St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-12-07

ment He turned out on that line last
spring, and he has went on from bad to
worse, and more of it till now to hear
him talk you would think it was bread
and meat and life and death and free
silver on one side, and the world, the
flesh and the devil and the goldbugs on
the other.
But I was in town one day last week,
and little Bunk he had went in that
mornin with two bales OF cotton. The
price had jumped up considerable and
he got somethin better than cents
pound for his load.
Now the Weatherfords are all debt
pAyin, dram-drinkin people, and little
Bunk went to work and paid up his
store account the first thing Then be
bought few dry goods and . quart
Of 'sperits-of-cats-a-fightin," as Blew
Scroggins were wont to call it, and had
forty silver dollars left clean and clear.
And what do you reckon como next?
Little Bunk Weatherford. the great
free silver man, put out he did and
chased all around town tryin to swap
his silver for forty dollars in gold.
After SO long . time he found man
that had two twenty dollar gold pieces
and made the trade and went home
happy.
Il am still for free silver or bust,
Rufe." says little Bunk when he found
out that l had caught him in the act.
''but have got forty dollars to put
away in my old sock, you understand,
and the silver is too blamed onhandy
to keep"
Wherea,, I have likewise also took
notice in regards to that-there is more
than one Bunk Weatherford in this glo-
rious old country we call home.
Aunt Nancy still Lives.
Now in these days it comes to pass
that was ruther somewhat too previous
in givin it out that Aunt Nancy Newton
had went the way Of all human flesh.
Her brother Andrew Jim come by with
the wagons the other day. He brought
me plug Of store-bought tobacco and
letter from Aunt Nancy. And this is
what she bad to say:
PANTHER CREEK, October, 1895.
"Dere Rufus: The weather has been
90 pleasant, and everybody SO busy or
so sick, till I couldn't find no way to git
of visitin. Chills and fevers are goin
about thick and terrible in the settle
ment now. and you know how handy
these plain old women are in case Of
sickness. The men folks talk big and
act big and feel big, and think they are
r1nnin of the country, whilst one sick
baby is about ten times too many for
COW pen full Of 'em. 1t has been clost
about two years now since give it out
as my own personal private opinion that
the third party was the devil come in
new suit of sheep clothes to raise .
fresh rumpus on the earth. and after
that old man Rip Davis wouldn't speak
to me when we met in the big road.
But the chills and fevers broke out in
his family. His wife was first took
down, and then the children tumbled
over one by ono TIL finally at last he
| Was the onlyest one left up and about.
And one night last week here come old
was he after? Aunt Nancy. Of course.
The whole family was sick abed and
the baby havin spasms, and in .
pushency like that Aunt Nancy was
somebody. To be certainly went and
l had to stay and remain over there
three days and nights They are all ON
the mend now, and the next time We
meet in the big road reckon maybe
old man Rip will be 30 kind, condescend-
in and obligin as to say Good mornin.
Aunt Nancy
II can't say for certain when it will
be 20 / can leave home on visit. but in
the mainline / will live in hopes OF
breakin bread with you along about
| Thanksgivin. AUNT NANCY"
The world still needs these plain old
iint-and-steel women, and 1 am glad
glad to the bottom Of my heart-that
there is yet one perusin around on
Panther Creek, and my Aunt Nancy
Newton amt gone nowheres-
RUFUS SASDERA