The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-11-22
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| WV, !oh niuNchl Say auhItCu, Tor you
mean adapted" We'll, reckon so,''
say he. Everything is adapted. Ev
erything tits to everything There IL
that houn' dog n runnin' that rabbit and
the dog is adopted to the rabbit and the
rabbit is adopted to The dog. One wa.
made for the tothcr to run. II there
wasent any rabbits their wonl,lcnt he any
houn' dogs. Boys is adopted to squirrels.
| II there wasen, any boys there wouldcnt
be any squirrels. If there wascnt any
chickens there wouldent be any hawks.
for hawks is adopted to chickens, and ii
there wasent any chickens ari birds
there wonldent be any bugs anu worms ;
and the bugs and worms is adopted TO
the leaves and vegetables, and there is
always enough left Of everything for seed
and for white folks to live on. liogs is
adopted to acorns, and if there wasent
any hogs there wouldcnt be more than
eight or ten acorns on n tree Just enough
for seed and hogs is adopted TO folks,
aud II there wasent any folks there
wouldcnt be any hogs. There wouldcnt
be any use for 'em. I'll tell you, major,
everything was fixed up about right rs
shore as you are born, and most every.
thing was fixed up for us. Hogs has got
sausage meat "nd tripe and crnck!ins,
and souse and backb bone and Sparcrib
and lard and ham aud shoulder and jowl
to eat with turnip-greens, and its all
mighty good and its all adopted"
THAT is all 50, Cobc," said |, "eyery-
thing is adapted whether it is adopted or
not"
| Yes" said he, "and I've noticed il
ior long time, when the wheat is cut
Oft the land the grass comes up for hav,
and II we cut it of another crop comes
up and keeps the hot sun off of the land
aud one crop follows another, and if we
make poor crop one year we make q
better one the next year and if we dom,
We can live on hope and cut down ex.
penses. and work the harder to fix up,
and some how or other or some how else
We all get along, aud when there is gap
we MI 1t up with something and we all
| get along and nobody pcrishcs TO death
in the name of the Lord for everything
fits and everything is adopted"
WE'LL says | "Cobe, t 1t is all So
not only 30, but also but there are heap
OF things come along that don't seem to
be adopted, as you call it. Here comes
the army worm, and the grasshoppers,
and the caterpillars, and all sorts Of yer.
min, and they are not adapted, and what
are we going to dc with them. What
arc you going to do with snakes, mnd
dogs, and storms. and pcstilencc, and
dlphtheria, aud smallpox, and ali such
afiilctions? Are they adopted or are
they adapted, or what or they?"
well, sir" says Cobe, "Vll tell you. I
haven't been troubled W them things
yet, but if l was l Ir" would be
some Offset. ST. ,lance the
account. In nan to have
big trouble but '. was some.
thing to balance of the. le. never
knowd man to go to Texas but what he
writ back that there wasent ANYTHING To
brag off after he got there. The good
things of this life are pretty equally
distributed il We only did know it. 4
rich man haint got much advantage of a
poor man If the poor man is any account.
Some poor folks is bad stock and don't
want to work and goes about grumbling.
They is just like bad stock Of horses or
cattle or dogs and ought TO die out and
quit the country. We don't send round
the settlement to git poor dog or a poor
cat, or poor hog or a poor COW. We
want good stock of anything, and there
ia about the same difference in folks thai
there is in anything else. There is some
rich folks that are clever and some that
are mean-some grind you down and
some, help you up, hut them who grind
you down don't have much enjoyment.
nhey are too mean to enjoy good health.
They are never happy unless they are
miserable. I'd rather be poor than to be
some rich men | know. My children
have better time eating simmons and
black haws and digging gubbers and
hunting possums than their children do
ln getting to parties and wearing fine
clothes and iussing with one anolbe er and
doing nothing for living. There is
nothing like woodworking for living
and being contented with your situation.
love to see rich folks doing we'll, for
they help out the country and bll !
railroads, and factories. and car shops,
and open up the iron mines, and know
that II everybody was rs poor as | ain
the country wouldent prosper, and it
looks like everything was adopted, aud
we need rich folks TO plan and poor folks
to WORK, and they couldent get along
without us any more than we could get
along without them. don't want their
fine clothes, nor their fine houses. nor
their carriage and horses, and they don't
want my little ole mule, nor my bobtail
coat, and 80 It's all right all round, and
everything is adopted. 1t don't take me
but minute and half to git ready to
go to meetin', for all I've got to do is to
put on my coat and comb the cuckleburs
outen my hair and wash my face and git
o couple Of chaws of tobacco and take
my foot in my hand and go. l can squat
down at the door when git there, and
hear all the peachers has TO say, and
thank the Lord for hisgoodness, and that
Ii worship enough for poor man,
reckon, and its all adopted. When
see fine things and fine people I'm al.
ways thankful for some tayors that are
pow'fui cheap considering that money
runs the world for we have got good
health and good appetites at my house
and can sleep we'll on hard bed and q
drink OF spring water is the best thing
in the world to a hungry man. We naint
got no dishpeshy nor heart burn and
nobody hains sueing me for my land Gor !
haint got any and my wife can make as
good corn bread as anybody and our
tables is good kind and the old COW let's
down her milk about right and can live
and do we'll without being curried and
fed up like jersey and she understands
my children and they understand her
and so it looks like everything is adopted.
was thinking the other day how much
service this old coat Mrs. Arp give me
mas done, foT il il had been II new one !
would have been afeerd of it, but I've
wore it now fer six months, and it's good
yet, and the children have wore the old
clothes she gave them, snd they are all
adopted, and now, major, if you have got