Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-10-11
FATHERS LETTER.

I'm going to write a letter to our Oldest boy VII
went
eut West last year to practice law and run fc
President;
III tell him all the gossip l think he'n like t
hear,
For he hasn't seen the home.folks for going O.
ayeaE.
Most generally it's Martha does the writing
but as she
Is suffering with a felon, why, the duty falls oil
me;
So, when the supper things ore done and pu'
away tonight,
I'll draw my boots and shed my coat and settl,
I'll tell him crops are looking up, with prospects
big in corn
That, fooling with the bsrn.yard gate, the Of OK
hurt his horn;
That the Templar lodge is doing well-Tfm Ben.
nett Joined last week.
When the Prohibition candidate for Congress
came to speak;
That the old gray woodchuck's living still down
in the pasture lot
A-wondering what's become OF little William,
like as not;
Oh! yes, there's many pleasant things and no
bad news to tell
Except that old Bill Graves was sick, but now
he's up and well.
Cy Cooper says Out I'll not pass my word that
1t is so,
For Cy was always great on spinning whopping
yarns, you know
He says that since the freshet, the pickerel are
so thick
In Bakers pond you Just wade in and kill 'en
with q stick!
The Hubbard girls are teaching school, and
Widow Cutters Bill
Has taken Eli Baxter's place In Luther East,
mans mill;
Old Deacon SINNERS dog licked Deacon How.
ards dog last week.
And now there are two deacons in one flock that
will not speak.
The yellow rooster froze his feet AWARDING in
the snow
And now he leans against the fence when he |
starts in TO crow;
The chestnut colt that was SO skittish when he |
went away
I've broke him to the sulky and I drive him
every day;
We've got pink window curtains for the front
spare room upstairs,
And LiZzie's made new covers for the parlor
lounge and chairs.
We've rooted the barn, and braced the elm that
has the hang birds nest
Oh! there been lots OF changes since our Will.
lam went out West!
Old Uncle Enos Packard is getting mighty
gay
He gave Miss Susan Birchard a peach the other
day
His late lamented Sarah hasn't been buried
quite a year,
And so this episode creates a big sensation
here;
AT the last donation party, the minister opined
That, II he'd half susplcioned what vas coming,
he'd resigned,
For, though they brought him slippers like he
re was a centipede,
His pantry was depleted by the consequential
feed.
These are the things I'll write him, our boy
that's in the West,
And I'll tell him how We miss him-his mother
and the rest:
Why, We never have an apple.pi that mother
doesn't say:
Vie liked it so, I wish that he could have a
piece to-dayr
tell him we are prospecting and hope he is
the same
That We hope he'll have no trouble getting on
to wealth and fame;
And just before l write good. bye from father
and the rest"
I'll say that mother sends her love" and that
will please him best.
For, when I went away from home, the weekly
news I heard
Was nothing to the tenderness l saw In that
one word
sacred name OF mother-why, even now, as
then,
The thought brings back the sanity face, the
gracious love again;
And in my bosom seems to come a peace that
Is divine,
AS If an angel spirit communed awhile with
mine,
And one mans heart is strengthened by the
message from above
And earth seems nearer Heaven when mother
sends her love.
Eugene Field, in Youths Companion.