A FARMER'S “WILD OATS”

Shannon News, 4 November 1927, Page 3

A FARMER'S “WILD OATS”

WORKING FROM SUN TO SUN. A popular humorist t’ells the following story: ■ As a boy he and his brother were helping their father on the farm, in the days when it was -til! common for farmers to work i’rom sun to sun. The father had his own version of the eight hour lay, and made it eight hours in the for-noon and eight hours in the aft■nioon, One summer morning the father got the boys out of bed at four o'clock in the morning and started off fo the oat field for the day’s work of setting up tb e oat sheaves to dry. As (hey hurried, along, the older bey, struck Tty a bright idea, said, “Father, are the oats -we are going to set up wild oats?" “Wild do you mean?” asked the father irritably and the boy replied, “Well, if they are not. why do we have to sneak up on them in the dark?”