The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-10
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A Mississippi Scene.

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going to market?"
'Yes, sir, am.
"What are you carrying that plow
along for?"
Going to send it to Pittsburg."
"To Pittsburg III Pennsylvania
you're mighty right, / am"
"What are you going to send it there
for?"
"ro get it sharpened."
can the way to Pittsburg to get it
sharpened?'
"You betl We've starved our black
smith ont; he pulled up stakes the 9th
er day and went to Texas"
"Well. that's rather novel idea, my
friend--sending plow 80 far to get it
sharpened."
"Not so novel as you heard it was.
We do our milling at ST. Louis
is that SOP"
"You' re right it is. We used to have
mill on Punkinvine creek, but the
owner got too poor to keep it up, and
80 we turned to getting our grinding
done at st. Lonis."
You don't mean to say you send
your 9rist all the way to st. Louis by
rail?"
81 didn't say nothing bout gris-we
hain't got no girls to send. But We get
our -four and meal from the mill at ST.
Louis"
Il see you have hide on your wag
on"
"Yes our old COW died last week.
March winds blowed the life out'n her.
Sendin' her hide to Boston to get it
| tanned"
"All the way to Boston? Is not that
rather expensive, my friend? The
freights will eat the hide up
"That's fact-ceaner than the buz>
yards did the old critters carcass. But
what's the use beip' taxed to build rail-
roads 'thout you get the good Of EN-?
| Used to have a lanyard over at Lick
skillet, and shoemaker, too. But
they've kerflummuxed.
"kerhummuxed-wha that?"
at means, gone up a spout-and
'twiXt YOU and me, that's mighty nigh
the case with onr State"
"When do you expect to get your
leather"
"Don't expect to sit no leather at all
expect to get shoes some day made at
Boston or thareahouts.
Rather a misfortune 10 lose milk
COW, my friend"
mot so much misfortune as you
! heard it was Monstrous sight of
tro,,bIe ahIckin' and nubbinn' COW,
and lniikin hcr night aud mornin' and
gittin' only about three quarts day. :
"What are you going to 90 for milk"
"!s;rnl North for it. =
send North for milk"
! "les; eonsecrated milk and Goshen
butter"
"Oh! see the point
mighty handy things, these rail
roads-make them Yankee felers do all
our Jobs for us now, the blacksmithin',
grindin', and tanuin and milkin', and
churnin."
II see you have a bale of cotton"
"Sendin't it up to Massachusetts to
get carded, and spun and wove. Timell
come when we'll send it thar to be
ginned, and then We'll be happy.
Monstrous sight OF trouble runnin
these gins"
THAT would be rather expensive,
sending cotton i'll the seed?'
'No more so than them Western fell
lers pays when they send corn East
and get a dollar a bushel and pay six
bits freight Besides, as l said, what's
the use of paying railroad taxes 'thout
we used the roads?'
You seem to appreciate the advan-
tages of railroads."
Il thinl, wo ouglt-we pay enough
for EN-"
II reckon you fatten your own pork?'
well, you reckon wrong, stranger.
I get them Illinoy fellers to do that for
me. It's mighty convenient, too
monstrous sight of trouble totin' big
, basket of corn three times day to
hogs in q PEN specially when you
hain't got no corn nor no hogs to tote
it to-"
Il should think So"
"There is one thing lacking, though,
, to make the business complete.
Whats that?"
"They ought to send them hogs
ready cooked. Cookin' and preparin'
wood for cookin' takes up heap of
time that ort by rights to be employed
in the cotton patch. I was sayin' to
my old woman the other day, if we
Mississippi folks could get our cookin'
and washin' done up North and sent by
express, we'd be as happy as office
holders.
"Your horse there in tho lead seems
to be lame"
; Eyes, needs shoein'. If he want
the only horse I've got, aud ! can't
spare him, I'd send him up where they
make the horse shoes and nails and get
him shod. Can't get such thing
done in our parts. Perhaps ] can at
the depot"
"How on earth do You manage to live
in your parts, my old friend?"
"Why, We raise cotton. My road
turns off here, stranger. Gee. Ball
back, Brandy. I'm glad l seed You,
stranger.
An Englishman devised trick that
beats anything of Yankee invention in