The Red Cloud chief., 1875-07-08

ayes, SIR, ! am"
"whst are you carrying that piow
along fori'
"Going TO send it to Pittsburg."
ITO Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania"
"You're mighty right; / am"
"What are you going to send IL there
fort"
ITO get shar pened."
"All the way to Pittsburg to get
S~harpeneds"
"You bet! We've starved our black
smith out; he pulled up stakes the other
day and went to Texas"
"Well, that's q rather novel idea my
friend-sending q pillow SO far to get
s~harpened."
"You're right it is. We used to have
a mill at Punkinvine Creek, but the
owner got too poor to keep it up, and SO
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
rail2"
~ didn't say nothing about gris-w
hain't got nc girls to send. But we get
our flour and meal from st. Louis"
II see you have a hide on your wagon"
ayes; our old COW died last week.
March winds bowed the life out'n her.
Sendin' her hide to Boston to get
tanned"
"All the way to Bostons Is not that
rather expensive, my friendi 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 bein' taxed to build rail
roads 'thout you get the good of 'em?
Used to have a lanyard W at Lick
skillet and shoemaker, too. But they're
kerf1ummuxcd."
"Kerflummuxed what's that2"
ut means, gone up a spout and twixt
you and me, that's mighty nigh the case
with our State"
"When do you expect to get your
leather?"
"Don't expect to Git no leather at all
expect to get shoes, some day, made at
Boston oil thereaDouts."
"Rather a misfortune to lose a milk
cow, my friend"
"NOt % much a misfortune as you
heard it was. Monstrous sight cf shuck.
in and nubinin' a COW, anu milkin' her
night and mOrnin' and gettin' only about
three quarts a day"
"What are you going to do for milk I"
"Send North for it,"
"Scnd North for milk"
"Yes; concentrated milk aud Goshen
butter.r
"Oh! I see the point"
mighty handy things these railroads
make them Yankee fellers do all our
jobs for us nOw-dO our smithin', and
grindin', and t%annin', and milkin', and
churnin,."
81 see you have a bale of cotton"
"Yes, W. so our bottom nickel on cot
ton. Sendin' it up to Massachusetts, 10
get it carded, spun, and wove. Timerl
come when we'll send it there to be
ginned, then we'll be happy. Mon
strous sight of trouble running these
"That would be rather expensive,
sending cotton in seed"
"NO more so than them Western fel.
lows pays when they send corn east aud
get a dollar a bushel and pay six bits
freight. Besides, as 1 said, what is the
use of paying for railroads 'thout We use
the roads! !"
"fou seem to appreciate the advan!a-
ges of railroads"
II think we ought-wc pay enough
for en-"
II reckon you fatten your own pOrk?"
"Well. you reckon wrong. stranger. l
get them Illinoy fellers to do that for
me. It's mighty convenient, too-mon-
strous sight of trouble toting a big
basketful of corn three times a day to
hogs in a pen especially when you
hain't got none to tote it to-"
~ should think So"
"There's one thing lacking though to
make the business complete"
"What's that2"
"They 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 employed in the cot.
ton patch. l was sayin' to my old
the other day, if we Mississippi
folks goto u 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"
"fes, needs shOein'. II he wasn't the
only horse I've got, l and l can't spare
him, I'D send him up where they made
the horse shoes and nails and get him
shod. Can't get such a thing lone in
our parts. Perhaps l can at the depot"
"How do you manage to live in your
parts, my old friend9"