The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-12-29
BRINGIN' UP CHILDREN.
How the Business is Managed IN the State
of North Carolina.

How the Business is Managed IN the Stat
of North Carolina.
One day l halted at the cabin of ;
North Carolinan named Nisbit, write!
M. Quad in the Detroit Free Press
and l saw so many children arouno
that l asked him if he was keeping
school or running an orphan asylum.
"Why, yere's only half OF emp he
replied in considerable surprise, and
going to the door he uttered long
drawn whoopee. In three CT four min,
utes children began to break out of the
woods and thickets and weeds anc
briar patches, when they had gathered
around the door and been added tc
those inside l counted 17-not one
less-and the oldest was not 20 year:
old.
.You seem to be fond of Children
| observed to the father and mother a:
they stood beaming down on theil
progeny.
81 dote on 'em," replied the mother
81 like 'em, and I'm kinder carryin
out an idea of my own," added the
father. EUR three ginerashuns oul
family has bin sloppy"
"What's that2''
ga goin' to the dogs-nuthin solid
about 'em turning away from eddeca-
shun an driftin' into whiskey and idle,
ness. Deed, sab, but it hain't so very
fur back that some of the Nisbits were
hung by the neck fur murder. Fur
three ginerations back we haven't pro-
duced Nisbitt fitten to dodge skunk
Pm speakin' about my pertickler line o
Nisbltts. Thar may be other Nisbits
who had money and brains.''
eyes, a mighty bad lot /" sighed the
wife, as she held up her hands.
"Thar was my grandpap," continued
the pioneer, as he accepted a plug o.
tobacco advanced on the seven points
of sympathy. "There was my grand
pap. He'un might hev bin President
of these Yunited Stats jist as well as
not, but he was too burned lazy to vote
TOR hisself. He was so mighty oner
that dogs and cats wouldn't stay with
him, an so opposed to work that if he
fell into swamp he'd stay right thai
ontil sumbody cum around to pull him
out. They wanted him to be Guv'nol
and sheriff and lots of other things, buI
dog-gone his picter to Havy he just
wanted to set and sot, and chaw ano
chaw, and guzzle and guzzle, and he
was too orery to die till he was rising
of co."
eyes, the poor critter !" sighed Mrs
N1sbit.
"And thar was my pap" continued
the pioneer, as he lifted up one leg
and got both hands over the knee
"Thar' was my pap, who might hey bir
the biggest lawyer or doctor or preacher
in these Yunited Stats if he hadn't bir
so slashin' shuckIess. All he wanted te
do was to sot and sot and sot, and dra
his buttons if he wouldn't wait fur sum
body to pull him in out of transform
Durn him he knowed huff, but ht
hadn't no hustle to him."
"The pore, onery soul !'' sighed Mrs
Nisbit.
"And thar's me-" continued tht
man, as he changed knees and spit into
the wood box. eyes, thar's me. Tn
onery. I'm lazy. I'm on the squat
I'm so dog-gone shuckless and mear
that b ars won't eat me. l hain't GO
the ambishun to swap nevis or make
moon shine whisKey. The only goot
about me is the feelin' that the name
of Nisbit has been rolled in the mut
and drawed through the muck till I've
got ashamed of it. Yes, sab, stranger
when you stopped at the doah ane
axed if my name was Nisbit l wa
ashamed to own it,
eyes, he'un feels that way, dog-gon'
him T. said the wife.
"And so you've got scbeme2'
queried.
81 hev. The name of Nisbit has 90
to be silver plated agin and perch alof
on the banner of-of-wall shee's 90
to roost near the top OF the tree. 1h'
day has got to cum when the Nisbit
kin war broadcloath and when niger
will bow before EN- to the airth.''
"What is the scheme, if | may ask ?
OTIS brigin' up them children tt
know suthin'. Yere Absolam, Gun
yere."
Absolam was boy of IS, and h'
toed the mark without any hesitation
"Absolam, who was the first man P
"Adam."
"Whar' did ne'un hang out2"
"Garden of Eden"
"Who killed his brother ?"
"Cain !"
"Who slew GOLIATH
"David."
"That'll do. Go back TO that tate
patch an WORK till | call ye.' Ye see
stranger, Absollm is to be a preacher
I'm bendin' he'un's mind for 1t, ant
givin' him the ground work. Jefferson
cum FORTH"
Jeff was year younger. He CAM
to the scratch and was asked:
"Who's the highest man in the
Yunited States2'
"The President"
GLOW ar Congriss composed? ?"