"
"Why not other things besides radishes and beets?" asked
Ollie.
"Oh, other things would grow all right, but radishes and
beets seem to be the natural things for sod-house growing. You
can take hold of the lower end and pull 'em from the inside, you
know, Ollie."
"I don't believe it, Uncle Jack," said Ollie, stoutly. "Ask
the rancher," answered Jack. "If you're ever at dinner in a sod
house, and want another radish, just reach up and pull one down
through the roof, tops and all. Then you're sure they're fresh.
I'd like to keep a summer hotel in a sod house. I'd advertise
'fresh vegetables pulled at the table.'"
"I'm going to ask the man about sod houses," returned Ollie.
He went up to where the owner of the house was sitting outside,
and said:
"Will you please tell me how you make a sod house?"
"Yes," said the man, smiling. "Thinking of making one?"
"Well, not just now," replied Ollie. "But. I'd like to know
about them. I might want to build one--sometime," he added,
doubtfully.
"Well," said the man, "it's this way: First we plough up a
lot of the tough prairie sod with a large plough called a
breaking-plough, intended especially for ploughing the prairie
the first time.
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