The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1885-10-23

that Texas was made mp OF tile II
sol ter folks. but it haint so folks
is as good out thar as nywhdrs
else.
Well, I'm glad to git home and
pull off my tight Sunday shoes and
nut on my old ones. NOthin's exile
| to old shoe for nnkin's of bo oly
feel at home,
Eve hung my orange yaller cali
ker hind the door aud put on my
homespun frock and blue check
apron and rolled up my sleeves to
work, and thars IL power to be
done-hit don't pay to stay away
from home too long. I've got TO |
patch my yaIIer caliker. most
ruln't it; split vine2y on it and tuck |
all the color Outn't it. Yallers bad
to fade, anyhow.
Hits curIs how one thing follows
'tother, and how little things lead
TO big 'uns.
been KNOWN ever sense
could mind anything that pap had
land in Texas. | have helrn him
talk about it winter nights when
we'd be IL setting around the fire,
aud tell how rich it would make him
if he could jst only sell 1t for big
price, and he talked aud talked
about it so much it sounded like
things away off yander that you
read about in books aud never see.
He talked long time OF moyin
ont thar, but some lowed it was too
sickly to settle on, and some lowed
if he putit in lawyers hands his
fees would eat it up, and pap he
didn't keer to reSk marry one, ana
so we 'uns worked hard year after
year and paid the taxes Oh 1t, ana
il layin' thar not a fetchlh' us III
dime-all gwihe out, nothin'
comIu' in, hit kep NAV mad all
the time, putty nigh, and she never
lowed nobody to say "Iexas land'
nor "security debts to her, she
lowed betwixt tue two hit had kep
pap's nose to the griudstone and her
S hands in the washtub ever sense
they was married.
"Hits Il ill wind that doh't blow
ed no good to nobody" If we'un'
hadu,t went to the New Orleans
expoSition we wouldn't have See'
cousin Jake Corbin, and ii We had
M a saw him we wouldn't hay
sold oHr land, aud If we hadn't
sold the land we wouldn't have la
nm the money to have flew around an
k. seed SO much. But bit riz 0ut'n IN
ne rooher patch at last-it 1t hadIl
Gee a been fur hit Ye'unS cOuldn
X. have went to the exposition. On
lid thing leads to tother, and tother
:? sum On else, aud so tile goo5er pate
by WAS the occasion OF 1t all.
m. Pap flowed it made him rigl
shame to think bow that great bl
,ce track of land had lay idle with I'll
taxes eaiin OF il up, when hei
M. "Bels honey" had turned III an
70 made so much off N nOthIn' bnt
in, little old goober patch. They 81 81
nd town folks can make as much OH
ab a little garden no biggern our ca
in pen as country folks does from
,r. fen acre field. Talkin' OF ten acl
nd field. | seed ten acres IN grapes,
see different kinds, when | was IN Cl
,he burne, Texas--it was Mr.. Hlht
aw nursery, and he had thee thouSal
Nd upnrh tees ready TO sell. They VI
Tvs aIl PLANTED in rows and you coul
To M see a blade of grass, aud q
re. land was as black as charcoal. Ih'
VAS called il '.black waxy," and as
vas stood thar in the orchard we cou
.er. see the sun settin' on the ptairl'
,he The rrairies all kivered WI
.ou wheat as fur as you could see awi
ltn over yonder whar the sky pear
to TO reich down and tech the yet
,ir The wheat was ripe aud they "
~ cuttiu' il that day-cuttln' II WI
art steam engine that beats Pal
,an cradle as tar as a steam kar bei
mid n OK waggin. The wheat and co
in Texas wuS the prettieSt eN
| of seed-this was good year Tor
10. They plant ihe corn out thar clos
cen together than ever seed ator
to its kase the ground IS so rich, a
of every stalk has two aud tbree yes
led, on it.
Ma We'uns rid from New Orleans
ane Dallas on the Houston Texas u
,or- trail kars, aud rId all the way ~
and sleepin' cahin-but cousin Pink, $
har never slept-atter she seed that |
and beds was all alike she never 81
,ses her eyes TO sleep nary wink.
err list flung back that curtain," 81
ody She. s.and sot on the edge OF
Ma. bench all night she had TAB
ont of her back hair and hung It
mo side of her blue check. stOre-bou;
ody hand towel, aud next mornln
aud the haud towel was both 90
and done stolt slick as "a ribbin, aud
olks trllin' Who done it. She was b
Was pinf mad enough TO riz old Ca
"a is but she knOwed it wouldn't do
,iks. good, so she jist twisted her !
A.. IN In a knot the size of hiekry
Kin. stuck a hair pin in It aud never
nexf a worsl. She looked pine bl'
now ike old Arlninty Pepdergr'iss
ncv quarterly meeiim, but l woul'
Size er tole her 50 Tar a dollar.
big. Cousin Jake had bought rs SC
| ac- OF Mr.. ScalpeTs tickets kase 1
saws vas ebear, and Cousin Pink