The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1885-06-20
ENOUGH ALIKE TO BE TWINS.

that the joys of paradise were all
in his lap at once II day.
when his father gave him an order
on the store for fifteen dollars
worth OF clothes, IT, make him look
like a nabob ; more than a ton Of
wholesome advice for emergencies;
two dollars in money, to cover ex-
penses. and told him he could take
a months time aud three-year-old
hIly and so OIL a visit to his Uncle
Japhet ILL a neighboring county,
and not only judge for himself how
big the world was but find out
whether the drought was general
OF only confined to their own sec
ton Of the globe.
His mother put a clean shirt or
two, some newly footed socks, and
q lot OF doughnuts into his saddle
bags, rs she charged him to be care
fuI OF his clothes and give her love
to Uncle Japhet and Aunt kachela as
soon as he got there and at fire
iueot intervals during his stay.
And then with arecktiec choking him
black in the face, he got himself in
to the first loug-tailed coat he had
ever owned, pulled on bis new
boots, kissed the family all arourd
for the first time in his life, mount
ed the colt, and rode away feeling
pr0uder than a king before the III
vention of dynamite, and with more
than enough lard Oh his hair to car
~ IA medium sized griddle through
the buckwheat season in triumph,
while the whole family stood on the
porch and cried as though. the
coons hadn't lett them Il chicken.
The boy arrived at his uncless
that night in time to hold the IAN
tern while his cousin did the milk.
ing, and the family sat up until
nearly time to begin feeding, listen
ing to his chat about the wonderful
sights he had seen il his travels,
among which was a red barn we'll
nigh as big as possibility, with
three tightening rods, and nearly a
hundred fattening hogs in one field
to say nothing Of one house with Il
cmpola, and another with a front
door big enough to drive a buggy
through it, The family sat with
popping eyes aud drank in the mar
wells Of bis trip, aud the youngsters
looked upon him as a man whe had
seen more than a book could hold.
His arrival was nearly as great
an event in the settlement as the
coming Of q peddler with tinware,
aud more than one apple.cutting
was got up in the neighborhood sim
ply to give the girls q chance to see
what a foreigner looked like, and
the boys an opportunity to judge
for themselves what superhuman
hearing store. made garments could
give II young man who had seen
something of the world without be
ing struck blind by the dazzling ct
feet. Even the colt he had ridden
was looked upon with something of
veneration, as . steed which had
nipped grass on the other side Of
the globe. 81
In q little while he found himself
coorted and lattered, and bowed
down to, almost, by the class Of PEG
pie who worship everything from
abroad, and look in derision upon
all home products. Il was even
limited tl1atsa few men had changed
their politics Simply because he
had stated chat the other party was
ahead in the favored land from
which he hailed. 4. - !,
Among the girls he soon got. to
DO more popular than a novel, fair
" reeking with the disappoint
ments of love, and more than one
swain in the nelghborhood soon felt