The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-04-10

hAtl huibl buihE ~ WllNt tnOlL
and make up oA6s and poems. The
golden grain, the manly rear ers,
the struttin' sheaves, the song OF
the harvesters, and purity Miss
Ruth cuquettin' around the fields
OF old man Boaz, and show iokin'
did they drive their team afieid," is
all sweet and nice enough To a man
up a tree with an umbrcl; but IL
them poets had to tie wheat half a
day ia June sun their sentimen-
tally would hencelorth seek anoth-
er suhjeck.
tried swingin' life cradle awhile
hut somehow or somehow else /
couldn't exactly get the lick. It.
wasent the kind of a cradle I've
been used TO, and I'm too old n hog
to learn new tricks now. The
s~ing OF the reapers cradle is
very peculiar motion very regular
IN It's irregularity, aud goes Tor the
weeds and bushes and briars and
he wheat all tie same. Somehow
br other II reminds me OF an indie.
pendent candidate a side wipin'
around 70 get oils in a twlstiiied
,ay. Well like iudcpendrnce,snn
that's why l like farmin'-nobody
u look 10 for lvia' but Prof.
lence. / ike 10 see man indie
pendent in opinion, and in action,
too, and Ii he suck seeds 10 shows
hat there is gum in him, hut il
a. LII.
long or too far Ia politics or reli-
gion. Bunaparte and Bvecher tried
{, and AZ they cuuldu't keep IL up.
nobody can't. Everybody has GOT
90 fall into line sometime. For "A
while all sorts of people will pat an
independent on the back aud say,
go il, my larkey-bully Tor you;'
nut before long they'll begin %
think over what "A good thing he's
got, and then human nature, which
YOU know is as mean as the devil,
wlll crop out, aud the next time
lhey'il drop him 80 easy he won't
know il. On the whole, he asiir
"a man had better 20 alung
.moothly win his party or his
'hutch or his coparJners, AS The
case may be.
General Black, says he to me,
says be:
bill, as you are goin' 10 farmin',
let me give yoU piece OF advice:
Don't go of on new lines. but watch
your neighbors, and do purity much
AS they do"
Well, he didn't mean If the ma
bors went barfooted in the summer
time and slept in a shirt, washed
theirfeet in a skillet aud their iace in
the horse troff, and their darters
worked in the field and dipped
snuff, we must do so too, by no
means. But he meant to say that
The kind of farmin' that is sustain
ed by the majority of farmers was
nifty apt to oe the best.
Jesse with gettin onls-the best
way is the old way. 1t may be,
however, that Providenees does
raise up a man as an instrument TO
reform society, but the instrument
is very likely to think he is dom il
all on his own hook; and he'll keep
on reforming till the millennium IL
the people will let him. think IL
would be well enough for him TO
report progress some time, and
maybe the good Lord would let his
servant depart in peace. But you
let n feller git taste Of Washing
ton, and it does look impossible 20
900, 10 o,;t bs,,, N yatg from ghara
Il will stand for recollection" or
course he will; but IL does seem TO
ne that it / had held a rotation
,flice right straight along for forty
ears / would hunt the shade Of
Liberty Hall and quit Why, there's
orty men IN that district been pa
iently watin' twenty years for his
nance, and he's now proposin' to
,uLlive 'cm all and himself too
,'pose he does want % die 10 har-
less, what's that 10 Berry HouckY
There's some other gentlemen wor
by and well qualified. who would
axe the gears kindly. and work in
m. too. But il bad "A horse that
,ore out his breachin' hollin'
ack goin' up hill. and hadn't pull
4 nary pound in seventeen years,
e wouldn't die 10 my harnes,
hore. He mout hunt anoihcr wag-
D. I've no idee Of toadyin' a man
no toadis everybody and every
hing l don't like from patent medi-
inc down TO Gineral Grant; aud
here's a heap Of folks my way OF
linkin' Every time ] think about
/ hear myself exclaimin', Lime
ut-neXtp You're.
BILL ARR