The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-08-31

lHe joys OIL the-pl0W handle IN The
short ribs, and all the blisters from
the old shoe, and all the vexations
OF contrary mule in a new ground
cotton patch, and for all the early
rising in the months of Nav and
June, when the grass was jointing
and spreading from row to row.
Everything was love, and every
smiling face seemed welcome,
without price, TO partake of the
bountifully supplied tables that
were spread beneath the trees.
yes" continued The old man
after a pause, 1--WE all eat together,
and wheat straw was the flooring
for the tents, and the quilts were
al there to spread down, and the
men would lay down on one side
and the women on the other, with
Just room for a person to walk be-
tween their feet, and if er long fell
low and Ell long girl happened to
to lay opposite each other, they
had to be mighty careful how they
Strengthened or their feet would
meet and get tangled up; but there
was nothing wrong if they did, for
the young girls didn't have to sit
up them days as er poker for fear
they'd be talked erbout, but they
acted just like they were humans
the same as the men, and when
time would come to 20 to sleep,
sweethearts would walk together
to the tents, and at the door one
would 90 to the left and one 10 the
right, and undress, and sleep on
the straw with their feet nearly
touching with just as much propri.
ETY. as in The customs that now per
tain.
When the bis bugle was sound
ed in the morning, there was
rush TO get ready to attend the
prayer before breakfast. The ser
vices were held under a large ar
Dor, that was renewed from year
to year, and there was kept a long
bugle that was sounded from the
pulpit just as they sound their big
bells these days.
at would seem strange to the
young generation to watch such
getting ready Of the boys and girls,
the old and the young, when that |
old bugle was sounded. The girls |
of this day would never have got
to a morning service, for by the
time they'd get all the fixings on
what they wear these days the |
meeting would have been over, but
then it warnt that way, for by the
time any young fellow could get
into his clothes and pull on his
boots his sweetheart would be
ready to pour him some water out
Ell a gOurd to wash his face and
then he'd pour for her, and in less
than er mint they'd have their hair
up and on their way
down 10 the arbor to enjoy prayer
where a sinner would be
saved and a backslider reclaimed
before the sun was fifteen minits ,
nigh. They don't have no such
these times. For if they I
we're to get up a good old camp {
meeting now some of these fellows +
would come outen Atlanta and be :
II hollering ice cream, ice cold !
emonade, only five cents er glassp +
II some other town talk, or else r
hese preachers what we have now h
would stop erbout the time they +
.ot things warmed up and ask
ome of the brothers to pass er- d
Ound The hat, or else some young q
Ter would shoot off a pistol. If a
verybody in the next generation s
ont go to hell, If they keep this d
rogress business up, it will be er O
Ionder to me.
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"The only thing see in the v
ay-by' time that has a smack of a.
lie good old days of before the L
ar is the soldiers reunions. They i
,ok me over to Newman not long u
go and | seed old soldiers what l W
ed under trying times, and when eC
Ie good people of New man show IL
! their appreciation for the veter- cI
rs by giving them the preference &C
the table and everywhere it tC
me me good, for | knowed they to
it, and when thought of U
Ie way hat they had to scramble u
lrlng The war to get er little beef HI
I'd bread, and looked upon their CO
right faces as they pitched into al
Ie fine dinner set before them, | ih
fought oil the old song that we cl
,ed TO sing thut went 10 indicate m
ans condition in Paradise: sy
nd not a wave Of trouble rolls across IN
their peaceful breast;' te
r these old veterans seemed to ci
] the measure Of that old song p
is was the veterans Paradise. D'
Il seed men from both armies "
ere. The army of Virginia and 1
e army of Tennessee mixed and y,
jngled, and now and then a scat ~
ring Yankee joined 'em and they
emed to be Just as happy as our
,ys and Jared just the same. I az
ed Longstreet's men that come sv
ON Virginia and helped the Ten "a
sssee boys at the battle of Chick II
nauga, and then / thought OF the
d Thirly-Ninih North Carolina
giment and the brave Arkansans = =
at went 10 make up McNair's