The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-09-26
Immersed In the Memory of the Olden
Time.

mother excepted, and the fact is | knew
where he was and what he was dom a
heap OF times when she didn't, lie was
busy liIlIc GUS ~ ever you seed and
could run faster and jump further and
hoIlcr louder and turn more sumner
scls than any boy in the town. lived
ON one side Of the street and he on the
other, and when our mothers didcnt
want us ~ churn or pick up chips or
tote water or nurse the baby we WIS a
IrOlCkin' together. You see we was all
poor folks then, and VIC had poor folks
ways and we've got 'cm yet 10 some cx.
tent, Tor if colt is a scrub, he's gOin'
TO show il as long rs he lives, no matter
how much you curry him or how high
you feed him. We used tOplay "Jacky
my ring alp round the courthouse
of moonshiny nights, and pick chinka-
pins, and top chestnut trees, and Lustcr
was always too smart 10 cut the limb of
bcLwixt him and the tree, ! wonder if he
has got that little Ratchet yet
said we was all poor but our folks
wascnt rs poor rs Lustcr's. We had a
store and that set rs up right smartly,
The fact il we ranked next to the law
ycrs and doctors, and could put on right
smart airs when it was necessary.
never saw boy whose daddy had 4
store that didcHt attach more importance
70 II than was bccOmln', and no matter
how much the other boys got the ad-
vantage Of him he could look Ikea little
dog cnrin' his tail and say, My pa has
got store,' Well, Eve thought u heap
over it, and in my opinion store is a
risky institution 10 raise n family on
for it's human natur TO want power Of
things and if they are in the store they
are bound to have 'cm - for it looks 80
much like they didcnt cost anything,
and if they did you don't have to pay
no one hundred per cent, profit to git
'cm, and 50 the family bill runs away up
yondcr, and the wife aud children climb
little higher and IlItlc higher in the
world, and suddenly the old dog irons
ut out of the fireplace in the big room,
and pair Of brass ones git in and be-
fore long that cnlIs for . store rug with
the plcktcr Of Il dog on it, and by and
by the rug calls for a store carpet, and
then comes new curtains with brass tops
and aUIy and u big giIJ-cdgcd lookin'
glass and 80 forth and 20 on ct sclcra
ditto. ItaIl slips along on the old man
so easy he don't know it, and if he does
he can't hardly help himself, and if he
can these little Improvements are such
promoters Of domestic tranquility he
don't want to, and that's whats the
matter why ninety out Of one hundred
merchants fail, IT, home consumption
and family pride mighty little sin,
with no malice in 'cm but they will
cause = collapse after n while. IvC
noticed these Prcsbytcrians long time,
for they are mighty nigh all merchants,
and their wives can beat the world a
kccpu' house and scttin' Il good table,
and the cook book amt much further
of than the Bible, and they memorizc il
Ill the same rs the cntcchism and 1t
don't matter what cGgs cost thcy'II have !
en-, nor whether money is tight or loose |
they We got u linen tabIc-clOth some |
where and napkins and silver spoons
and forks and chany ware, and if com
pany comes they'll say grace over ~
good ytiIeB ni is in the world break or
no break. Won't they? Financially con.
odcrcd it j. a risky thing for q young |
and hopeful merchant to marry Pres |
bytcriau gal, tell you, but if he does
hes got mighty good hacker to cheer
him up and comfort him in misfortune;
no mistake about that, is there?
INT was Just rumnatlu' along. | |
started TO say that lustcr'4 folks was
poor-very poor, They didcnt havcan
goods aud cha,tIcs, lands and lcncments |
tospcak Of, but they had hope, and cour-
age aud industry, and good name, and !
never told lies nanybody nor stole any
thing that is, until our George got at it |
4 lew years ago akkordln' to the indie
pendent records, and have thought
thatil the old lady could be- made to be-.
'lcvc it she'd woIlop him now, rs old rs
he Is, aud then lay down and die oxen.
hearted.
Well, youscc we boys had to go by old
Ike Andecr's cotton patch on the way to
'chool, and one day we pccpcd through
.hc crack Of the fence and pcruscd some
lynn around and we
'h"'Bh' we W"''ln jest grt over easy and
see '., now p'H In'y was ana th''mp en- n
''''', "h'y I'M ana nothing more" Bul
you sec 'n''cr ne wouIdcnt 90, Tor he
,,ld his mother wOudcnt like it, and 50
ne rest OF us made the venture, and shore
mutt old Ike wa a waiChin' of NJ all the
',"' ',o"' MS G'' mouse Wlndrr, ana he
'iPP'" "'o'n" ah Grahbtd rs before we
.ou'u wy Jack ''onlIH"n' ana then h"
,''L , Us ''nnnE 10 o'd rat, inc
'"'",l "'I ON 'at whipped US AL 5
"u"'' "".'' IKE was 7a,l',ed, ana ! ten :
'ou we .n''e poyS y'',e" ama|ln', but
'u1'e, nc"' "Fcnr" ms mouth nor
n'H 'y'S, "n.t" ON iat S,ld was
',o "n',Pc'i'i' SP'r'l, ana lie whipped
w, "'' Wv; n.'"'r, anu t''a' cVchlh he
Wv us WI III 10 pray 'Or us, Tor ne WASa Il