The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-18
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Truly, Jos.
Thanking you for Your cordialify,
Joe, would say that we dress here in
an oHhand way to suit the season. It Is
very warm at present. If you come
now, your "leaf Of absence" would an
swer very we'll think.
Your Texas clothes would not get YOU
into trouble here il you were under a
good character. You could ride In one
Of our tournaments also.
We had passage at arms last month
mere at Asheville Each Sir knight
wears what suits him best. We had
one Sir Knight who wore O suit OF
quoted mail. He WAS the homeless,
man ever born in captivity.
We also saw in the lists q fat Sir
Knight with tin trousers and white
yachting cap. You could wear almost
anything. as say.
The joust consisted in filing up the
peasantry with lemonade and warm
watermelon ut SO much apiece and then
giving them what ia called the grand
laugh.
Two thousand of our yeomanry from
Sandy Mush bought seats in the grand
stand, and when they had seated them
selves, surrounded by sour watermelon
and oil that goes to make life enjoyable,
the directors moved tho show to another
place over toward Biltmore, thus leay-
ing the grand stand to a1nuse itself by
playing beanbag to the music Of the
Skyland Silver Cornucopia band.
The field mayshals were pretty plenty
and looked we'll ON their nice ambling
steeds. The Sir Knights also looked
ferocious, especially ono of them called
Little Lord Fauntleroy, who wore o vel
veteen waist and knee panties androde
a livery horse costing three dollars per
day.
The officers of the day were so thick
that while they were trying to keep the
peasantry back several of them got run
into and severely injured. One Sir
Knight fell from his horse, and the
brute, it is said, stepped on his panoply.
did not hear how the tournament
came out, for it got SO late. that had to
go homo and do the chores right after
the trial heat and just as the show was
being moved again toward Busbee.
do not care 70 be Sir Knight.
would rather ait in n hammock and keep
the flies off the Queen of Love and
Beauty. con ride hammock longer
and with more grace than can tall
horse with his tongue out and froth onto
him.
Once had O fierce horse with flash
ing eye and bright red gooms, but lie
tried to go through barbed wire fence
with me. and when he got through he
was short several vital organs.
lpassed over the fence describing an
arc. l described it ut the hospital after
regained my senses, such as they were.
North Carolina has u beggar lady who
is known as the Flower Girl of the Land
OF the Sky. In the springtime she sells
trailing arbutus that has been good
while on the trail. Later on she sells
laurel and goldenrod to people who are
new here and want to do good or elevate
the lower classes.
EARLY in the spring the Flower Girl
of the Land of the Sky ran out Of worm
less apples with which she had been
supplying the trade in winter and went
on the road for the purpose of begging,
as she found times dull Mt her home in
Ashevillc owing to temporary sag in
real estate. So she took to the Hender-
sonville road. sleeping at evening wher-
efer HlSnC overlook her.
Returning from California three years
ago, bought Mt Spokane Falls a pair of
tan colored shoes made Of undressed elk
skin. They were very comfortable,
though perhaps little too pronounced
lwore them here last year during the
tennis season, so that they were well
known west of Salisbury and along the
Richmond and Danville road.
This summer the Flower Girl of the
Land OF the Sky (who is no longer
young, she and the war of 1919 having
been brought on together), in her tour of
Buncombe county and tho French
Brood, paused at our house and, appeal
ing to MS for aid, showed that her feet
were almost out and also that her limbs
were barely healed up after being ap-
parently very much injured, so that
when l saw them turned away and
buried my face in my hands.
Now, thought l, is a fine opportunity
to do good. So | gave her my tan shoes
and pair of long bicycle hose, and then
read a book while she put them on.
soon arIer tnat she got more fore
handed and Travelled in the cars. Now
in almost every mail get several letters
and quite q lot Of postal cards, saying
that the Flower Girl is wearing my tan
shoes and bicycle hose, but that the
writer, will not say anything regarding
it If will send ON cigars, etc.
Last week l got kilograms from oil
along the line of road to Charleston
signed by friends and saying: "Beggar
lady wearing your undressed tan shoes
and bicycle hose passed here at ;35 a. M,