Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-08-16

rake it with fine tooth comb you couldn't
get enough to winler grasshopper.-
'Spose we drive up to The door and have
word of chat with Nick Bradshaw, and
see if he is as, promising as outside appear
ances indicate.
'"Observing US from the only light of glass
remaining in the window, Nick lifted the
door and laying it aside, emerged from the
kitchen, parlor and smoke house, % recon.
oitre. He vas a tall, we'll built. athletic
man Of great personal strength, and sur.
prising activity, who looked like a careless,
good ,naiured fellow, fond Of talking, and
from the appearance of the little black pipe
which stuck in one corner Of his mouth,
equally so Of smoking; and as he appeared
10 fancy us to be candidates, no doubt he
waa already enjoying in prospective the
neighboring tap-room. Just look at en-
Happy critter--hls hat crown has lost the
top out, and the rim hangs like the bail of
a bucket. HIS trowsers and jacket shsw
clearly that he has had clothes Of other
colors in other days. The untan'd mocas.
son on one foot, which contrasts with the
old shoe on the other, shows him friend
to domestic manufactures and his beard is
no bad match for the woolly horse yonder.
See the waggish independent sort Of a look
the critter has, with his hat on one side,
and hands in his breeches pockets, contem.
plating the beauties of his farm.
"You may talk about patience and forti-
tude, philosophy and christian resignation.
and all that sort of thing till you get tired,
but-ah, here he comes, "Mornng Mr..
Bradshaw--how's all homo 10 Jay? Right
comfortable, here that, comfort in such a
place--'I give tl,anks--come, light and
come in, I'm sorry can't feed your hoss, but
the fact is. 'tan't been no use to Try to raise
no crops late years, for body don't git half
paid for their labor, these hardin raised
a nice bunch of potatoes last year. and as
couldn't get nothing worth while for 'em in
The fall, | tho't I'D keep 'cm till spring. But
as frost set in while was down town lee.
ton time, the boys didn't fix up the old Gel
lar door, and this Internal cold winter froze
'em all. lis them what you smell now,
and I've jus, been telling the old woman
tina. we must turn too and carry them out
Of tho cellar fore long. they'll make some
Of US sick like enough, for there's no telling
whatmay happen TO body lato years.
! And if the next legislator don't do some
thing for US, the Lord knows but the whole
country will starve, for it seems as tho the
1 land now days wont raisc nothing. Its &C.
! ..sal!y run out
/ "Why, should think by the look OF
things around your neighbor Hor,on's that
his land produced pretty WE'LL" "Why'
yes, and it's miracle too, how he gels il
4 for everybody round here said. when he
4 took up that track, i, was the poorest in tiese
parts. There are some that thinks he has
dealings with the black ART. fort does seem
as tho the more he worked his land the bet
j ter It got"
Now s',eso was a mystery but an easy
explanation Of Mr.. Slick, soon solved tn.
matter. at least to my mind. "The fac
is" says Mr.. Slick, "a great deal of thi.
country is run out, and if it warnt fol
the lime, marsh mud. sea weed, salt sand
and VIA not. they've got here in such
quantities, and few Horizons 10 apply it
: the whole country would run out, and dwin.
die away to just sich great good natura
qood.lor-n nothing do. nothing fellows as this
Nick Bradshaw, and his woolly horse, and
woolless sheep, and cropless farm, and COM
i fortress house, # indeed such great wind
| rack of loose lumber is worthy tire name oi
house.
i, .Now by way of contrast to all this, do
YOU see that neat little cottage looking
house on yonJer hammock, away to the
right there, where you see those beautiful
shade trees. The house IS small, but It is
whole house. That's what call about
rieht-fanked on both sides by an orchard
Of bes, graft fruit--a tidy flower garden IN
front that the girls see to, and most grand
surce garden list over there, where it takes
the wash of the buildings, nicely sheltered
by that bunch ofshrubbery.
! "Then see them everlasting big barrs,
and, by gosh, there goes fourteen dairy
cows. as slick as moles. Them flowers,
honeysuckles and rose bushes, shows what
sort Of family lives there, just as plain as
ssraws show which woy the wind blows.
."Them gals ant tarnally racing round
to quitting and husking frolicks' their feet
exposed in thin slips TO the mud, and their
honor to thinner protection. NO, no,
take nv word fort when yon see gals busy
abou: such things to home, they are what
our old minister used to call right minded.
Such things keep them busy, and when
folks are busy about their own business
they've no time to get into mischief. 1t
keeps them healthy TOO, and as cheerful as
larks. I've a mind VII Fight here, and
j and