St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-11-14

sense. As to my Uncle Josmh-v'ell,
he don't know anything for certain
when it comes to books..aRd book
learnin, but what little he don't know
about mules and niggers, and horses
and people and things, was tore oft of
the records in the first settlement o. the
country.
"One Durn Fool 1t Least.s
Ridin along through Georgy one long
summer day we suddenly come to
where there was two jcinin farms, and
l took particlar notice of two line fences
built SO jam-up clost together till they
didn't make a lane, nor a pig alley. nor
nothin, aud says l to Uncle Josiah,
says L:
'What you reckon them fellows mean
by buildin two fences side hy side so
-elost together?" Says Uncle Josiah to
me, says he:
II don't know anything for certain
as to this particlar case. Rufus, but for
a common thing and & general rule to
go by, wAensemevcr you see two line
fences runnin so clost together, yoo can
most in generally always gi. ont your
little notebook and set it down that
there Is at least one durn fool In the
settlement, and maybe two"
That makes me think of the common
run of democrats and third party people
down here in this skirt of woods. They
xre buildin their fences on the same
general lines this year, and SO tremen-
dius clost together till blamed if you
Gun tell who is and who amt. And
moreover besides all that. they have
been shakin hands and kissin, and run
min back and forth across the line SO
reglar aud SO frequent till I'll be all
garmcd up if they haven't jest about
spilled the thing cut.
It is nothin to me, and reckon you
moYght say it is none of my Internal
business. In politics I don't stack up
nny to speak of nohow. As John An
drew Milligan swere wont to say about
the third party, am somewhat sorter
like mule, you understand-without
pride Of ancestry or hope of posterity.
But keep on tellin the democrats and
third party people that they mought as
well stop buildin so clost together and
,ine fences and be done with it. They
nre now buildin two fences so clost to
the same line till blamed If you could
drive razor-hack hog between the
two. And sometimes can't help from
thinkin about Uncle Josiah Jernigan.
which if he was here to-day and could
see and hear what have heard and saw
he would be more than probable to give
I out rs his general opinion that there
ere n whole passle Of dufn fools scat
tered around amongst the woods and
hills and along the streams Of this great
Such "Tel0ntous had Luck.e
In regards to the gentleman from
Rocky Greek, there is one thing in par
.iclar which you can find stickin out
Ill along the line SO far back as the fam.
iy records run. II I.never do die till
.rouble kills me will live long. long
lime, and old Methusalcm, which the
rood Rook tells US about, would be a
mere kid compared to me. And never
vas no hand to peddle around and
,ester other people with the trials and
that come to me whilst the
basket is passin round.
But, white people, have had such
broad streak of feloni 3us bad luck :.cre
ately till feel necessary compelled
o speak put the truth If it shames the
levil and unload on the patient and
public. Some folks say
hey don't believe in luck, but ! do.
Ind in my own day and generation l
rave had more luck of one sort and
mostly good luck than
ny livin white man. ! do reckon. II
: amt luck it looks like luck to me.
nd there you are at any rates.
On the very first rattle cut Of the
'ox-which it was then along in the
irst days of June il I remember right
'lev Scroggins he rid up to the horse
ack at our house one day and hitchetl
big fihc-lookin sorrcl horse, with lax
nahe and tail. We PASSED the reglar |
in regards to the weather |
nd the crops. flung in Q few scattrrin
on the grea. question of poli-
les. and didn't say marry word shout |
orse flesh and swappin stcck. But
resently when Blew mounted his horse
D return back home couldn't stand |
no longer. In the main time. you
had sized up rhc big .or-
el on his general appearmcnts. rs il
vere. and took a powerful likin to Elm.
o told Blew. in my own Aa.-footed
,ol way, that IL he would rather lave
" mare mule Kate. than his horse he
ould ride around BY the lot and do some
wappin.
"You arc tnded with" eays rlev,
nd by the time got out to the loi he
ad pulled OF his saddle and turned
10 horse loose. And then in less time
,au it takes me to tell 1t he had put
ls saddle on the mule and hid on to-
ords home in . gillop. About that
me the thought struck me that there
lust be somethin. dead up the creek in
yards to my line horse. Blew was 20
uick on trigger-so easy to swap with, |
ID then In such . furious big bury
, saddle the mule and hit the big road
q home. But looked the big sorrel
rjr and couldpst. find. . blemish any
Mere from foretop to fetlock.
seven Fees Undsr sTerryserna.~
That night ! turned my horse loose
MN into the calf paster. and when I |
y up next nornin Il come to pass that
] had turned himself loose down int6l
j ~ well whish II want 1aeges s1heaI