Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-10-06
knowing what the trouble was,
could not be any help to him.

Pretly soon alter this g long
cadaverous creature, with lanky
locks hanging down to his shoul.
ders and weeks stubble brist.
ling from the bills and valleys of
his face, darted within the door.
and halted, motionless, with I'm
ger on lip, and head and body
bent in listening attitude. Nc
sound was heard. Still he lis.
tened. No sound. Then he
turned the key in the door, and
came elaborately tip.toeing to.
wards me till he was within long
reaching distance of me, when be
stopped, and, after scanning my
face with interest for a while, drew
a folded copy of our paper from
his bosom, and said:
"There-you wrote that
Read it to me quick! Relieve me
Il suffer-"
Tread as follows-and as the
sentences fell from my lips / could
see the drawn muscles relax, and
the anxiety go out of the face,
and rest and peace steal over the
features like the merciful moon
light over a desolate landscape !:
"The guano is fine bird, but
great care is necessary in rearing
it. 1t should not be imported
earlier than June nor later than
September. In the winter it
should be kept in a warm place,
where it can hatch out its young.
at is evident that we are to
have a backward season for grain.
Therefore, it will be well for the
farmers to begin setting out his
corn-stalks and planting his buck
wheat cakes in July instead of
August.
Concerning the Pumpkin
This berry is a favorite with the
natives of the interior of New
England, who prefer it to the
gooseberry for the making of fruit
cake, and who likewise give it
the preference over the raspberry
for feeding cows, as being more
filling and fully as satisfying
The pumpkin is the only esculent
of the orange family that will
thrive in the North, except the
gourd and one or two varieties of
the squash. But the custom of
planting it inthe front yard with
the shrubbery is fast going out of
vogue, for it is now generally con-
ceded that the pumpkin. as a
shade tree, is failure.
"Now, as the warm weather
approaches, and the ganders be.
gin to spawn-
"There, there-that will do!
l know | am all right now, be-
cause you have read it just as /
did word for word. But, stranger,
when / first read it this morning
I said to myself, never, never be-
lieved it before, notwithstanding
my friends kept me under watch
so strict, but now / believe | am
crazy; aud with that I fetched a
howl that you might have heard
two miles, and started out to kill
somebody-because, you know, /
knew it would come to that sooner
or later, and SO / might as well
begin. I read one of them para
graphs over again, SO as to be cer-
tain, and then l burned my house
and started. I have crippled sew
eral people, and have got one fel.
low up a tree, where / can get
him if / want him. But /
thought / would call in here as /
passed along, and make the thing
perfectly certain; and now it is
certain, and | tell you it is lucky
for the chap that is in the tree
I should have killed him, sure, as
I went back. Good-by, sir, good
by-you have taken a great load
off my mind. Ny reason has
stood the strain of one of your
agricultural articles, and / know
that nothing can never unseat it
now. GoOd-by, sir"
| felt a little uncomfortable a.
bout the cripplings and arsons this
person had been entertaining him.
self with, for / could not help feel
ing remotely accessory to them );
but these thoughts were quickly
banished, for the regular editor
walked in II thought to myself,
Now if you had gone to Egypt, as
I recommended you to, / fright
have had a chance to get my hand
in; but you wouldn't do it, and
here you are. l sort of expected
you'll :.
The editor was looking sad, and
perplexed and detected. He sur
veyed the wreck which that old
rioter and these two young farm
ers had made, and then said:
"This is q sad business--a very