The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-05-06
A Mississippi Scene.

A MfSsIsSsppA cCchc'
The following article, published originally
in this journal several years ago and repro
duced in many papers throughout the country,
was written by S. Newton Berryhill, Esq, OF
Webster county, Miss. 1t is quite as applica-
BILE now, as when it first appeared:
"Halloa, stranger, you seem to be going to
market"
eyes, sir, am
"What are you carrying that pillow along
for?"
"Going to send it to Pittsburg."
"To Pittsburg in Pennsylvania"
"You're mighty right, l am"
s'What are you going to send it there for?"
"To get it sharpened."
"All the way to Pittsburg to get it sh'rp-
sned?''
"You bet! We've starved our blacksmith
out: be pulled up stakes the other day and
went to Texas"
Well, that's rather novel idea, my friend
sending pillow far to get it sharpened.
"Not so novel as yen heard it was. We do
our milling at st. Louis"
"Is that SOP"
"You're right it is. We used to have mill
on Pankinvine creek, but the owner got toe
poor to keepit up, and so we turned to getting
our grinding done at St. Louis
"You don't mean to say you send your grist
all the way to st. Louis by rai?"
ssI didn't say nothing bout gris-we hain't
got no girls to send. But we get our -four and
meal from the mill at St. Louis"
"I see you have hide on your wagon"
dyes; our old COW died last week. March
winds bowed the life out'n her. sendin' her
hide to Boston to get it tanned"
"All the way to Boston? Is not that rather
| expensive, my friend? The freights will eat
the hide up"
.'That's a fact cleaner than the buzzards
did the old critters carcass. But what's the
use bein' taxed to build rail roads 'thout you
| get the good of 'em? Used to have a lanyard
! over at Lickskillet, and a shoemaker, too
But they've kerf1ummuxed."
"K erfummuxed- what's that?''
ait means, gone up spout and 'twixt you
and me, that'e mighty nigh the case with ouI
/ State"
/ "When do you expect to get your leather
''Don't expect to git no leather 1T all ex
! pect TO get shoes some day made at Boston oil
| thereabouts.''
"Rather misfortune to lose milk COW, my
| friend"
"NOt go much misfortune as you heard il
was. Monstrous sight of trouble shuckin' anC
nusbinn' COW, and milkin' her night and
moruin' +, and gittin' only about three quarts
/ day
"what are you going to do for milk"
.fSend North for it.
| "Ssnd North for I.ilk?''
/ eyes; consecra ted miIk and Goshen butter. ,
ooh! / see the point"
"Mighty handy things, these RAILROADS.&C.
make them Yankee iellers do all our jobs fol
us now do our snithin', grindin', and tan
min, and milkin', and churnin'.'
81 see you have bale of cotton"
eyes, go our bottom nickle on cotton
49, - . ah,raa . rIaI
and spun, and wove. Time'll come wheI
we'l send it thar to be ginRed, and then wei
be happy. Monstrous sight of trouble run
| MIN these gins
Chat would be rather ezpen sive, sending
cotton in the seed?'
stNo more than them Western fellers pays
when they send corn East and get dollar
a bushel and pay six bits freight. Besides as
/ said, what's the use of paying railroad taxes
| 'thout used the roads?"
"You seem to appreciate the advantages OF
railroads.
81 think we ought, we pay enough for 'em. .
81 reckon you fatten your own pork"
"Well, you recken wrong, stranger. / get
them Illiny feIers to do that for me It's
| mighty convenient, o-monstrous sight of
trouble totin' big basket of corn three times
a day to hogs in PEN specially when you
hain't got no corn nor no hogs to tote it to. -
81 should think so.''
"There is one thing lacking, though to make
the business complete"
'What's that?
"They oughtto send them hogs ready cook
ed. Cookin' and preparin' wood for cookin'
takes up heap of time that ort by rights to
be employed in the cotton patch. l was sayin'
to my old woman the other day, if we Missis-
sippi folks could get our cookin' and washin'
done up North and sent by Express, we'd be
as happy as effiee- holders
"Your horse in the lead there seems t o be
lame"
"1es; needs shoein.' If he want the only
horse I've got and I can't spare him I'd send
him up where they make the herse shoes an d
nails and get him shod. Can't get such thing
done in oar parts Perhaps can at the depot
Chow on earth do you manage to live in
your parts, my old friend?"
"Why, we raise cotton. Ny road turns of
here, stranger. Gee, Ball. back, Brandy. I'm
glad l seed you, stranger"