The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-08-26

ling of the mill, having induced one
to believe there were twenty there at
least. Two or three sacks, probably
six, ono of them as full as it left New
Orleans, stood or lay around, ana the
little mill was cracking corn to the
tune of Old Hundred. ! have never
seen just such mill in point of speed,
or rather the want of it, ami expect to
bc dead before its companion crosses
my path.
Looking at the toiling rocks, l OBJ
served to the gentleman in attendance
not Mr.. Gregory, I learned-that tho
His good humored reply was drowned
by the racket occasioned by the fall of
two gains at once. This gentleman
was dressed in II Shirt, pants and hat
pompadour, the balance OF his apparel,
feet included, being on the indcpen-
dent American style. The grains of
corn, like those the locusts removed,
as a fact feel one by ono and were
easily counted, except when three or
four fell together, and this aggregation
Of grains, l found accounted for the
difference in speed had noticed before
getting up stairs.
In Il purely cOntemplative mood, RS
ono must be in mill who has not
leather lungs, l stood watching and
counting the grains as they fell, and
of course had IaWthorne's story and
the Hopper story recalled to mind
when ut length my eyes fell to the meal
spout There was Il big box to receive
the meal and Il big paddle to lake it
away, and there were enormous and
yawning sacks to receive it. Tho
grains had seen fall, appeared to have
found some other exit, or to have been
ground into impalrahle powder, such
as chemists find in dramatically acale.
chests, so slow did the meal come out
1t appeared to exu,le, like Precipitation
and after bit there would be I; sinai
ant-hill of it which the miller would
dexterioualy pick mp on tho paddle ant
sample by feeling and then proudly
push il to the moIo hill at the end OF
the box. There is u rooster just then
| up the meal faster than saw it turned,
| out. / was told, however, that the
mill Wo,ild grind much faster and that
the slow speed (Which L have not mis-
represcntetl) was attributable to tho
very low stage of the water consequent
II Il
are great conveniences to a number OF
farmers, and trust Mr.. Gregory will
| reap the reward due to the energy and
industry displayed by his works.
| We left tho mill after Il brief inspec.
ton, crossing the creek on horse back
rather than sscoon it'' along sill, tho
usual route, to the spring which :
departing guest, tired out waiting fol
his meal, was kind enough to show us
IIc probably returned the next day
or more probably tho day after that
The big full sack of corn occasionctl
mo some mental disquictudo for the
remainder of the day and l have since,
changing Bulwcr's tense, been asking
myself, what did he do with it?
| The cook calls me TO dinner and tho
little clock on tho mantcl warns me
l. have no time to loose to catch tho
daily mail passing on the opposite
side OF the river, at I-ogtown, fol
Monroe. The little clock reminds nae
too, of other things, and particularly
of the kind familiar face l was want t
wherever l turn-now in its temporary
resting place Mt Monroe. 1t is not $,
soon, perhaps, wo all shall he forgot, q
poor Rip complains with the lips o
Joe Jefferson, "whrn we are gone"
@. w. NJ.
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