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Title: A book of country clouds and sunshine;
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: New England -- Social life and customs
Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ery soonafter midnight. Then, too, most farmers make up occasional loatls of ))r<)ducefor the market ; and many ha\e a set day each week on whichthey go to the nearest large town to sujiply regular customerswith butter, eggs, and other farm wares. Some laggards mavnot get started on their trips till the middle of the forenoon, butthe thrifty faimer is up getting his work done and loading hiswagon long before daylight. Sunrise sees him jogging alongcitvward. If the distance to market is not over seven or eightmiles, he will get back early in the afternoon, and ha\e time todo considerable work before supper-time. There is always a flutter of excitement about the house when,on his return, the team turns in at the home gate. The familyis always glad to see him safe back again ; and then there is theinteresting problem of whether he has done the various errandsthe different ones intrusted to him, and whether he has donethem right. Here comes pa, says Mis. harmer, as she looks out of the
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20I * * -^ HOOK OF COUNTRY CLOUDS AND SUNSHINE window. I do hope he thought to get the yeastcakc I forgotto tell him we wanted. She goes to the door, and all the rest of the family thathappen to be in the house at the time go with her. Mr. harmercalls out Hullo ! as he alights, and begins to unhitch. Did you get my bunnit at the milliners ? asks the eldestgirl. Yes, is the reply; but its under the seat, and you cantget it till I heave off some of them things on behintl there. Illget it when I get the horse unhitched. The girl, to expedite matters, helps undo the harnes.s, andget the h(n-se out of the shafts. Questions fiy thickly; and inter-est is rife down to the smallest member of the household, whohopes he, too, has been remembered with a toy perhaps, or, at thevery least, with a stick of striped candy. Occasionally Mrs. Farmer accompanies her husband to market,or one of the children goes with him. The younger ones haveusuall) pleasure for their object ; the older ones, when they g

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