Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1848-10-12
THE HOOSIER AND THE YANKEE.

easier and Hoosier from the West. They
were respectively cracking up their own
Localities, and running down their oppo-
nents. AT length says the Hoosier-
"Why our land is so rich-why ye never
seed anything so ,arnal rich in your life
why, how dye suppose we make our can
dies, La 20
Don't know" says the Yankee.
"We dip 'em in the mud puddles," says
the Hoosier.
"Yes," replied the Yankee,'' and ] guess
there's so much mud in your diggins, that
there inst many places where man could
not dip candles in the mud puddIes. have
heard of man travelling in your country
all day long, in the road where the mud was
so deep that you couldn't diskiver glimpse
OF his legs for hours together"
"Well, now just, tell US Mr.. Yankee, ifil
is fact what they do say about the rough
ness of your roads down East. They do
say there are SO many stones in the roads,
and that the wagons do jol. up so all-fredly,
that the only way the people ever grind out
plaster of paris, is by loading the big pieces
into wagon, and jus, driving at mod
crate trot over one of your roads, and that
half miles driving will make it all into
powder"
"There is no doubt but we can touch dry
land occasionally on the roads, the traveller
is never way-laid, and his blood taken by
mosquitoes as big as oysters"
"lIl tell you what, stranger, they do say
there are hull counties down cas-! where the
stones are so thick that they have to shar-
pen the sleeps noses, so they can get them
between the rocks 10 eat grass. Indeed,
heard one say, who once travelled through
your con,ry, that he one day saw whole
field of men and boys standing on the rocks,
each on 'em letting a sheep down by the
hind legs in among the rocks to feed. And
in ano.er place he said he saw the farmers
shooting the grain in among the rocks SO as
to take root and grow"
| oval now, stranger, suppose You tell US
about your own country; you're the only
man ever seen from the west that didn't
die of fever n'agur; let's see if you know as
much about the west as you seem 10 know
about the east"
"Well, old Yankee, pll just tell you all
about it. If a farmer in our country plants
his ground with corn and takes middlin'
care of it he'll git seventy-fve bushels to
the acre; and ii he don't plant at all he'll
git.ffy.
"The beets grow so large that it takes
three yoke of oxen to pull up a full sized
one; and then it leaves hole so large thai
once knew family of FIVE children who
all tumbled into beet hole once before it
go, filed up, and the earth caved in upon
them and they all perished.
"The trees grow so large that once knew
a man who commenced cutting one down..
and when he had cut away on one side for
abou, ten days, the thought he'd Jest take a
look round the tree, and when he got round
on t'o,her side, he found man there who
had been cutting at it for three weeks-and
they'd never heard one another's axes.
III have heard tell, We, somewhat doub,
that story, that the Ohio parsnips have
sometimes grown clean through the earth
and been pulled through by the people on =
other snle."
"Wha., now," says the Yankee, "I rather
guess as how you've told enough, stranger,
for the present. How'd you like to trade
for some clocks 10 sell out west ~
''Never use 'em-we keep time altogether
with pumpkin vines. You know they grow
jus. five feet an hour, and that's an inch a
minute. Don't use clocks at ALL It's no
use, old Yankee, we can't trade, no how y
The Yankee gave up beat, and suddenly
cleared out.
A COOP STORY OF Gov. BoUCK.-A New
7 ork papers tells the following Story ol