Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-05-31
| is not boastin'. In maxim the bar.

gain, | wuz keerful.
"Now, Mis- Haines," | says, 81 want
you to furnish the flour. I'll make
the bread an biscuit jest as you want
them, but it will be out of your -four
not NINE"
She looked a leetle surprised, but
she agreed to it, an to the price
aXed her. You see, / want goin' to
hev any partnership mixed up in this
dicker. If we he'd furnished the -four,
Elnathan would hev wanted his pay,
an my share would hev bin slim.
Well, it worked fust-rate. | made
Mis- Haines' bread all winter, an by
spring he'd quite a good many dollars
hid away in an old chany pitcher on
the northeast corner of my top pantry
shelf. Elnathan would AK once in
while if Mis- Haines kept me paid up
fur my work, but all the answer he
got wuz that we he'd fixed that be-
tween us.
l knowed that bread-makin' alone
wouldn't arm enough money to get
half what | needed. Before this, |
he'd tried time an time agin to coax
Elnathan to buy good stock to i'm
prove our poultry Our old hens were
small an runty, a poor looking lot.
But he never would spend a cent fur
anythin' better, although he paid $50
fur just one pig. He sed hen wuz a
hen, an you couldn't make nothin'
else out of her. He didn't seem to
see the same reason would apply to
pig or a COW. He said eggs sold
fur the same whether they wuz small
ones or big ones, an one kind of hen
laid jest as well as another. VIM
men folks wuz alters easy imposed
upon. Fowls wuz Dragged up to sell
high, when they wuzn't worth any
more than common stock. If the
hens wuz small, set more eggs, an
fry more of 'em at time.
/ knowed he wuz wrong, fur Mis-
Haines wuz tellin' me of how much
money her darter Sally, who married
an went near n big town, wuz maxim
out of her poultry. She he'd two
kinds, Mis- Haines said-one small
kind, they jest shelled out the eggs
in the winter, when they wuz high,
an big kind to sell for market
She kept 'em apart all the time
Then her turkeys wuZ profitable, too.
She made 5000 jest on turkeys the
fall l begun maxim bread fur Mis-
Haines. They wuz big kind, an she
made lots by sellin' eggs at high
prices for other folks to set.
Turkeys! They wuz what would
hev. In the spring ] would send fur
settin's of eggs from her that used
to be Sally Haines. didn't ask
Elnathan, fur, mind you, this wuzn't
no partnership affair.
Through Mis- Haines, who went to
Sally's visitin', I got a lot of eggs;
not jest turkey eggs alone, but of big
chickens, too.
/ took jest as good care as common
of the farm fowls-the partnership
ones-yes, more than common, an It
seemed as If they never done so well.
There wuz plenty of eggs fur the gro
Gerry bill an lots Of chickens.
The hens that sot on my fine eggs,
that | paid my bread money fur, did
well, too. l he'd them out in the or
chard, way off from the rest. Elna-
than didn't know thing about it
till he saw the little turkeys runnin'
around. Then he didn't object, cause
he thought they would bring in more
partnership money. l didn't say
nothin' to the contrary fur the time,
fur | didn't want an argument lastin'
all summer. One, short an meanin',
wuz enough.
| he'd good luck all the season. an
the turkeys an chickens in the or
chard wuz somethin' to be proud of.
! Thanksgivin' time ! he'd lot of tur-
keys an big ROSTERS to sell. Elna-
than wanted to take them to town
fur me, but | telled him would take
them myself. Then he said:
"rll go with you, Sarah Ann, cause
l want the money fur the next pay
ment on Bakers land"
"Where's the cattle an hogs you
was goin' to sell?" / aXed.
"Oh, I'm not quite ready to sell, an
when / am, that kin go in the bank
toward what / am layin' by fur a
rainy day."
The time he'd come. The clock OF
Destiny he'd struck, an / struck, too
| wuz calm outside, fur wuz battlin
fur duty an justice-duty to Malviny
an my own rights to my own airnin's
AS | said | wuz calm outside, but
inside / wuz worked up to the pint
that felt / could be eloquent an
convincin'. Leastways, wuz deter.
mined that afore got through Elna-
than Jacobs should be convinced that
the wife of his buzzom meant bust
ness.