Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1883-10-03

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ed off his coat, and let his wife climb
out over the wheel, and yelled to the
hired girl TO bring out the milk pail,
and told me 10 fly around and unhar-
ness the horse, and throw down lot
of hay for all the work ANIMALS, and
then told me TO run down 10 the pas
ture field aud drive up lot of cows.
The pasture was half a mile away, and
the cows were scattered around in the
woods, and the mosquitoes were thick,
and l got all covered with mud and
burrs, and stung with thistles, and
when got the cattle near to the house
the old deacon yelled 10 me that l was
slower than molasses IN the winter,
and then l took a club and tried TO
hurry the cows, and he yelled to me to
stop hurryiug, cause l would retard
the flow OF milk. BY gosh l was mad.
l asked for mosquito bar TO put over
me next time l went after the cows,
and the people all laughed at me, and
whe l sat down On the fence to scrape
the mod off my Sunday pants the dea-
con yelled like lie does Ia the revival,
only be said. Come, come, procrastina.
ton is the thief of time. You get up
and hump yourself and 60 and feed the
pigs Ho was so blame mean that l
could not help throwing a burr. dock
bur against tie side Of the COW he was
milking, and it struck her right in the
flank on the other side from where the
deacon was. Well, you'd a dide to
see the cow jump up and blat. All
four Of her feet were off the ground at
time, and guess most of them hit
the deacon on his sunday vest, and the
rest bit the milk pail, and the COW
backed against the fence and beliered,
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
lust as went over the fence TO feed
the pigs. l didn't know deacon
could talk so sassy at a COW and come
so near swearing without actually say
ing cuss words. Well, l lugged swill
until | was homesick to stomach, and
then l had 10 clean of horses and 90
to the nelghbors about a mile away to
borrow a lot of rakes 10 use The hext
day. 1 was so tired l almost cried,
and then | had to draw two barrels of
water with a we'll bucket 10 cleanse for
Washing The next day, and by that time
WANTED to die. twas most Q o'clock,
and l began 10 think about supper
when the deacon said all they had was
bread and milk for Supper sunday night
and I rasseled with tin basin ofskim-
milk and some old back number bread.
and wanted 10 60 to bed, but the dea-
con wanted TO know if l was heather
enough to want to 90 to bed without
evening prayers. There was one thing
| was less mashed on than evening
bout fhot ,innfn hDf I ha1
to take a prayer half hour long on top
Of that skim. milk, and | guess it curdl-
ed the milk, for hadn't been in bed
more than halfa hour before 1 had tn e
worst collie boy ever had, and thought
| should die all alone up in that garret,
oD the floor, with nothing to make my
last hours pleasant but with some rats
playing with ears of seed corn on the
floor, ahd mice ruuulng through some
dry pea pods. But, oh, how fferent
The deacon talked in the evening devo-
tions from what he did whe n the COW
was galloplng on him in the barn yard.
Well, I got through the collie and was
Just getting to sleep when the deacon
yelled for me 10 get up aud hustle
down stairs. l thought maybe the house
was on fire, cause l smelled smoke.
and l got into my trousers and came
downstairs on ajump, yelling fire,
when the deacon grabbed me and tod
me 10 get down on my knees, and be-
fore l knew i: he was into the morn
ing devotions, and then he said amen
and jumped up and said for US 10 fire
breakfast into US quick and ge. to work
doing the chores. l looked at the clock
and it was only three o'clock 10 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 8 o'clock in the morning
till zine at night, pitching hay, driving
reaper, raking aud binding, Shocki 9
wheat, hoeing corn, and everything,
and | never got kind word. Ispoiled |
my clothes, and l think another week
would make pirate ofme
Now you take these cabbages and
give me ninety cents, and | will goI
home aud borrow ten ceuls to mike up
the dollar. and send my chum back with
the horse and wagon aud my resigna
ton. | was not cut out for farmer.
Talk about fishing, the only fish saw
was salt white fish we had for breakfast
one morning, which was salted by Noah,
in the ark and while the grocery man
was unloading the cabbages the boy
went out TO look for his chum, aud later
the two boys were seen driving of to-
ward the farm with two fish-poles
sticking out of the hind end Of the
wagon.-Peck'S Sun. ftr
A Widow with nine Children
May have as much trouble with them
as did the old woman who lived In