My Farm of Edgewood: A Country BookC. Scribner, 1863 - 319 pàgines |
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Pàgina 179 - Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines ; Curl me about, ye gadding vines ; And oh so close your circles lace, That I may never leave this place : But lest your fetters prove too weak, Ere I your silken bondage break, Do you, O brambles, chain me too, And, courteous briars, nail me through.
Pàgina 73 - ... accompanied with old songs, honest thoughts, and prayers, but short ones ; yet they have their efficacy, in that they are not palled with ensuing idle cogitations. Lastly, her dreams are so chaste, that she dare tell them ; only a Friday's dream is all her superstition ; that she conceals for fear of anger. Thus lives she ; and all her care is she may die in the spring-time, to have store of flowers stuck upon her winding-sheet.
Pàgina 53 - I done so, when we were surrounded by the whole bees of the swarm. In this emergency I encouraged the trembling girl to be steady, and to fear nothing, remaining myself close by her, and covering her head and shoulders with a thin handkerchief. I then made her stretch out the hand that held the Queen, and the bees instantly alighted on it, and hung from her fingers as from the branch of a tree. The little girl, experiencing no injury, was delighted above measure at the novel sight, and so entirely...
Pàgina 53 - A young girl of my acquaintance was greatly afraid of bees, but was completely cured of her fear by the following incident. A swarm having come off, I observed the queen alight by herself at a little distance from the apiary. I immediately called my little friend that I might show her the queen ; she wished to...
Pàgina 20 - IF A man would enter upon country life in earnest and test thoroughly its aptitudes and royalties, he must not toy with it at a town distance; he must brush the dews away with his own feet. He must bring the front of his head to the business, and not the back of it. DONALD G. MITCHELL, In My Farm of Edge-wood. IF any one thing is more essential than any other in every branch of farming it is that the owner personally direct all operations. He cannot be an absentee farmer and he cannot entrust his...
Pàgina 39 - ... my ride back to town must have been very short, and my dinner a hasty one. I know I have a clear recollection of wandering afoot over those hills and that plateau of farm-land that very afternoon. I can recall distinctly the aspect of house and hills, as they came into view on my second drive from town ; how a great stretch of forest, which lay in common, flanked the whole, so that the farm could be best and most intelligibly described as lying on the edge of the wood ; and it seemed to me that,...
Pàgina 53 - ... fear nothing, and remaining myself close by her ; I then made her stretch out her right hand, which held the queen, and covered her head and shoulders with a very thin handkerchief: the swarm soon fixed on her hand, and hung from it as from the branch of a tree. The little girl was delighted...
Pàgina 2 - A Farm, of not less than one hundred acres, and within three hours of the city. It must have a running stream, a southern or eastern slope, not less than twenty acres in wood, and a water view.
Pàgina 77 - Money may : indeed every farmer ought to have a little of this commodity to start him fairly. In almost all locations there are difficulties to encounter. One of these is that of securing efficient laborers. American laborers of the right sort are rarely to be found. American blood is fast, and fast blood is impatient with a hoe among carrots. It is well enough that blood is so fast, and hopes so tall. These tell grandly in certain directions, but they are not available for working over a heap of...
Pàgina 147 - Liebault), that the apple tree " loveth to have the inward part of his wood moist and sweatie, so you must give him his lodging in a fat, black, and moist ground ; and if it be planted in a gravelly and sandie ground, it must be helped with watering, and batling with dung and smal moulde in the time of Autumne.