The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-09-26
ARP IN THE KITCHEN
His Cook Is Sick and the Family Has
To Eat.
THEREFORE BILL HAS WORK
Arp Tries His Hand at Crosscut Saw.
Felled Large Tree and Cut 1t
Up Into Stovewood.

| mixed in this sublunary world. But tle
! good is more than the bad. Indeed, ti9
! scriptures tell us that all things WORK 10
! gether for good to those who love Zoo.
| Certain it Is that our little girl mas passed.
the crisis safely and is now slowly pNL
! surely recovering from that long protracle"
fever There is more good in this than
| there is bad in all little troubles. IL
rains every day and all we can do Is 20
! sympathize with our neghbors and trlenoS
! who have lost fodder and pea-vine nay,
and can assure the farmers that II VIII
stand more rain than any other nay II INC
windows are opened and aired as often as
the sun shines. 1t will lose its Color put
stock will eat it greedily when 1t does get
dry.
Our old cook IS down sick and we can't
get a substitute, for the darkies-"oneh
and children-are all in the cotton Heid"
taking their chances between sunshine an"
showers. SO are running the nacIiil'
cry of kitchen and chamber in very eco
nomical way. Bread and butter and toast
and broiled steak and fried eggs and coftee
and milk are good enough for anybody,
and we are getting along splendid.
make the fires and bring IN the wood ana
help to wash the dishes. We are all fohn
of chicken. but not fond enough to KIN
them and prepare them for the oven n
large old oak in cur grove has been gyms
for two three years anu ~ 1 1li'NNA -
man to cut 1t down and saw it up Tor Iilo
stove He couldn't find a helper and so
had to hitch myself on to one end of tine
crosscut | used to do that in IlVeIT
manner when on my farm getting OUT
boards, and I haven't altogether lost Fh'
lick, though l have lost a part Of the CON
tinuance. BY and by | concluded To Soo"
what q man could do, and 50 | took OH one
handle of the saw and ran it alone. Yes.
| ylIr off
solitary and alone BY myself with NOBODY
to help me | can prove It., If necessary
for our female ncghbors across the street
rccounoitcrcd and watched me ana 9lAli'"
sweetIy. and the passing people drove
slow to see me break down, and Old Judge
WilIe who always steps exactly thfe"
feet. shortened up and sat gov"
and Camped on the Slde"'IE
and wondered ana waited for me to sur
render and our family doctor hailed me
to quit and go home When / was about
used up my wife she came and ordered
me to stop it at one" ana | stopped. Ihese
people around here never saw an Old man
run q cross-cut all by himself ana they
never will again, l reckon. Bat theI" "
life in tho old man yet. All this time my
man Webb was choppiug ana splitting up
the blocks, and so in course OF time we
got il all sawed up and split mp into stove
wood and 1t made eight good wagon IoddS.
The tree was two and a half feet III DIAM
eter for forty feet up, and right "her9
tho limbs all branched out was hoi"W
about two feet deep and out of that hoi'o"
tu,, ,noss,,ns were thrown when the tree
wv '. ,,,, WAN b.l cu+ down
came crashing GOWN ."" ''' i.
thu tree and WEBB s't" the p"9Su"'9 me-
and caught them. AS he was putting their
tails IN the split of Il limb says l. Nv nat
,,, ,i, =, =, with theme" Take
are you S3"l5 =" -" ET'I 7 admit want
'em nome, says me- "eIi' "l'i "'l'1.
the animals, but / got TO fuinlhtIi1S apo"(
| the law of "Ferae naturao' that l studied
,u i,IacI,sinne ana SO TO tease him [ said:
,,t,-,,. WAN tl,,,.. arr. r,, ,noss}lr,g. they
why M.'" ','V ",,, -, my, tr4n and must
are ON my Iand ana IN my Tree ana l"u9t
bo my 'poSsums.' "Why, boss said ne,
! .,bovle datq roes 'pGssum nuntin' or
rlttT, b,,nti,, an1 # don'r make any diff
trI't,. [|harn I ratcb 'rnl ,lev is mine
tn,t I" nrI.ts de- Ian, j. posted Aud
~ ~ 10y, U'i', ; ,,.c-,,,t ,,lta5 and bain't
i,"Hr' ga, r rI,rL II - vS.i1I laughed
V, iI 5oN q s,1r. NO mad me "l%ut see
'ilo nc ia 20 diI,,,t hire Won tn hunt