Connecticut western news., 1881-08-03
Texas Letter,

ED. NEWS The letter from Will Brewster | in the NEWS of May 2Sth, has set me to won. | dering why more young men who Ego Vest | to "grow up with the country" do not turn
 their attention to Texas. While Dakota IS un- doubtedly fine country, still, Texas is finer | for we can raise everything here that they car | there, besides some things that they cannot | among others, cotton and the more delicate | fruits. And what 8 difference in the climate Half the year there they are ice-bound, while | laud would call no winter, only "snug fall ! weather Graham mush might do very well
 for fifty or sixty meals, for it is both healthful | and strengthening, but there must be same- | ness about it for steady diet, that would
 cause a small quantity to go long way, and
 make fellow wish he had some of the native Texans "cawn bread" "hawg meat" and
 coffee. And right here, word in praise of corn bread, Made of southern white meal stirred into quantity of rich butter milk, the acldity of which has been corrected by a little soda, it makes bread fit for the gods, or any one else. The old slave owners found from experience that nothing they could feed their hands on gave as good satisfaction to all par- ties concerned as corn bread and bacon, and there are hundreds of blacks yet, who ask for nothing better, and are perfectly happy with nothing else to eat. They gave each full hand peck of meal and four pounds of bacon every Saturday. full hand was boy or girl that make what they call plain corn bread, but some people call it rights and lefts. They put some water into wooden bowl, salt it a little, and stir in corn meal until it is as thick as chicken feed, then stick their old black paw into the mass like steam shovel into a sand bank, and bring out handful; this they toss from one hand to the other till it is the right consistency and shape, and then slap it down into the left hand corner of their bake kettle with the right hand, then another handful in the same way, into the right hand corner with the left hand, and so on till the dough is made up The bread is always good, whether it is because it absorbs inst the right amount of "nigger,' or for some other reason.
 s'De way da bake de hoe cake,
 Ole Varginny neber tire ;
 Da put de dough upon de foot,
 An hole de foot to de fire"
 And now a little upon subject that will in. terest certain class of the readers of the NEWS more than anything Ihave ever written. Texas would be a perfect paradise for bird hunters. Ducks, quail, woodcock, blower, and others that do not know the names of, are plenty during the fall and winter months. A large ooVey of quail lived all winter near our house, and were almost as tame as chickens they are with their first broods now, and I think I could find dozen pair in an hours time. No one in this country ever hunts any kind of birds smaller than duck. They will occasionally shoot into a covey of quail if they have good chance, but they must be setting on the ground no one ever shoots at any thing on the wing, unless 1t is now and then at aa"r that should hArpperi :sS run past. There are not as many deer here as in East Texas, but more turkeys. Iknow of five hav- ing been shot in the Crab-apple Valley-where we liye-the past spring there is an old hen with chicks that I have seen lately. There are three kinds of squirrels, the fox, the cat, and the grey. With good dog that under stands his business, you can get back load in half day. There is one thing, and only one, that should consider a greater honor than to kill turkey, and that is to shoot 8 cougar. An old Indian said the deer looks up and sees some- me see,' and you creep up and shoot him. | The turkey looks up and sees something, and | says, "there is an Indian, quit, quit" Iknow | of four deer having been shot in this valley | this spring; three of them were killed by a