The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-03-20
SIMPSONS BILL ARP.

or. If not in stock / can have 1t
tclcgraphed you, three or -four kinds
every twenty four hOurs-rain, slcet,
shine or snow. Bill Smith says he
hasGOt some mighty good weather
over on his place, but ] have got too
much for home use and ii must be
disposed Of. fl can't sell it j am
going 10 give it away. ] think Old
Probabilities has put up job on me
and changed the seasons, but ! believe
he has been dead two or three years
and hain't had much to do with it,
hut / reckon he wrote his Will be-
fore he died, and his mind was a lit
tie shaky, and the four seasons are
now in a big law suit trying TO see
which part is his rights, and think
sprir z has been the victorious party
and the jury has given him the
whole platter
This weather bureau must have a
heap Of drawers in it or got it pack
cd "a prOmiscuously as IL woman's
trunk when she starts on a two
weeks trip, Every time they pull
open one Of them drawers out Of the
weather bureau at Washington some
thing happens, nobody knows what
Is gOi:.g to cOme-a negro pOStmas-
ter or II discharged revenue collec-
tor, but we will get something diff
ferent every thirty-twO seconds. Let
everybody help and get hold of the
keys to that bureau and lock up
every draw except The one that has
got sunshine in it. If they would
just mess with the political weather,
and let the weather on my farm
alone, | would be better satisfied.
The West has got blizzard and froze
out, the South has got the negro un
der cloud, Ohio has gone Demo-
cratic and got left, New England
manufacturers are preaching religion
and frec-law of the balIOt-bOx and
grinding the poor working classes to
death. Mr.. Ingalls, has got the key
to the draw that has got an earth
quake in it, preaching conspiracy
and the torch to the negroes. Zeb
Vance is after the key. Go it Zeb,
for Gods sake don't let him unlock
the draw with the earthquake in il.
l tried one and / don't like it.
Well these days have got 50 man
can't count on nothing for certain.
We have weather to plant garden
peas, with weather to make them
come up and grow and bloom, and
then we feel proud and tell our
neighbor5 what a fine prospect we
have, how mucl: we are going to
ship and then discuss the market
price and what we are going to do
with che money.
Hepsie shall have new dress and
spring bonnet; and am going to
buy me new spring wagon, and pay
Noah for ironing that new blackgurr
OK yoke ! made the other day while
it was raining. But, gewhillekins
they telegraphed me one more kind
of weather and killed all my peas.
My hopes are all gone, and l feel
like little Billy said when he got
caught in the goose hole. | had a
yearling i'll the lot and the hogs had
messed with him so much by rolling
their fists iii his forehead he got so
he would butt you. Billy wern't as
big as the other hogs but he thought
he would try it too. The geese had
worked hole under the fence out
at the lot well, where they would go
in and out, to pick up the corn that
was dropped at the barn door.
Billy had just put Oh pants, and
his mamma was mighty proud of
him. Every time she would look at
him / could see a smile come over
her face, and her heart swell up as
big as the whole of creation. / was
selfish enought to steal some of Billy's
mammals love to him because he IA
vored his dad !; but / saw she had
enough for us both and was satisfi-
ed. Well, Billy went in the lot,
stepped up to that yearling and he
bowed up and made for Billy and he
made for the fence, he could not
get over It so he dived under the
fence through the goose hole, l saw
the situation and ran TO beat off the
yearling, Billy had got half way
through, and the yearling butted
where his pants hung loose and
sent the other half through. 1t did
not hurt him, he landed on the
Othe" Slde kerWhlm. Billy got up
and locked through the, crack stuck
his hands in his pockets and said
"durn that yearling." / feel rather
the same way about tie weather.
Every body must help me and
let's sec if we cant change things fol
good in this country, every time
look around here everything looks
SO gloomy, l have Deen thinking
about going away to Georgia. got
nice piece of mud land, think if
had Il nice 'Drane" on itsO / wouldn't
have TO ditch, | could turf barren
waste NTH a ,paradice. Spring viii
surely come. The weather will
change. The seasons regular and
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