The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-04-27
Bill Arp Complains.

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do, especially if there is gentle pressur
behind him which says, don't stop, kee
moving, here is another little job fc
you tode.k A farming man may map OF
his work for tomorrow ever SO CAREFUL.
but it is mighty hard to work up TO it, fo
he first thing he knows the plow point
are too dull or asiDgle-tree breaks IN th
new ground, or neighbors hogs, tha
have got no pasture but the big road
have broke through the water gap, and
takes an hour to run 'em out again, for
hog wont go out at the same hole h
came in. These hogs that poster me g
come three quarters of mile every da.
TO perusc my premises, and they hav
lived on me all winter, and I've dog'd en-
pretty bad, but they come back ngail
next day and lie round a.watching, ant
water gaps and gates are no protection
for they are educated hogs. Cobc tolt
me to catch one, mash his tail on rock
but it did no good. can iix gate tha
that old SOW can't root open, but Pm no
going TO do it, for she has no right 10 put
her nose under it and shake it and rock
it and lift it until she gets 1t OPEN and
I'm not going to stake down my wa
ter gap on the lower side either, for the
creek rises rapidly, aud some times in
the night. and brings the rif-raf dom, and
the gate must be free to rise with it. The
fact is, nobody has any right 70 keep such
hogs unless they keep en- at home, and
I'vc borne with it until patience is ex-
hausted e1d I'll have to stand by my
arms. Why, last Sunday we all shut up
the house and went up to spend the day
with our married ofsprings, and when
we come back in the slianl; of the after
noon the old SOW and all her shoats were
under the house and had broke up two
hens nests, and when made war on her
in my wrath she actually showed fight
and kumbumoxd at me like the premises
were hers.
TIE FENCE LAW And TIE HOGS.
The fence law as it is gives thesohogs g
pasture in o lane nearly mile long and
open at both ends. and they have got to
forage on somebody or meat will he scarce
next fell. There is n power of work to
do now and it looks like my share Of it,
it bigger than usual for one of the boys
has gone to railroading and another is
puny.,, Well he is not down in bed sick
but he is not nble-b bodied enough TO do
hard work and keep at it. but just feeble
enough to 60 fishing and set on the
bank and get the biggest bites and catch
the smallest fish in the creek. Mrs. Arp
is mighty particular about her children
when their ,yes look hollow and they
complain of pains, and she Is a mighty
good doctor, but she knows | have no
time to get sick, and so it's William this
and William that, and the other day she
called me n quarter of mile of, and
when came n putin and BLOWN she
said the winder curtain had fell down
and wanted inc TO fix it, Some more new
dirt was wanted. for the flower, pots and
boxes, and I hatlsto bring hlv samples
from scyenfence corncn before got the
right kind, and the big old fish geraniums
that don't smell good nor look pretty had
to be divided and set out in the ground,
and The scuppcndine vine had to have an
arbor built and two more coops !or the
little chickens that were aching out
Ind to be fixed up, and Tie now horn
ducks had to have their tails cut off and
the peas were to stick and the liltle chaps
are always saying papa this auL papa
that, aud yesterday had to take bas-
kct and digging hoe and go way down
in the meadow, aud on the creek, and dig
up lilies, ard violets. and all sorts of
wild flowers for them to plant in their
little flower garden, and they had to have
hens eggs and pigeon eggs blowed out
to paint and dye and fix up for Easter,
and had to make 'em draft-board, and
saw spools in two for draft men, and dye
half Of 'em with ink, and it's some new
thing every day 10 do, and it is good
thing for q family to have willing horse
to work in any sort of harness, and
Though say it myself I'm that sort Of n
horse, and think il suits me, for it is :
va.ygated labor and less rlonotoAy in it
than allday work mt one thing, and it
changes the muscles aud let's one set rest
while another set is Mt work, and so n
man don't get tired at all unless he wants
to. / thought was going to dodge the
potato slip business this year. but had to
60 Mt it, and feel tonight like was n
hundred years old in the back; but Mrs
Arp got me up. good supper, for, she
knew I'd come grunting, and besides
brought her some swcetshrubs and white
honeysuckles from the woods, and these
were her favorite in the days of auld lang
syne, and yesterday cleaned out the old
rubbish in the flower-pit for her. for she
suid she knew there was Il snake in there
somewhere, and dident find the snake
but found two eggs in nest and she
wasent right sure they wascnt snake eggs
until the. old hen como caekling out OF
there this morning z ie-t ;it i
MRS. ARps WORK.
But my work don't compare with Ler'.
by no means for there's an eyerlastiu
sight of sewing aud patching aud darn.
ing going on all the time and she neye,
gets done and every weeks washing is
to look over and sort out ard the missing
buttons to sew. on and the rents To- close
up and the churning is to do, and some.
times the dasher goes fippity flop for two
hours jefore the butter will come, and
now she is teaching 5thef little chaps td
write little letters, and when they getinto
mischief aud have to come to hendquar.
ters, they como little the highest Of
gettlnga whippin of any children in the
void, only they don't quite get it, and
l haven't kept any account, but my opin
ion is that not less than 100 whippin,
have been. promised 'em, and are now due
and unpaids IL overheard a voice say The
other day, "now, Carl, will whip you
for that" ard 1 echoed in gentle accents
"about what time," but Carl got it on q
creditlas usiial. N1s gaiaI9 Res
Nabor Dobbins had eleven sheep killed
last Sunday by the dogs. I bring mine
up to the fold every night, but still I'm
on the expectation all the tirne. ard still
wonder it there is no remedy ant never
will be for these sort Of disasters-these
little troubles that exasperate man and
make him grow old before his time. Life ii
full Of en- and recon they are sent upon
us to make us get tired of life and the
better to fit and prepare us for HEAVIER