Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-04
Tom Browns s Gossip.
Believing that
A little Cornish now and then
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from the Redruth, England), Lnde-
pendent, dated the sth Of Jan. $50
I'm goin sill out. Praps you heerd
it afore. Eff you haan't, you can
hear it now I'm my avn master,
and viii do what | mind To- You
must advertise my farm for sale
thout any further notice. You knaw
whioh'ee way put it in the paper
better than Ecan tell'ee. Ef | spent
SO much time prentin as | have
taakin' up bitches, ] cud do one SO
well as the tother, and better But
| can tell'e what | want put down
and you must fitit up bit suit times,
and put the London side out.
don't want nawthin painted better
than ties, nor yet wuss | can assur'ee.
What | want es the truth, all the
truth, and nawtAin that do smill of
lies. Putin es out of my line, and
| beve tes ont of yours Ef teddn,
you musn do it for me.
What ! got sill is a Farm--a
beauty, wetb claue ditches and
hedges high nutf keep in a cuckoo,
gates to every field aud two postes
to every gaates, a bridge ovvur the
river, and 4 plank in another place
car water oyvur There's outhousen
and barns, and pigs housen, and a
place feed bullocks pom turmits
and oaten.caake. As for the dwell
in-house what | live in myself, eddn
a better one bout nowhere in the
parish; he eddn one Of your new
things built up in a hurry 'pon con
tract, weth eerth put in for lime, and
secondhand stones for new; but ties
one of your good oldfashioned man
sions like, weth a roof 'pon the top
obbn yard thick, and The ovvice do
hang down long way ovyur the
chamber winders to keep Thorn dry,
and to keep off the sun from Polly's
curtains. The door es high nulf
stand up right in when your hat is
off. | don't remember strickkin my
hat but once; that was when had
a new chemley-top 'pon my head,
and ! dedn think nawthin bout ct,
but went in through saame as ef my
billy cock was 'pon my head | GOV
six-shillin for un the very day afore
in Trura, where they was sillin out;
the right price was haafe-a guinea,
and had un bargain. But after
that blaw the fore paart was bulged
in, and he dedn look so nice; but |
wore an Sundays for two or three
GERS afterwards Well, what | was
goin say IS this eer-the door Of my
house es high nuff for anybody what
eddn giant, acause | arn't the short
est Of men myself. And the winders
es SO good rs the door. Theym
watertight, every sawl Of them;
the leads was all fitted up laast win
ter and they haan't lailsed since.
But | mustn't stay so long wiitin
bout the houeen. There's COWS and
cattle, hosses and ponies, pigs and
swlnes, Sleeps and lambs, caves and
geese, barrows and haws, pixies and
showls, mentors and rowlers, carts
and wains wheels and all, but praps
after all, Pm better write out the
'yertisement myself; then you can
prent ct in your Pendent paaper,
and pom some bills to stick up agen
the walls. Praps six or seven wud
be nuif. One must go gen the black
smiths shop winder, and one must
90 in Master Landlords bar of the
Farmers Arms, and one must 60 up
gen the church door, and the auc-
tioneer must kape one in his pocket
TO read to other saales.
no BE SOWLD By AUCTION
next Monday week, fust thing
after denner, Master Browns Farm
Squire, who's reclinin business) all
that beautiful 'staat called the
'MANNER OF FORTfN',"
weth all the outhouscn, indoors aud out. pou
the said farm. ana now la the OecipiCaati0n Of
any sensible question You wish % ask, Must
be sowd Cash down Same day as he saale.
No lot money, as I've promised pay the nuc
tiOneer five shillin out Of my avn pocket. The
cattle and other implements can be- seed by
lOokin pom them in the daytime or by candle
light. The cows es quiet to bucket, ana the
hosses do taake more whepcord than rcins.
thought fust twud be better for
you fit up this a bit, but afterwards
/ took another thought, and shaved
it to Master Jones, and he said the
grammar was all right, and prem
ter cuddn improve 'pon it; 50 you
will plaise lev it as ties.
So soon as / made it knawn to a
few friends what / portended to do,
one of them coined to me, and asked
the mainin Of it. BY Goose ] up and
towld un. said to un like this Ger
"You knaw, Bob, I've done well
'pon this farm, and maade money,
and portended howld on so long
as I had strength work, or brains tell
other people. Bu | want do it, |
want
"How's that?n says Bob.
@My two men have vexed me, and