walked a long time until they came to the +wide gate, and they turned in at the gate +and up the wagon track to the kitchen +door, and there they stopped. And Uncle +John took one of the bags of meal into +the kitchen and gave it to Aunt Deborah.</p> + +<p>And he said: "Here's your meal, +Deborah."</p> + +<p>And Aunt Deborah said: "All right. +I'll make some Johnny-cake for breakfast +to-morrow."</p> + +<p>And the rest of the meal was put away +in the store-room until they wanted it; for +they had enough to last them all winter +and some to take to market besides. +Then Uncle John unhooked the tongue +of the cart from the yoke and put the cart +in the shed. And he took off the yoke +and the old oxen went into the barn and +went to sleep.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page36">III.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE APPLE STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds, +and it stood not far +from the road. In the +fence was a wide gate to let the wagons +through to the barn. And the wagons, +going through, had made a track that +went up past the kitchen door and past +the shed and past the barn and past the +orchard to the wheat-field.</p> + +<p>In the orchard grew many apple-trees. +Some had yellow apples and some had +green apples and some had red apples and +some had brown apples. And the yellow +apples got ripe before the summer was +over; but the green apples and the red +apples and the brown apples were not ripe +until the summer was over and it was +beginning to get cold.</p> + +<p>So, one day, after the summer was over +and it was beginning to get cold, Uncle +John saw that the apples on one of the +trees were ready to be picked. And they +were red apples. So he got out the old +oxen, and they put their heads down and +he put the yoke over and the bows under +and hooked the tongue of the ox-cart to +the yoke. Then he said: "Gee up there, +Buck; gee up there, Star." And the old +oxen began walking slowly along, past the +barn to the orchard. And they turned in +through the wide gate into the orchard +and went along until they came to the +right tree.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_38"></a></div> + + +<div class="figright" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"> +<img src="images/gs09a.png" alt="Uncle John gathered all the apples" title="" /> +</div> +<div class="figright" style="margin-top:-10px;"> +<img src="images/gs09b.png" alt=" " title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Then they +stopped and Uncle +John took a basket +and climbed up +into the tree. And +he picked the apples +very carefully +and put them into +the basket. And +when the basket was +full, he climbed +down from the tree and emptied the +basket carefully into the cart. Then he +climbed up again and filled the basket +again; and so he did until the cart +was full. Then Uncle John said: "Gee +up there;" and the old oxen started +and turned around and walked slowly +back to the barn and in at the big +door. Then Uncle John took all the +apples out of the cart and put them in a +kind of pen, and the old oxen started +again and walked slowly back to the +orchard.</p> + +<p>So Uncle John gathered all the apples +from that tree and put them in the pen in +the barn. Then he unhooked the tongue +of the cart and took off the yoke, and the +old oxen went to their places and went to +sleep. +</p> + + +<p>The next morning, Uncle Solomon and +Uncle John and little John all went out to +the barn, and they took little three-legged +stools that had one end higher than the +other,—the kind they used when they +milked the cows,—and they sat on these +stools and looked over all the apples, one +by one. The apples that were very nice +indeed they put in some barrels that were +there; and the apples that were good, but +not quite so nice and big, they put in a +pile on the floor; and the apples that had +specks on them or holes in them, or that +were twisted, they put in another pile. +And this last pile they gave to the horses +and cows and oxen and pigs, and the +apples in the barrels were to go to market, +or for the people to eat.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John got out the old oxen +and they put their heads down low, and he +put the yoke over and the bows under +and hooked the tongue of the ox-cart to +the yoke. And he put into the cart all +the apples that were in the first pile, +those that were good but not quite big +enough to put in the barrels, and he put +two empty kegs—little barrels—on the +top of the load. Then the old oxen started +walking slowly along, out of the barn and +along the wagon track past the shed and +past the kitchen door and through the +gate into the road. And they turned +along the road, not the way to the field +where they went to get water, but the +other way. And Uncle John walked beside, +and little John ran ahead, and they +went along until they came to a little +house by the side of the road, and there +they stopped. Then Uncle John opened +the door of the little house and they went +in. And inside there was nothing but a +log against the wall, to sit on, and in the +middle of the room a kind of a thing they +called a cider-press. It had a place to +put the apples in, and a flat cover that +came down on top, and a screw and a long +handle above. Besides the cider-press, +there was a chopper to chop the apples +into little pieces.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_43"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs10.png" alt="The juice ran out below into the keg" title="" /></div> + +<p>Then little John sat down on the log +and Uncle John put the apples in the +chopper and chopped them up fine. Then +he put some chopped apples, with some +straw over them, in the place that was +meant for apples, and then he took hold +of the long handle, and walked around +and around. That made the screw turn +and the cover squeeze down on the apples +so that the juice ran out below into the +keg that was put there. And when the +juice was all squeezed out of those apples, +he walked around the other way, holding +the handle, and that made the cover lift +up. Then he took out the squeezed +apples and put in some other apples and +squeezed them the same way. And when +all the apples in the cart had been +squeezed, both kegs were full of juice. +And they call the juice cider.</p> + +<p>So Uncle John put the great stoppers +that they call bungs into the bung-holes +in the kegs, so that the cider would not +run out. Then he put the kegs in the +cart, and little John came out of the little +house and Uncle John shut the door, and +the old oxen turned around and walked +slowly along until they came to the gate, +and they walked up the track to the +kitchen door, and there they stopped. +Then Uncle John and Uncle Solomon +took the kegs down into the cellar, and +they took out a little bung near the bottom +of one of the kegs, and put in a +wooden spigot—a kind of a faucet. Then +they set that keg on a shelf, so that a +pitcher or a mug could go under the spigot.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John took the yoke off the +oxen and they went into the barn and +went to sleep.</p> + +<p>After supper that +evening, Uncle Solomon +and Uncle John +were sitting in the +sitting-room and +Uncle John spoke +to little John, and said: "John, +I think I would like a drink +of cider."</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_45"></a></div> +<div class="figright" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"> +<img src="images/gs11a.png" alt="The cider ran into the pitcher" title="" /> +</div> +<div class="figright" style="margin-top:-12px;"> +<img src="images/gs11b.png" alt=" " title="" /> +</div> + +<p>So little John took a pitcher and went +down into the cellar, and his mother held +a light while he put the pitcher under the +spigot and turned the spigot; and the +cider ran into the pitcher, and when +enough had run in he turned the spigot +the other way and the cider stopped running. +Then he carried the cider up to his +father, and his father drank it.</p> + +<p>And when Uncle John had drunk the +cider, he said to Uncle Solomon: "Father, +that's pretty good cider; you'd better have +some."</p> + +<p>And Uncle Solomon said: "Don't care +if I do." So little John had to go down +cellar again and get another pitcher of +cider.</p> + +<p>Those two kegs of cider lasted for a +while and then more apples were ripe and +they made enough cider to last all winter +and some to send to market besides.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page47">IV.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE WHOLE WHEAT STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds, +and it stood not far +from the road. And in +the fence was a wide gate to let the wagons +through to the barn. And the wagons, +going through, had made a little track that +went up past the kitchen door and past +the shed and past the barn and past the +orchard to a gate in a stone wall, where +the bars were across; and through that +field and another gate where the bars +were across, into the maple-sugar woods. +And in that field wheat grew.</p> + +<p>When the summer was nearly over and +the corn and most of the other things had +got ripe and had been gathered, Uncle +John got out the old oxen and put the +yoke over their necks and the bows up +under; and he hooked the drag chain to +the yoke and put the plough on the drag +and said: "Gee up there, Buck; gee up +there, Star." And the old oxen started +slowly along past the barn and past the +orchard to the wheat-field.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John took the plough off +the drag and unhooked the chain from the +drag and hooked it to the plough. Uncle +Solomon held the handles of the plough +and the old oxen started walking slowly +across the field dragging the plough; and +the plough dug into the ground and turned +the earth up at one side and made a deep +furrow where it had gone. So they went +all around the field and around until it +was all ploughed.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_49"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/gs12.png" alt="So they went all around the field" title="" /> +</div> +<p>Then Uncle John unhooked the chain +from the plough and hooked it to the harrow; +and the old oxen started and walked +slowly back and forth across the field, and +the teeth of the harrow broke up the +lumps of dirt and made it all soft. And +when the field was all harrowed, Uncle +John unhooked the +chain from the harrow +and hooked it to +the drag and put the +plough on the drag, +and the old oxen +walked slowly back +to the barn. And +Uncle John unhooked +the chain and took +off the yoke; and the +oxen went to their places in the +barn and went to sleep, and the +drag was in the shed.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_50"></a></div> +<div class="figleft" style="margin-bottom: 0px"> +<img src="images/gs13a.png" alt="Put the bag over his shoulder" title="" /> +</div> +<div class="figleft" style="margin-top:-10px"> +<img src="images/gs13b.png" alt=" " title="" /> +</div> + +<p>The next morning, Uncle John +put some whole wheat in a big bag and +put the bag over his shoulder and walked +along past the orchard to the wheat-field. +And when he got to the wheat-field, he +put the bag down on the ground and put +some of the wheat in a little bag that +he had hanging from his shoulder. And +then he began walking across the field, +and as he walked along he took up a +handful of wheat and threw it far out so +that it scattered over the ground. And +that way he scattered all the wheat so that +it lay in the soft ground, and then he went +away and left it.</p> + +<p>And the rain fell and the sun shone +on the field and the wheat began to grow. +And soon the little green blades pushed +up through the ground like grass; and +the wheat grew higher and higher until +it was as high as little John's knees. And +then the summer was all over and it +was beginning to get cold; so the wheat +stopped growing and stayed just as high +as that all winter and the snow covered +it.</p> + +<p>And when the winter was over and it +began to get warm, the snow melted away +and the wheat began to grow again; and +it got taller and taller until it was as tall +as Uncle John's waist. And then the little +tassels at the top of each stem got +yellow and brown and the wheat was +ripe. This was in the beginning of the +summer.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John and Uncle Solomon +got their scythes and their whetstones +and started very early in the morning to +the wheat-field. And they sharpened their +scythes with the whetstones and swung +the scythes back and forth and began to +cut down the wheat. Every time the +scythe swung, it cut through the stalks +of wheat and they fell down on the +ground. And they walked along over the +field, swinging the scythes and cutting +down the wheat, until all the wheat was +cut. Then they went home and left it +lying there in the sun.</p> + +<p>The next morning Uncle John got out +the oxen and they put their heads down +low, and he put the yoke over and the bows +under and hooked the tongue of the cart +to the yoke and said "Gee up there." +And the old oxen walked slowly along, +past the barn and past the orchard to the +wheat-field.</p> + +<p>And the sun had dried the stalks of +wheat and the tassels. The tassels are a +lot of little cases, on a fine stem; and in +each little case is a grain of whole wheat. +When the tassels are dry, the little cases +are all ready to break open.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle Solomon and Uncle John +took their long forks and put the wheat +in the cart, and when the cart was full the +old oxen walked slowly back to the barn +and in at the great doors.</p> + +<p>There were great enormous doors in the +side of the barn, big enough for a wagon +to go through when it was piled up high +with a load of hay or of wheat. And in +the other side of the barn were other great +enormous doors, so that the wagon could +go right through the barn; and between +the doors was only the great open floor +with nothing on it. On one side of this +open place were the cows, and on the +other side were the horses and the oxen, +and the cart went in between, with the +wheat in it.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle Solomon and Uncle John +took the wheat out of the cart and put it +on the floor of the barn; and the old oxen +started again and walked out the other +door and back to the wheat-field. Then +Uncle Solomon and Uncle John filled the +cart again and the oxen dragged that +wheat to the barn; and they did the same +way until all the wheat was on the barn +floor. Then Uncle John took off the yoke +and the old oxen went to their places and +went to sleep.</p> + + +<p>The next morning Uncle Solomon and +Uncle John went to the barn, and each +took down from a nail a long smooth stick +that had another smooth stick fastened to +its end by a piece of leather so that it +flapped about. This was to beat the +wheat with, and they called it a flail.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_56"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs14.png" alt="They made a great noise" title="" /> +</div> +<p>And so Uncle Solomon +and Uncle John stood +in amidst the wheat on the barn floor +and whacked it with the flails so that +they made a great noise—whack! whack!—on +the floor. And the little cases +broke open and the grains of whole +wheat fell out and dropped between the +stalks to the barn floor. And the pieces +of the broken cases blew out from the +great barn doors; for the doors were open +at both sides and the wind blew through. +These broken pieces that blow away, they +call chaff.</p> + +<p>Then when Uncle Solomon and Uncle +John had whacked for a long time, and +they thought that all the whole wheat had +come out of the cases, they hung up the +flails and took their long forks and lifted +up the stalks of the wheat and shook +them so that all the grains of wheat +might drop through; and they put the +dried stalks of the wheat in a corner of +the hay-loft above where the cows slept. +These dried stalks they call straw, and +they put it for the horses and the cows +and the oxen to sleep on.</p> + +<p>And when the straw was all put away, +there was all the wheat on the floor; and +they gathered it up and put it into bags. +And they had enough to make whole +wheat flour to last all winter, and to feed +the chickens and every kind of a thing +that they wanted to use wheat for, and +there was enough to take some to market +besides.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page59">V.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE STUMP STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds. +And when this farm-house +was just built, +before it was Uncle Solomon's, the man +that lived there wanted some fields where +he could plant his corn and his potatoes +and his wheat. But the places where the +fields would be were all covered with trees.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_60"></a></div> +<div class="figleft"> +<img src="images/gs15.png" alt="The places where the fields would be were all covered with trees" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>So in the winter when the snow was on +the ground, he went out and cut down the +trees with his axe. And the great big +trees he carried to the mill, and they were +sawed up into boards; that is another +story. +And the branches and the small +trees he chopped up +with his axe to burn +in the fireplaces. +Then the field was +all covered with the +stumps of the trees +and with great rocks.</p> + +<p>Then, when it began +to get warm, after +the winter was over, +the man got out the +old oxen. There were two pairs of oxen, +and they came out of the barn and put +down their heads, and the man put the +yokes over their necks and the bows up +under, and he hooked great chains to the +yokes. And he hooked one chain to the +drag, and took his whip and said: "Gee +up there, Buck; gee up there, Star." And +the old oxen began walking slowly along +to the field.</p> + +<p>Then the man unhooked the drag, and +fastened one of the chains to a stump, +and hooked the other chain to that chain, +and said: "Gee up there." And all the +oxen began to pull as hard as they could, +and all of a sudden out came the stump +with a lot of dirt. And he pulled out all +the stumps the same way, and stood them +up at the back of the field, where they +made a kind of a fence with the roots +sticking slanting up into the air.</p> + +<p>Then there were the big rocks all over +the field. And the man fastened the +chains to a rock and the old oxen pulled +as hard as they could, and out came the +rock and they put it on the drag. And +then the man saw where he wanted his +fence; and they dug a trench and put flat +rocks on the bottom and then the biggest +rocks they had on the flat rocks. And +they pulled all the rocks out of the ground +with the chains, and put them on the drag, +and the old oxen pulled them over to the +trench, and the man piled them up and +built a wall.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_62"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs16.png" alt="They dug a trench" title="" /></div> + +<p>Building the wall took a long time—a +good many days. And when the oxen +had pulled all the rocks out of the ground +and dragged them over to the wall, the +field was all soft and ready to be ploughed. +So the oxen started walking along, out +of the field, along the road, dragging the +drag. And they went in at the big gate +and up past the kitchen door to the barn. +Then the man unhooked the chains and +took off the yokes and the oxen went into +the barn and went to sleep.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page64">VI.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE HORSIE STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds; +and it stood not far +from the road. In the +fence was a wide gate to let the wagons +through to the barn. And the wagons, +going through, had made a little track that +went up past the kitchen door and past +the shed and past the barn and past the +orchard to the wheat-field. Not very +far from that farm-house there was a +field where the horses and cows used to +go to eat the grass. That was the same +field where they went to get water from +the river; and in the wall that was +between that field and the next, there was +a wide gateway. At each side of the gateway +there was a post with holes in it, and +long bars went across and rested in the +holes. And when the bars were across, +the horses and cows couldn't go through +to the other field. But when the bars +were taken out of the holes, then the +horses and cows could go through as +much as they wanted to and eat the grass +in either field.</p> + +<p>One day little John was going across +the field because it was the short way; +and there was a horse in the field, eating +the grass, and the bars were down. It +was a kind, pleasant horse, but he liked +to have fun. And when he saw the little +boy going across the field, he thought he +would have fun, so he ran after him.</p> +<p>Little John saw the horse coming and +he was frightened. He was near the wall that +was between the two fields, and he ran +as hard as he could and got to the wall +before the horse caught him. +Then he began to climb over the +wall into the next field.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_66"></a></div> + +<div class="figright" style="margin-bottom: 0px"> +<img src="images/gs17a.png" alt="He began to climb over the wall" title="" /> +</div> +<div class="figright" style="margin-top:-10px;" > +<img src="images/gs17b.png" alt=" " title="" /> +</div> + +<p>And the horse saw what he was doing +and ran down the field, beside the wall, +and through the gate and back on the +other side; and he got there just as the +little boy was getting down. And little +John heard the horse's feet on the +ground—ca-tha-lump—ca-tha-lump—ca-tha-lump— +and he looked around and he saw +the horse galloping up by the wall. Then +he was frightened and he began to climb +back again over the wall as fast as he +could.</p> + +<p>And the horse saw what he was doing +and ran down the field, beside the wall, +and through the gate and back on the +other side; and he got there just as the +little boy was getting down. And little +John heard the horse's feet on the +ground—ca-tha-lump—ca-tha-lump—ca-tha-lump— +and he looked around and he saw +the horse galloping up by the wall. Then +he was frightened and he began to climb +back again over the wall as fast as he +could.</p> + +<p>And the horse saw what he was doing +and ran down the field, beside the wall, +and through the gate and back on the +other side; and he got there just as the +little boy was getting down. And little +John heard the horse's feet on the +ground—ca-tha-lump—ca-tha-lump—ca-tha-lump— +and he looked around and he saw +the horse galloping up by the wall. Then +he was frightened and he began to climb +over the wall again. +But every time he had +climbed over the wall between +the fields, he had +gone a little nearer to the +road, until he was near +enough to the wall between +the field and the road to +reach that. And this time, +instead of climbing back into the other +field, he climbed over into the road.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_69"></a></div> +<div class="figright"> +<img src="images/gs18.png" alt="Ran along the road crying" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>And poor little John was very much +frightened and ran along the road crying, +and got home, and his father saw him and +asked him: "What's the matter, John?" +And then little John told his father about +the horse. And his father laughed and +said that the horse was a kind horse but +he liked to have fun; and little John +better not go there any more. And so the +little boy did not go through that field +again, but went around by the road.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page71">VII.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE LOG STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds; +and it stood not far +from the road. In the +fence was a wide gate to let the wagons +through to the barn. And the wagons, +going through, had made a little track that +went up past the kitchen door and past +the shed and past the barn and past the +orchard to the wheat-field. But when +this farm-house was just built, there +wasn't any wheat-field or any other field, +and the places where the fields would be +were all covered with trees. And that +was a long time before Uncle Solomon +had the farm.</p> + +<p>So the man that built the farm-house +took his axe, one day, when the snow was +on the ground, and he went to the place +where he wanted the fields and he began +to cut down the trees. There were big +trees and little trees, and it took him a +long time to cut down all the trees on the +place where the field would be. He cut +off all the branches, and the branches and +the little trees he cut up with his axe to +burn in the fireplaces; and he piled all +that wood near the kitchen door. But the +big logs—the trunks of the big trees after +the branches were cut off—he was going +to take to the mill, to have them sawed +into boards.</p> + +<p>So, one morning, after that was all +done, the man got out the oxen. There +were two yoke of oxen—two oxen they +call a "yoke" of oxen, because two are +yoked together—and they came out of +the barn and put their heads down and he +put the yokes over and the bows under +and he hooked the tongue of a great sled +to each yoke. And on each sled was a +great chain.</p> + +<p>Then he said: "Gee up there," and the +oxen all started walking slowly along, and +they walked out of the wide gate and along +the road until they came to the place where +the trees were all cut down, and there they +stopped. And the sleds were beside one +of the big logs, one sled at each end.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_74"></a></div> +<div class="figleft"> +<img src="images/gs19.png" alt="They rolled the great log up the little logs" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Then they unhooked the tongues of the +sleds from the yokes and led the oxen out +of the way. And the man and two other +men that were helping him put some little +logs sloping from the ground up to the +sleds, and with poles that had hooks on +the ends they rolled the great log up the +little logs on to the sleds, so that it rested +on them. And there was one sled under +each end, but under the middle there was +nothing. Then they fastened that log to +the sleds, so that it couldn't roll off, and +they rolled another log up on the other +side and fastened that; and they rolled +another log up on top of the first two. +Then they fastened the tongue of each +sled to the logs, and the logs were held on +with the great chains, so they couldn't roll +off. Then they hooked a chain to the +first sled and to one of the yokes, and +another chain from that yoke to the other +yoke. And the man said: "Gee up +there," and all the oxen pulled as hard as +they could, and the sleds started sliding +along the ground on the snow and into +the road. And the oxen walked slowly +along the road, pulling the sleds with the +logs on them, for a long way.</p> + +<p>When they had gone along the road +for a long way, they came to a place where +there was a building beside a little river. +And on the side of the building was a +wheel so large that it reached down into +the water. And when the water ran +along, it made the wheel turn around and +that made a big saw go, inside the building.</p> + +<p>And the oxen pulled the sleds with the +logs up beside the building and there was +a strong carriage that ran on wheels on a +track. And the men unfastened the +chains and rolled a log off on to the carriage +and fastened it there. Then they +pushed on the carriage and it rolled along +toward the saw, and the saw was going.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_77"></a></div> + +<div class="figleft"> +<img src="images/gs20a.png" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10%;" alt="The end of the log came against the saw" title="" /> +</div> +<div class="figleft"> +<img src="images/gs20b.png" style="margin-top:-10px; margin-left: 20%;" alt=" " title="" /> +</div> + +<p>And the end of the log came against the +saw and the saw made a great screeching +noise and began +to cut into +the log, and it kept +on cutting and the +men pushed, and the saw +cut all the way through the +log, to the other end, and +that piece fell off. That piece was round +on one side and flat on the other.</p> + + +<p>Then they rolled the carriage back and +fastened the log farther over and pushed +it up against the saw again, and the saw +cut off another piece that was flat on both +sides. That piece was a board. And that +way they cut the log all up into boards, +and then they cut up the other logs the +same way.</p> + +<p>When the logs were all cut into boards, +the men put the boards on the sleds and +fastened them on just the same way the +logs had been fastened, and the oxen +started and turned around and walked +along the road until they came to the +farm-house; and they turned in at the gate +and went up past the kitchen door to the +place where the shed was going to be, and +there they stopped. And the men took +the boards off and put them on the ground +in a pile, so that the man would have +them there to build the shed. For the +shed wasn't built then. The barn was +built first and then the house.</p> + +<p>And the other big logs they took to the +saw-mill on other days and sawed them up +into boards, so that the man had all the +boards he needed to build the shed and +the chicken house and all the other things +and some to give to the men for helping +him.</p> + +<p>And when that was done, the man took +off the yokes and the old oxen went into +the barn and went to sleep.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page80">VIII.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE UNCLE SAM STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds; +and it stood not far +from the road. In the +fence was a wide gate to let the wagons +through to the barn. And the wagons, +going through, had made a track that led +up past the kitchen door and past the +shed and past the barn and past the orchard +to the wheat-field.</p> + +<p>In that farm-house lived Uncle Solomon +and Uncle John; and little Charles and +little John and their mother Aunt Deborah; +and little Sam and his mother Aunt +Phyllis. Uncle Solomon was Uncle +John's father and Uncle John was little +John's father, so that Uncle Solomon was +little John's grandfather. And little Sam +was Uncle Solomon's little boy, so that +little Sam was little John's uncle. But +little Sam was a littler boy than little +John.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_82"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs21.png" alt="He tipped Uncle Sam right out" title="" /></div> + +<p>Little John and Uncle Sam used to +play together; and one day when little +John was wheeling Uncle Sam in the +wheelbarrow, he thought it would be fun +to tip him out. So he tipped Uncle Sam +right out into some bushes, and Uncle +Sam scratched his face and began to cry. +And Uncle Solomon heard his little boy +crying, and he came running out of the +house. Then he saw little John and the +wheelbarrow, and little Sam in the bushes, +crying, and he knew that little John had +tipped little Sam out of the wheelbarrow.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_83"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs22.png" alt="He just got up and ran around the wall" title="" /></div> + +<p>So Uncle Solomon was angry, and he +grabbed little John by the back of his +collar and the back of his trousers, and he +lifted him up and gave him a great swing, +and he tossed little John right over the +wall. And little John came down in some +bushes and got his face scratched a little, +but he didn't cry. He just got up and ran +around the wall and went into the house +another way, and kept out of Uncle Solomon's +way. But he didn't tip Uncle Sam +into the bushes any more.</p> + + + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page84">IX.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE MARKET STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds; +and it stood not far +from the road. In the +fence was a wide gate to let the wagons +through to the barn. And the wagons, +going through, had made a track that led +up past the kitchen door and past the +shed and past the barn and past the orchard +to the wheat-field.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_85"></a></div> +<div><img class="figright" src="images/gs23.png" alt="The old rooster crowed" title="" /></div> + +<p>One morning, after the summer was +over and all the different things had got +ripe and had been gathered, Uncle John +woke up when the old rooster crowed, very +early, long before it was light. And he +got up and put on his clothes, and Aunt +Deborah got up too, and +they went down-stairs.</p> + + + +<p>Then, while Aunt Deborah +fixed the fire and got +breakfast ready, Uncle John +went out to the barn. He +gave the horses their breakfast, +and when they had eaten it he +took them out of their stalls and put +the harness on and led them out to the +shed. Then he hitched them to the big +wagon and he made them back the +wagon up to the place where all the things +were put that were to go to market.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle Solomon came out and +helped, and they put into the wagon all +the barrels of apples that they could get +in, and they put in a lot of squashes and +turnips and some kegs of cider and some +bags of meal and fine hominy and some +butter that Aunt Deborah and Aunt +Phyllis had made and some other things. +And when these things were all in the +wagon, breakfast was ready, and Uncle +John fastened the horses to a post and +went in to breakfast. And all this they +had to do by the light of a lantern, because +it wasn't daylight yet.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_87"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs24.png" alt="Aunt Deborah came out of the house" title="" /></div> + +<p>Then, when Uncle John and little John +had had their breakfast, they came out of +the house, and Uncle John put little John +up on the high seat and he unhitched the +horses and climbed up on the high seat +beside him. And then Aunt Deborah +came out of the house and handed Uncle +John a little bundle, and he put the +bundle under the seat. In the bundle was +some luncheon for Uncle John and little +John; and for the horses there was some +luncheon too, oats in a pail that hung +under the wagon, one pail for each horse. +And a lantern hung beside the seat, for it +wasn't daylight yet.</p> + +<p>When they were all ready, Uncle John +said: "Get up," and the horses started +walking down the little track into the road +and along the road. The horses wanted +to trot, but Uncle John wouldn't let them +because it isn't good for horses to trot +when they have just had their breakfast; +and he held on to the reins tight and they +had to walk. So they walked along for +awhile and it was very dark; and pretty +soon Uncle John let the horses trot. And +they trotted along the road for a long time +and at last it began to get light, and little +John was very glad, for he was cold. +Then Uncle John blew out the lantern +and after awhile the sun came up and +shone on them and made them warm. +And the horses trotted along for a long +time and at last they began to come to the +city, and it was very early.</p> + +<p>So the horses dragged the wagon +through the city streets, and there were +not many people in the streets, for they +had not had their breakfasts. And by +and by they came to the shops and little +John saw the boys opening the doors of +the shops and sweeping the shops and the +sidewalks; and so they went along until +they came to a great open place. And in +the middle of the open place was a big +building, and all about it were wagons, +some standing in the middle of the street +and some backed up to the curbstone. +All these wagons had come in from the +country, bringing the things to eat; and +the building was a market, and the men +in the market bought the things from the +men that drove the wagons, and the +people that lived in the houses came down +afterward and bought the things from the +market-men.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John drove the horses up +to the sidewalk and he got out and hitched +the horses to a post and told little John +not to get off the seat; and Uncle John +went into the market. When he had been +gone some time, he came back and a +market-man came with him. The market-man +had a long white apron on and no +coat; and he looked at the barrels of +apples and the squashes and the turnips +and the kegs of cider and the bags of meal +and the butter and the other things, and +he thought about it for a few minutes and +then he said: "Well, I'll give you twenty +dollars for the lot."</p> + +<p>And Uncle John thought for a few +minutes and then he said: "Well, I ought +to get more for all that. It's all first-class. +But I suppose I'd better let it go and get +back."</p> + +<p>So Uncle John unhitched the horses +and backed the wagon up to the sidewalk. +Then he took the bridles off the horses' +heads and took the buckets of oats from +under the wagon; and he put the pails on +boxes at the horses' heads, one for each +horse, and the horses began to eat the +oats.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_92"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs25.png" alt="The market-man took some money from his pocket" title="" /></div> + +<p>Then a man came out of the market, +wheeling a truck—a kind of a little cart +with iron wheels—and he helped the +market-man take the barrels out of the +wagon, and the squashes and turnips and +the kegs of cider and the bags of meal and +the butter and the other things. And they +put them on the truck, a part at a time, +and he wheeled them into the market. +Then, when that was all done, the market-man +took some money from his pocket +and counted twenty dollars and handed it +to Uncle John. And then the horses had +finished eating the oats, and Uncle John +took the pails and hung them under the +wagon again and put the bridles on the +horses' heads.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John climbed up on the +high seat beside little John and took the +reins in his hands and said "Get up"; +and the horses started and went across +the open place to a great stone that was +hollowed out and was full of water. And +the horses each took a great drink of +water and then they lifted up their heads +and started along the streets.</p> + +<p>And pretty soon Uncle John stopped +them at a shop, and he went in and +bought some things that Aunt Deborah +wanted, and he paid the shop-man some +of the money the market-man had given +him. Then they went to another shop +and Uncle John bought some more things. +And after that they didn't stop at any +shops, but the horses trotted along +through the streets until they were out +of the city and going along the road in +the country that led to the farm-house.</p> + +<p>By and by they came to a steep hill and +the horses stopped trotting and walked, +for they were tired. And Uncle John +fastened the reins and took the bundle +from under the seat and undid it, and in +it were bread and butter and hard eggs +and gingerbread and a bottle of nice milk. +And Uncle John and little John ate the +nice things and liked them, for they were +both very hungry.</p> + +<p>Then they got to the top of the hill and +Uncle John took up the reins again and +said "Get up," and the horses trotted +along for a long time until they came to +the farm-house; and they turned in at the +wide gate and went up to the kitchen door +and there they stopped. And Uncle John +got down and took little John down. +Little John was glad to get off the high +seat, for he had been there a long time +and he was very tired.</p> + +<p>So he went into the house and Uncle +John unhitched the horses from the +wagon and put the wagon in the shed. +And he took the horses to the barn and +took off their harness and put them in +their stalls, and they went to sleep.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page96">X.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE MAPLE-SUGAR STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds; +and it stood not far +from the road. In the +fence was a wide gate to let the wagons +through to the barn. And the wagons, +going through, had made a track that led +up past the kitchen door and past the +shed and past the barn and past the orchard +to the wheat-field; and through the +wheat-field to the maple-sugar woods.</p> + +<p>One day, when the winter was almost +over and it was beginning to get warmer, +Uncle John got out the old oxen. And +they came out and put their heads down +and he put the yoke over and the bows +under, and he hooked the tongue of the +sled to the yoke; for the snow was not +all melted, and enough was on the ground +for the sled to go on.</p> + +<p>Then he put on the sled his axe and +Uncle Solomon's, and a lot of buckets and +a lot of wooden spouts he had made, +and the big saw. Then he put little John +on the sled and said "Gee up there," and +Uncle Solomon came too, and they walked +along beside the sled. And the old oxen +walked slowly along the track past the +barn and past the orchard to the wide gate +that led into the wheat-field, and there +they stopped. And Uncle John took +down the bars and the oxen went through +the gate and across the wheat-field, and +stopped at the wide gate on the other side +of the field. Then Uncle John took down +those bars and the old oxen started and +walked through and along the little road +in the maple-sugar woods until they came +to a little house beside the road, and there +they stopped.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John opened the door of +the little house; and inside, it was about +as big as a little room that a little boy +sleeps in. And in one corner was a chimney, +and in front of the chimney was a +great enormous iron kettle, set up on a +little low brick wall that was just like +a part of the chimney turned along the +ground. In the front was a hole in the +low wall, so that wood could be put in, +and at the back, under the kettle, there +was a hole into the chimney, so that the +smoke would go up the chimney and out +at the top. And in one corner of the little +house were some square iron pans.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John put two of the buckets +down in the house, and the big saw; +and he shut the door and the oxen started +and walked along until they came where +were some maple-sugar trees, and there +they stopped. Then Uncle John and +Uncle Solomon took their axes and went +to the trees and they made little notches +in the trees, low down, so that there was +room to put a bucket under. And they +drove a spout in each notch and put a +bucket under each spout. And then they +went to other trees and made a notch in +each tree and drove in a spout and put a +bucket under and so they did until they +had used up all their buckets.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_100"></a></div> + +<div class="figleft" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"> +<img src="images/gs26a.png" alt="Put a bucket under each spout" title="" /> +</div> +<div class="figleft" style="margin-top:-10px;"> +<img src="images/gs26b.png" alt=" " title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Then the old oxen walked +along until they came to a pile of +wood that was cut up all ready to burn; +and there they stopped and Uncle Solomon +and Uncle John put the wood on the sled. +Then they said: "Gee up," and the oxen walked +back to the little house, and they took the +wood off the sled. And the wood was in +great long sticks, too long to put in the +place under the kettle. So Uncle John +got the big saw from the little house and +he and Uncle Solomon sawed the wood +into small sticks and piled it up nicely.</p> + +<p>Then they put the saw on the sled and +shut the door of the little house and the +old oxen started walking back along the +little road, dragging the sled, with the saw +and the axes and little John. And they +went through the gate into the wheat-field +and Uncle John put the bars back; and +they went across the wheat-field and +through the gate at the other side, +and Uncle John put those bars back. +And they walked along past the orchard +and past the barn to the shed.</p> + +<p>And Uncle John unhooked the tongue +of the sled and took off the yoke, and the +old oxen went into the barn and went to +sleep.</p> + +<p>The next morning, Uncle John and +little John started along the little road, +past the shed and past the barn and past +the orchard; and they climbed over the +bars into the wheat-field, and went +through the wheat-field and climbed over +the bars into the maple-sugar woods. +Then they walked along until they came +to the little house, and Uncle John opened +the door of the house and took out the +two buckets he had left there.</p> + +<p>Then they went to some of the maple-sugar +trees where they had put buckets +the day before, and the sap was dripping +slowly into the buckets—drip—drop—drip—drop—and +the buckets were nearly +half full. So Uncle John poured the sap +from those buckets into the empty buckets +and went along to some other trees and +poured the sap from those buckets in with +the other, and the buckets he carried were +full. So he took them back to the little +house and emptied them into the big +kettle.</p> + +<p>Then he went to other trees and filled +the two buckets again with the sap that +had dripped, and emptied that into the +kettle. And so he did until he had taken +all the sap that had dripped.</p> + +<p>Then he put wood under the big kettle +and lighted it, and the fire burned and the +sap got hot and after a while it began to +boil. And while it was boiling, Uncle +John stirred the sap once in a while with +a wooden stirring thing he had made. +And when it had boiled a long time, he +dipped out a little with the stirrer and +went to the door and dropped it in the +snow, so that when it got cool he could +see whether it was boiled enough. But +it wasn't done enough, and he let it boil +longer, and then he dropped some more +in the snow; and this time he thought it +was about right for maple-syrup.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_104"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs27.png" alt="Dropped it in the snow" title="" /></div> + +<p>So he dipped sap out of the kettle into a +keg that was in the little house, until the keg +was full. And then he put the bung into +the bung-hole and set the keg in the corner.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John put more wood on +the fire and the sap boiled a long time. +And at last he thought it was done +enough for maple-sugar; and he dipped +some out with the stirrer and went to the +door and dropped it in the snow. And +when it got cold, he saw that it was hard, +and was just right for maple-sugar. So +he took the little square pans that were +in the corner of the house and he dipped +the boiled sap from the kettle into the +pans and set them in the snow outside.</p> + +<p>Then he let the fire go out, and when the +sugar in the pans was hard, he brought +it into the house, and shut the door and +started along the little road, and little +John after. They walked along through +the maple-sugar woods and climbed the +bars into the wheat-field, and walked +across the wheat-field and climbed the +bars at the other side, and walked along +past the orchard and past the barn and +past the shed to the kitchen door, and +there they went in.</p> + +<p>The next morning, Uncle John and little +John went to the maple-sugar woods +again, and Uncle John got some more +sap and boiled it and made maple-syrup +and maple-sugar. And so they did every +day until they had taken all the sap that +the trees ought to give.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John got out the old oxen +and they put their heads down and he put +the yoke over and the bows under, and he +hooked the tongue of the sled to the yoke. +Then he said "Gee up there," and the oxen +started walking along past the barn and +past the orchard, and Uncle John took +down the bars at the wheat-field and they +went through and across the field, and he +took down the bars at the other side and +they walked through and along the road +in the maple-sugar woods until they came +to the little house.</p> + +<p>There they stopped, and Uncle John +opened the door and put the kegs on the +sled, and all the little squares of maple-sugar +and all the buckets and all the +spouts that he had pulled out of the trees. +And he shut the door of the little house, +and the oxen started and walked back +along the road through the maple-sugar +woods into the wheat-field, and Uncle +John put up the bars. And they walked +across the wheat-field and through the +gate at the other side, and Uncle John +put up those bars; and they walked along +past the orchard and past the barn, and +little John came after.</p> + +<p>Then the old oxen dragged the sled to +the place where they kept the things +that were to go to market, and Uncle +John took off the maple-syrup and the +maple-sugar and put them in that place. +But some of the maple-syrup and some of +the maple-sugar he put in the cellar for +themselves to use; for little Charles and +little John and little Sam liked maple-sugar +and they liked maple-syrup on +bread. And there was enough maple-syrup +and maple-sugar to last them a long +time and a lot to go to market besides.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John unhooked the tongue +of the sled from the yoke and put the sled +in the shed; and he took off the yoke and +the old oxen went into the barn and went +to sleep.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page110">XI.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE RAIL FENCE STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds; +and it stood not far +from the road. In the +fence was a wide gate to let the wagons +through to the barn. And the wagons, +going through, had made a track that led +up past the kitchen door and past the +shed and past the barn and past the orchard +to the wheat-field; and through the +wheat-field to the maple-sugar woods.</p> + +<p>All about were other fields; and one of +them was a great enormous field where +Uncle John used to let the horses and +cows go to eat the grass, after he had got +the hay in. This field was so big that +Uncle John thought it would be better +if it was made into two fields. He +couldn't put a stone wall across it, because +all the stones in the field had been made +into the wall that went around the outside. +So he thought an easy way would be to +put a rail fence across.</p> + +<p>So, one day, when it was winter and +snow was on the ground, Uncle John and +Uncle Solomon took their axes and walked +along the little track, past the barn and +past the orchard, and climbed over the +bars into the wheat-field. Then they +walked across the wheat-field and climbed +over the bars into the maple-sugar woods; +and they walked along the road in the +woods until they came to a place where +were some trees that were just the right +size to make rails +and posts. They +were not maple-sugar +trees, but a +different kind.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_112"></a></div> + +<div class="figright" style="margin-top: 0px;"> +<img src="images/gs28a.png" alt="They cut down enough of these trees" title="" /> +</div> +<div class="figright" style="margin-top:-10px;"> +<img src="images/gs28b.png" alt=" " title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Then they cut down enough of these +trees to make all the rails and all the +posts they wanted; and they cut off all +the branches and they cut some of the +trees into logs that were just long enough +for rails, and they cut the other trees +into logs that were just long enough +for posts. Then they took the rail logs +and with their axes they split each one all +along from one end to the other, until it +was in six pieces. Each piece was a rail. +But the post logs they didn't split.</p> + +<p>Then they left the logs and the rails +lying there and walked back, and climbed +over into the wheat-field, and went across +the wheat-field and climbed over at the +other side, and walked past the orchard +and past the barn and past the shed and +went in at the kitchen door.</p> + +<p>The next morning, Uncle John got out +the old oxen, and they put their heads +down low, and he put the yoke over and +the bows under, and hooked the tongue of +the sled to the yoke. Then he said: "Gee +up there," and they started walking slowly +along, past the barn and past the orchard +to the wheat-field; and Uncle John took +down the bars and they walked across the +wheat-field, and he took down the bars at +the other side. Then the old oxen walked +through the gate and along the road to +the place where the post logs and the rails +were; and Uncle Solomon had come too, +and little John. But they didn't let little +John come when they cut the trees down, +because they were afraid he might get +hurt.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle Solomon and Uncle John +piled the rails on the sled, and the post +logs on top, and the old oxen started and +walked along the road and through into +the wheat-field and across the field, and +Uncle John put the bars up after the oxen +had gone through the gates. Then they +dragged the sled along past the orchard +and past the barn to the shed. There +they stopped and Uncle John and Uncle +Solomon took off the logs and the rails. +The rails were piled up under the shed, to +dry; but the logs they had to make +square, and holes had to be bored in them +before they would be posts. Then Uncle +John unhooked the tongue of the sled +from the yoke and took off the yoke, and +the old oxen went into the barn.</p> + +<p>The next day, Uncle John took an axe +that was a queer shape, and he made the +post logs square. Then he bored the +holes in the logs for the rails to go in, +and piled the posts up under the shed. +They were all ready to set into the ground, +but the ground was frozen hard, and they +couldn't be set until the winter was over +and the ground was soft.</p> + +<p>After the winter was over and it was +getting warm, the ground melted out and +got soft. Then Uncle John and Uncle +Solomon took a crowbar—a great, heavy +iron bar with a sharp end—and a shovel, +and they went to the great enormous field. +Then they saw where they wanted the +fence to be, and they dug a lot of holes +in the ground, all in a row, to put the +posts in.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_117"></a></div> +<div class="figleft" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> +<img src="images/gs29a.png" alt="Put the posts in the holes" title="" /> +</div> +<div class="figleft" style="margin-top:-10px"> +<img src="images/gs29b.png" alt=" " title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Then they went back and Uncle John +got out the oxen and put the yoke over +and the bows under and hooked the +tongue of the cart to the yoke. On the +cart they piled the posts, and there were +so many they had to come back for +another load. Then the oxen started and +walked down the little track and out +through the wide gate into the road, and +along the road to +the great enormous +field where +the holes were all dug for the posts. Then +Uncle Solomon and Uncle John put the +posts in the holes and pounded the dirt +down hard.</p> + +<p>Then the oxen walked back along the +road to the farm-house and in at the gate +and up to the shed. And Uncle John put +the rails on the cart and the oxen walked +back to the field again and in beside the +row of posts. And Uncle John took the +rails off the cart and put them in the holes +in the posts, so that they went across from +one post to the next. And in each post +were four holes, and four rails went +across.</p> + +<p>Then the oxen went a little farther and +the rails were put in between the next +posts, and so on until the rails reached all +the way across the field, and the fence was +done. And when Uncle John wanted the +cows or the horses to go through, he could +take down the rails at any part of the +fence.</p> + +<p>Then the old oxen started walking back +out of the field into the road and along the +road to the farm-house. And they went +in at the wide gate and up the track past +the kitchen door to the shed, and there +they stopped.</p> + +<p>And Uncle John unhooked the tongue +of the cart from the yoke and put the cart +in the shed. And he took off the yoke +and the old oxen went into the barn and +went to sleep.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page120">XII.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE COW STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds; +and it stood not far +from the road. In the +fence was a wide gate to let the wagons +through to the barn. And the wagons, +going through, had made a track that led +up past the kitchen door and past the +shed and past the barn and past the orchard +to the wheat-field.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_121"></a></div> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs30.png" alt="Fixing the fire" title="" /></div> + +<p>One morning, the old rooster crowed +very early, as soon as it began to be light. +And that waked Uncle John and Aunt +Deborah, and Uncle Solomon and Aunt +Phyllis. And they all got up and put on +their clothes and came down-stairs. Then +Aunt Deborah and Aunt Phyllis went +about their work in the kitchen, getting +things for breakfast and fixing the fire; +and Uncle Solomon and Uncle John went +out to the barn. Uncle Solomon looked +after the horses and gave them their +breakfast, and Uncle John looked after +the cows.</p> + +<p>Between the two great doors of the +barn there was a great open place so that +the wagons could go right through; and +that was where they threshed the wheat. +And on one side were the stalls for the +horses and the places for the oxen, and on +the other side were the places for the +cows. In the corner of the barn next to +the horses was the harness-room, and in +the corner next to the cows was the milk-room.</p> + +<p>There were two big horses and two big +oxen and six cows. The horses were in +stalls, but the cows didn't have stalls. +They stood in a row on a kind of a low +platform, with their heads toward the open +place in the middle of the barn. Each +cow had her head through a kind of frame +made of two boards that went up from +the floor, so that when the boards were +fastened at the top she couldn't get her +head out, but she could move it up and +down all she wanted to. And when they +wanted to let the cows out, they unfastened +one of the boards and let it down. +But Uncle John didn't like the frames for +the cows, so he never fastened the boards +at all, but he put a chain around the neck +of each cow and hooked the other end to +a post.</p> + +<p>In front of each cow was a little low +wall, about as high as her neck, and just +behind the wall was a trough that they +call a manger, where they could put hay +or meal or other things for the cow to eat, +so that she could reach it. Just over the +manger of each cow was a hole in the +floor of the loft where the hay was, so that +they could put hay through and it would +fall right into the manger, in front of the +cow. In winter the cows had hay, but in +summer they didn't have hay, because +they could eat the grass, and that was +better.</p> + +<p>So, when Uncle John went to look after +the cows, he didn't climb up to the loft +and pitch some hay down through the +holes, as he would do in winter, but he +took a wooden measure and went to a +big box that they call a bin. It stood in +the corner next to the milk-room, and it +was full of meal that was ground up from +corn at the mill. And he gave each cow +a measureful of meal and put it in the +manger so that she could eat it.</p> + +<p>Then he went to the milk-room and got +the big milk pails and his milking-stool. +The milking-stool was a little stool that +had three legs, and one of the legs was +shorter than the other two, so that it +sloped.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John put the milking-stool +down by a cow, and the pail was between +his knees, resting on the end of the stool. +And he milked the cow and the milk +spurted into the pail. And when she had +given all the milk she had, the pail was +about half full.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John went to the next cow +and milked her, and when that pail was +full, he took the other pail. And so he +milked all the cows, one after the other, +and when both the pails were full, he took +them to the milk-room and poured the +milk through a strainer into a big can. +And the cows were eating their meal all +the time they were being milked.</p> + +<p>At the side of the barn, behind the cows, +was a door that opened into the cow-yard. +A sloping place led down from the barn to +the ground, so that the cows could walk +down into the yard. In the winter, the +cows stayed in the cow-yard while they +were out of the barn, because it was sunny +and warm, and there was no grass in the +field for them to eat. A high fence was +all around the yard, and in one corner was +a tub made of a hogshead cut in two, and +a pump was beside it. And the tub was +always full of water, so that the cows +could drink whenever they were thirsty. +So, when Uncle John had milked all the +cows, he opened the door into the cow-yard, +and he unhooked the chains from +the necks of the cows, one after another. +And the cows turned around and walked +through the door and down the sloping +place into the cow-yard, the leader first, +and every cow took a drink from the tub +in the corner of the yard. Then they +stood by the gate, waiting for little John +to come.</p> + +<p>When a lot of cows are together, one of +the cows is always the leader, and she +always goes first, wherever they go. If +any other cow tries to go first, the leader +butts that one and makes her go behind. +Or if the other cow doesn't want to go +behind, they put their horns together and +push, and the one that pushes harder is +the leader.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_128"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs31.png" alt="Little John ... opened the gate" title="" /></div> + +<p>So the cows waited at the gate, and +little John had come down-stairs and Aunt +Deborah had given him a piece of johnny-cake, +because breakfast wasn't ready and +little boys are always hungry. Then little +John came to the gate to the cow-yard, +and opened the gate, and the cows hurried +to go through the gate, the leader first, +and the others following after. And they +went along the little track and through +the gate into the road, and along the road +to the great enormous field. And there +they stopped, for the bars were up and +they had to wait for little John to come +along and let them down, so that they +could go through.</p> + +<p>And little John came running along, +eating his piece of johnny-cake, and kicking +up the dirt with his bare feet, for in +the summer-time he didn't wear any shoes +or stockings. And he came to the gate +and he let the bars down at one end, and +the cows stepped over the bars carefully, +the leader first, and went into the field. +And little John put the bars up again, so +that the cows couldn't get out, and he +turned around and ran back to the farm-house +to get his breakfast.</p> + +<p>When the cows were all in the field, +they began to eat the grass; and they +walked slowly about, eating the grass, +until they had had all they wanted. Then +they went over to the corner of the field, +where there was a stream of water running +along, and each cow took a drink of +water. In the middle of the field was a +big tree with long branches and a great +many leaves, so that under the tree it was +shady and cool. By the time the cows +had eaten all the grass they wanted, it was +hot out in the sun, and they all walked +over to the big tree and got in the cool +shade.</p> + +<p>Some of them lay down and some of +them stood still, and they switched their +tails about to keep the flies off, and they +chewed their cuds. For a cow has two +kinds of stomach. When she bites off the +grass, she swallows it down quickly, and +it goes into the first stomach; and after +awhile, when she has eaten all the grass +she wants, she goes and lies down, or +stands still and some of the grass comes +back into her mouth in a bunch and she +chews it all up fine and swallows it again, +so that it goes down into her real stomach. +Then another bunch comes up and she +chews that and swallows it, and so she +does until all the grass is chewed up fine. +That is what they call chewing the cud.</p> + +<p>So the cows stayed in the shade of the +big tree until they were hungry again, and +then they walked about and ate some more +of the grass and drank some more water +out of the little stream. And by that time +it was in the afternoon and almost time +for little John to come to drive them +home.</p> + +<p>So they all stood looking at the gate +and waiting for little John. And by and +by little John came running along, and he +let down the bars at one end, and he called +"Co-o-ow! Co-o-ow!" and the cows all +started hurrying along to the gate. And +they stepped over the bars carefully, the +leader first, and walked along the road, +for they knew the way to go. And little +John came running after.</p> + +<p>When the cows came to the farm-house, +they turned in at the gate and went up the +little track to the cow-yard. And they +went in at the gate of the cow-yard, and +up the sloping place into the barn. And +each cow knew where she ought to go, +and she went there, and Uncle John fastened +the chains around their necks; and +little John shut the gate of the cow-yard +and went into the house.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John put a measureful of +meal in the manger in front of each cow, +and he got his milking-stool and the milk +pails and he milked all the cows. And +while the cows were being milked, they +ate the meal and chewed their cuds.</p> + +<p>When the cows were all milked, Uncle +John poured the milk through the strainer +into the big cans and took it out to the +spring-house to set it, so that the cream +would come on it. But some of the +milk he took into the house for their +supper.</p> + +<p>Then he shut the big doors of the barn +and fastened them, and the cows lay down +and went to sleep.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page135">XIII.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE HAY STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds; +and it stood not far +from the road. In the +fence was a wide gate to let the wagons +through to the barn. And the wagons, +going through, had made a little track +that led up past the kitchen door and +past the shed and past the barn and past +the orchard to the wheat-field.</p> + +<p>All about were other fields. One of +them was a great enormous field, and in +this field was growing grass that would be +made into hay.</p> + +<p>One day, when the summer was nearly +half over, Uncle John saw that the little +tassels at the tops of the stems of the +grass were getting yellow, and he knew +that the grass was ripe enough to cut for +hay; and the grass was as high as little +John's head. So, very early the next +morning, Uncle Solomon and Uncle John +took their scythes and their whetstones +and went over to the great enormous field, +and two other men came to help. When +the grass that these other men had was +ready to cut, then Uncle Solomon and +Uncle John would go and help them cut it.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_137"></a></div> +<div><img src="images/gs32.png" class="figright" alt="They put it down by the stone wall" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>And they had a jug, and in it was +water, with some molasses and a little +vinegar mixed with it. This was for them +to drink when they got very hot and +thirsty, mowing, and they put it down +by the stone wall, where it was cool.</p> + +<p>Then the men all +took their whetstones +and sharpened their +scythes, and Uncle +Solomon started first, +at the corner of the +field, and he swung +his scythe back and +forth, and every time +he swung the scythe it cut down some +grass and made a noise, "Swish." And +then he took a little step ahead and +swung the scythe again, and he walked +very slowly along, cutting the grass. +And when Uncle Solomon had got a +little way along, so that the next scythe +wouldn't cut him, Uncle John began next +to the place where Uncle Solomon had +begun, and he swung his scythe and +walked slowly along, +cutting the grass. Then +one of the other men +began at the next place, when Uncle John +had got a little way along, and then the +last man. So all the men were walking +slowly along, swinging their scythes together, +and cutting the grass, and the +grass fell down in four long rows. And +they mowed this way all the morning, +and cut down all the grass in the field.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_138"></a></div> +<p> +<img src="images/gs33a.png" class="figright" style="margin-right:-10px; margin-bottom: 0px;" alt="One of the other men began at the next place" title="" /> +</p> +<p> +<img src="images/gs33b.png" class="figright" style="margin-right:-10px; margin-top:-6px;" alt= " " title="" /> +</p> + +<p>And just when they had finished, and +all the grass was cut down, they heard +the horn that Aunt Deborah was blowing. +That meant that dinner was ready. They +had a horn to blow for dinner because the +men had to work in fields that were far +from the house, where they couldn't hear +a dinner-bell. But they could hear the +horn. So the horn hung on a hook beside +the kitchen door; and when dinner was +ready, Aunt Deborah took the horn from +the hook and blew it.</p> + +<p>When the men heard the horn, they +took their coats and their scythes and +their whetstones and the jug, and they +went back along the road to the farm-house +and left the grass lying there, just +as it fell down. And the sun shone on +the grass and dried it, so that it was +changing to hay.</p> + +<p>Then, the next morning, Uncle Solomon +and Uncle John took their pitchforks and +went over to the field and spread the grass +out evenly, so that it would dry better; +and they left it until the afternoon.</p> + +<p>In the afternoon, Uncle John and Uncle +Solomon took two great wide wooden +rakes, and little John took a little rake, +and they went to the field. Then Uncle +Solomon and Uncle John each held one of +the great wide rakes so that it trailed +behind, and they walked along and the +rakes rolled the grass up into long rows. +Then they walked along the other way, +trailing the rakes, and the grass rolled up +into piles, and little John raked after. +They call the piles of hay haycocks, and +they were as high as little John's head. +Then they went away and left the hay +there all night.</p> + +<p>In the morning, when the sun had +shone on the haycocks long enough to dry +off the dew, Uncle John got out the old +oxen. And they put their heads down, and +he put the yoke over and the bows under, +and he hooked the tongue of the hay-cart +to the yoke. Then he put little John +up in the cart and took the pitchforks, and +gave little John his little rake. And the +old oxen started walking slowly along, out +into the road and along the road to the +great enormous field, and in at the gate. +And they walked along beside one of the +haycocks, and there they stopped.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John lifted little John out +of the cart, and Uncle Solomon and Uncle +John both stuck their pitchforks into the +haycock and lifted it right up and pitched +it over the side of the cart, so that it fell +into the cart. Then they went along to the +next haycock and pitched that in the same +way, and little John raked after, raking up +the hay that had dropped from the pitchforks. +So they went along to the other +haycocks and pitched them into the cart, +and when the hay was nearly up to the +top of the side of the cart, Uncle John +climbed in, and he made the hay even in +the cart, with his fork. Uncle Solomon +pitched the hay up into the cart, and +Uncle John made it even in the cart, so it +couldn't fall out, and they piled the hay up +in the cart until it was a great enormous +load, higher than the room. And little +John raked after.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_143"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs34.png" alt="They piled the hay up in the cart" title="" /> +</div> +<p>When they had made the load as high +as they could, the old oxen started and +turned around, and walked back through +the gate and along the road to the farm +house, and in at the gate and up the track +past the kitchen door and past the shed, +and in at the big door of the barn. And +they went along in the open place in the +barn and stopped in the middle, so that +the load of hay was beside the floor of the +loft where the hay was kept, and the top +of the load was higher than the floor of +the loft.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle Solomon climbed up the +ladder to the loft, and Uncle John pitched +the hay from the cart to the loft. And +Uncle Solomon took his fork and pitched +the hay back against the wall and packed +it tight, so that they could get more in +when they brought it, and fill the loft as +full as it would hold.</p> + +<p>When all the hay was out of the cart, +Uncle Solomon came down from the loft, +and the oxen started walking along, out of +the other big door and around the barn +and back to the hay-field. Then they +filled the cart again, the same way that +they did the first time, and put that hay +in the barn. And they had to go back +three times after the first time before they +had all the hay that was in the field. And +when it was all in the barn, there was hay +enough for the horses and the oxen and +the cows to eat all winter.</p> + +<p>Then the old oxen walked out through +the other door of the barn, and around the +barn to the shed. And Uncle John unhooked +the tongue of the cart and put the +cart in the shed, and he took off the yoke +and the oxen went into the barn and went +to sleep.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page146">XIV.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE FIREPLACE STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds; +and it stood not far +from the road. In the +fence was a wide gate to let the wagons +through to the barn. And the wagons, +going through, had made a track that led +up past the kitchen door and past the +shed and past the barn and past the orchard +to the wheat-field.</p> + +<p>In the kitchen there wasn't any stove, +because they didn't have stoves then, but +there was a great enormous fireplace, so +big that great long sticks of wood could +be put in it to burn. And Uncle John or +Uncle Solomon had to cut the wood that +was to be burned in the fireplace, and pile +it up in a great pile near the kitchen door.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_147"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs35.png" alt="There was a great enormous fireplace" title="" /> +</div> +<p>In the fireplace was a long iron stick +that went along near the top, and at the +side of the fireplace it bent down like an +elbow and went into some hinges that +were in the wall of the fireplace. And at +the end of this long iron stick was a hook, +so that a kettle would hang on it over the +fire. This iron stick they call a crane; +and it would swing out on the hinges, +away from the fire, so that they could +hang something on without burning their +hands, and then they could swing it back +again.</p> + +<p>And every night, before she went to +bed, Aunt Deborah took the shovel and +put ashes all over the fire, so that it +wouldn't blaze and burn the wood all up, +but wouldn't go out, either. For there +wasn't any furnace, and if the fire went +out, the house would get very cold, and +there weren't any matches then, so that it +was hard to light the fire.</p> + +<p>At that farm-house were a great many +chickens, and in the summer-time they +liked to fly up into the trees, and sit on +the branches to sleep. And in the morning, +as soon as it began to get light, the +old rooster would wake up and flap his +wings and crow very loud. So, one morning, +the old rooster crowed very early +and waked Uncle John and Aunt Deborah, +and Uncle Solomon and Aunt +Phyllis.</p> + +<p>And they all got up and put on their +clothes and went down-stairs. Uncle Solomon +and Uncle John went to the barn to +look after the horses and the cows and the +oxen, and Aunt Deborah and Aunt Phyllis +began to fix the fire and get breakfast +ready.</p> + +<p>Aunt Phyllis went to the spring-house +for the milk and the butter, and to the +buttery for some other things. Then she +went to the hen-house to find some eggs.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_150"></a></div> +<div><img src="images/gs36.png" class="figleft" alt="Filled it with water at the well" title="" /></div> + +<p>Aunt Deborah raked all the ashes off +the fire and put on +some sticks of wood +that Uncle John had +brought in, and then +she took the blower +and blew the fire with +it until it began to +blaze. Then she took +the iron kettle and filled +it with water at the +well, and she pulled the crane out away +from the fire, with an iron hook, and hung +the kettle on the hook of the crane, and +swung it back over the fire. And the +fire blazed, and the water in the kettle +got hot, and after a while it began to +boil.</p> + +<p>While the water in the kettle was +getting hot, Aunt Deborah took some +corn-meal and some flour and some salt +and some sugar, and mixed them together +in a big yellow bowl, and she mixed in +some soda and some cream-o'-tartar. They +are fine white powders that would make +the johnny-cake light and nice when it +was baked; for she was making johnny-cake. +Then she took the milk that Aunt +Phyllis had brought from the spring-house, +and she poured some of it into the +bowl and stirred it all in. And when she +had poured in all the milk that she +wanted, she took some of the eggs that +Aunt Phyllis had brought, and she broke +the shells and let the inside of the eggs +drop into a littler bowl, and then she beat +them all up together until they were all +foamy. Then she poured them into the +big yellow bowl and stirred them all in. +When all the things were stirred up together, +Aunt Deborah took a pan that had +a cover, and she put butter all over the +pan, and poured in the things from the +yellow bowl. Then she put on the cover, +and she took a kind of rake and she raked +some of the blazing fire away, and with a +long iron fork she put the pan down on +the hot coals. Then she raked the fire on +top of the pan again and left it.</p> + +<p>When the johnny-cake was in the fire, +getting baked, Aunt Deborah got some +tea out of the jar that they called a caddy, +and she put it in the teapot. Then she +pulled the crane away from the fire, with +the hook, and she poured some boiling +water in on the tea and set the teapot +down in front of the fire. Then she put +some eggs in the kettle and swung it back +over the fire.</p> + +<p>While Aunt Deborah was making the +johnny-cake and the tea, Aunt Phyllis had +put the plates on the table, and the mugs, +and the cups and saucers, and the knives +and forks, and all the other things, and +she had put some butter on the table, on +a plate, and some milk in a white pitcher. +Then she went to the buttery and took +down a ham that hung on a hook, and she +cut some thin slices and put them on a +plate and put that plate on the table. And +by that time the johnny-cake was done +and the eggs, and the tea. And Aunt +Deborah swung the crane off the fire and +took the eggs out with a ladle that had +little holes in it for the water to go +through. Then she poured cold water on +the eggs, so that they wouldn't cook any +more, and she put them in a bowl and put +them on the table. Then she raked the +fire off the top of the pan, and took the +pan out with the long iron fork. And she +took the cover off, and the johnny-cake +was nice and brown, and just right and +smoking hot. And she cut it into little +squares and put it in a dish, and Aunt +Phyllis put all the rest of the things on +the table while Aunt Deborah went to +the door and took down the horn and +blew it.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle Solomon and Uncle John +came in from the barn, and little Charles +and little John came in from driving the +cows, and little Sam came down-stairs. +And they all sat down at the table and ate +their breakfast, and it was very nice.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page156">XV.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE BAKING STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds; +and it stood not far +from the road. In the +fence was a wide gate to let the wagons +through to the barn. And the wagons, +going through, had made a little track that +led up past the kitchen door and past +the shed and past the barn and past the +orchard to the wheat-field.</p> + +<p>One morning the old rooster had crowed +very early, and Uncle Solomon and Uncle +John and Aunt Phyllis and Aunt Deborah +had come down-stairs and done their work. +It was Saturday morning, and that was +baking day; so, when they had all finished +breakfast, and Aunt Deborah and Aunt +Phyllis had cleared up the things and +washed the dishes, they got ready for the +baking.</p> + +<p>The chimney was a great enormous +chimney that went all across the end of +the kitchen. And beside the big fireplace +was an iron door that opened into the +oven. For the oven was a big hole in +the chimney, beside the fireplace; and +right in the middle of the chimney, behind +the fireplace, was a great big hole, as big +as a closet, and at the back was a little +door that was just big enough for people +to go in. In this closet in the chimney +they used to build a fire sometimes, and +hang hams and fish over it in the smoke.</p> + +<p>When they were ready to begin, Aunt +Deborah opened the door to the oven, and +she took some wood that Uncle John had +brought in, and she built a fire right in +the oven. Then she took up some coals +from the fireplace and lighted the fire in +the oven and shut the door. And the fire +burned and the oven got hot. And once +in awhile Aunt Deborah opened the door +and put in some more wood.</p> + +<p>Then, while the fire was burning in the +oven and getting the oven hot, Aunt Deborah +and Aunt Phyllis took flour and +butter and lard and water, and they mixed +them together just the right way, and +made some dough. And they rolled the +dough out thin, with a long wooden roller, +and they folded it over and rolled it out +again, and did that over and over until +they thought it was right. Then they +spread the thin dough out on the bottom +of some plates that were middle-sized +deep.</p> + +<p>And Aunt Deborah had some apples all +ready, with the skin cut off and the cores +cut out, and the nice part of the apples cut +up into slices. And some of the apples +she had stewed in water until they were +all soft, and some she hadn't.</p> + +<p>First she put some of the stewed apples +in the plates on top of the thin dough, and +put in a little sugar and some cinnamon +and some nutmeg on top of some; and on +some she didn't put any cinnamon or any +nutmeg. Then she laid another thin piece +of dough over the top of the apples, and +she made little marks with a fork all +around the edge, and she cut holes in the +top with a knife.</p> + +<p>Then, in other plates she put the apples +that were not stewed, and a lot of sugar, +and thin dough on top, the same way. +Those were apple pies, and +they were three kinds.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_160"></a></div> + +<div> +<img src="images/gs37a.png" class="figleft" style="margin-top: 0px" alt="Those were apple pies" title="" /> +</div> +<div> +<img src="images/gs37b.png" class="figleft" style="margin-top:-6px" alt="Those were apple pies" title="" /> +</div> +<p>Then Aunt Deborah made +some squash pies, and put +in on the dough that +was on the bottom of +the plates some of the inside of squashes +that she had cooked over the fire. The +very inside of squashes is soft and full +of seeds, and that part isn't good to +eat; but just next to the seeds is the +part that is good. And spices and a lot +of things were mixed with the squash +to make it taste better. There wasn't any +thin dough put over the top of the squash +pies, but just a thin strip around the edge. +And there were other kinds of pies besides +the apple and the squash, and when they +were made, there were so many that they +covered the tops of both the tables, for +Uncle Solomon and Uncle John liked +pies.</p> + +<p>Then Aunt Deborah thought the oven +was hot enough, and she opened the door +of the oven, and with a long rake she +pulled the fire out into a big pan and put +it into the fireplace. Then she put into +the oven all the pies it would hold, and she +shut the door; and the pies were baking +in the oven, it was so hot, though there +wasn't any fire in it. And when those +pies had been in the oven for awhile, they +were all done, and Aunt Deborah pulled +them out with a kind of shovel and set +them down in front of the fire, and she put +other pies in; and so she did until all the +pies were baked.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_162"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs38.png" alt="So she did until all the pies were baked" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Then she put coals in the oven again, +and a little wood, to +get the oven hotter, +for it had cooled, baking +so many pies.</p> + +<p>When she first +came down that morning, +Aunt Deborah +had mixed some bread, and had set +it in a big pan near the fire, to rise; +and now it had risen enough, and she +took it out of the big pan. And while +the oven was getting hot again, she +put the bread on a smooth board and +rolled it around and pushed it with +her hands. That is what they call +kneading.</p> + +<p>Then she took some square pans that +were deep, and she put some of the bread +in each pan and set them down by the fire +again. And pretty soon the oven was hot +enough, and the fire was raked out, and +the bread was put in. By that time it +was time to get dinner ready, and Aunt +Deborah left the bread in the oven while +she got dinner. For the oven was getting +cooler all the time, and the bread would +not get burned.</p> + +<p>So, when the bread was done, Aunt +Deborah took it out and wrapped it in a +cloth until it was cool. And Aunt Phyllis +put all the pies in the buttery. Then they +had enough pies and enough bread to +last them all a whole week, and they +would not bake any more until the next +Saturday.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page165">XVI.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE SWIMMING STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds; +and it stood not far +from the road. In the +fence was a wide gate to let the wagons +through to the barn. And the wagons, +going through, had made a track that +led up past the kitchen door and past +the shed and past the barn and past the +orchard to the wheat-field.</p> + +<p>In that farm-house lived Uncle Solomon +and Uncle John, and little John and little +Charles and their mother, Aunt Deborah, +and little Sam and his mother, Aunt +Phyllis.</p> + +<p>One day in summer it was very hot. +Little Charles was about nine years old, +and little John was about seven, and little +Charles said to little John: "John, let's +go in swimming."</p> + +<p>And little John said: "All right."</p> + +<p>So they went very quietly away from +the kitchen door, where they were playing, +and went toward the barn, as though they +were going to look for eggs. But they +sneaked around the barn and down close +to the house on the other side, where Aunt +Deborah wouldn't see them, and over the +fence into the road. And they went along +the road until they came to the field that +they used to go through to get water from +the river. Then they turned into that +field and went down to the river, and along +the bank of the river until they came to +a great big tree that grew close by the +edge of the river, at the end of a stone +wall.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_167"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs39.png" alt="They ran along in the water where it wasn't very deep" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>When they came to that big tree, they +stopped and took off all their clothes and +went into the water. And they stayed in +the water a long time and swam around +and chased each other, and they ran along +in the water where it wasn't very deep, and +splashed and had a fine time. And when +they had been in long enough and were +all cool, they went back to the place where +they had left their clothes, and they took +their shirts and got themselves dry with +their shirts as well as they could. Then +they spread their shirts out in the sunshine +to dry, and they ran about on the +bank. And when their shirts were dry, +they put their clothes on. Then they went +back along the road and over the fence +and around the barn, the way they had +come, and began to play near the shed as +though they hadn't been away at all.</p> + +<p>Pretty soon Aunt Deborah came to the +kitchen door and she called to little Charles.</p> + +<p>"Charles, I want you to get me some +eggs."</p> + +<p>And when Charles turned around to go, +Aunt Deborah looked at him very hard, +and she called: "Charles, come here to +me." But Charles didn't want to come +very near, so he came only a little +way.</p> + +<p>And Aunt Deborah said: "Charles, I +want you to come right here to me."</p> + +<p>So Charles came slowly beside his +mother, and she took off his hat and +looked at his hair. His hair was a little +wet, for he couldn't get it quite dry with +his shirt.</p> + +<p>And Aunt Deborah said: "Charles, +you've been in swimming."</p> + +<p>And Charles dug up the dirt with his +bare feet and said, "Yes'm." For little +Charles and little John never said things +that were not true, although they sometimes +did things they ought not to do.</p> + +<p>Then Aunt Deborah said: "Charles, if +you do that again I'll tell your father."</p> + +<p>And Charles said, "Yes'm." Then he +ran away quickly to find the eggs.</p> + +<p>Then Aunt Deborah said: "John, come +here to me."</p> + +<p>So little John came beside his mother, +and she took off his hat and saw that his +hair was wet.</p> + +<p>And she said: "John, you've been +swimming, too." And little John looked +at his mother and grinned and said, +"Yes'm."</p> + +<p>And Aunt Deborah said, "You mustn't +do that, John. You're too little. Don't +do it again, and I'll ask Uncle Solomon to +take you and Charles in his boat." So +little John ran off after little Charles.</p> + +<p>The next morning Uncle Solomon called +to all the little boys: "Who wants to go +out in the boat with me?"</p> + +<p>And little Charles and little John and +little Sam all said at the same time, "I +do."</p> + +<p>So Uncle Solomon said, "Come on, +boys."</p> + +<p>Then he walked along the track and +into the road and along the road, and the +little boys ran ahead; for they knew where +he was going. And by and by they came +to the pond. It was a great big pond, and +Uncle Solomon's boat was on the bank +under some trees. Uncle Solomon had +built that boat himself, for he had been a +sailor, and knew all about boats. So he +pushed the boat off into the water, and the +little boys all got in and sat still. For +Uncle Solomon wouldn't let them jump +around in the boat because that might tip +it over.</p> + +<p>So Uncle Solomon rowed the little boys +over to a nice place where it was shady, +and where the water was not very deep; +and he rowed cross-handed, because he +thought that was +easier. When they had +got to the place, the little boys all took off +their clothes, and Uncle Solomon took up +each boy and threw him over into the +water. They were not afraid, because +he had taught them how to swim, and +he was right there, to see that nothing +happened to harm them. And they +swam around and had a fine time.</p> + +<p>And when Uncle Solomon thought they +had been in the water long enough, he +made them swim near the boat, and he +reached over and +pulled them into +the boat, one at +a time. Then they +dried themselves with +a towel he had brought, +and they put on their +clothes, and Uncle Solomon rowed the +boat back to the place where he kept +it.</p> + +<div style="text-align: center"><a name="Illus_173"></a><img src="images/gs40.png" style="margin-left: auto" alt="There was Aunt Deborah with gingerbread" title="" /></div> + + +<p>Then the little boys got out and he +pulled the boat up on the shore, and +they all went back along the road to +the farm-house. And they went in at +the wide gate and up to the kitchen +door. And there was Aunt Deborah, with +four pieces of gingerbread. One piece she +gave to little Charles and one to little John +and one to little Sam, and the biggest +piece of all she gave to Uncle Solomon.</p> + +<p>And they all ate their gingerbread, and +thought it was very good indeed.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page175">XVII.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE CHICKEN STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds; +and it stood not far +from the road. In the +fence was a wide gate to let the wagons +through to the barn. And the wagons, +going through, had made a track that +led up past the kitchen door and past +the shed and past the barn and past the +orchard to the wheat-field.</p> + +<p>Behind the barn was the hen-house, +and inside the hen-house there were long +poles that went all the way across, for the +hens to sit on to sleep. Those poles they +call roosts. In winter the hens all sleep +on the roosts in the hen-house, because it +is warmer there; but in the summer they +like to get up in the trees and sleep out-of-doors.</p> + +<p>Along the side of the hen-house were +some boxes with hay in them, and a board +along the top. These were the nests, and +in each nest was a pretend egg, made of +china. The hens would see the pretend +egg and think it was real, and they would +lay the real eggs in the nests. For they +like to lay eggs in places where eggs are +already.</p> + +<p>There was a little door, low down, for +the hens to go through, and outside was a +yard, with a fence around made of strips +of wood. In this fence was a door that +was kept shut in winter, but was open in +summer so that the hens and chickens +could go out and eat the bugs and worms. +Bugs and worms sometimes eat the growing +things that the farmers have planted, +so the farmers like to have the chickens +eat the bugs and worms. And in the side +of the hen-house was a big door for people +to go through.</p> + +<p>When the summer was beginning, there +were a good many hens and some chickens +that were half grown up, and a very old +rooster, and some that were not so old. +Sometimes the roosters would fight, but +they didn't fight very hard, for they were +not the kind that fight hard.</p> + +<p>All the roosters and the hens and the +chickens that were half grown up flew up +into the trees when it was beginning to +be dark, and they sat on the branches in +long rows, and put their heads under their +wings and went to sleep. The very old +rooster and most of the hens roosted in +the apple-trees in the +orchard, but some of +the hens roosted in +other trees.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_178"></a></div> +<div><img src="images/gs41.png" class="figleft" alt="The old rooster crowed very loud" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>And in the middle +of the night the old +rooster waked a little +and crowed, but it wasn't a very loud crow. +But when it began to be light in the morning, +the old rooster waked and flapped his +wings and crowed very loud. And that +waked the other roosters and they flapped +their wings and crowed, and the hens +waked, and all the roosters and the hens +flapped their wings and flew down to the +ground, and began to look about for their +breakfast.</p> + +<p>Some of the hens stayed in the orchard +and looked about on the ground and +scratched up the dirt and picked up the +bugs and worms that they found. Some +of them went over to the cow-yard and +flew over the fence and scratched around +there, and they drank water out of the big +tub in the corner. And some of the hens +went to the kitchen door to see what +things Aunt Deborah had thrown down +there for them to eat. The chickens that +were half grown up went over to the fields +where the potatoes and the beans and the +peas were growing, and they ran about +among the vines and picked the bugs and +worms off the vines.</p> + +<p>After awhile, when all the hens and +chickens had finished their breakfasts, +some of the hens went into the hen-house +to lay eggs.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_180"></a></div> + +<div class="figleft"> +<img src="images/gs42.png" alt="Each of these hens laid one egg" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Each of these hens laid one +egg in one of the nests, and when she had +laid the egg, she came out of the hen-house +and cackled and made a great noise. For +that is the way hens do. But there were +two of the hens that did not like to lay eggs in the hen-house.</p> + +<p>One of these hens walked along the little +road and across the wheat-field into the +maple-sugar woods. She had made a nest +there, out of dried grass and leaves, and it +was hidden away under some bushes, +where nobody could find it. That hen laid +an egg in that nest every day, until she +had laid nine. Then she sat on the eggs +and kept them warm, and she came over +to the farm-house every day to get something +to eat and then +she went back to her +nest again. And when +she had sat on those +eggs for three weeks, +the little chickens +came out of the shells +and ran about. And +then she walked over to the farm-house and the little chickens +ran along with her.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_181"></a></div> +<div><img src="images/gs43.png" class="figright" alt="Little John found that nest" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>The other hen that wouldn't lay eggs in +the hen-house made a nest in the wheat-field; +but little John found that nest and +took the eggs away, so she didn't have +any chickens.</p> + +<p>When the hens had laid their eggs, they +went out into the road and sat down in +the dust and scratched the dust up all over +themselves, for they liked the warm dust +in among their feathers. And they stayed +there until they were hungry again. Then +they scratched around in the dirt, and ate +some more bugs and worms, and the +things that Aunt Deborah threw out for +them to eat. And so they did until it +began to get dark.</p> + +<p>Then they all walked along to the +orchard or to some other trees, and they +stood under the trees, and looked up and +gave queer little jumps and flapped their +wings, and they flew up into the trees and +sat on the branches. And they went along +the branches sideways until they had +found the places they liked. Then they +squatted down and put their heads under +their wings and went to sleep.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page184">XVIII.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE SHAWL STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds; +and it stood not far +from the road. This +farm was Uncle Solomon's. But before +he had the farm, he was a sailor, and +he sailed in great ships, over the great +enormous ocean. A great many ships +used to sail from Boston, over the big +ocean, carrying different things to far +countries, and one of these ships was the +brig <i>Industry</i>. Uncle Solomon was the +captain of the brig <i>Industry</i>, but that was +when he was a young man, and a long +time before he had the farm.</p> + +<p>One day the brig <i>Industry</i> was lying +beside the wharf at Boston, and she was +tied to the wharf with great ropes. And +all the things had been put in the ship, the +things they were to sell in the far country +where they were going, and the things to +eat, and the water they would drink. For +the ocean water is salt and bitter, so that +people can't drink it, and they had to +carry all the water that they would need +to drink and almost all the things they +would need to eat. The water was in big +hogsheads, down near the bottom of the +ship. The sailors were all on the ship, +and everything was all ready to start. +Then Captain Solomon walked down the +wharf, and he got on the ship, and the +great ropes were untied, and the sailors +hoisted the sails, and the ship sailed away +from the wharf. She sailed down the +harbour and past the islands and out into +the great ocean.</p> + +<p>So the wind kept blowing, and the +<i>Industry</i> kept sailing along over the +ocean for a great many days. She sailed +along, through parts of the ocean where +it is always hot and where it rains a great +deal, and past the country where the +monkeys live, and around the end of that +country. And after awhile Captain Solomon +saw some land, and he knew it was +an island where no people lived, but where +beautiful clear water ran out of a crack in +the rock. So he made the ship go near +that island, and then the sailors fixed the +sails so that the ship wouldn't go ahead. +And the sailors let down one of the rowboats +into the water. For every big ship +has some rowboats that are hung up over +the deck. And they took all the hogsheads +of water and emptied out what +water was left. +Then they put in the +bungs and tied all the hogsheads together +with ropes that went between them, and +they threw them over the side of the +ship into the water. Then the sailors in +the rowboat caught the end of the rope +and rowed, and they went to the island, +dragging the hogsheads that floated on +the top of the water. And they filled the +hogsheads with nice fresh water that came +out of the rock, and then they rowed back +to the ship, dragging the hogsheads.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_188"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs44.png" alt="They went to the island" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>And they were hoisted up into the ship, and +the rowboat was hoisted up, and the sailors +fixed the sails again so that the ship +would sail ahead.</p> + +<p>So they sailed along for a great many +days, and at last they came to the far +country. That country is called India. +And the <i>Industry</i> sailed into a wide river, +and the sailors took down the sails and +let down the great anchor to the bottom +of the river. For the water by the shore +was not deep enough for the ship to go +there, so they had to keep the ship in the +middle of the river. On the shore was a +city, and a lot of men came out from the +shore in little rowboats and took the +things out of the <i>Industry</i> and carried +them to the city. And the boats were so +little, and there were so many things, they +had to go back and forth a great many +times.</p> + +<p>When the things were all taken out of +the ship, Captain Solomon had his rowboat +let down into the water, and he got +in, and two sailors rowed him to the land. +Then he went to the man who had bought +all the things he had brought, and the +man paid Captain Solomon the money for +the things. Then Captain Solomon started +to look about to see what he could buy to +take back to Boston.</p> + +<p>First he bought a lot of tea, and a +lot of spices, like cinnamon and cloves +and nutmegs, and a lot of china dishes +that had houses and trees and birds +painted on them in blue. Then he bought +a lot of pretty tables and such things +that were made of teak-wood and ebony +and ivory. And he bought a lot of little +images that were carved out of ivory, and +some trays that were shiny black, with +birds and flowers painted on them in red +and silver and gold. Then he bought a +great many logs of teak-wood to carry +back to Boston, to make into chairs and +mantels and doors for the inside of houses. +And when all these things were carried to +the ship and put in, Captain Solomon had +some money left, and he looked about to +see what he could buy that was very nice.</p> + +<p>In India they have cloth that is made of +the hair of goats, and shawls that are made +of the hair of camels. The people made +these things and brought them to the city +to sell. The cloth was very nice and the +shawls were very fine and beautiful.</p> + +<p>So Captain Solomon went to the place +where they had the cloth of goat's hair +and the camel's-hair shawls, and he bought +a great many shawls and some of the +cloth. Some of the shawls were white, +with a pattern of curly shapes in the middle, +in red and blue and yellow, and some +had a border of the same kind all around +the edge. Some were red, with a pattern +all over them of blue and brown and yellow +and white. And besides the shawls, +there were narrow pieces made of camel's +hair, that were meant to be worn around +ladies' necks. And they were all very +beautiful.</p> + +<p>So Captain Solomon had all the shawls +and the pieces of cloth put in two great +chests made of cedar, and he had the +chests carried on the ship and put in +his cabin. His cabin was the room +where he did all his work, looking at the +charts and maps, to see where the ship +was, and writing down in a book what +happened every day. The beautiful shawls +would be taken care of in his cabin better +than in the bottom of the ship, with the +teak-wood and the other things.</p> + +<p>When Captain Solomon had bought the +shawls and got them put on the ship, he +bought a lot of things for the sailors to +eat while the ship was sailing back to Boston. +There were flour and meal and very +hard crackers and salt and sugar and fine +hominy and peas and beans and a lot of +other things, and great hogsheads of meat +that was in salt water. And there was a +cow that they kept in a kind of pen on the +deck of the ship, and four sheep and a lot +of chickens. So they could have milk +and eggs, and sometimes roast chicken for +dinner, or roast mutton. Then they filled +all the water barrels with fresh water, and +the sailors pulled up the great anchor and +hoisted the sails.</p> + +<p>So the <i>Industry</i> sailed out of the river +and into the big ocean, and they sailed +away for a great many days. And when +they came to the island where the nice +water ran out of the rock, Captain Solomon +had all the water barrels filled with +fresh water again. Then they sailed along, +around the end of the country where +the monkeys lived, and over another big +ocean. And after a long time they came +to Boston, and the <i>Industry</i> sailed in past +the islands and into the harbour, and up +to the wharf. And the sailors took down +the sails and fastened the ship to the +wharf with great ropes.</p> + +<p>Then Captain Solomon went on shore +and got a big wagon. The horses dragged +the wagon down on the wharf, and the +men took the two chests out of the cabin +and put them on the wagon. Then Captain +Solomon got on the wagon with the +men, and they drove the horses through +the streets until they came to the place +where the men stayed that owned the <i>Industry</i>. +That place they call an office.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_195"></a></div> +<div><img src="images/gs45.png" class="figright" style="width: 260px; " alt="They thought the cloth and the shawls were very beautiful" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>So Captain Solomon got down from the +wagon, and the men +took the chests and +carried them into +the office. In the +office were Captain +Jonathan and Captain +Jacob. They +had been sailors, +too, and they owned +the <i>Industry</i>. And +Captain Solomon +opened the chests and showed the cloth +and the shawls to Captain Jonathan and +Captain Jacob, and they thought the +cloth and the shawls were very beautiful. +And while Captain Jonathan was looking +at the shawls he found one that was white, +with a pattern in the middle of red and +yellow and brown and blue. He thought +that shawl was the prettiest shawl he had +ever seen. So he said: "Jacob, I am +going to give this shawl to my daughter +Lois."</p> + +<p>And Captain Jacob said, "All right." +For Captain Jonathan's daughter Lois +was Captain Jacob's wife.</p> + +<p>So Captain Jonathan gave the shawl to +his daughter Lois. And after a great +many years she gave the shawl to her +daughter Lois. And after a great many +years more, when that Lois was an old +lady, she gave the shawl to her niece, who +was named Lois. And when that Lois +was an old lady she used to wear the +shawl almost all the time. But one day +she forgot and hung the shawl over the +balusters near the door just when the cook +was going away. And the cook saw the +shawl and took it away and never brought +it back.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page198">XIX.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE BUYING-FARM STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds; +and it stood not far +from the road. And +in the fence was a wide gate to let the +wagons through to the barn. The farm +wasn't Uncle Solomon's then, but it belonged +to the man that had built the +farm-house, and that man had built the +barn first and then the house. And he +had cut down the trees and made the +fields smooth and nice where the different +things were to grow. And when he had +lived there a good many years, he was +tired of being there, and he wanted to go +somewhere else.</p> + +<p>Captain Solomon had sailed on the +great ocean a great many years, and he +was tired of being a sailor, and thought he +would like to have a farm; and besides, +he was afraid that if he kept on being a +sailor, his little boys would want to be +sailors, too, and he didn't want them to be. +There were three boys, Uncle John and +his two brothers; and when they got big +enough, Uncle John's brothers ran away +and were sailors. For they didn't like to +be on a farm. But Uncle John stayed on +the farm after Uncle Solomon bought it.</p> + +<p>So one day Captain Solomon came to +the farm and he found the man that had +got it all ready and had built the house. +And the man showed Captain Solomon all +the fields where the things were growing, +and the orchard and the maple-sugar +woods and the barn and the house. And +Captain Solomon liked the farm. So he +paid the man some money, and the man +gave the farm to Uncle Solomon. For +after he had bought the farm, the people +all called Captain Solomon Uncle Solomon. +Then the man took all his beds +and chairs and tables and the other things +from the house, and he moved them away +to another place.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_201"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs46.png" alt="All the things had to be dragged in the wagons" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Then Uncle Solomon put all his things +in great wagons, and it took a long time +to move them to the farm, for Uncle Solomon +had lived in Wellfleet, a town that is +on the shore of the great ocean, and the +farm was a long way from that town, and +it was not on the shore of the ocean. +They didn't have railroads then, and all +the things had to be dragged in the +wagons. But at last the wagons came to +the farm, and Uncle Solomon took all the +things out of the wagons and put them in +the house. He put the wagons in the +shed and the horses in the barn. That +was a very long time ago, more than one +hundred years.</p> + +<p>When all the things were put in the +house, Uncle Solomon bought some cows +and the things he needed to do farm work +with. Then he began to do all the things +that have to be done on a farm, the things +that the other stories tell about.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page203">XX.</a></h2> + +<h2>THE BUTTER STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds; +and it stood not far +from the road. In the +fence was a wide gate to let the wagons +through to the barn. And the wagons, +going through, had made a track that led +up past the kitchen door and past the +shed and past the barn and past the +orchard to the wheat-field.</p> + +<p>In the morning, when Uncle John had +milked all the cows, he took all the milk, +in the big pails, to the milk-room that was +in the corner of the barn, and he poured +it through a cloth into some cans. Then +he carried the pails to the kitchen door, +and Aunt Deborah washed them out with +cold water. Then she poured some very +hot water into them and rinsed them out, +and set them in the sunshine. And Uncle +John went back to the milk-room and took +the cans of milk and carried them out to +the spring-house.</p> + +<p>The spring-house was a little low house +that was in the orchard, and a stream of +water ran right through the middle of it. +It was the same stream of water that ran +on through the big field where the cows +went to eat the grass, and then it ran on, +under the road and through another field +and into the river. They didn't have ice +then, in the summer time, but the water +of the little stream was cool, and they used +that to keep the milk and the butter from +getting too hot. They had made a trench +for the water to run through, and in the +bottom of the trench they had put great +flat stones, so that the water ran over the +stones. And on top of the stones the +water wasn't deep at all.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_206"></a></div> +<div><img src="images/gs47.png" class="figleft" alt="Put it in flat pans" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>So Uncle John took the milk to the +spring-house and poured it into big flat +pans, and set the pans in the water on the +flat stones, so that the water would keep +the milk cool while the cream came to the +top. The cream is the yellow, fat part of +milk, and when the milk stands still, the +cream comes to the top.</p> + +<p>Every time Uncle John had finished +milking the cows, he took the milk to the +spring-house and put it in flat pans and +left the pans in the cool water. And +when the milk +had stood so for +as long as all +day or all night, +Aunt Deborah +went out to the +spring-house +and took a kind +of big spoon and +skimmed the +cream off the top +of the milk, and +put the cream into a stone jar. And she +left the cream in the jar for two or +three days until it was just right to +make into butter.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_207"></a></div> +<div><img src="images/gs48.png" class="figright" alt="Aunt Phyllis took hold of the long handle" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>When the cream in the jar was just +right, Aunt Deborah and Aunt Phyllis +took it to the buttery and put it in the +churn, a kind of box that had a long +handle. And on +the end of the +handle was a big +piece of wood with +holes all through +it. Then Aunt +Phyllis took hold +of the long handle +and made it go up +and down, and +Aunt Deborah held on to the churn, so +that it wouldn't tip over. And when +Aunt Phyllis was tired, Aunt Deborah +made the handle go up and down, and +Aunt Phyllis held on to the churn. And +the cream splashed all about, and at last +it began to turn into butter, in little lumps.</p> + +<p>When it was done enough, Aunt Deborah +poured off the watery stuff that they +called buttermilk, and she washed the +butter with water, and she put in a lot of +salt. The buttermilk she saved, because +sometimes people like to drink it. Then +she took the butter that was all in little +lumps, and she worked it together, so that +the water came out of it, and it was all in +big lumps. And she worked that all together +until it was worked enough, and +was in one big lump.</p> + +<p>Then she got a little mould, a kind of +cup with a cover. And in the inside of the +cover was a picture, cut into the wood, of +an ear of corn and some marks all about. +Then Aunt Deborah put some of the +butter into the mould, and she put the +cover over, and pushed hard, and the butter +was squeezed into a little round cake, +with the picture of the ear of corn on the +top. Then she took out that piece and +put in some more, and she made a little +cake of that. And so she did with all the +butter, until it was all in little cakes; and +those cakes of butter they call pats.</p> + +<p>When all the butter was made into pats, +Aunt Deborah put the pats into a great +round wooden box and carried the box out +to the spring-house to get cold, and keep +until it was wanted. Every week she +made enough butter to fill the big round +box. That was enough for them to eat, +and some to take to market besides.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Page210">XXI</a></h2> +<h2>THE BEAN-POLE STORY</h2> + + +<p> +<img src="images/dropo.png" style="float:left; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 10px" alt="O" title="" /> +NCE upon a time there +was a farm-house, and +it was painted white +and had green blinds; +and it stood not far +from the road. In the +fence was a wide gate to let the wagons +through to the barn. And the wagons, +going through, had made a track that led +up past the kitchen door and past the +shed and past the barn and past the +orchard to the wheat-field.</p> + +<p>All about were other fields where different +things grew. There were squashes +and turnips and melons and corn and oats +and potatoes and cabbages and onions and +peas and beans. Some of the bean plants +grew like little short trees, but the others +wanted to climb on something. So Uncle +John had to get some bean-poles for the +bean plants to climb up. So, one morning, +when summer was just beginning, the +bean plants had come up through the +ground, and were tall enough to begin to +climb.</p> + +<p>Uncle John took his axe and a big sharp +knife and he got out the old oxen. They +put their heads down and he put the yoke +over and the bows under, and hooked the +tongue of the cart to the yoke. Then he +said "Gee up there;" and the old oxen +started walking slowly along, past the +barn and past the orchard to the wheat-field, +and little John came after.</p> + +<p>And Uncle John took down the bars, +and the oxen went through the wheat-field, +and he took down the bars at the other +side of the field, and they walked through +into the maple-sugar woods. Then they +went along the road in the woods past the +little maple-sugar house, and they kept on +until they came to a place where there +weren't any big trees, but there were a +great many little slim trees very close together. +The little slim trees were about +as big as little John's wrist at the bottom, +and they were about twice as tall as Uncle +John.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_213"></a></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/gs49.png" alt="He cut down each tree with one whack of the axe" title="" /> +</div> +<p>Then Uncle John stopped the oxen, and +he took his axe and cut down a great many +of the little slim trees. They were so +little that he cut down each tree with one +whack of the axe. And when the trees +were cut down, as many as he wanted, he +took the big sharp knife and he cut off all +the branches of each tree. The trees grew +so close together that there weren't many +branches, and what there were, were very +small. Then Uncle John put all the +branches in a pile away from the trees, and +he piled the trees all on the cart. The trees, +after the branches were cut off, were +straight and almost smooth. At the bottom +they were about as big as little John's +wrist, and at the top they were only as +big as his thumb. These smooth trees +without any branches they called poles.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John said, "Gee up +there," and the oxen started and turned +around, and walked slowly along, through +the maple-sugar woods, and through the +wheat-field, and Uncle John put up the +bars after they had gone through. Then +they walked along past the orchard and +past the barn and past the shed and past +the kitchen door, and through the wide +gate into the road. And they went along +the road until they came to the field where +the beans were growing; and they turned +in at the gate into that field, and went +along to the bean plants, and there they +stopped.</p> + +<p>Then Uncle John took the poles out of +the cart, one at a time, and he stuck a pole +into the ground near each bean plant, so +that the vine, when it was feeling around +for something to climb on, would find the +pole. The poles, after they were stuck into +the ground, went up in the air just a little +higher than Uncle John's head. And Uncle +John said, "Gee up" again, and the old +oxen turned around and went back along +the road and in at the wide gate and up +past the kitchen door to the shed. And +Uncle John unhooked the tongue of the +cart and took off the yoke, and the oxen +went into the barn.</p> + +<div><a name="Illus_216"></a><img class="figright" src="images/gs50.png" alt="The bean vines kept on growing" title="" /></div> + +<p>Then the bean vines kept on growing, +and they got higher +and higher, and they +twisted around and found +the poles, and they held on +to the poles and kept on twisting +and climbing until they had +reached the tops of the poles. Then +the flowers came on the vines, and +afterward the pods with beans in them +grew where the flowers had been. For +the beans are only the seeds that the +flowers change into after they wither +away. And at the end of the summer, +when the beans had stopped growing +and were ripe, Uncle John gathered them +and took them in to Aunt Deborah.</p> + +<p>And that's all.</p> + +<p class="center">THE END.</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Sandman: His Farm Stories, by +William J. 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