The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1895-01-12

In the survey, one old hound emphasis
ing it with sundry growls which weren'
very pleasant to my ear, while one O
the kids remarked in loud aside to his
little brother, "Cracky, Budd, l wonder
where pap found him."
After being scrutinized to their salts
faction, was invited into the cabin
which was all in one room and without
window or any means of light except
what came through the door or down
the chimney. The floor was made OF
puncheons, that is, logs of wood, split
and hewed on the upper side until they
had fiat surface. They were of va
rious thickness and difference of a
couple Of inches in adjoining puncheons
was thought to make a very smooth
floor. A couple of beds stood ia oppo-
site corners of the room and a rick ety
table stood near the te q lace on
which (the fire place. the evening meal
was being prepared. A splint bottom
chair for "mam," and half dozen
stools, manufactured out of the same
material as the puncheons, completed
the furnishing of the room excepting
bake oven, pot, skillet and coffee Dot
by the fire, and shelf, on which were
few plates, cups and saucers. / am
thus particular in describing this house
as one description answers for nine out
of ten houses in the farming por-
ton of Arkansas.
Supper was now announced as being
ready, and "the stranger'' was invited
up and told to make himself ito hum,n
the lady of the house volunteering the
information that I'VE done gone and
drank all the coffee for break fast and
you uns'll have to make out on butter
milk.u
Now, l never did like buttermilk very
well and it did not agree with me any
better than did with it, but to please
my host | forced couple of cupsfull
down my unwilling throat, to be troubI-
ed all the evening afterward with
very disagreable sensation in the region
of the belt
When bed time arrived, I was given
my choice of sleeping with three child
rem in one of the corner beds or sleep
ing out on the porch on four bushel
sack of corn, which my host informed
me he was going to ''toten to mill next
day. chose the sack of corn without
hesitation. But, oh dear, such bed!
just want to inform my readers right
here that if they want to sleep on
title bit the hardest, most disagreabe
bed that it is possib BILE to invent, Just
ry four-bushel sack of corn. Thatin-
ernal corn would roll over and eide,
any provocation in the world
nd take dig at me until, in the morn
ng, believe | carried the marks Of
ach individual grain of corn on some
art of my anatomy. The porch was
uilt high enough off the ground to ac-
omodate beueath it large family of
ogs of the most quarrelsome deserip-
ION who used it as a sleeping chamber.
would just get into deze when they
'ould start an argument getting hotter
nd hotter, eventually terminating in a Ef
'ee-for-al fight, in the midst of which
n old shanghai rooster, with a voice
Ike fog horn, which was using one
nd of the porch as roosting place, I
ould chip in with a triumphant
Observation-Disclosures" To add still {
Irtber to the already uncomfortable c
tuation, the four dogs, who were oc-
lpying the porch with me and were
altered around promiscuously on the
)or, became aware that the fees were d
tting in their work and proceeded to s.
slodge them, using principally their
nd feet for the operation and every u
ss they would make at flee the ell 3
W oftheir hind leg would strike the q
or with thud. Take four industri- VI
8 dogs trying to dislodge an army of 'e
es and at the same time whining an p'
to their thumps on the "
or and I'll challenge the worst sleepy "
ad in the country to sleep with any -
isfaction. The dogs were successful "a
J, to some extent, in dislodging these -
lie pests as l soon learned to my sor-
', for the fees that escaped from the 70
IS transferred their unwelcome atten- IL
MS to me, and can truly say that ~
ween hogs, dogs, rooster and fees, ~
ever put in more miserable night 10
ny life and as long as 1 live I shall VI
avs remember my first night in ~
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