The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1872-05-10
BIG JOHN wRITEsro BILL ARP.
TIES "Lcpc~orc-- Views on the
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ARxucnps Tow GrorNps, I
March 9th. is72 !
DEAR Bill: DO you remember all the
fine speeches you and Gen'l. Black made
me about farmin2 II you don't ! do. I've
tried il one year, and | would like 70
know about what time the funny part be
gins. How long does man have 10 ex-
perienco before he succeeds, and amt il
possible than ordinary man might run
through and break down before he got
n fair start2 Don't a man sometimes get
too old and fat for his business before he
begins III The truth is Bill I'm afeerd
I've mistook my okkdpation, or else I've
located on sumbody elses land. Armu-
chez creek is nifty good for mill ponds,
but Armuchec bottom won't make corn
for me. II turns up in slick, white,
greasy clods as big as mud turkles, and
smells as sour as a still. There's two
thousand crawfsh holes to the square rod,
and where thare amt hole thare's a
cowich vine or snake root. Old uncle
Johnny Cox says its very pekulyar sile
and has to be managed keerfully. The
f,kt is Bill I'm dissapinted as a farmer,
but amt gin it up yet. thot that i
could SET on the dirt floor of my veranda
and see my corn GROWN all day long. i
intended to hav a cornshukin in the fall
and invite you all up and hav the biggest
frolic in the world. 1t actually bothered
me at night thinkin who I'd AK and who
/ wouldent, and how I'd fix up for EN-.
That corn has never cum up yit. Its
gone where the cowich twineth and the
snake root twisteth, and the crawfsh
boreth his hole. | hired two fellers to
crop it for me, and was to Civ 'em ten
bushels of corn apiece to the acre. The
crop dident make but eight, Bill, and
they took it. Old man Williamson is
lettin me hav meal and is to wait on me
till next crop. He's as clever man as
ever took 2 tolls out of one grist. / hired
n niger to SOW down ten acres of wheat
for me last fall. He sorter scratched it
in and paid him ten dollars. That
wheat hain't never cum up yet, Bill, and
il is supposed that Niger sold it. You
sec that was cirkus week when he sowd
it and ! staid in town. I've almost lost
all hope Of its cumin up this season.
Would you plant the ground in sumthing
else or nots Smoky says that he thinks
that wheat sprouted downwards, and will
cum up sumwhere on luther side, but
Smoky is always theorizin about sumthin.
Bill is there any shuks in town? /
want bale of shnks-a small bale-one
that my old war steer can haul over the
mountin. Perhaps you can git me some
from Gen1. Black. He's the President
Of the FAN and ought to hav saved
shuks. l must hav sum sort of ruffness
for my old steer and mule until grass
cums--shorely it will cum early this
spring-shorely it will. If it don't, why
Bill, I'm busted on stock, certin. Is there
enY peYRef nnih9k eirkassc,iair, ~
Ggdy 70 stir EN- up and git me free
ticket 1t will take show once month
to make me tolerate farmin as an okku-
pashun. I'm eumin in town next week
anyhow after them shuks. Major Blunt
had Jest well hunt EN- hunt up. for il | |
can't git 'en / amt cumin back here no
more, and he'll hay me to feed shore
Whats all this news about anutber war;
l tell Won what. Bill. when bearl IL 7
looked right at old Dobbin and he looked
right at the waeiu like he was lest ready
to be hitched in for immediate flite II
was POWERFULLY relieved when heard il
was a fus between John Bull and Yankee
Doodle. That's none of our funeral Bill
and wouldent walk 40 wards IN soc ,em
cat one anuther up. Yes would-Pd
like 10 be on TOP of Armucbee mountip
and sec 'em fite till every crawfisb hole
was filled with their blood and then ma.
nure INV land with their homes But
don't want to run any more Bill-see
about them sinks NJ soon as possible
Them yanks hav got a bankerin after
me and can't rest ill thew are exturmi.
mated. But they amt acoin to fite Old
EnslandA No sir. They woullent de.
clare war agin a sick sheen if they
couldent hire sum fi,rripers 10 do the
ftin. John Bull is afraid of the Irish
and Uncle Sam is afraid of the rebs, and
there's no tellin what deyilment they