Show PARABLE OP THE GARDENER editor of the behold this is the season of the year when the husbandman goeth forth even into the market place and bart ereth for seed wherewith to plant his garden even the marrowfat marrow fat pea the black eyed bean the pungent onion the luculent radish and sundry other vegetables which temp teth the appetite of man for the wife of his bosom saith unto her lord even before the sun sh eddeth his beams on alie housetops in the month called by the wise men april on the second day thereof at the sixth hour awake from thy slumbers for behold does not tha early bird gets the worm and is the bird wiser than thou get thee benco into the market place and purchase a shekels worth of seed that we may plant and have wherewith to feed our little ones when the summer is come and straightway the husbandman arose saddled up his wheelbarrow and departed even as ho was commanded and when he was como to tha by the borders of tho city southward even sage creek behold many of the faithful were also gathered and the benders venders of sefel said slyly one to the other verily verily we will make a good thing of these gr angers alie good man having secured the seed wherewith he was charged hied himself to his home and partook of the pottage and savory meat which the good wife had prepared for him and which is known among tho uncircumcised even unto this day as hash band retook betook himself to his vineyard then prepared h e his land great toil and planted alie aeed therein and when the evening was come ho went his w ay for ho saw that all was good and he lay himself down in his blanket and slept the sleep of the just how when the morning was again come even at tho crowing of the cock the good man got himself up and returned to his field and behold the fowl yea the choice ducks and ducklings duc klings chicks and chic klings badts and banal ings belonging to the neighboring hiitt ite and were there after the early worm yea and also after alie choice seeds and behold they were not the anticipated crop was within the crops of the feathered rava gera beside the early raising i liichi the man was wroth and c ned ith a loud voice even in language h not written in the books and returned to his house and said in a loud voice arise awake the philistines are upon us on quickly his flatirons rolling pin and bootjack yea all bis lio armed ho and swiftly departed to hh vi nevard while the fowl searched yet diligently for alie later worm and with stones and staves attacked he them and put thoai to llight save eccli aa were slain now behold the and alio je hearing the noise and tho shouting came forth to buffet with the lord of the vineyard and sae their pets if peradventure any at remained alive but alie granger wag wroth and lie laid about nim mightily yea even all his lio his man servant and his maid servant and smote the and hip and thigh even into the going lonn of alie sun and not oua of them was left to tell the tale and there was great sorrow mourning and lamentation among the ft idowu of the defunct eliat night for alio loss of their strong men and mighty ones of war then erected alie husbandman a monument of stones at that place and caused he to beon graved on a tablet the following inscription which may be seen even to this day woo woe bo anlo hiir that al loweth his bant lings to scratch up his neighbors early or lato corma then hied the farmer and his house hold to his aliouse rejoicing exceedingly playing upon tho tho jawbone dulcimer and demijohn on alie morrow planted ho aaen his garden knowing there was now none to molest or make him afraid and that hia harvest nas n as sure |