Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-06-03

KEY, Visiting Relatives and Seeing the
Country--They Visit the A. and NJ. Col
lege, Where the Boys Learn to Make a
Living, etc.
From the atlanta C~onstitution.]
1 and cousin Pink has got back from our
trip at last. We been over to Massysip.
When we taken that trip last year to the
exposition, at New Orleans, and sailed
around longer old Miss Slack and her gang,
the settlement folks Flowed they reckined
as how we would stay at home awhile, but
it list put a taste in our mouths for ridln'
about on the kars, and when we gotta invite
to come over to Massysip we packed our
hand satchels and started. We had a pow
full fine time, and 1 know in reason me and
cousin Pink eat enough turkey-everybody
peared to know we was turkey eaters. They
say the turkeys would just natally gobble
time they see us come in sight, for they
knowed their time had come.
We went to a heap of places and struck
up with lots of folks that knowed folks we
knowed, and it never tuck US no time to git
acquainted. We met a right smart chance
of kinnery, too, and them that was not kin
claimed kin, and we never knoWed the diff
ference in:particular at West Pint, Massysip.
We went to Macon and to Okolona and to
Starkville, and every time we moved it was
like Citing into a new nest of kinnery, for
they all called me "Cousin Betsy"-and
tuck a powful shine to cousin Pink like
they had knowed her alters.
A mile from Starkville, is the A. d M.
college. Cousin Pink she wanted to see
them boys out thar and tried to put it off on
to me, and after I seed how nice they was,
1 didn't keer if she did for they was worth
seeing. You don't git a chance every day
to see $50 boys-in particular SIGH boys as
them. They work hard, earn ther board
and schoolin' right thar, and larn a trade
that helps EN- to make a livin' the rest OF
Their days.
We got thar about milkin' time in the
evenin' and seed the boys at work, some
a milkin, some a feedin of the fine cows,
Jerseys and A%yreshires and some tendin
to the Creamery. That Creamery taken my
time it was a plum sight to me and cousin
Pink, for we never had saw one-hits a
machine, for dividin' of the cream from
the milk-wheels a-runnin' around and
milk a pourin' out at one spout and cream
at t'other-sich yaller cream and they had
a churn bigger'n maw's old bureau. They
make a big chance of nice yaller butter and
send it to Mobile and New Orleans, and we
ct some of it at Meridian.
Them boys does all the work they W
selves. They tend the ground around thar,
and they say you would not know it was
same place, and they larn 'em all about
farmin' and raisin' of vegetables and fruit
and SIGH like, and you don't see a niger no
whars about. A mar that driv US out there
said: "Dats de bes' way in the worl' to git
work out err de WIFI folks-des take de mig
gers clean out er dey sight,"
1t was pretty to see them boys muster in
a line out in the yard, all dressed alike, and
to hear 'em answer to their names n
march into the "mess hall" They made a
terrible rattle with their knives and forks
and a powerful clatter with their tongues,
and was as noisy and happy as a passle OF
black birds.
They give ZEN between nine hundred and
a thousand loaves of bread a day, and bake
their own bread and its good for We tried it.
1t rained while we was in Massysip, and
cousin Pink she lowed she knowed in reason
the creek at home was riz, we'll she was
nifty rite it had riz, they say it looked like
a river.
All the foot logs on Talladegy creek went
down and many a poor little pig and calf
wasdrownt; and Schmidt's mill up on Choc-
colocco creek washed away and lodged agin
the railroad bridge away down on Coosa
river sixty miles below.
But we never knowed nothin' about no
flood, that was the time we was flynn around
and eatin' turkey and ribbon cake. The
fus we knowed of it was when we got to
Meridian. The word come on the telegraph
for us not to come home tel the road was
fixed. We wasn't a thinkin' about comm
home no how, and that was a good excuse
to stay. We liked Meridian so we'll, it was
like maxim a tarripin turn loose to pull us
away.
We stopped at Livingston, Alabama, and
drunk some water outen that great artesian
we'll thatcures everything, and Cousin Pink
she made a face and whistled like she had
bit a green simmon tel l blinked at her
and nudged her. You see it makes them
Livingston folks mad eff you don't like that
water, they'd dru:her you'd say sumpen
agin one of ther children, so Cousin Pink
she taken another sud and smacked her
mouth like she thought it was powerful
threatened to murder me if ever 1 got her
into another SIGH a box. Cousin Pink is a
plum sight.
Quick as the washouts wa fixed Cousin
Pink she come on home and l went up to
Birmingham and the gals let in to beg
gin me to stay to the accommodation
Match" You see I reckin they thought
1 needed it, but when 1 got thar 1 found
out some of the rest of 'em needed it as
bad as me. Some of 'em said they'd 60
to the dee-po with me and some said they'd
90 to the dep-po with me and tothers the
day-po, and bless you if it hadn't been for
my free pass on the Georgia Pacific road
no tellin whar them gals would have tuck
me, nor when I'd err got home.
But I arrove safe and sound. And now
we are landed away over here in Atlanty,
Georgy. Pap, he seed in the Constitution
that Jeff Davis would be here the 1st of May
when they are a gwine to unveil the statute
of Ben Hill and he drutherrun the resk Of To-
sin his whole later crap as to miss a seeing
of j jefferson Davis. You see him and pap
knowed one another enduring of the Confed-
eracy, and pap he had a ridin critter named
after him, and he lows he knows in reason
left. wouldn't never forgive him if he was