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MILAN EXCHANGE. W1DK EHK.iCS, Kdl.om.ni Pr;.ri.tor. MILAN, TEXNESSFfi a rrr.vx. Th" )-af l red-thf l.nf l sere nit :h a rott-n hmu 1: Gray winter irfnn his icv liler. And !) his pHll of ci';nl: For triMmy Ichvc and W'Mfnir davi He troln h.seuilea fun'ral lays. Tlio lenf is red inn leaf i we e 'ih1t ntuMlul t:':tin Of Iiti!iu ti?tltwA ci"i,'iinir near, Oil w. u-i(J cart' aii'i pjiin: They bid me with them to:i my lioads 1-or i)leaiant Uuweiu and bitter seeds. The l'af i red the l;uf Ik sore Ay. redder than ibe (ruld A royal splendor rniwn the year. In piiii) he waxeth old: He laiiirtit Hnd jovial rlehe yield From purple branch and yel.ow lieldg. The leaf I red t hp lnaf In sere Think you my pun ii not? With wine, and sonjr. and friendship here. And many a tdeMinr ret. I'll live to nobly upend the More Of hoarded joys I spared before. Pureed, in Academy. A KERNEL OF 10R5. My story is about a kernel of corn. But that one kernel of corn was the cause of a serious dispute, and gave rise to several questions of honor a,iil fair dealing which I hope the reader will be able to settle satisfactorily in his own mind. The kernel of corn may be said to be a historic one. It was the ancestor of that variety of field corn once well known, locally, at least, as the ' red Indian corn" something as now we have the pine-knot" corn, the " yellow flint," and the "Comptou," and the ' lost nation wheat" As I have said, it had a curious his tory, of which the following are the points of interest. So far as is known, its origin was on the farm of a man named Carroll, whose place joined that where the present writer lived when young. Jim and Ed Carroll were boy neigh bors, and up to the time of my story, were very intimate with my brother Thomas and myself. That season, Mr. Carroll had a two acre field of " peach-blow" potatoes just below our line-wall, on the west side of the road, and I well remember how beautifully they looked wnen in blossom. People never seem to look for any beauty'in a potato-lield; yet I know of few more beautiful sights than a large field of peach-blow or early rose potatoes in full bloom. When boeing-potato time came, Tom and I changed works, as we called it, with the Carroll boys; that is to say, for the sake of working together, we worked for them one day, and they for us the next. Potatoes, a'i every farm boy knows, have to be hilled up." We used to work two to a row, one hilling up one Bide of it, the other following him and billing up the other side. The four of us could thus carry two rows along at once, and that almost as fast as one could walk, after thev had been culti vated out One forenoon, as we hoed together in Mr. Carroll's two-acre field, Ed and I came to a fine, fresh shoot of corn standing alone between two potato hills in our row. Seems too bad to cut it up," Ed. said, it looks so green and nice. Let it grow with the potatoes if it will." We pulled out the weeds round it, hilled it up a little and let it stand. That a kernel of common corn had found its way into the field here and germinated, was no great wonder. But this was not common corn, though we did not then know to the contrary. It grew raukly and was soon visible a long way oil', among the low potatoes. In August, it stood a tall, strong stalk seven feet in height, with remarkably fine, broad leaves and a bushy tassel, rich in pollen. Two fine ears had formed on it. By the 8th of September the husk cracked, disclosing the corn, now fully turned from the milk. It stood erect in the field and when the boys came to dig the potatoes, we noticed it more particularly. For, instead of beinff a golden yellow, like the common eight-rowed corn planted thereabouts, this corn was of a deep, reddish tint and ten-rowed. The ears, too, were very large, fully a foot in length and very finely formed. The kernels were evenly set in the rows along the cob and handsomely shaped. In fact, as every one who saw it said, ( they were two of the handsomest ears of corn ever raised in that region. Mr. Carroll told the boys to let the stalk stand till the corn was fully ripened, so as to save it for seed. Many visitors and all the neighboring farmers went to look at it. Xo one seeing it knew to what variety it belonged, and many were the speculations as to how it got there. Some thought it was a stray kernel left in the soil and somehow preserved down from the days when the Indians used to plant corn there, and partly from that conjecture and partly from its red color, it got the name of red In dian corn. Others thought that some passini crow or jay might have dropped it having brought it from a great dis tance. But nobody knew. About the middle of September, while the stalk stood out there, now quite ripened, a thievish cosset-sheep cot out of the cow-pasture iuto the field and go ing along, pulled down the stalk and ate both ears. The boys did not see the old creature till just as she was munch in oil' the last kernels. Then they ran at full speed, but were too late, almost, not quite, for they found seven kernels in the dirt, which had fallen from the greedy old creature's mouth. These they picked up and car ried to the house. Now Tom and I had taken almost as much interest in that stalk of corn as the Carroll boys themselves, for every one said it would prove a grand new variety to raise. It was stouter and evidently hardier than the common corn, and it would 3-ield more corn and more fodder by one-half to the acre, we thought. At least, we were enthusiastic to try it. So we now asked Jim and Ed to give us one of the seven kernels to plant next year. Considerably to our surprise and greatly to our indignation, they refused. But the Carroll bovs had been think ing, or perhaps their father or others had told them, that, as the corn was a new and superior variety, they would be able to make money by raising and selling it for seed. So they would not let us have so much as a single kernel, lest we should be rival sellers and come in for a share of the profits. They had a perfect lezal right to keep ' it all: yet Tom and I did not take that view, and we were so indignant as often to speak of them as " pigs!"' The matter made a sad breach in our liitherto friendlv relations. The heals of the two families took no notice of the q'urrel; but we bovs did not speak to each other for over a year. We grew thorouirhlv imbittered all the more so that we had forrnerlv been so intimate. But worse diOL-ttltles followed. Next spring Jim and E t pl iriicil the seven kernels with gre:tt care. Ihev could not put it i;i their g.ir.leu, lest it should mix with the sweet corn, nor yet out in the tk'ld 011 the wes-t side of the road, where the ordinary corn was. So thev reserved a little plat, about a rod S'juare, in ine wneawiem on me ea-i side of the road, up next the line-wall. This plat thev dressed richly aud plant ed the seven kernels in three hills. It was a warm, sheltered spot. But just as the shoots were breaking the ground, the crows, or one crow, lit down on the plat one Sunday morning before breakfast and pulled up all but two of the spears, which were just breaking ground. My brother and I were made aware of this disaster next morning by seeing Jim and Ed putting up a horrible scarecrow" in the plat, and I fear wo were not very sorry on account of it. The two remaining kernels, however, came up and grew with the same vigor and strensrtU which had marked tho growth of the stalk among the potatoes. Tom and I often watched them from our side of the line-wall. Later in the season, Jim and Ed set stakes about them to support them in case of a vio lent shower. Both stalks matured aud had each two tine large ears. From Aujnist till into September, th boys used to come out every day to se that the corn had not been molested Already the shuck had begun to cractf off from the ears, showinz the ricly dark red tint. One morning near the 12th of Sep tember, they went out and found every 1 kernel shelled off the cobs, on the stalks. and srone; nor was there a track or a trace to indicate the character of the robber. Probably two more angry boys could not have been found in the whole State. The next thing, in fact the first thinar Tom and I heard was that Jim and Ed had charged us with taking the corn; that they had called us thieves in pub lie. All the neiehbormjr boys were talking of the matter. V felt. ontr.KTod. To call a bov thief is decidedly worse than calling him a hor. We knew no more than they what had become of their corn, Even our parents were, I think, a little offended about the charge; for no father likes to have his son called a thief. I remember our folks asked us about it and that, finding Tom and I really knew nothing about the corn, father bade us keep very quiet and make no threats, saying that the truth might ere Jonjr come out. October and the greater part of No vember passed. The days had now grown verv short, and the weather was biting cohl. But snow had not yet come; and one afternoon which had been rather more sunny, father had set Tom and me rrubbinsr up some sumachs in the east field. We made a pile of these, ready for burninr. Down next the line-wall there had lain, on our side, an old red oak log, for some years. This oak had stood nearly on the line and had been felled because it shaded so much tillage ground. The trunk had been left lying where it fell. But it was now a good deal decayed. Father bade us take the oxen and drag it up to our pile. This we did just at sunset; and then set to work to split it up. in order to throw it on the brush-pile, to burn. We had been pounding away at it for some minutes, when there suddenly darted out of a hole in the end a little striped squirrel, or "chipmunk." The little creature rudely awakened from his winter torpor, by our heavy blows, took refuge in a near stone-pile. We supposed it might have a nest in side the old log. But we were hardly prepared for the sight that met our eves when at last we got the log open; there, inside it, nicely packed in punt, together with fully half a peck of wheat, was that red corn nearly a quart every kernel of it, I dare say! We shouted. Then we called father. He laughed well. " Don t touch it," said he. Then he called Mabel, cur little sister, and bade her run down to ' neighbor Carroll's" and ask him and the boys to come up as quickly as they could. On our stepping back from the log for a few minutes the poor chilly little squirrel ran from the cold 6tone-pile back into his nest, with a faint little chuckle.. So that when Mr. Carroll and the boys came up the innocent little robber was trying to cuddle himself into the punk, but still in plain sight. Tom just pointed to the log and said: " There's the corn we stole from you." They saw how it was in a minute, and certainly looked anything but com fortable; even Mr. Carroll, himself, looked down and seemed far from easy. At length Jim stepped up to the log, as if to take the corn. " Hold on there?" said Tom and I. That's ours now. A crow or a squir rel dropped that first kernel just over the line on your side. It was yours then. But you we're too stingy to give us one kernel. Now a squirrel has brought it to our side of the line and put it in our log. So now we'll keep it" But father laughed and said: ' I guess half and half is fair." "Fair enough," said Mr. CarrolL "And boys!" he exclaimed, rather angrily, to Jim and Ed, "you've been to blame in this. I declare for it, if 1 aint ashamed of ye! and 1 don't ever want to hear another word about this silly grudge; and I hope neighbor Ed mond 3 boys will overlook it in ye!" We overlooked the ugly word thief which no boy ever ought to call an other till he is perfectly certain of the fact and they forgave the almost equally unhandsome term pig. That was the first and last trouble" we ever had with the Carroll boys. Red Indian corn was planted on both sides of the line-wall the next spring, and we afterwards did well with it, both as a field-crop and in selling it for seed. And the chipmunk? Some little girl may like to know that we transferred him and his wheat from the log to a hrtT- n1 crqx-n him trt sister Mahe ftnrl that she Sept him as a pet nearly all winter. As he had a natural right to the corn, we could not bear to kill him for following the instincts of his nature and he became such an amuzing and affectionate pet, and showed so much confidence in us, that we gave him his liberty in the spring. He several times made us visits during the summer but disappeared in the autumn and we never saw him again. 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