The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-24

THE WATER COLOR GIRL.
grown peanut tree by which made
above amount. bet my stock against
his is why l refer to it as deal In
stocks. sold the beef on the hoof for
two hundred dollars and some cents.
So he will remain at home, and will
tell him about the fair, which is sue
cess.
bought excursion tickets on the rail-
road at q scandalous low price and got
here fresh and comfortable, with several
doughnuts over and above what we need
ed. L have et-doughnuts soaked in coffee
now for most week, and I shall never
care for them again. Mother cooked
pillercase full before we started and be-
gin to yearn for vegetables, to tell the
plain truth with the natural finish on it.
suppose you are having a good time
at New Roshell, and l send you what
can spare, but hope you will not tell
your artist friends how / made the raise.
was blutfed into it by man that came
to our neighborhood and begun to farm
1T with high hand and tell about sin
telligent farming" He called OH me
when he first come to borrow some sweet
potato seed, and was not at home at
the time, being away pricing bull that
l heard was for sale down the river, so
he left his card.
I've got it yet. What should do with
it, Henry? have no place to keen it
and hate to send it back to him, for it
was done in friendly way, and he did
not mean to be anything but social I
take it.
Afterward he sent over for me to come
and see him at once if could. Hewant-
ed to have me sit up with him over night,
as he was confined to his bed, he said, and
suffering intensely with some terrible
eruption" I made what's called an ex-
animation and found he had been chawed
upwith what we call "jiggers." Jiggers,
you rickolect, is red bug about the size
of grain of red pepper and can hardly
be seen with the nakid eye But the
place he soon makes on the surface of
an Intelligent farmer" can be- seen
across the fair ground easy.
This man-his name was Bertram
Whangleathers-had jigger terraces all
over him and wells of hectic fiushes and
nice red gopher holes and perara dog
villages till the cows come home Inever
saw such sight since was born. His
back looked like the Notifications around
Vicksburg.
He would talk with me in lucid way
for a few minutes, and then he would
leap out of bed and back up aginst a wall
of what he calls "lincruster walter" and
agitate himself with look of deleerious
JOY.
You know jigger that even hears a
rumor that an Intelligent farmer" is in
the county will travel night and day to
find him, and then there is an erie of
good feeling and barbecue right after
ward. Bertram said he Had been paint
ing picture of a heifer all the day be-
fore, and found that while he was
doing it he had been setting on an old
dead log. Old dead logs is where jiggers
in good standing holds their conclaves.
A water color girl from Brooklyn, E.
D., painted self made bull of mine last
year, aiming to exhibit the painting at
one of the saloons in New York, she said,
and she set on q nice messy log too. I
told her that a messy log was pizen for
insecks; but, no, she allowed that she
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see anything smaller than a trestle, for
she had been mellowed some by age.
There was sounds of revelry by night
after that for several moons. and your
mother says that since you had the hives
she has not saw anything like it. She
was a slender girl-so slender that Jig
gersbite on the shin made her seem to be
going the other way.
Oh, how she murmuredl
i see no i'll feeling or resentment south
toward the northern man unless the
northern,man sits down on dead log
to read Lorna Doone" Then there is
something steals up his trousers legs
which arouses the old party spirit.
auctioned off some extra furniture
the other day, especially yours, as do
not look for you to come home much
more. Mother says you have mostly
outgrown the home nest and will soon
catch on TO some other birding and make
a nest of your own.
You are old enough now to breathe
words of love of evenings and wait for
some celestial restaurant to come and
take your order for meals. shall al.
WAYS take an interest in Won Henry