Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-03-01

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TO meet again.
Sold your corn to day, neigbbor parkerT
Inquired farmer Cheney.
Every speck Of it, replied Parker.
Did you? what did you get z
Eighty one
How much 2
Eighty. one
You didn't though did ye 2 exclaimed the
man who would not take the newspaper, bis
eyes sticking out feet.
That is just what | got. and think
could have got eighty two if had stuck
little longer
You don't though"
The same man bought yours, believe
Yes, replied farmer Cheney. edging off
little.
what did you get--eigbty-two!'
Well, | guess didn't get quite that
%, eighty one. Well after all, that is
good price, and ten cents on q bushel more
than had any idea of getting
4 did not get eighty one' replied farmer
Cheney, rather crest fallen
lie did not like to deceive bis neiebbor
he had studied the Bible and Almanac enough
to know better than that but it was very
hard to own up to the truth.
How much did you get?'
i darscnt tell
Why not 2
I've got taken in If the teller gave you
eighty one.'
What did you get though neighbor- sew
enty five. 2
Seventy ono
We'll, You have been taken IN then. |
guess you have not heard the news.
'No--what!
Crops failed in the West
How you talk
Aud the prospect Of war 10 Europe, SO
that our breadstuffs will be extensively ex-
ported, which run up the price of iour and
grain
What war;
Between Russia and Turkey
Turkey J well, hope them cusssd Turks
will get licked exclaimed farmer Cheney,
whose ideas were somewhat antiquated.
You differ from the world in general -
The sympathies of all the civilized nations 90
With Turkey in this quarrel
You don't says so When was boy
the scboolmaster used to learn US to bate the
Turks. They are barbarous race
i think neighbor Cheney you viii confess
now that you had better take paper
Confess no such thing wouldn't have one
around the house
If you had taken the papers, you would
have known about this rise in grain
Perhaps so; but Reuben generally tells
me about these things
1t was only in the paper that came to-day
read it since saw you this morning But
| should no more think Of selling anything Of
any consequence without seeing how the
Boston markets were, than should of cutting
my own throat
Kind of dog lie to be tied down to a
newspaper sneered farmer Cheney.
But if you had taken a paper, neighbor,
and read it, you would have made twenty
dollars by it in this one trsde-twenty dol
lars, ueighbor. enough to pay for the paper
for ten years
Git out these things look well enough as
you book farmers fgger EN- up; but you see
when you come to the scratch, they amt no.
where
! 1t looks to me like plain case
Now 'srose could make twenty dollars
by taking the paper, ii would do me darned
sight moro mischief than that.
'dow?'
why the newspaper puts the very devil
into the gals heads. Now, they never used
to have their cussed picnics round here till
the gals got to reading Of them in the paper.
And then the buryiag ground, they couldn't
even let that alone. Some Teller put piece
in TIE paper about Mr.. Auburn, Sonel Hill
Grcenbusb, and some sich place, and the first
thing we know. the gravestones are all jump
ed up in heap; gravel is carted in and pie
ces set out all over it, now they call it
symmetry, believe
"A cemetery, neighbor; but be who reads
the newspaper likes these thugs There is
something pleasant in Ornamenting with aow-
crs the resting place Of our dead
II looks to me more like socaelatio