Then at sunset came the supper, only after which, from early morn, the kitchen stove was permitted to lose its blush; and the milking time, far into the starlight, while the night hawk boomed, and the rest for the day came after bob white and the whip-poor-will had ceased their calls.
What a change this century has wrought! One man now accomplishes as much as sixteen did in the early days. The self-binding harvester of to-day, through the reaping machine, was of a growth so slow that the efforts of a third of a century were required before the reaper was driven to the hillsides—but of this later.
A CHARMING HOME.
ANNA R. HENDERSON.
Wodie and I in the strawberry bed,
Searching for strawberries juicy and red;
Breathing the airs of a morning in spring,
Listening the notes that the meadow larks sing;
Heart beats and pulse beats keeping in tune