N<>vember, 19!,
THE LANDSWOMAN
piokcrs, as rosy n.a the ' brarnblol'a ' they h
been pulling.
o.vo
"A long wa.eh, clean smocks, and thon tea.
6 o'clock striltcs, and all hop out onco moro to tt~ll
club to danco, and read, and play games with 1 ~
tho othors sta.tionod in tho villago.
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"Who would not like to go ' appling' t ,
Applos a.ro r<.'sponsiblc, too, for very many of
most familiar quot-ations :
our
" Koop mo o.s tho apple of the eye;,
" Stolen apples nro sweet;,
"A goodly apple rotten at tho heart
0 what a goodly outside falsehood ho.th,
•
oto., etc.
E ven the ,prophets bogged to bo " comforted
with apples.
But I think tho best of tho lot
and the truest-is the old saying: "An apple~
da.y koops the docto r away."
After Apple-picking
Y long two-pointed ladder's sticking through
a. troc.
M
Towa.rd heavon still.
And t here's a. barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
But I am dono with n.pplo-picking now.
Essence of winter sleep is on tho night,
Tho scent of apples : I am drowsing off.
I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
I got through looldng from a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
And held against the world of hoary grMB.
It melted, and I let it fall and break,
But I wns well
Upon my way to sleep before it fell,
And I could toll
What form of dreaming wns a.bout to take,
Magnified apples appear and disappoar,
Stem ond and blosso m end,
And every flock of russet showing clear,
My instep arch not only kcops the ache,
It keeps tho pressure of a Ja.dder-round.
I feel tho ladder sway as the boughs bend,
And I keep hearing from the cellar bin
Tho rumbling sound
Of load on load of apples coming in.
For I have had too much
Of apple-picking: I am overtired
Of the groat harvest I myself desired.
ROBERT FROST.
Late News
The Dairy Show
UST as we aro going to press comos tho nows that .G out of
tho 17 L.A.A.S. who enwrod for tho :Milking Competition at the
Dairy Show have won prizes :-
Firu Prite-Mrs. Dora Russcll. Dedford (trained 1n surrey) .
Suon4 Priu-Miss F. Matthews, Surrey.
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3 TJ,ifd Prizu-Min E. Stcvens, Surrey; \fiss D. TapsJicld ,
Dcrks;
~Iisa
0 • .Allsworth, :Muldlescx.
S Pourth Prizu-Mra. Jones, Bucks ; )fias Lily Smith, Uants ;
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W. Bush, F.!\scL
Fifth Priu-:\051 0. Norton, Herts.
A d 1tallod article on the D.liry Show, with phOtoitAphs, will
appear ln the Cbriitmas Numbor.