The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1875-07-21
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sMbat arc you carrying that plow along
fotf' a
fGoing 70 send i to pitisburg.
Ffo patsbarg II Pean,Ivaiias'
You're mighty right am
What are you going to send it there
fSri'
'yo get sharpened
kll the Ras 10 Piitsburg 10 get shatpcn-
You hetl We've starved our black
smith ont be pulled up stakes tie other
day and went to Texas
Well. that's rather novel idea my
friend--seiIding plow 50 far to Get sllar
pcuod.
Not 50 noscl as y6ii henri il was. We
do our milling in 81. LOUIS
Is that so?
You re right i. il. Weu>ed to have
mill a. Pumkns;nc Creek. but The owner
got too poor to keep il iipi aud - We turn.
ed TO getting our grinding done at St. Lou
is
WI AOH7 luNou " Soy thh aCbu 1uhi
grist all the way 10 St. Louis b3 rail!'
i DON'T say nothing about gris--we
haiu't got no gris 10 send. But We get oIr
-four and neal frm 81. L.us.
i see you have hide on Jour wagon
YES; our old COW died last week -
March winds hlowed the life cut'n her
Seidin' her hide 10 Boston % yet il tain-
ed
AL the way to Boston? i that not
rather expensive uly friend? The freights
will eat the hide up.
Tbat'sa fact-cleaner than the buzzlrdS
did the ole critters carcass. Bus what's
the use bein'. taxed to build railroads
'thout You get the good EN-? Used TO
have d tansard over At l.ickskilleti. aud .
shoemaker. iuo But they're kcrilummux-
ed.
.Keifummuxed-what's that:9
liz means gone up the spuut-and twixt
sou and me, that's mighty nigh the case
with our State.
When DO YOU expect 10 get your leath-
Don't expect 10 git leather at alex.
pect 70 git shoes sumo day at BustoO o.
,hereahouts.'
.Ratber misfortune to lose milk COW,
my friend.
Nat 50 much misfortune as yon heard
il was. AlvDs,rous sight of shnckin' aud
nubbiniu' aud geltiu only about three quarts
i day.
What are you going 70 do for milk
Send North for i.
send North iur uIIlk.'
.ics cousenirated milk and Goshen but
ter.
Oh! | see the point.
Mighty handy :hings. these railroads
make them yankee fellers do all our jobs
tor IL now-do our smifhin' aud grindin',
aud taunin'. and milkin' !. and rhuniib'.
Il see you have a bale of cotton.'
Yes. We go our bottom nickel on cotton
Sendin' il up to Massachusetts 10 get il
carded, spun aud wovc. Time'll come
when we'll send il there 70 he ginued. aud
then we'll he happy. MonsirOus slghl u
trouble running these gins.
That would be rather expensive, send
Ing cotton in seed.
No more 10 than them Western fellows
pa,s when they send corn east aud get =
dollar bushel mud paS six bits freight.
Besides Us said. what is the use payiug
tvr railroads illont We use thcroadss'
You seem 70 appreciate tic advantage
If railroads.
i think We OuglA--wc pay enough for
en-
.fIecon you fatten your own pork!
We'll. you reckon wrong, stranger |
get them llIinoy fellows 10 10 that Tor me.
lt's mighty convenient. too--mons,rous
sight ii trOable lolin bg basketih ufcom
three times a day 70 hogs 10 pcH-cspe.
cially when yuu hahn cot none to tote il
10,
i shouid think 50.
There is che ,hing lacking though to
make the business compIcte.'
Whats thaty
.They ought 70 send them hogs ready
cooked. CoOkh' and preparin' wood for
cookin' takes up heap of time That ought
by rights 10 be employed IN the cotton
patch. was sayih' 70 ny Old woman the
other day. II wc Mississippi folks rot our
cookin' aud washiu' done Up North aud
sent W express. we'd 10 harry a. office
holders.
Your horse inthv lead there sccmstob u
lame.
Yes. needs shoein. II lie wasn't th,
only Lorsc I've got aud eau't spare him
i send him where they made tic hors,
shoes aud nails aud get iim shod. usn,
yet such thing done ~ our paris Per
haps. can at the depot.
,llvw DO you manage 10 live IN you
parts. N.Y. old friend.
.Nay. We raise cotion. Ms road turn
ofI here. stranger. Gee. Ball. back Bran
dy. l'n glad seed you stranger. Nat
chck Democrat.
How odd Il ~ said l'at. as lie trudgt
along on foot. oBe bot sul.ry. day, that
mau never meets car, going The samC ~
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