Stranica 368 [368]
AZA Bi
ELBE <POTOMAC AND RAPPAHANNOCK
laughed at his reply to my sister Rebekah. She had expressed her
sympathy for us because of the scorching sun, yet added: "But,
Moore, Mans work is from sun to sun, while woman’s work is
never done. " “Yes, Miss Becky—that’s sometimes because they
never do it.’ (He had trotted her on his knee when an infant. )
And I must tell you of another apt rejoinder given here. A
neighbor, who was a good farmer, but lacking in the esthetic, was
deprecating the amount of time and labor "wasted on these
fowers." Goaded by a positively dissenting view, he asserted, "111
bet there never was a day when all of the flowers here would buy
you a breakfast." "Perhaps not," was the rejoinder, "but in con¬
struction | do not happen to be all stomach."
I fear that I have allowed my memories to run on until I have
wearied you. "However," say I, "alas that a time should be at
hand when, with the country-folk, the struggle for a livelihood and
the scarcity of labor should ever exclude the cultivation of the
Beautiful!”
MARY MASON ANDERSON WILLIAMS.
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