St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-02-08


You mought saddle up right now and
pitch out and ride three hundred miles
before you could and another woman -
smart as my Aunt Nancy Newton. She
has never went on to college and she
don't put any on frills and fancy hxmsnts
to speak o. She 10 what call . plain.
old-fashion, fiint-and-steel woman. But
when It comes to havin sense-plenty OF
it and some to spare-my Aunt Nancy
10 right there. And yet still 1T tho
same time, that dear. delightful old
soul can take up moro fool notions, 1t
soems to me, than any oae woman In
the whole discovered country.
II Aunt Nancy was to turn in tonight
and dream about crossin high and
muddy waters-freshets and foods and
the like OF that-shc wouldn't sleep NO
more in week. She says It 10 dead
certain sign of death in the family for
anybody to dream about crossin muddy
waters. But II death in the family
had come to pass every time ! have
dreamt abou. crossin foods and freshets
and muddy waters the Sanders genera
tion would Of faded out years and years
ago. So that is jest simply ono Of Aunt
Nancy's fool notions.
l was buildin OF . new house last
summer in one Of the most loveliest
spots ON the broad bosom Of the earth
perhaps. There Is big oak grove all
around and spring right down there
under the hill.
"You will have TO take your AZ.
Rufus. and cut them trees down." said
Aunt Nancy the hsst time she driv BY.
ut will never do to leave 'em standin
there. They will draw lightnin. Rufus.
they will draw lightnin - certsin n
the Lord made little appleA"
Well, I never have cut them trees
down, and what IL more I nsver will.
They have boon standin right there foE
o hundred years. reckon, and they
never have drawed any lightnin yet
Aud SO far - can zee there ain't no
particlar reason why they will start ia
drawin Of it now. But at any rates,
that IL one moro Of Aunt Nancy's fool
notions.
II Aunt Nancy was to run ont Of . Job
ON Thursday night-as smart and
stirrin - she is-she would set down
and smoke her pipe and hold her hands
and play with the children . whole en-
tire day before she would start . piece
of work on Friday. Its bad luck.
Drer. Ses. h>A 1,.~l, -. che .uA ~ . 4
is the onlyest reason she can give. The
Good Book tells us TO work SIX days
and rest on Sunday. but It don't eay
nothin about taken Friday for luck.
Every day Is workin day with me. ex-
cepin Sunday. and have had more good
luck than any man in the settlement
Whereas, accordin to my doxology, that
is another one OF Aunt Nsncy's fool no.
tions.
And then Aunt Nancy she runs every
thing by the moon. She regulates the
weather. and sows her garden seed. and
plants out her flowers. and sets her hens
and kills her hogs all accordin to the
size and shape and stage and general
appearments Of the moon. As to me,
it takes my level blamdest to keep ur
with the sun, and don't know one turn
Of the moon from another. But the
weather changes with the seasons, aud
the garden seed como up. and the chick.
ems hatch on, and the flowers grow at
our house the same as they do over n
tho Newton place. So there We an
with one moro OF Aunt Nancy's fool NO
tions.
Finally at last. accordin to my Agura.
tion. It would take hamper basket and
q good big book 70 hold all the sense
and all the fool notions that Aunt
Nancy has got in her head.
The Processioa Proceeded.
II amt 50 very often-maybe not more
than oncst year-that my friend and
fellow servant Blew Scrozgins breaks
out in . fresh place. but whsnsomevel
he does turn loose he can take mp some
Of the blamdest biggest fool notions ol
any rale smart man have ever saw.
One dav last week Blew come BY my
house drivin four mules to big waRou,