Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-22
T He I'll Err AID
SOUTHERN GENTLEMEN,
How and Where They Have Their Work D.

"Hallo stranger you seem to be 60
ing to market ?"
eyes, sir, / am "
"What are you carrying that pillow
along for?"
"Going to send it to Pittsburg."
"To Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania ?"
eyes sir, that is just the Pittsburg."
"What are you going to send it
there for?"
"ro get it sharpened."
"AlI the way to Pittsburg to get it
sharpened ?"
"You bet; we've starved our black
smith out; he pulled up stakes the
other day and went to Texas"
swell that's rather a novel idea /;
sending a plow SO far to get it shar-
pened."
"Not so novel as you heard it was.
We do our milling in st. Louis.
"Is that so ?"
"You bet it is. We used to have
a mill on Punkinvine creek, but the
owner got too poor to keep it up and
we turned to getting our grinding
done at St. Louis"
"You don't mean to say you send
your grist all the way to ST. Louis by
rail %
81 don't say nothing about grist--
we hain't no grist TO send. But we
get our flour and meal from St. Louis !"
81 see you have hide on your
wagon"
eyes; old COW died last week
March winds blew the life out OF her;
sending her hide to Boston to get it
tanned"
"All the way to Boston? Isn't that
rather expensive, my friend The
freights will eat the hide up"
"That's fact; cleaner than the buzz
yards did the old critters carcass.
But what's the use being taxed to
build railroads without you get the
good of them ?. Used to have tan
yard over at Lickskillet, and a shoe
maker, too, but they are kerfummux-
ed"
"Kerfummuxed; WHAT that ?"
ct means, gone up the spout; and
twixt you and me stranger, our
butcher will soon go the same road,
for we are going to get our beef-steak
from Chicago every morning"
"When do you expect your leather
back from Boston,"
Don't expect to get it back at all
expect to get shoes some day made at
Boston, or thereabouts."
"Rather a misfortune to lose a milk
COW, my friend"
'Not so much misfortune as you
heard it was. Monstrous sight OF
shuckin' and nuhbinin' and getin' only
about quarts a day."
"What are you going to do for
milk ?"
"Send North for it"
"Send North for milk ?"
eyes, concentrated milk and Goshen
butter.''
"Oh | see the point"
"Mighty handy things these rail-
roads make them Yankee fellers do
ell our jobs for us now-do our smith
in, and grindin', and tannin', and
milk!n', and churnin'."
81 see you have bale Of cotton"
eyes, we 60 our bottem nickle on
cotton. Tendin' it up to Massachu-
sets to get it carded, spun and wove,
Time'll come when well send it there
to be ginned, then well be happy.
Monstrous lot of trouble running
those gins"
"That would be rather expensive
sending cotton in seed"
'No more so than them Western
fellers pays when they send corn east
and gets 81 bushel and pay six bits
freight. Besides as l said, what is
the use Of paying for railroads 'thout
we use the roads p
"You seem to appreciate the ad-
vantages of railroads."
81 think we ought-we pay enough
for them"
Il reckon you raise your own pork?"
"Well, you reckon wrong, stranger.
[ get them Illiony fellers to do that
for me. It's mighty convenient, too
monstrous sight of trouble toting a
big baskettul of corn three times a
day to hogs in a pen,-especially
when you hain't got none to tote it to"
81 should think So
"There's one thing lacking though
to make the business complete"
"What's that?'
"The ought to send them hogs
ready cooked. Cookin' and preparin'
wood for cookin' takes up a heap of
time that ort by rights to be employs
ed in the cotton patch. | was sayin'
to my old women the other day, if we
Mississippi folks got our cookin' and
washin' done up North and sent by
express, we'd be as happy as office.
holders"
"Your horse in the lead there seems
to be lame"
eyes, needs shoein'. If he wasn't
The only horse I've got, and I cant
spare him, I'd send him up where they
made the horse shoes and nails and
get him shod. Can't get such a
hing done in our parts. Perhaps
IAN at the depot"
"How do you manage to live in
your parts, my old friend ?"
"Why, we raise cotton. My road
urns off here, stranger. Gee. Ball,
back, Brandy. I'm glad | seed you
stranger. MATCHES Weekly Demo-
rat.