The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05

when the fervid hot weather come on
he let loose, re did, and turned the
whole business into a tremendous big
hay farm.
You must recollect thai yale Eabofs
is the most ontdoinest man for foolin
With Tigers in all this skirt of the
woods. And from what has come to pass
this year the general stage Of the
weather has got somethin to do with tho
way the fggers run for julie.
1T was way along there in juno, the
crops was comm monstrous slow and the
grass was CROWN to peat six bits says
julie in givin out hia experience with
fggers, Il went down on the creek one
day to pillow out a little cut of swamp
corn, which the grass was then a whole
lot higher and greener than the corn. l
plc#ed three or four rounds and by that
time, you understand, the sun hit was
comm down at the rates of a hundred
miles a minnit and as hot as the hinges
on the lower gates. Presently drove
out in the shade Of q big F--h tree. un-
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f%guration whilst I was restin. 1 soon fig.
gered it out that there was more money
in hay than l could make outen scent
cotton and corn at 40 6.nts a bushel.
Naturally, of course, l took out and uit
right then and there, turned my mule
in the paster, and By granny, Rufe, l
haven't stuck a pillow nor bent a hoe
from that day to this. But you can see
with your " eyes that have got the
most bulliest crop of hay that was ever
growed in the Rocky Creek settlement.
III the weather want SO %scandious hot |
would be cuttin of it right now, butowin
to the general circumference of the sur
roundins / will have to wait for it to
break up and cool Off"
No longer than yesterday norhin l
saw julie Majors ridin along by my
house with his stake-and-ridered
shirt on. polin off down in the Flat
woods to take in another big meetin.
In the mainline his hay crop is ripe
and ready and waitin for the harvest.
The September gale is more than prun
able to come along next, and that viii
be the last of julie Majors and his finu
hay crop.
But julie won't give a continental for
that. If you will only give him a lead
pencil and q piece Of paper it won't
take him more than fifteen minutes at
the longest to fgger it out his way, and
then | reckon he could show you that it
pays better to take in big meetins and
go squirrel huntin thar to pull hay
whilst the weather is so %scandlous hot.
w." Got His Man Out.
The g%onebyest best lawyer that has
ever too a case in these parts is a man
By the name of Web Dargin. No doubts
but what you could go to the city and
find plenty of lawyers nth more sense
and book learnin than him, but when
it comes to pullin his man out of a bad
scrape whether or no, Squire Daniel
Webster Dargin is the stuff.
They worked up a big | W case in the
Justice Court over at the Cross Roads
one dan last waek, which lobe Fuller
stood charged with stealth of a hor
Web Dargin was there to take up Tobe's
side of the fight, and he read law bools
and specified forthree hours on a
stretch. But it was a dead open and
shut case, and all the aw books AMI
speeches in creation cou mt clear Tobe.
Whereas he was bound over and locked
up in the callaboose.
But that very highway along in tho
still and solemn hours. js4it were-Web
Dargin took a crow+a and rent Gown
to the ~callaboose, you understand, and
made a slip-gap at one corner ane got
lobe out. When the prisoner made his
escape he hit the grit and hit it a
movin, and the next day Web no went
to Tobe's house with papers OF
complement and levelled on three
acres of corn and one spotted steer for
his fees and costs in the case.
Web Dargin is nothing but a piney-
woods runt, without any book learnin
to speak of, you understand, but if he
can hold out at his present lick he will
loon be famous as a lawyer. Sense and
book learnin are good enough and all
for common, but with a jam-up,
lawyer in this present day
and generation the mainest thing is
nerve.