Excerpt from For California, Vol. 2: A Monthly Publication "for Those Who Desire the Best There Is in Life"; October, 1905 Sometimes when driving about I would meet a neighbor who would ask how my trees were getting on or compliment me on the fine crop of volunteer barley I. Was likely to get. Another would ask if I intended to plow this year. One said, I suppose you know the barley would grow without the trees, and I thought I detected a latent sarcasm in his tone suggesting the query as to the converse of that proposition. Then I would look at my tall overseer who seemed in no hurry to commence plowing and stifle my momentary uneasiness. One day I overheard a man saying look at that now, where are the trees, pretty expensive crop of barley, I think well, was the reply - what can you expect of a woman and a city woman at that? That night when all were sleeping, I walked in the bright moonlight along the road by the orchard or barley field - for by that time the question of supremacy was settled. It was no longer a question of faith in my tail overseer, but a lack of faith in myself. I must get a new man, but whom. Just then, an owl, far away, answering my anxious thought said, Oh - who who. Another owl close by answered - Oh, you - you. I went into the house, and in the morning met my overseer as he was dragging his lazy length towards the breakfast table, and gently suggested that he should take a vacation. Barkis was willing. While hunting for a man to fill his place I demonstrated the fact that I could do perfectly well with out one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.