The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-11-24
WHOLE NO. 1877.
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a FLORIDA "GW ACKER
In letter from Flosiia TO the Nov Y~st
Commercial Advertiser. hy Fitx Hugh I.ud-
low thus describes pessonsge indigenous
to that section:
And see--whas rortsnt il that comiag p
Florida alene ceali prodace this creation.
Il a laaaesi proprietor from the inter;er--
but Heepie TO tie manor born DO not call
him by this respectful name. They ssylc
him .'piay Woods Cracaer.s Ileis riding
his own nuSse--s. small native pony, whose
only curry cnmb is tho NEST convenient
ihornapsh- whose cars are of The half-lop
varies r. head ahased- -apd taii-hus no . il
is net fair 20 speak slightingly Of the absent.
1t is 10 be hoped that an equal regard to
fairness meres the landed proprietor to take
turns With the pony in carrying their united
weight, for the sand is deep, ard whether
horse or maa be the heavier is not obvioae.
TIE man is asrayed as for fancy dress ball.
An Immense samhrero OF braided palmetto
shades his ra;ty little black eyes long rueful
checks, ard hronzed beak-llke nosc. Re-
meath the palmetto long grizzly locks sirag-
Gle down upon the torn and partic9lored
shoulders of what may ages ago have been
q blue sack coat, but is now SO shrGuken or
ousgrown that It's pockets come csesc under
MS AIMS, and its tails .latter about the small
OF his hack. lis trousers are of blue and
white bedtiek. \ calico shirt, whose pat-
tern il black spots on red ground, cost
originally six cents per y.rj beside the
trouble OF making up by the landed preprie-
tress and lady Crackeress Of the backwoods
cabin whence il elpenated-ani thus is too
valuable to be concealed hy any vest. The
man who cut the hedtiek pantaloous was not
generous. but they are short. and permit us
10 see so much Of an original Florida pair Of
legs as is comprised between the neighhor-
hood Of tho knee and the ancle. Al this
latter point the members disappear from
human view in pair of maryeiousiv roomy
shoes. hame manufactured Of the alligator's
curiously eheekered hide.
These last receptacles res. on the shills Of
a cart attached to the detected pony by cot
ton ropes miraculouslv knotted-the said
cart apparently knocked together on. Of vel
low pine boards by violent thunder storm,
which occurred in the early youth Of tho
landed proprietor. The only objection to
this view Of the case is that tho cart has
wheels--but Florida is the country Of rars
products, and this rotary phenomena may
be accounted for on the supposition that
taeN ofighaily grew anu We're addcd on TO
the boards as an after thought. Certainly
no wheeiright of cur aequa,ntanca could
ever saw cut these angular pieces Of timber
and stick them together under tho impression
that they were wheels. The landed propric-
tor sits on the horse in a heap like a hu-
man bag OF meal-has a short pipe in HIS
mouth--a rope attached at the lower end to
his animals neck in one hani--a long black
whip of buil-kin in the other, with which Mt
every step he expresses his disscn, to the
sentiment OF the .oldp poet:
1f had a daAkcy what wouldn't 20, ...' H#@-sr
Do you think I'd woiop hH? No! Nc, No!
As be iogs past ga la posstilion"-7wc
look into that fortuitous concourso 81 board.
the cart. II is about the size Of q candle
box, but IT carries frcight--one small bundle
of corn stalks TO serve for the pony's fodder.
And with this he has come thirty miles
through the sandicst roads Of the piny
woods f! Fancy fdnFee going to see tho
"ta-owuf-cven with such vehiclc--and
not carrying even three cents worth Of GAR
den sass to trade for a pair Of knitting-ne-
dies.
Yes The production is original. We
ere ia Florida