The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-09
An EnIstle FrOm Way Back,

hOldSS6SJ OCIs Obu, 1921
HERALDs, How's all of yOu'ns? [
would be mighty glad to get acquainted |
with you, cause my old man says your |
paper has the best and cleanest sheets |
of any paper he knows of. l would be
mighty glad to get sum nice sheets to !
use when company cumes. / haint got
but one nice pair, and they's most give |
out, for my ma give 'em to me when
was married and moved from Buncomb |
county North Carolina. Me and my ole |
man was married in the year 1916. l was
twenty years ole and the ole man was |
twenty-five when we was married, |
which makes me SiXty-SlX years ole /
next fodder pulling time, and the ole
man seventy-one next tater digging
time. Shortly after we was married, |
we moved to Middle Tennessee and
settled on Shinbone Ridge, near whar
the village of molasses now stands. |
The ole man is a minister of the gospel
of the Hardshen persuasion, and has
been preaching to the BuzZard ROUst
Church ever sence the war closed. Me
and the ole man makes it a rule to. go
tu Columbia three times a year. The
first time go is to attend the school
exercises, the next is the Fourth of
July, and The last is at Christmas. The
ole man broke his buggy shafts while
he was attending one of his appoint
ments last year, and we hey not been
using it any sence, but the ole man sed
| should not be disappointed about GO
ing, so he goes and gets up ole Beelze-
pup he Is q lldI6 COW anu gus Tie OlO
buggy and DOTeS twO-lnch auSer hole
through the dashboard and draws ole
BeelZebub'S tail through it and tied
knot in it and tole me he was ready to
go. 1t war rite hard pulling, but we got
To Columbia about ten o'clock, and
hitched up before the Institute and
walked in and wur enjoying ourselves
seeing the gals play on the piauner ana
say tdeir lessons, when III walked fel-
low and tole the ole man that if he
a II MT -
walk he would have IN the caDoose.
sez, Lor sakes alive man, my husband
3inJ no railroad conductor, and he
Eaint got no use for a Oahonse, He then
got mad and Sed we had better git. AT
ter we got started agin we concluded
that we had better not stop at any more
Of the schools, and SO we drove on
down into town an pulled up close TO
the court house. The ole man tole me
| could look around in the stores, that
he had some business to attend to.
knock ed round awhile, and purity soon
saw a large sine over door that sed
"SalOOn," and who should see setting
thar but the ole man! AS soon he
seed me he sez, "Jerusly Angeline l
have got paper and have been reading
about terrible red-headed rooster in
town who runs of with other mems
wives, and does great many other bad
things, and think had better be go
ing for Pm afraid he mout take you
off," 1 was terribly alarmed, for l
never A6dru Oh TOOSl6E blCH
tricks as that, and reck IN hev got
one that is as bad to fight little chick
ems as anybOdy's. He was hatched the
year the war closed, and when | pOnle
to Columbia Christmas, will bring
along and trade him to you for new
pair of sheets, and some scissors, and l
also want to get Robinson CrusOe's
Commentary for the ole man.
After we got started axed the ole
man what sort of tarnal critter that
rooster wus to be doing such outrageous
things, and he tole me that he was not
real rooster but man, and sez he,
''while 1 was setting thar he was pipted
out to me, and as soon as seed him !
esohewed him.n (The ole man has got
tC using mighty hifalutin words sance
he got to be a preacher.) And sez,
sole man you did mt certainly ehaw up
man." And he sez, "Jerusly, your
head is too thick to understand what
am talking about"
we got home about night and the gals
come out to meet us and sed they reck-
oned as how pa and ma would be hun
CRY, and had supper ready. They sed
that neighbOr MuttOnhead had hog
that was sick with the cholery and he
thought he would kill it before it died,
and sent us one of the jints which
weighed just forty pounds, and they
had put IL on the waShpOt and boiled
it. Me and the ole man wur powerful
hungry, not having had any dinner. L
eat one large rasher of the meat and got
ping of the ole man. He eat for nearly
two hours, and when he quit thar
wasn't meat enough left to make hash
for breakfast. tOle the gals the ole
man would be sick that night shore,
and we had better begin to hunt up the
medicine. The fQst bottle got holt of
was one that the boys had bought, and
| didn't know nothing about it. | took
it to the ole man and tried to read the
label, which: l made out "Humbolts
bucker." The ole man said he had
seen some mighty bad mules when he
wus at Humbolt preaching, but
didn't know that they put them up 70
medicine. He then took the bottle and
sed it was helboring butcher, which
| he reckoned was the man that killed
| the hog that was making him so sick.
| he sed he believed it was pizen, and
| wouldn't take drop of it. l then got
| six bottles of McLean's strengthening
| Vermifuge that we had had ever sence
the children was small, and poured
| them into a black bottle and put about
| A handful of lobelia in it and boiled II
down with two plugs of tobacker in
| pint of water, and tole the gals to git
| their mar to drink little of 1t. Our
| Youngest daughter, who is just twice
| six teen, went to him and tole him SHE
| had q nice toddy for him, and before she
was aware of 1t, he had drunk the
| whole OF it. He commenced throwing
np purity soon and all the hog cum, and
7 eFnected to see a man but was disap-
| nointed, He was several days gilt n :
! we'll, but is now all right agin.
| Last Sunday was big day at Buzz
zard Roost, and John sed he would
take the gals In the buggy and the ole