The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-06-27
BILL ARP
ARP Purchases a Pig for a Pot.
atlanta Consultation,

ARP Purchases Pig for Pot.
atlanta Constuutton.
When will this thing stop? am not
calm and serene. It is not Friday, but it
looks like everything has got wrong side
up. I bought the children some fancy
chickens from Will Henderson-some
beautiful black Langshans whose fore.
fathers and mothers we're all the way
from Asia. They laid fourteen eggs
large, beautiful eggs-and the hens were
happy, and the rooster, and the children,
too. But, alas for human h,pes and
Lapgshan eggs! My wife told me not
long ago that ne ought to have pig, a
nice, clean little pig, to eat up the waste
and scraps and all the ct cetera and SO
forth, and she mentioned that neighbor
Freeman had one that cost only dollar
few months ago, and it had grown. and
fattened and fourished until it weighed
200 pounds, and he sold it for twelve
dollars and gave his wife the money, and
he had bought another pig to do the same
thing over, and it was matter Of econo.
my, aud so 4 bought sweet little pig,
and it vas Kept in the COW lot, and Carl
made a trough and it swallowed in the
buttsrmilk and was behaving splendid
until last night, somebody left the gate
open and the sweet little spotted thing
came out and meandered around and
found the hens nests and gobbled up the
whole concern and wanted more. It
made the children right sick, and they
wanted to kill the pig, and about that
time I came out to my favorite seat in
the front piazza, to ruminate rpon the
rise and fall of sublunary things, when
suddenly / missed the beautiful vines
that had been meandering up The cane
lattice that had built. OIL my country.
One day while Mrs. Arp was gone ! built
that lattice to surprise her aud revive the
smiling sunlight in her eyes. It is q
beautiful lattice /; made of long, smooth
canes that reach from the ground to the
upper piazza, and they are iuterlaced
.crossways like basket work wish other
canes, aud the madeira vines and morning
glories had already climbed every cane
nearly to the top and we're spreading their
leaves and tendrils and closing out the
sunlight; and I had left little openings
along for. windows 30 that ne could peep
through and see who was passing along
the street, or who was coming up the ave.
nue. 10 see US, and most every Gay I bet
with the children which vine would grow
the fastest by next morning, and LOW here
tits. Oh, my country; the cals got out
when the pig did, and while the pig was
feeding on Langshan eggs at two dollars
q dozen, the internal calf was stuaing his
NAV with madeira vines and snorning
gloriea, and then went off and lsid down:
right in our sight, and was chewing her
cud, cud made of the vines that were
our hope and our delight. When will
this thing stop7 T ripped and | raved,
and I walked the piazza backwards and
forwards and put on all the agony ] could
raise. I contonnded the pig and The calf
and the gate and the unknown individual
who left it open. I knew that Hrs. Arp
would find out from the children what
was the matter, and SO J wanted TO out
Herod Eerod and steal her thunder, for
she is a prudent woman and never gets on
q tare when she gees me on tars. And
that's right. When Mrs. Arp is on tare
Tam :as:,neek as q lamb: It is like play.
ing seasaw, when one is up the other is
down, though sometimes I think I don't
get my share of high riding. Brt rode
high this morning aud the next hing /
heard was Mrs. Arp at the piano and she
was playing Araby's daughter, and her
low sweet notes came over me like the
sweet south wind breathing upon bank
of violets. By the time the breakfast bell
rang I had mellowed down amertly and
Mrs. Arp said she though that the vines
would sprout again from the roots and We
wouldn't lose more than two weeks but
that I had better send the calf to the
country.
It does look like there is always some-.
thing prey upon something. The bad
is mixed up with the good and We have to,
6ght the battle Of life through tribu1ation
and vexation and aggravation and all the
.otherations.
After. breakfast I had to 60 to town and
help to work oa- the citizens to raise
money enough to buy the land for the
railroad shops. The committees had been
working on them for three days and had
q whooper up meeting every night, and
still we're short about thousand dollars,
and the committee got sick and went to
bed, and had me put on a new committee
as a..relay--a sort of last resort and it was
the hardest work ever done or will try
to do again. I had rather stand up hill
and grub downwards, or dig post holes, or
weed onions, or skin cat backwards all
day long.
It takes 60 much explanation and ex.
agseration--so much persuasion aud eva
sion, and the whole thing is SO monoto.
n.rs, snd every man'has to be talked to
as gently as o sucking dove-but after a
while they surrender and put down for
about half they ought to, and you heaVe
a sigh and 60 on to the next man.
"They are asking too much for that land
and nv money shan't 90 into III, such an