Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-04-21
POSEY HELLER.

Mr.. EDITOR :-TwIxt Sarys1 an my
sore feet hain't had much peese since |
come from the Inauguration Saryan
says ought to 90 to the Worlds Fair
She says ste thinks III git to walk from
about Cincinnati next time. She said
never seen the President an all sch talk;
lord, bat she's worryin'. But l got
even with her last week. We've 60 al
old Billy goat down at our house whose
business it is to keep the Young orchard
trimmed in the winter an the boys from
the early apples in the summer, an every
now an then he will argue a pint with
me or Saryan If you shake your finger at
him you jst got to fight, sure, an be can
but harder than tilt hammer. We'll.
last Wednesday eYenin' Saryan was
settin' on a stool in the COW stable near
the door a milkn', an was jist above
her shakin' up the straw, an ! saw the old
goat come up to the door an look in -
Thinks |. Saryan has been worrin' me so,
now I'll paw her back. SO | jlst pinted
nv fist at old Bill an got up in the trough;
I thought he'd come at me an make the
old COW jump an scare Saryan. Bot,
GOOD lord, he took good run an struck
Saryau square in the back an knocked
her under the old COW an that scared the
COW an she let her foot fly an hit Saryan's
bucket an mashed it fiat; by that time
old Bill took another run an struck the
old COW someWhar in the rear an she
inmped up IN the rough an Knocked me
ont IN the f,edn' room in a barrel of slop
as was settin' thar. When l got up
fsund was most all whole-only one
tooth knocked out an my thumb broke
So went 10 HINT Saryan, an | found bel
ont in a shed in the hopper of an old wind
mill. whar the COW had kicked her, with
her nose knocked to one side an her cal
snlit omen ar the bucket bale around bel
neck an holleIin' like an Indian. look
ed in through 2 crack an thar stood old
Bill buttin' away at the old COW, with bis
ewes kicked out, an the old COW kIckln
away at Bill, with both hoofs butted of
So run over an got cousin Ed. Kronk,'
old jimmy an hooked to the goat an pull
ed him away; | knowed that jimmy was
the only thing that could git near thal
goat noticed that they had been gem
together right smart | guess they re
mashed Just as got back from takin
the jimmy home cousin Mart Bauserman
come Up an said he would like to
have Josiah Ephraim to come 10 th'
Brook an cart lime; he said he
would make him foreman OF the carl
hands an pay him nice, new brass
checks. an if he staid years he'd give
him a pair of shoes an make i'm stable
bo,s. Bula MaliDda was a pullln' the
stickip' plaster often Saryan's ear an
tbrowin' il away an cousin Mart told hel
she ought to save it it would come in good
for mendin' checks as got tore into, an
then be give her a lecture on sayln,
was right glad cause Bula Malinda IS rea
wasteful like. | asked cousin Mart IT
they was any news up 10 the Brook, an
he said not much. that cousin Milt Cra6il
give one o. his pints Of law to some iel.
laws as cot too p1galistlc the other night
il comes right high, too. He also said he
conldn't begin to fill all his orders fol
lime an would have TO increase his bust
ness. an that all the merchants had come
hack from the city with Is carloads oil
goods apiece an was fairly giyin' them
away. and that everybody was busy
gittn' their corn ground ready an maxim
garden, an that bis three new houses were
done an ready to be flied, an' that If thu
Brook kept on n prosperin' IL onld SCOT
be a city; an that aunt Eliza Alber
buried her fine young COW last week, an
he said that cousin Charlie Jones saiC
cousin Marshall Bowman said Mr. Rol
Hoshour said Mr.. AL Shaver told him tina
Mr.. Lon Walker would be the next clerk
it's funny how people knows everything
Well will close for this time as I've go
TO rock the babe while Saryan goes att Q
white walnut bark to make pills. Yol
must come TO see urs soon.
Yourn, In respect,
NEAL BCZZARD.