Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-11-01
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in your last issue you said you
wished that somebody would send
Ingram of the Tobacco Leaf a head
of cabbage, for he was cabbage hun
CRY. Now, Messrs. Editors, / have
no objection to Mr.. Ingram getting
a cabbage, but you are certainly mis-
taken as to his wants. If you want
to see a real, genuine smile come
over his countenance, and great
tears of JOY rise in his eyes, and wa
ter run down at each corner of his
mouth and drip off like a maple tree
after a hard freeze, just let him get
in smelling distance of a good, fat
mutton on pit barbecuing-then
he will jump up, crack his heels
together, and yell out, SPY golly !!
am bound to have some of that
sheep, bread or no breadW If you
had seen him out on McAdoo, Sat-
urday or two ago, and the way he
Rugged Jake Brown, Squire Smith
and Bob Bigger around, after he
got there, you wouldn't have
thought that he would ever want to
see another cabbage head again.
He don't care for cabbage oh no !
sheep meat is his motto, and sheep
meat he will have if one is killed
and barbecued in striking distance
of him. Why, Geo. Jessup, at Fair
view, says, when Ingram comes in,
that peighborhoOd, he always has
an extra mutton killed for Ingram's
benefit. He says leg of mutton is
nowhere when Ingram sits down
to table.
Migrants description in the Leaf
of the barbecue at Bethlehem on
McAdOo, was well enough-the
clever people, pretty ladies, good
barbecue, Prof. Williams speech
(Which he didn't hear word of,
being too busy coasting around the
pit to hear anything but the smell
CT that muttOn), and l reckon he
thought that Williams would never
get done speaking, for he was
mighty dry when he got there. Bqt
Ii game in good time, and if Ingram
didn't make a hand at that table l
want to see one that did. If / owed
anybody five or six good mutton
eaters, and he didn't take Ingram
for all of them, | wouldn't pay the
debt. / would think he wanted
to swiudle me.
He had a great deal to gay and do
about Billy TURNKEY and DR.. Shelby
eating sop and bread, Well, the
truth of it was, they did make be-
ginning quite moderately, knowing
there was enough for all, but when
Ingram made raid on the first
trays of meat that were brought up,
one would have thought that good
many would have to fall back on
sop and bread. Hgt the good peo-
pie out there knew who was to be
there, and they made preparations
accordingly, and there was enough
for all aud some to spare, so you see
they don't half do things on
McAdoo.
He said when he left there Billy
Ely and Mack Whitfield was beg
ging TURNKEY and Shelby to lets go
home. 1t is true; after dinner was
over they were in no hurry about
they wanted to mix
around with the people and have a
pleasant chat for a while; not SO
with Ingram, but, bee like, as soon
as he got his load he darted for his
hole Up the gum, and that was the
last we saw or heard Of him until
we heard from him through the
Leaf.
Now, Messrs. Editors, word or
two about the people on McAdoo,
and l am done. If you want to find
genuine, good men, good, kind,
old women, pretty, nice
young ladies, and smart, industri-
Gus, gallant young men-if you will
go on McAdOo creek and its neigh
borhood and don't find them, you
need not go anywhere else, for they
are there and no mistake.
Yours truly,