, 1841-10-09
THE HOOSIER AND THE YANKEE.

THE HOOSIER AND THE YANKEE.
We were greatly amused, not long since.
a, 4 dialogue weheard betweena Downeaster
and 4 Hoos:er from The west. They were
respectativciy clacking up their own locaii-
ties. and running down their opponents.
At!ength says the Hoosier-
"Why our land is so ricli-why We never
seed any llIlng so tarnal rich in all your lie;
why. how dye suppose We make our candles
!a?'
"Don't know SAYS the Yankee.
ave DIP 'em in the mud pudiles," says the
IIoosier.
..Ies," replied the yankee, "and | guess
there is ST. much mud in Your digglns, that
there isn't many places where 4 man couldn't
dip candies in the mud puddles. have heard
vi 4 mar travelling in your country all day
long, in the road where the mud was so deep
that you couldn't d'>kiver Il glimps OF his
legs for hours together"
well, now Just tell us Mr.. Yankee. 1t It
Is Il fact what they say about the roughncSs
IF Your roads down east. They do say
there are SD MANY stones IN The roads. ami
that the wagons do jolt up and down So all
FREELY. that the only way the people ever
grind out plaster of paris. is by Ioadlng the
biz pieces into 4 wagon. and just driving al
i moderate trot over one ct your roads; and
that half a miles driving will make II all M
to powdc:.'
There is no doubt but we can touch dry
lanl occasionally on our roads. But then /
there are some stuns in the roads. the trav'
elIer is never w~aylaid. and his blood taken
hv musquetoes as hig as oysters"
Ill tell YOU what, stranger. they DO say
there are hull counties down east where the
stones are SO thick that they have 10 sharpen
the sleeps noses. 81 they can get them be,
tween lie rocks 10 eat grass. Indeed.
heard one say. who once travelled Though
v"ur country. that he one day saw 4 Whole
flied Of mpu ard boys standing on the rocks
each IN 'em letting sheep down hv the hird
legs in among the rocks to feed. And in
another place be- said he saw III" farmers
shooting the grain N among the rocks 81 as
10 take DOT and grow.
swell now. stranger. suppose You tell u"
about Your own %Cuuntiv; you're the only
man | ever see from the west that didn't die
Of fever a~u'agur; let's see If Won know rs
mnch about the west as rou seem I" know
ahou, the ens'.'
-"WcII. old Yankee. I'll just tell You about
il. If a farmer in our country plants his
ground with corn and takes first rate care
IN ii. HE'LL get a hundred bushels Ia the acre;
if lie takes middiin' care ni 1t he'll ct seven
~tv-ive; and II lie don't plant It At al he'll Get
f:,v."
The bees crow So large tia, 1t rakcs tarcr
yoke Of oxen 10 pull up Il iuii sized one; ana
then il leaves 4 hole 50 large that ! once
knew q family uf five children who all run
bed into I beet hoe once before II got filled
up. and the earth ca"cd in upon them and
tEev all persisted.
The trees grow 81 large that ] once knew
= man wlo commenced cutting one down
and when he had cut away on one side i"I
lanuui tel DAYS. he thought he'd Jest take =
look round the tree. and when he got round
on toner side he found n man there VIII" rad
been cutting al it for three weeks-and
thev'd never heard one anOtlcr's axes.
have heard tell. yet somewhat doubt
THAT story, that the OHIO rARsyIrs have
sometimes crown clean through the earti
and been pulled through by the people or
i't0'ic or side
'Wal, now says the yankee. j rather CUES
as how you've told enough, Stranger, for the
present. How'd you like TO trade Tor soma
clocks to sell oUt west!'
Never nse 'em-we keep time altogether
with pumpkin vines. You know they grow
Just five feet IN hour. and that's an inch /:
minute. Don't use clocks n all. It's 10
use old Yankee. we can't trade no how
The Yankee gave up beat. and suddenly
cleared out.
EwlNG'S LETTEn.-We would place NJ