The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-17
PLUNKET ON PROGRESS
A Fireside Chat About Matters
of the Olden Times.
THE WILD PIGEONS AS THEY WERE.

81 hear or heap of talk crbout the bench
and poultry show what they've he'd going on
up at Atlanta, and hear err lots er folks er
Dragging on the dogs and chickens and ducks
and pigeons and geese and turkeys, but I've
got my own notion erbout SIGH things"
Ilmllett addressed these remarks to a group
around the fire, and there was no retort.
| Brown simply punched tho fire and then posed
as II expecting TO hear more from the speaker.
These fellows what do so much improving,
rs they call it, are ist the sort OF folks to keep
outon work, and that is what they arc study
ing erbout all the time.
Eve seed the day could stop out in the
woods any morning foro breakfast and kill cr
Wild turkcy,ror dinner, and I've seed the day
! when drouos of pigeons would darken tho
/ elements the Same as cr dark cloud, and roar
! the same as one OF these here cyclones and all
! You had to do was TO turn erloosc both barrels
| OF your gun as they went over and you'd bring
! down enough TO eat ON crwcek."
Brown couldn't keep silent any longer, and
remarked:
81 knowed Tom Erwin to kill two hundred
and oighty-thrco at one shot once, end thar
! warn no great to do over it either"
"its mighty easy for these fellows to print
| pretty picktures IN books and papers and talk
! erhout the Improvement of stock and progress
in this and progress in that and progress in
/ tother thing, but ingcucaUy il takes MORN
what any common farmers got to do as they
say do This last remark was made by
/ Plunkett with some show Of being displcascd
at having been disturbed by Brown, but he
soon continued:
"Erway back yondcr thar came er fcllcr by
the name of French from over erbout Augusta
and bought the jinin% lots of land to mine and
| hadn't MORN got acquainted with him fore
he was er talking to mo crlout progress, pro-
press till pretty soon got SO / wouldn't so
crbout him and | told my old oman that lie
was some city chap that WAS iist putting on
airs and that he would starye TO death fore
he was very old if he Just kept ON reading and
| experimenting and harping on progress, hut he
! didn and that's what makes me say younever
| know what or fellows gWyno to be till he
| dies"
Old man Brown laughed outright at this
stage of Plunket's remarks and said by way OF
| apology
"This same fellow lowed to me and the
| old oman that he could tell us how TO break
our young hcitcr what VIC had from kicking
when she was being MIXED and nothing
| would do tho old oman but what we must try
his receipt as he called it., SO next Sunday
morning went to the COW pen with her, and |
! got the COW by the nose and one horn and held
her till the old oman run tho wagin line cr
round her and buclllcd it upGs Tight as bringcrs
| Just in front of the bag, and then she lowed to
me to turn her erlooso and done it.
"Did she stand still after that?' some one
asked.
"Sun" continued Brown, "stiil? Was you
ever caught in CT pine thicket by a cyclone?
The old oman complains Of her back to this
day from that fracus, and I've got CT scar ON
Al. =
finished the hctfcr's hash though. She run
and kicked herself to death, and me and the
old oman was both glad Of it,"
"IIo had got that receipt outcn some of the
books, I'll bet cr dollar, " remarked Plunkott,
| and then went on:
"French was the first fellow ! ever heard
talk crbout building err railroad through here,
and ! went right oven and tried to buy him out
for / knowcd he'd ruin the country if he could,
but he wouldn't sell, and it warn't no great
whlo fore er log house want good enough
| for him, and he was riding Ground in or buggy
and bought or niger every year, and he made
it by jist going Ground to SIGH things as these
stock fairs and Citing crhold of these new
kind of cows and hogs and SIGH Ike, and
bringing 'cm down here and selling 'em for
fifteen or twenty times more than nc give for
| 'em"
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bro"h' when FFench nISV Drought t,o
chlCNehS "h'C W'S o'',,'o "i'''s 'lo' ~ 'lo
Sc'Vo"'cn,' an" ~ "'o" ~ "''''o ~
ne was %ltthg thiee ana lo't o?ll"f7 or "e1'Ihg
lor theF eggs ana al inc "ihuh went crazy
alter en-, ana you couo" SpU 'o rn''h0h
but the ShanGhie, and II was Shan8mc TINS
and Shan8lho that, TIL pretty soon thar
warn't no fried chicken ior the preacher
when no come, and then 1t warn long tlll
everybody wanted the old dominecEcr BACK
again. but French made money outer the
Shanghies, though"
! "Irench was tine first fellow continued
Pinnkctt,. withouts ecninS to notice Brown,
81 over heard object to burning Oh the woods
and went TO him then and told INN hc'd be
rid on or rail il no didn't mind how he cut
his capcrs, but it wah't no great while lore
the settlcmcntWas calling INN colonel, ana
you couldn't go to en- gathering nor to church
but what you'd hear something crboat Colonel
French this and Colonel Ironch that, I'll l
got plum Disguised, aud mighty nigh quit
going anywhar."
at want no great while fore hearcd that
fine colonel was Citing up or club, What he