New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-02-24
AMONG THE PINES.
ODD THINGS ABOUT THE. NATIVES IN
NORTH CAROLINA WOODS.

Socks on the Bargain Counter and the Mer-
chant-He Kept the Store Strange
Method Employed For Computing Dis
tances Between Points. 49,
The sojourner roaming in the piny
woods Of North Carolina will be fire.
quently confronted by a sign or an
nouncement printed in stenciled capital
letters Oh board 2 OF feet square and
nailed to a pine tree, whereby the way
faring man is told Of the manifold
things he may buy at bargain store'
at Southern Pines, oEc item in the list
being 1.-TWO pair Ct Sex for 10 cents. y
The other day a visitor, curious to know
what manner of "sox" it might be that
could be purchased fer cents pair,
went over to patronize this bargain
counter. He found the store. It was
frame building fully as large as a freight
train cabOOse. It stood on the edge Of
big lot, the remaining area being occu-
pied by IL vineyard and straw berry beds
and blackberry patches. A strong fence
surrounded it. i Facing the front Of the
store was a gate heavily barred against
all Corners. The door Of the store was
evidently locked, and there was no sign
| of life about the establishment. The
would be customer made up his mind
| that here was a case where advertising
had not paid, when he saw a placard on
the door which gave notice to the public
| thus: I'm the Back Yard If You Want
| Me, Holler.' -
| Acting Oh this advice, the searcher
after cent socks ''hollered. Presently
man appeared from somewhere back
Of the store
| "Do you want to git in:'' he asked.
Being told that such was the visitor S
wish, the man came forward, unbarred
the gate, unlocked the door and let his
customer III.
m workin up my garden said he,
'and don't want folks foolin round un-
less they want to git in for bargains.
The socks were worth the money.
You may be travelling for the first
time somewhere through North Caro-
lima backWoods district, and, not having
a clear idea as to distances, you natural
| ly stop and ask the first native you come
| to how far it may be to So-and-so's place.
Expecting to hear him reply that it is a
mile, two miles, Or whatever the dis
lance is in miles, you will undoubtedly
be surprised and puzzled when he says,
after due deliberation:
'Well sub, it's about two looks from
hyuh, sub, reckon. May be two looks
an a peep, though, sub. It's a right
smart ways, anyhow, sub. y
You are obliged, of course, to ask fo1
solution of this puzzle and will ther
learn that a "look,' as a measure Of
distance, is the limit Of vision ahead O;
you from the spot where you are, an(
it may be turn in the road 100 yards
away Or a point mile or more distant
You travel to the end Of that "look, ,
and from there take another look to tn,
farthest object in sight as your course
lies and travel on to that. If you hav'
been told that your destination is tw'
"looks' ahead, when you get tothe end O
the second look there you are. If it i
two ''looks" ard a ''peep, you peep of
to one side Of the road OF the other from
the second ''look" and see the place yo1
are after.
One time New Yorker went dow
to North Carolina to join some friend
who were hunting wild turkeys in tn
piny woods. They had gone out for
days sport when he arrived, and h
started to hunt them up. Not havin
} found any sign Of them after trampin
about for half a day, he met a native il
al old road and asked him if he ha
seen anything of the party.
, Eyes, sur he replied. "They're u
this road yonduh, three looks and
boot, subj.
The New Yorker thought the nativ
was guying him and started on in
\ huff. He went On until he came to
bridge, where he met another pin
woods denizen at work, and he aske
} that one the same question. The ma
looked up the road. The farthest thin
in sight was a big pine tree, nearly
mile away.
Eyes, sub, see 'em 'smawnin, sub,
he said. ''They was jes' bout one loo
an boot from hyuh then, subj
The stranger glared at the man an
went grumbling on his way. Just befor
he came to the big pine tree anothe
native came out of the woods, and tn
New Yorker, with much misgivine
asked him the question he had put
the others.
ooh, yes, suh!'' was the reply. 1.-THE
only jes' in hyuh boot, subj.
The native turned toward the woods
put a hand on each side of his mout
and shouted a lusty:
!, 'Hoo-o-o-o-oo-hoot
!, In few seconds a similar cry cam
T back from the woods.
''Thar they is, suhp' exclaimed til
native. "That's them, subj -
And it was. They were two looks
and ''hoot" from the place where til
New Yorker had first inquired for then
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