Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-11-09
Shannon Baecassio VIC.

piece fur your prper fur a long time,
but Sallie, my wife, SEE just want
to get my name in the paper OF
courst this is not true and | told her
that you would know better than
that, but she won't agree fur me to
write So here goes to write any
way. We farmers certainly enjoyed
the rain that came a week ago last
Saturday night It's making our
wheat look snipsious Most Of us
are usn fertilizer for our wheat this
year and | believe it pays, too.
We had a fine sermon preached to
MS last Sunday and you bet we en-
ioyed it Some folks think because
we are country people, "sagers" they
call us, that we can't even enjoy re-
hgion, but we can't help that
Tll tell you what, just let a town
person get away from town, and
hev to stop over with one of us for
dinner and we make their eyes open
when they set their chairs up to our
table. We don't have so many fine
dishes, ana these things they call
napkins, but we have so many good
things to eat, it always makes them
want to come back to see us. We
have our fried chicken and potatoes
both sweet and Irish, an perturnnps,
iellies. canned fruits of all kinds
which the good Lord gives us and
we fix it up to keep through the win
ter, and all SIGH good things as there
are mentioned; and also turnup
greens cooked with hogs jaw. Green
beans and SIGH tell you we can
cut out the town people 16 to /
known we are green but we can't
help that. Our fathers and mothers
were unlearned and ignorant, and
we came by it honest. But while
our parents were this way they were
honest and taught us to be so, too.
They weren't afraid to kneel around
,helr hearthstones with us children
of a night and pray fur perfection,
and thank the Lord for all his good
ness and mercy towards us. I've
been thinking fur long time of com
in to town to see a printin office.
When I come you can look out for
me, for | am coming to your office.
Me and Sallie are always talking and
planning about how papers are print
ed and we both git puzzled every
time we git in conversation about
it. There are many strange things
in this world we don't know anything
about, But me and Sallie are going
to take a trip up North soon and |
guess we will see a great many
strange things Of which we can talk
about, and of which | can write about
when we come home. We went
down to Jasper last Friday night to
what the town folks calls an enter
talnment l tell you it was fine, OF
at least we thought so. I'll tell you
how we happened to go.
Bro. John Appleton came along
and l was sittin' out on the from
porch readin the News. He came
straight up to me with something il
his hand and holding it out, he said
BRO. Shannon, as l wuz comm
through town to-day | seed this err
paper tackled up and l tried to reaC
it, but couldn't make it all out, so
Jest pulled it off, and brought 1t along
so that you might see it and though
maybe we both could make it out
Gan right, Bro. John" said l, "we'l
try" So took it and read all the
wuz on it, an found out it wuz a.
entertainment going to be given a
Jasper on Friday night. eXplaine
it to him the best | could Then h
said; swell, what Is the submissio
into it? Er-is it free?" ''Well,
SEE !, 'lets see: Adults, Is cents.
"Adultsm exclaimed Bro. John, 'an
what are they?" "They ave grow
people" SEE l. "Well," SEE he, "wh
didn't they say grown people? The
e ought to er knowed we couldn't III
derstand SIGH things" l went q
= readin': children, 10 cents "Well
! broke in Bro. John, 81 can undo
). stand thet part Of it" "Babies 81