The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-04-26

man is supposed to gather bushel DAY
- vii, hear from headquarters. Some
,,a.,.. fiat have enough vans git more
,,,on tbev can use and string it up info
,...hss and start woodward. There
49,. men that take a knob off each booroo'
Inf i. isn't considered hardly profession
al less you're gittjn together"
aWhat do you mean by getting tossth-
err
I,s vots called technical term.
When you're gittin' together; that's all
,,ittin booroo together, or stens'o"
table together, or stove together van
ho1o "a have things like other folks,
and it's cheaper and handler to git en-
together than to buy EN-
"But how do you do it?'
nchunk here and chunk thereof
course. Take a cookstove, for instance;
= worry ncat and desirable thing TO git to-
oether, not 80 easy as some things hut
hard enough so \ Van man needn't be
ashamed of it. Leg here, leg there;
hearth to-day, oven door tomorrow grid
die down town. sriddle up town; mt OF
pipe from Smith, int O. pipe es;d'mP-
ar from PARTY moving out, lid litter from
marty moving III. Store 'cm at home and
" ZEN it's got together set up your stove
and build your fire with your klndll"s
wood and coal you've formulated, while
YOUR wife sets on the pots and kettles that
have fell to you similarly. Same with q
attention table-legs, leafs, braces, and
such stuff; or bcdstoad; casters, Stats
sides, end boards, mattress, sheets,pIliers
and all them things Everything is made
in little picces when you come TO look at
it close-a lamp, chair, set of Seakes-
pcare's books, anything. Everything e1-
cept dog-if you want dog you've to
lust steal him-uhole hog or none; but
which don't consider honest"
"But don't people accuse YOU of-er-
getting togethcr?"
"Bluff 'em. Tell 'em the thing Was
broke zen you took it, or all right wen
you Letter both Things will sit lost in
moving and folks know it. Bluff is the
word. Patience and 'cumulate and bluff
when they kick. and keep honest and
never take a whole thing is the secret OF
vanning."
Would you mind telling me what is the
hardest thing 10 get together?"
"a pianncr. mover got but one plan
ncr together, and indirectly it's the cause
of me being hore. The bess got it into
his head he must have a panner for his
daughter. Cit it together Ivy Ma! 10,
says he. All right, says ]. That day l
got a rosewood leg. W'ere's me plan
ner leg? says the woman. Wot leg? says
l. The fourt' leg, gays she Yah, says !,
it's one Of these ere three-legged pam
ners. She kicked some more, but | got
her batfed at last. Then for three days
| got leg each day and that made
enough. Then took ME forceps and be-
gun pulling teeth as we call it-thrco
white ones and two blacks from each pi-
amer, and in week had the keys. 1t
didn't take long to pick up tops and sides
and all such things, and then | started on
the inside. That was hard work, mainly
cause there was many little things that
it most drove me crazy telling wOt Id got
and wot hadn't. priIed myself on not
gittn any one thing twice, and | didn't.
Generally got three wires, with the lit
tie hammers and pads and things from
each pianner,and handful Of the mscer-
lancous i1ngs. Once in a while / took a
piece Of music, and on the evening of May
9, walked into the boss house and set
down pianner stool and lamp,and says
/: There you be, and he was, too, as he
found out " 'en hs come-.to set it.up. No
expense but one dollar to get it tuned 1t
was hard work, though, and wouldn't try
it again
"But how did it bring You here?"
81 was telling my brother about it.
Hess hossscar driver and don't under
stand vot they call the ethics Of the VAN
ming business. Says he: 1t wasn't hon
est. So brung him one on the jaw, he
being Younger than me and family dis
cerplin having to be maintained: But
somehow it broke his jaw and they give
me two years for it. Whom | git out I'm
going into plumbing re there won't be
no shadow Of chance for nobodo to
PINT the finger Of corn at me: That man
is guilty Of Irregularities in his business.