Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-10-20
POSEY HOLLER.
Mr.. EDITOR:

Mr.. EDITOR:
Thnkln' as Low You might
want to hear from our holler agin l
thought | would write you letter Well,
we got our yallor pumpkins all in the dry.
| raised a purity good crap but cousin
Andy Ritenour planted them ar crooked
green. striped ones on his side aud they
run clean across my T. acre field and
mixed with my best yallar ones and
made them pie-ball, but as they are for
pies, too. it amt 50 bad. Well, | had to
trade off the old yaller dog as told you
about some time ago. He got so bad he
wouldn't let Saryan stay at home, so l set
steel trap and caught him, and | took
him over in the Fort and traded him to a
Teller what hunts bars. l reckon afore
long he'll have bar out q huntin the
dog. Well, got a COW, four bushels of
walnUts and a box of corn salve for him.
So | fetched the COW home and Sarysn
was pleased all over. So said as how
we better tie her fur awhile, and I'd 60
and git a rope. When | come back Sary.
an said, jist come yer, Neal, and look at
this yer milk, and don't you know that
COW gives butter outen one of her te ats.
She gives one pound and 10 ozs. of yellow
butter, and she gives a quart of nice
butter milk outen the other one, and .
quart of nice rich milk outen one, and }
pints Of good clabber for cheese outen the
other. Says l, now Saryan, don't you
90 aDd blab this to the wlmmen folks er
somebody will steal that COW, and know
war they is one over in the Fort, a two
teater, what gives coffee o1ten one and
molassas outen the other, and I'll try to
git her. just as we get done milkin' one
of these yer Italions comes along with one
Of them Boy Constructors or snakes p
feet long, and he had big African with
him, and he asked me if wanted any
apples picked and chestnuts, shook.
Sarysn said as how she'd like if he'd pick
our yaller pippins. So he took chair as
he had with him, aud strapped it on the
snakes head and took basket aud got
in the chair and said something and the
snake stood straight W on his tail and
struck his head up in the tree, and that
Teller ist picked them apples in a hurry.
The African be went up on the hill and
took good start and run mp and butted
that ar tree till nigh all the burrs fell off,
and split the tree, to boot. Then Saryan
told him as how our home sot too fur
down the bill and it made the cellar too
low, and sir, he stepped back a couple
steps and give it but and knocked it up
nigh on to feet. Then axed them
whas was the bill, and he said Is cts, but
no checks. Then they started up to the
Brook. Cousin Charlie Smith, as lives
down below us little, was a sowen
fertilizer on one OF his fields. He says 1t
always was poor, Its awful poor, you can'i
raise nothing on it, you can't even raise
an umbrella on it. He says he tried te
raise 10 cents one year but he couldn't
But that haint the way with the rest Of
his place. Some of the richest land in
the Hollar is right there. Well, l was up
to the Brook the other day, and cousin
Noah Snarr told me that Sam. Mley and
Martin Bauserman had left for the World,
FAIR, and that the apple trade had become
good one as there are no less than eight
buyers now shipping from there. Mr.
Riley has moved into Miss Hockman't
house, Mr.. Martin Bauserman is prepar.
ing the foundation for large iron clad
lime kiln to be put up at once. Capt
John Flemming and Lieut.. Walton have
zone to the Blue Ridge some where in the
Fort for a couple of weeks camping.
am sure they will bring home lots of deer,
turkeys, bear, &c. He would have told
me moro but Ephriam Uriah come aitel
me to go hsme and help git the butter
louten that COW, and stay with the chill
dren while Saryan went to fish the oil
cat outen the well a, fell in thar las
week. 1t kinder makes the water soar
Tell Little Pnd be must come oyer aHC
see urs. got good koon dog for him
You must come down and see urs soon
Yours in respect,
NrIr PtrzzApD