The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-12-06
.sStIr hound Some"

two or three weeks, Rufus, aud / want
you to git up and git out and stir round
some," says Mother, as she picked up
her darnin gourd and got out basket OF
old socks. White people, whensOmever
see the darnin gourd and that basket
of old socks como out and report for
duty am ready TO hear somethiu drap.
1t means some new socks made out OF
old ones, but it likewise also means a
whole passle moro than that. 1t means
that the day and hour have come when
somethin must be said.
II would love the best in the world
to see you come around on your feet
oncst more, Rufus, but all the doctors
in creation couldn't tell for certain
what you have got" she went on to say.
81 reckon maybe the good Lord knows
what ails you, but He won't tell it. But
if it amt one thing the matter it is
somethin else. From all the general
appearments of the case it looks to me
like you mought be sufferin with a gen.
and the mul1ygrubs. At any rates you
have got somethin or other and a mighty
bad case of it, and it has now come to
that pass where it makes me sore in
spirit and weary in the flesh.
''Stir round some. That is the main
est thing for you, Rufus. Stir round
some. Go out amongst the highways
and the byways and mix and ningle
with the folks. 1t will beat bluemass
and snake root tea and salts and the like
of that clean out of sight. There is
many man in this country that feels
and looks a tremendous big sight worse
than you and has whole lot more bad
luck and hard times than you do. You
have stayed hero at home mopin and
moanin around in the low grounds so
monstrous long till you have come to
think that all the trials and troubles
and tribulations, and sorrows and wor-
riment in the created world are right
doubts it seems that way to you, but
that is jest simply because your wife's
husband is lookin darkly through set
of green goggles, as it were. Stir
round some. That is the mainest
thing for you, Rufus. Stir round some.
''You will mighty soon find out that
other people turn up sick sometimes as
we'll as you. Some people fall out and
fight and split the blanket and quit,
whilst some die and are buried, and
others land in the Poor House. But
bless gracious we amt come to that yet.
Other people git their potatoes frost
bit and ruint, providin they dig 'em in
rainy weather, like you did. and then
leave 'em out in the patch of a cold
frosty night Other people have their
hogs to take sick and die with the
colery, or maybe their COWS go dry all
at oncst, or the dogs pitch in and kill
their sheep, and so forth and so on. In
the long run the good Lord is more than
probable to even things up all along the
line, Rufus, and we raley couldn't ex-
pect to have everything our own way
all the time. II all the machinery runs
smooth and even and / can have my
own way about things in general one
half of the time am more than thank
full for that much. Stir round some.
That is the text am preaGhin from to-
night, Rufus. Stir round some"
so Much for SperIts-of- -Cats-a-FIghtEn
Well Mother she went on at that rate
till late bed time-never missed lick
nor jumped a cog. And even when she
got through and took out and quit, I
didn't say nothin. But yet still at the
same time it was my own private per-
sonal opinion that her head was as big
as hamper basket and as level as
squash. She was the doctor in this
case, and there was nothin left for me
to do but to take the medicine like she
had fixed it up. So bright and early the
next mornin I saddled up and lit out.
1 didn't start out to go Anywheres in
particulr. The mainest thing with
me was to ''stir round some"
] then give my horse the ribbons and
naturally Of course we soon rounded up
at the old Scroggins place. But Blew
he want at home. He was way of some
where's down in the woods paster playin
doctor as best he could to sick mule.
BY roamin and ramblin around promiscus
tor some time finally at last found
him. He was foolin and physicin with
his young mare mule. Kizzie.
Things are comm top side down and
wrong side out with me, Rufe," says
Bley, land you know when they start
to comm wrong they most in generally
come in focks and squads and
droves. The best COW on the place laid
down night before last and said her