The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-27
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DEAR BILL: Do yon remember all
snep nne speeches y0n and Gen. Black
made me about farmin7 IT, you don't, !
40. I've tried it one year, aud I would
IKE 20 know about what time the funny
part begins How long does man have
20 experience before he succeeds. nnd
ain'e 1t possible shat an ordinary man
might run through aud break down be-
lore ne got fair start? Don't o man
sometimes get too old aud fat for his
business before he begins it? The truth
IS, Bill. In afeerd I've mistuk nv Ok
kupation, or else I've located ON sum-
body else's land. Armuohee Creek ia
NIFTY good Tor mill ponds, but Armuchee
bottom won't make corn for me. It
turns up IN slick. white, greasy clods as
Dig as mud turkles, smells as soar as a
stu Aonse. There's 1000 craw fish
hoies to the square rod, aud where thure
amt hole, there's cowich vine or IL
snake root. Old Uncle johnny Cox
says It's very pekulyar sile, and has to
6e managed keerfully. The fukt il,
Bill. LIN disappointed as farmer, but |
ANT gin up yet. thot that could set
on the dirt floor Of my veran,ln and sce
my corn GROWN oil day long. Iinteuded
TO have corn-shuokin in the full mud
invite you all up aud hav the biggest
frollo In the world. 1t actually bothered
me at night, thiukin who I'd ax and who
wonldent, and how I'd fi1 up for EN-.
That corn has never cum up Wit. It's
gone where the cowioh twineth aud the
snake-root twistoth, and the craw- fish
boreth his hole. hired two felIers to
crop 1t for me, and was to give en- ten
bushels OF corn piece to the acre. The
crop dident make bnt 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 u man as
ever took two tolls out of one grist. I
hired nigger to sow down ten acres of
wheat for me last full. He sorter
scratched it in, aud 1 paid him $40.
That wheat haint never cum mn vet.
Bill, and 1t is supposed that nigger sold
1t. You sec that was cirkus week when
he sowd it, and staid in town. I've
almost lost all hope of it comm m this
season. Would you plant the ground in
something else or not? Shokly SAYS
that he thinks that wheat sprouted
downwards, aud will cum ND sumwhcre
on further side. but Shokly is ALWAYS
theorizin about sumthin.
1
n bale OF shuks-a AL nj bale-one that
my OLD war steer can haul over tho
mountain. Perhaps you can get me
sum from Genl Black. He's the Presi-
dent OF the fair, and ought to have saved
shuks. must hav sum sort of ruffness
Tor my old steer and mule until grass
Gums -shorely it will cum early this
sprlng-shorcly it will. II it don't,
why. Bill, I'm busted on stock, certain.
LIZ there any news of another cirkus
cumin? Tell Grady to stir em up and
get me free ticket. It will take show
once month to make me tolerble farmin
as On okkupashun. I'm comm down
next week, anyhow, after them shuks.
Major Blunt had jest as we'll hunt EN- up,
for IT can't get EN-, ain t coming buck
here no more, and he'll hav me to feed
ashore.
What's all this news about anuthcr
war? l tell you what, Bill, when l
heard it. looked right ut oil Dobbin.
and he locked right at the wagin like hs
was Jest ready to be hitched in for imne-
date fiite. 1 was powerfully relieved
when heard it was q fuss between John
Bull and Yankee Doodle That's none
OF our funeral. Bill, and wouldent walk
4O yards to SEQ EN- eat one anuther M.
Yes. would. I'd like to be on top of
Armuchee Mountain, and seq em fit.. til!
every craw-tish hole was filled with their
blood, and then manure my land will:
their bones. But I don't want to run
any more. Bill-see about them shuks rs
soon as possible. Them YAnks Lav 20,
hankerin after me, and 1 can't rest TIL
they are exterminated. But they aint
agoin to fite old England. No, sir.
They wouldent declare war agin q sick
sheep. if they conldent hire sum furri
ners to do the tit'n. John Bull is afraid
OF the Irish, and Unclo Sam is afraid of
the rebs, and there's no telllu what devil.
ment they would kick up in case of IL war.
Don't forgit my shuks. Bill The
old steer nin't in good fix for anuther
campane. l notis his tail looks powerful
weak. It's never recovered from the OLD
strain; but there's no use in borrowin
trouble. My heffer strayed over the
mountin on Judge Wright's side about u
month ago, and they say ono never gits
back from the flat woods. Sumbody cut
of the Judges saddle skirt last week. 7
tell yon. them flat woods population is
NIFTY fond of hide and taller 1t was the
Jndges go-to meetin saddle. Pity, ain't
it? Don't forgit to see Black nbont the
shnks. Yours truly. BIG JOHN.
L. S.-l've got something to tell YOU