The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-09-15

10 me that / was slower aau no
lases in the winter. and then 1 tool
a club and tried 20 hurry the COWS.
and he yelled at ME 90 stop hurry.
ing, cause ! wou,d lotaid the fow
Of milk. BY gosh T ras mad
asked for q mosquito bar To- pu over
me next time ! went ,i or the cows
and the people all laughed at me,
and when / sat down on the fence
to scr.pe the mud 81 my Sunday
pan. I'm deacon yelled Ike lac
doe IN the revival, only he said
Come, come, procrastiuaiton is
the thief of tnuo You get up and
hump yourselfand r. iaea Tic pigs
He was so darn meaa .uatI c3u
not help throwing a bd,duck oui
against the side of the COW ne ws-
milking, and it struck her rieht on
the flank on the other side from
where the deacon was. Well you
wonld have dide to see the COW
jump up and blat. All four of her
feet were off the ground at a time,
and | guess most of them hit the
deacon on his Sunday vest, and
the rest hit the the milk pail, and
the COW backed against the fence
belleree, and the deacon was all
covered with milk and cow hair
and he got up and throwed the
three-legged stool at the COW and
hit her on the horn and it glanced
off and hit me on the pants Just as
| went over the fence to teed the
pigs. l didn't know a deacon
could talk SO sassy to a cow, and
come 80 near swearing without act
uall ysaying cuss words. Well, |
lugged swill until | was homesick
to my stomach, and then | had to
clean off horses, and go to the
neighbors about a mile away to
borrow a lot of rakes to use the
next day. l was SO tired | almost
cried, and then | had to draw two
barrels of water with well bucket
TO cleanse for washing the next
day, and by hat time | wanted to
die. 1t was most nine O'Clock, and
| began to think about supper,
when the deacon said all they had
was bread and milk on Sunday
night, and l rasseled with a TN
basin of skim milk, and some old
back number bread, and wanted
to go to bed, but the deacon want
ed to know if | was heather enuff
to want to 60 to bed without even
ing prayers. There was no one
thing | was less mashed on than
evening prayer about ,hat minute,
but | had to take a prayer half an
hour long on top Of that skim milk,
and ! guess itcurdled ti- mix for
| hadn't been in bed more ,t,sp
hait an hour before haa tna @olst.
colo t boy ever had, and 5uoJ-ut.
/ should die all H!one 1p I'M 4e gar
ret, on the floor, with nothing 20.
make my last hours pleasant bUt
some rats playing with cars OF corn
on the floor, and mice rambling
through some dry pea pods. But,
Q, how different the deacon talked
III the evening devouous, from
what ne dill when the COW wa6 gal
on him in tho Darn yard
Well, ! got through the cole and
was Just getting 10 sleep when the
deacon yelled for me to got up and
hustle dow stars l tloaEhtmny
be the house vas % FIRE 'c2nsc
smclled smoke, a0d I CT oy roy
sers and came down sFairs on a
Jump yelling fire, when the dea
con grabbed me and told me 10 get
down on my knees, and before J
knew it, he was into the morning
devotions, and then he said amen
and said for us to fire breakfast in
to us quick and get to work doing
the chores. | looked at the clock
and it was just three o'clock III the
morning, just the ume pa comes
home and goes to bed in town,
when he is running a political can
Well, sir, l had to Jump
one thing to another from
three o'clock in the morning, until
nine at night, pitching hay, driv-
in reaper, raking and binding,
shocking wheat, hoeing corn, and
everything, and | never got a kind
word. l spoiled my clothes, and |
another week would make a
of me. But during it al /
had the example. l had the ad
vantage of a pions example.
tell you, you think more of such a
man as the deacon if you don't
work for him, but only see mu
when he comes to town. and YOU
hear him sing Heaven is my