Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-22
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so long since / wrote to you l thought
would better write agin to let you know
I was still alvin. Well, was up to the
Brook the other day, for some spice Ia
put in my punkin butter and / seed a big
crowd standin' around cousin John Shipe's
store and / asked what was the rumpus
and they said they was tryal agoen on,
that they Rad arrested cousin John HUpp
and was after DIR. Brown. They have
passed law up thar that any poor man
caught with a silver dollar In HE posses
sion shall have not less than 30 days in
Jail, and be had Is cts. IN silver, and they
| thought DR.. Brown had about AZ cts +,
anyhow l met him gitten out Of town In
a big hurry. Well, you bet l was glad l
didn't have anything but checks. So l
got my spice and left mighty quick afore
| was spicioned of the ) cts. IBula Ma
linda give me with a hole in 1t. The in
former gifts half, and one dirty rascal told
me he intended to lay around up thar for
couple of weeks and ketch some of them
fellows as works on the railroad. Well,
heard uncle Joel Borden and Kris, and
Mics Cindy, cousin Ollie Borden and wife,
and cousin Noah Snarr and wife had gone
to the Worlds Fair and didn't take any
checks along. My, if they was poor men
wouldn't they get a spell in Jail. was
surprised to hear that they was some
ste allen goin' on on mp thar yet. Some
one stole uncle Sam. Crabill's ounces the
other night, and cousin AL Bowman's
compass saw, and tell you it kind G.
scared me up. l went out and looked at
nv pc rsimmons aud pop corn but l didn't
miss any. They is a new man moved into
the Jake Bloomburg store, but they say
be had customers, and he warranted
one for his bill, and cussed the 2nd one,
and the Ord one couldn't understand a
word he said, and wen up to cousin Sam.
Miley's and bought lamp wick. don't
reckon he will stay long. Well, as was
was a sayn'; we concluded to bile
punkin butter, and Saryan went and axed
a whole lot of folks down yer tbinkin' as
how they'd help us along, and told them
it was a surprise bilen, to fetch a little
sugar along and would bs surprised to
know where 1t come from. So gathered |
up all the pears we had on our tree and
got 6 bushels of tomatoes and stomped |
them in a tub and strained it through a
guuny sack and made 20 gallons of right !
good cider. So we had the punkins on a
bilen by dark when yer cone the folk as
Saryan had asked with a pound of sugar
a piece. So we emptied it all in the
kettle then we commenced to have the
tun. Well, first cousin Will Keller ard
Bula Matilda took a stir, then cousin
Alma Brown and Uriah Ephriham took |
stir. then there was a general stir. Some
how cousin Charlie got to taken to
Matilda and be says, Malin la don't you |
get 1t purity hard down yer. Now, old
Saryan and Neal is right good sort OF
common folks, but they are so common,
and II you will give mp your homeland
goodness knows what the poor fellow was
a goin to say, but he never finished, tor
Just then Saryan jumped mp, tor be
was a settin side of Saryan and in the
dark he thought it was Mary Mainda'
She grabbed at hin and knocked cousin !
Alma Brown in the tub Of tomato cider,
and run agin the mantle as was lose
and knocked the lamp down into the
kettle of punkin butter and got away IN
the dark. Ny goodness hut Saryan was
mad. but she was awful sorry about the
rest so she tried to pologize, but they all
went home right of. She made me finish
that butter next day, and don't you know
every one Of them folks as fetched sugar
fetched salt and our puDkin butter bears
an egg and tastes awful after coal oil, but
maybe we can bile it over and get 1t fresh
Well. Saryan made me take taste up TO
item as was down, and cousin Charlie
Jones told me be had his tram to cousin
VIM. Ritenour, and that the pike COM
pany was in the Brook and was repairing
the pike through town, and Mr.. Benjamin
Goodman was just married and he and his
wife were spending their honeymoon with
their father IN the Brook. and that Mr..
VIM. Wright was teaching two months
school before the winter term set in, and
has about 81 sch liars. He also said that
Mr.. Buckley Crabll has built a new cider
press and is getting a fne lot of apples to
grind. and be would have told me more
but some one fetched in some chicken
grapes aud he had to wait on them, and
l thought about Saryan telln' me to come
home and nurse the baby while she went
up to cousin Betsy Ritenour's to fad the
words to blow ere outen Bala Malndas
nose what she got burnt in the punkin
butter. You must come down sOOD and
see us, Yours in respect,
NEAL BCzZAaD.