Smyrna times., 1886-07-14


that ten-acre lot of old Johnson
&c But we hain't got nuthin' to feed
'em on
q" Indeed, we have. Them city folks
who stufs their stomachs on the rich.
ness of the land will come out here fol
change. All they'll want will be
fried eggs, Oat meal, rhubarb pie and
old-fashiOned sweet cake. They'll &c
into fits over our old table cloths
cracked dishes and plain furniture
They'll swallow everything down as
rustic and Old-fashioned, and well
charge 'em Sc week apiece
l hung off fur while, but Lucinda
is great prevailer, and she finally pre-.
vailed on me to give my consent
Whenever I got u spare hour l helped
her tOggle up the furniture. l had to
nail up bedsteads, put extra legs to the
cheers, stop up rat holes, stain over the
bureau with walnut juice, and dc
various other things to make ready. ]
gave Lucinda two purity good boss
blankets to make rustic rugs for the
floors, and we cut up some old sheets
for winder curtains, and by the use oi
thirty cents worth of red, white and
blue shelf paper we made them rooms
look what you might call Jim Dandy
Hang it, stranger, when I cum to look
'em over l felt as proud as a peacock,
and the hug I give Lucinda brought
the tears to her eyes.
Wall, the last thing to be made
was rustic cheer, and I just got up
and bumped myself on it. 1t was
Lucinda's idea, you know. She said
the city folks had got so tired of sittini
around on the stuffed cheers that they'd
sink into rustic cheer with a grunt OF
satisfaction which could be heard a
mile away. / drawed upa wagon load
of limbs and branches, bought five
pounds of nails and a pound of glue,
and i'll about q weeks time | had the
all-tiredest, incest cheer you ever sot
eyes on. We put it in what Lucinda
called the Queen Anne room. and then
everything was ready for boarders.
We advertised in the city papers to the
amount of eight dollars, and one arter-
noon young, sOlemn-faced chap. who
looked as if he hadn't two days to live.
came padding up the dusty road. in
search of summer board, and Lucinda
took him in. He looked at the rooms
and we thought he grew more solemn.
lie had some pork and Johnnycake
and New Orleans molasses and two
shiIlln' tea for supper, and there was
no doubt of his being more solemn.
/ fOrgit what Lucinda was to CHARGE
that chap week, with the privileges
OF walking in the barnyard, wadin' in
the swamp and climbin' the dead apple
trees, but it wasn't fur from eight dol
lars. He sOt around fur spell in the
evenin' to hear the lOwin' of the kline
whatever that is, and to commune with
tired natur, whatever that NAV be
and then he retired to the Queen Anne
room.
stranger, we never saw that men
alive no more. He didn't come down
when the pork and 'taters was ready
III the mornin' and after awhile I went
up to arouse him, thinkin' that the
loWin' OF the kline and the bellerin' of
the oxen had charmed him. He was
dead-deader than IL door nail Wust
ot all ne had sOt down in that rustic
cheer and died afore he could git Nm
The coroner said the cause of his deatb
was too much rusticity and Queen
Anna"
Was that the end orit?" I asked.
Yes. He hadn't penny in his
pockets, and I buried him at my own
expense. When we got back from the
burial says to Lucinda:
"Lurinda, let the city folks continer
10 sot on their stuffed cheers and gorge
Their stomnchs with sweet cakes and
preserves. Wen Queen Anna these
inda outer the house and make our
money on pumpkins = Whoa! there
you old sinner! Can't you see a streak
ed snake without jumpin' outer yer
hide ?"-DrtroH Free Press.