The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-11-26
HoO,iER AND TIE YANKEE.

We wcr greatly amused, not lorg since, at II
dialogue we heard between il )OwnenSier and u
llnoSrr from the west. They were respectfully
cracking up their own localities, aud running down
their opponents
Al length SAYS the Ilooslcr-
'Why, our land is - ii 'h-why "r never seed
any thing so rarnl rrh in YOUR liIr-why, how'd We
suppose wr made our candles, ha =
Don't know, SAYS the >anlrr.
Eve dip 'cn, in the mud puddlcs,' snys the
lloo-irr.
'Yrs,' rrp'i'd the Yankee, and guess there e."
50 nu' h mud in YOUR dll.ns, that there i@n' many
PAGES where Il man could not dip candles IN III"
mud paddles ! have heard Of u man travelling II
>our country all day long, IN the road where the
mud was deep that you couldn't dl|klrcr u
. irp>r Of his lcas Cor hours together.
We'll, nov Just tell rs, Mr Nhnhrr, if it Is Il
rrr WIN, hr, do saw about the rorshucss Of ihc
roads down east They do say thai there are ST
many stones in the roads, and that the wagons do
Jolt up and down 50 a-lirrdl,; thai, The only WAY
The people ever grind out plaster of plriS, Is ry
LOADING the hi! pieces into wagon, and Just drlN-
inr Al "A moderate irOt over one of Nour roads: and
that a half a mics driving will make it into pow
der.
.Thcrr's no doubt bu, we ran touch dry land
occasionally on our roads. But then if there are
some stnl,s IN the road, the traveller is never way
laid, and blood taken by mosquitoes as big as o!S-
lcrs.
"lll tell YOU what Stranger, they do say there
are hnll counties down east where the stones are
:, thick. that they have 10 sharpen the sleeps nv
SOS. 50 they can get them between the rocks 10 e."
grass. Indeed, heard one say, whn once travel
rd through YOUR country. that he one day saw Il
~ hole field of men aud boys Standing m III" rocks
each on 'cin letting sheep down 10y til" bud leg
in among tine rocks 10 feed. And IN another pac,
hc said he saw the farmers shOnln. the gram ~ IL
monr the rocks 50 ~ 20 take root aud grow
"Wal now. stranger, suppose YOU tell us ahon
-, our own cnun,ry: >on IRE the onlv man ever So,
from the west that didn't die of fever II agur; let
-, if Won know ~ much about The west rs ynt
seem 10 know about the east" "Wrll, cd Yam
krr, III lust tell YOU about it, II farmer in nu'
c,un,r, plants his ground with aud takes iir,
rate care of il, he'll git hundred h,>heIs 10 The
acre: and if h. takes niddlm' care oG it. he'll II
! sryrnty.iye bushels Ia the acre; aud II he don
! plant at all he II get fifty.
The hccis grow so large lha, 1t takes three yoke
| ol oxen Ia pull upa fall SIZED one; and then /
! leaves hole 81 biz tina once knew tiniv -
five rh!ilcn who all inmhled into beet hole "nr'
add the earth cavrd in upon them and they all per
| ishpd.
The trees grow so large that | once knew
man who commenced cutting one down, an'
when he had cut away on one side for about lrr
DAYS, he thought he d jest take II look round ih
tree, and when hr got rouud IN i"ihrr side III
found u man there WIN had been cutting al 1t !"
three weeks-and they never heard one another
axes.
/ have heard tell. vet | somewhat doubt III"
story. that the Ohm pdrS1ips have s"ihrilil'"
al, md Ipsu lila,