Genesee Farmer Volume 9 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ...out, and his evenings will be spent in the pleasant society of his neighbors, to avoid the confusion of his own dwelling. He is an intelligent man. and ho would like you to sit quiet nt your work-table, whilst he read to yon aloud some useful publication. Or he migbt, as my Imsband often does, recount the toils of the day--what tmprovement he anticipates making, what extent of woodland he intends to clear for the corn crop, what number of acres he intends to prepare for wheat, or what calculations he has made for beautifying or improving the homestead. I enter into lhis sort of conversation, and it is a satisfaction to him that he can thus confide in me. But if, on the contrary, I was walking to and fro all the evening, engaged in domestic duties, it would seem to him like ' Bachelor's Hall, '1 and myself the housekeeper in his employ." "Well, well, my good friend. Mrs. J., I can hear all you wish to say, and appreciate the motive which prompts you thus plainly to speak, but I really cannot altogether agree with you. I consider that a wife ought to be all-absorbed in her own routine of duties, without disturbing herself respecting her husband's farm. My plan is to leave such masculine affairs to Mr. B., and I depend upon him, also, to examine into the progress made bv the children at the Dis-1 trict School. My boys are true Yankees, enquiring into the meaning of every thing, even words, which is very perplexmg to me, being too busily occupied to be considered their ' walking dictionary, ' and I refer them to their father having little or no time myself to devote to the improvement of my mind. I confess to you that I do not really snow whether Mr. B. has 60 or 100 acres of land, whether his farm is barren or fertile, for I have never walked over one ...