The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1883-09-29
Md, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1888.

burrdock burr against the side OF III,
COW he was milking, and il struck hel
right in the flank on the other side from
where the deacon wis. Well, you'd {
died to see the COW jump up and blat
All four of her feet were of the ground
at a time, and guess most OF them hi
the deacon on his Sunday vest, and the
rest hit the milk pail, and the COW
backed against the fence and bcllered,
and the deacon was all covered with
milk and COW hair, and he got up and
throwcd the three legged stool at the
COW and hit her on the horn and il
glanced of and hit me on the pants
just rs went over the fence to feed the
pigs. didn't know a deacon could
talk so sassy at a COW, and come SO
near swearing without actually saying
cuss words. Well, lugged swill until
| was homesick to my stomach, and
then | had to clean off horses, and 20
to the neighbors about a mile away to
borrow lot of rakes to use the next
day. was so tired l almost cried,
and then had to draw two barrels oi
water with we'll bucket, to cleanse for
washing the next day, and by that
time ! wanted TO die. II was mos,
nine O'Clock, and began to think
abou, supper, when the deacon said all
they had was bread and milk for sup.
per Sunday night, and | rasseled with a
basin Of skim milk, and some old back
number bread, and wanted 10 go to
ho1 hs,N ha e..1
| was hcathen enough to want to go to
bed without evening prayers. There
was no one thing was less mashed on
than evening prayers about that minute,
but had to take prayer half an hour
long on top Of that skim milk, and !
guess it curdled the milk, for | hadn',
been in bed more than half an hour be.
fore had the worst collie 4 boy ever
had, and thought | should die all
alone up in that garrett, on the floor,
with nothing TO make my last hours
pleasant hut some rats playing with
ears OF seed corn on the floor, and mice
running through some dry pea pods
But, o, how different the deacon talk
cd in the evening dcvotions from wha,
he did when the COW was galloping on
him in the barn yard. Well, go,
through the collie and was just getting
to sleep when the deacon yelled for me
to get up and hustle down stairs. |
thought may be the house was on fire,
cause smclled smoke, and got into
my trousers and came down stairs on a
jump yelling fire. when the deacon
grabbed me and told me to get down
on my knees, and before | knew il he
was into the morning devotions, and
then he said "amen" and jumped up
and said for us to fire breakfast into us
quick and get to work doing the chores.
l looked at the clock and it was just
three O'Clock in the morning, just the
time pa comes home and goes to bed
in town, when he is running political
campaign. Well, sir, | had to jump
from one thing to another from three
o'clock in the morning till nine al
night, pitching hay, driving.a reaper,
raking and binding, shocking wheat
hoeing corn, and everything, and
never got kind word. / spoiled m,
clothes, and think another week woulC
make pirate of me. But during it al
had the advantage Of a pious example
| tell you, you think more of such :
man as the deacon if you don't worl
for him, but only see him when h.
comes to town, and you hear him sing
Heaven is my Home, through his nose
He even is farther from his home thar
any place | ever heard of. He would
be good mate on Mississippi river
steamboat if he could swear, and
guess he could soon learn. Now, you
take these cabbagcs and give me ninety
cents, and will go home and borrow
ten cents to make up the dollar, and
send my chum back with the horse and
wagon and my resignation. | was moi
cut out for farmer. Talk about fish.
ing, the only fish saw was salt white
fish we had for breakfast one morning,
which was salted by Noah, in the ark, u
and while the grocery man was unload
ing the cabbagcs the boy went offto look
for his chum, and later the two boy:
were seen driving Off towards the farm
with two fish poles sticking out Of the
hind end Of the wagon.
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