The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-05-09

and cut or saw off piece about fifteen
inches long, and dress the inside ont
smoothe, and then trim the outside down
until you have it about half inch in
thickness. The next thing to do, if you
haven't got raw hide Of some sort, is to
kill cat and get its hide and take the
hair of, which you can do by soaking 1t
in lime water or ashes and water for
day or two. Then wash clean and pro-
ceed to stretch 1t over ono end of your
hollow drum, fasten it securely, and let it
dry, which will leave livery tight. Now
procure good flax string or cord, about
the size of q broom string and about two
or three feet long, and wax 1t thoroughly
with some shoe wax or hard pine rosin,
punch hole in the middle Of the raw
hide head on your drum. or "Squedunk,"
as Mr.. McLaurin calls it, put the wa1ed
back and forth, and without any previous
some Of the most hideously discordant,
as we'll as uncertain, sounds that you
ever heard. They are uncertain because
there is no amount of practice that will
enable you, don't care how expert you
may become in handling the instrument,
to give the remotest idea what the sound
will be until the noise is made. That I
suppose Is the reason why Mr.. McLaurin
makes the comparison of some of the
Reformers to the "Squedunk" or dumb
bull 1--WE always called theni); he don't
know what they are going to say until
it is said-it may be in harmony with the
Reform element or it may not. Mr..
Stringer says that he had not exactly
caught on to the thing from Mr.. Will
liams' description Of it, but as soon as I
explained 1t TO him, and called ita dumb
bull, he knew exactly what it was, and
wanted me to explain it to number of
his old friends who did not understand
it. Jack says that old ''uncle Joe" Scott
used to make them to play on in Christ
get out on The hill on Christmas morning
before day at Williamson and begin
playing on his dumb-bull, or "Sque-
dunk" as Mr.. McLaurin calls them, and
would arouse the whole country for miles
around with the unearthly sounds that he
could produce. 1t only requires you to
hear 1t one time to enable you to always
recognize its sounds ever afterward, and
you must hear 1t to appreciates, or rather
you may abhor 1t.
Altogether we had very pleasant trip
and had two days bri;n-full of enjoyment,
and it was not intended for pleasure
trip either.
The small grain crops all along the road
travelled are fine and saw some very
good looking corn, but the most Of the
cotton had not come up good. While
some were getting very good stands,
others were talking of planting over, and
some had planted over part Of their
crop. I have, I am glad to say very
good stand so far.
Mrs. Callahan, wife of Mr.. Martin CAL
laham, has been quite sick. We hope for
her speedy recovery.
Mrs. William Callahan has been quite
feeble for some time, but we are glad to
say she is considerably better. Also Mr..
D. E. King, we hear, is sick at his home.
With these exceptions, and that Of Mrs.
Eliza Lee, who has been confined to her
room for some time, the health of our
community is very good.
We will proceed to notice "Reformer's''
| answer to Squire Fewel next week with
some comments. SQUIRE FEwEL.