The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-05-25
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BILL ARP rs MAD BECAUSE
THE SOW OPENS GATES.
Atlanta Constitution.


he can do, especially if there is a
gentle pressure behind him which
says, don't stop, keep moving,
here is another little job for you
to do. A farming man may map
out his work for tomorrow ever
so carefully, but it is mighty
hard to work up to it, tor the
first thing he knows the plow
points are too dull or a single tree
breaks in the new ground, or a
nabors hogs, that have got no
pasture but the big road, have
broke through the water gap, and
it takes an hour to run 'em ont
again, for a hog wont 60 out at
the same hole be came in. These
hogs that pester me so come three
quarters Of a mile every day to
peruse my premises, and they
have lived on me all winter, and
I've dog'd 'em pretty bad, but
they come back again next day
and lie round a watching, and
water gaps and gates are no pro-
lection, for they are educated
hogs. Cobe told me to catch one
and mash his tail on a rock, but
it did no good. | can fix a gate
that that old SOW can't root open,
but I'm not going to do it, for she
has no right to put her nose un-
der it and shake it and rock it
and lift it until she gets it open !;
and I'm not going to stake down
my water gap on the lower side
either, for the creek rises rapidly,
and some times in the night, and
brings the rif:raf do~n, and the
gate must be free TO rise with it.
The fact is, nobody has any right
10 keep such hogs unless they
keep 'em at home, and I've borne
with it until patience is exhausted
and 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 off
spring, and when we come back
in the shank of the afternoon the
old SOW and all her shoats were
under the house and had broken
up two hens nests, and when l
made war on her in my wrath
she ac' Lily showed fight and
kumblumoxed at me like the
premises were hers.
THE FENCE LAW AND THE HOGS.
The fence law as it is given
these hogs a pasture in a lane
nearly mile long and open at both
ends, and they have got to forage
on somebody or meat will be
scarce next fall. There is pow
er of work to do now and it looks
like my share Of il is bigger than
usual for one of the boys has gone
to railrosding and another is
puny. Well be is not down in
bed sick but be is not able bodied
enough to do hard work and keep
at it, but just feeble enough to GO
a-fshing 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
eyes look hollow and they com
plain of pains and she is mighty
good doctor, but she knows have
no time to get sick, and so it's Will
liam this and William that, and
| the other day she called me 9
| quarter of a mile of, and when
came a putin and BLOWN she
| said the winder curtain had tel
down and wanted me to .hx 1t
Some more new dirt was wanted
for the flower pots and boxes
and had to bring her sam
pies from seven fence corners
before l got the right kind
and the big old fish geranium'
that don't smell good nor look
pretty had to be divided and se'
out in the ground, and the scuppen
| dine vine had to have an arbol
built and two more coops for tht
little chickens that we're Matching
out had to be fixed up, and the
newborn ducks had to have theii
tails cut off and the peas were K
stick and the little chaps are al
ways saying papa this and pap'
that, and yesterday ] had to TAX
q basket and digging hoe and g
way down in the meadow, and OF
the creek, and dig up lilies, ap'
violets, and all sorts of wild flow
ers for them to plant in their littl
flower garden, and they had t
have hens eggs, and pigeon egg