The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-30

kountze, Texas, Dear Haphammer:
nnYe long beeu reading the Hap page mud
nWeFs LOOK for L With pleasure. ! wrote
once hetore, and asked 10 he enrolled
WITH the Ilaps, and sent tribe TO the
luhd' nut, alas. my poor letter got lost,
rs never saw my name enrolled, So
Thought | would try again | would like
70 tell you and all the lInpS about n de
lghtfnl old fashioned log rolling that
a as. tS6 once once, upon 4 time Early a the
began to arrive. they having previous
been invited by the host, who made the
rounds on horseback. about week before
hand, stopping in front Of each farm house
ana addressing each neighhor with words
something Ike this, "Gwine ter roll ltRs
next Wensday; be shurc an come over,
aud, wife said tell your ole woman ter
bring her thimble along, meaning that
while the mon rolled logs IN the ncld the
Women Mould hGye quitting bee N
whole families In wagons aud young men
and women on horseback the men To-.
paired to the ncid and women TO the
house, some to quilt and some 70 help
git dinner and such dinner Thirc
was the wash pot on the hre In the Kitchen
chimney full to the top With turnlps and
loaded with pots, which were boiling away
iunousy and contained good things TOO
numerous to mention; on q table close by
stood row after row Of pies; some were
apple, some homo canned peach. some
blackberry some sweet potato aud others
from the oven came the delicious scent
-
rest of the oven crowded with yellow
vans; at another table girls were busy,
some making corn bread, some making
biscuit and one making the dumplnss l. d
go In one Of the pots on the stove, Will b
contained backbone HAps. did any ~
you ever eat backbone With dumplngsf
II you didn't you Just missed half your
lives About the only good thing ITO my
notion which they did not have e. 80
with that dinner was ught bread, Ihey
claimed that their folks didn't care much
foi light bread. no how; 1t was most TOO
much like wasp nest to suit Them, IN
the front room the cutters seem 70 DC
having O good time, from the peals OF
laughter that came 10 my ears, hut A !
didn't know how to quilt. ] preferred lH
stay In the kitchen, where ! was her
United 80 set the table aud do some othet
little thugs Some Of the peighhorH
brought dishes with them, SO as there
would be "a plenty ~ about half past
drew strnws to see who should blow the
dinner horn. The lot fell 70 a pretty yer
iow-haired. hlue-cyed girl, aud, after lensn-
how easy II was, she ruckered up her
pretty mouth and, applying the norm,
blew a loud clear blast tat which l star q
I nor Guite genius, which brought the
men 10 the house How hungry those men
\ and BOYS were as they came to7png u"n
the fcld their warm breath making u !, "
/ streaks az steam IN the frosty air They
All washed IN cold wntcr on the hnck Bhl-
/ lery and combed their hair AT the Uthe
! cracked looking glass lUul. uuNE VI w 7,
/ Vail some of the old indies announced
dinner Such dinner ] never saw ne.
I fore The old time table thep tel anu,
that grouned beneath rs load OF soo9
/ things couidn't have been 10 IT, compared
/ With that one II looked as II there We're
! enough there 10 feed regiment. flIei
AIN those hungry men and boys ate ono
What inroads they did make 10 he snre,l
4 tlfn the ladies and children ate, anu gu
Z the while some good soul was pouring ius
/ fragrant coffee and passing goo INN i,.9,,
| back 10 the quilt and left the girls II
wash the dishes and feed the nnmst"p "
Z rnts and dogs When we, too, weni D.
The front room 70 whore the goyly ,oloreC
duilt was hung, some OF Inc gifts 20
some syIup aud others brought NUS whlcn
they osecked and picked Enile ne pth ~,
hrc place and were busy making ean9y
while the old ladies' Piled their nee9 y,
ND told each other which kind OF cal @
weaves wear the longest without showinI
dirt and how high the creek rose sln'
rsars hack who their favorlte preache
was and asking their soStesst ne 9D nrbt,'
meaning some Of those we had for dinner
After a while The quilt was finished, an'
after taking II onl OF me irgIieS tp1S h,n,
stne one caught the quiet old cat iron
tbe corner and threw her IN me midIl
Of the quilt saying that WHEN ever XXX ~,
would be the first "a marry. ana as ah
rap by the one that blew the ulphe
no asIr., from the rest. Al about "
o,ciocf Inc men all came In, saying tina
tie logs had az been rolled and ne ne
~, bo1,et So the women gathered 81
,ber wraps aud children and eyerybod
askeA everybody else 20 come ana 9
N ,i'ii "a. and 10 on, and amid general tif
31, and ana laughing, All those people repair
Ia their various home. u any q o.
Hans wish will write aesln anh teii ny ~
, , ,p"b love 10 the dear patient Mrs Fosc
, and ali the Haps. ! SIN a Little Rustic