Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-11-12
! MISTAKE OF
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other day at the Rowland house
charged with sven = larger load Of con-
Adsnce in himself than usual, and there
was perceptible s~elf-rsPrOach in his
manne as be remarked 70 Badly, the
landlord;
II ought 70 have been here before
with this news from Pochuck, l know,
cause it's somethin' amaEin', but I've
had 20 git here between rains, and
that's made times for travelin' ding
swiEzled short and few for quite q spell
back, a. you mowt a noticed. You
been expectin' me, o. cOurseT"
Badly, the landlord, said NO, It wasn't
quite az bad aathaL
''GoodI Then / hain't been diSap-
pintin' you'll" said the nan of the al
legged POchuok domicile, sitting down
with q cheerful smile. That hftS . load
on o. my mind bigger'n the price o.
Ooali I haln.t never diSappinttd mo-
body yit, and it'd jest hook me in with
sorrow to begin a-doin' of 1t now. And
some o. the news from Pochuck that
I'm stuffed with this trip is that all
the signs says that the wsRther'S goin'
80 settle, and we're gOin' 70 have an
open winter.
"JeEt mark that down on your slate,
along with the rulin' hggsr for about
i've fingers O. Jersey ginger till l come
IN agin, SOS you won't fergtit!"
"An open winterl And nve fingers
Of the Jersey ginger. Fve'n be plen-
ty. The weather's goin' to settle, and
we're goin' TO have an open winterl"
Badly, the landlord, said he'd stand
for the open winter, all right, and he
was glad the weather was going to
settle. But he said he didn't believe
the weather would go so far as to set
tie for the five fingers Of Jersey. That
would be cash, he said.
The Pochuck citizen shook his head
and said something about the people
being all wrong in charging the trusts
with putting the ~necessaries Of life be-
yond their reach, when anybody with
half an eye ought 70 see that it was
the spread of the No Trust sentiment
that was dom Of It; then he cracked
the middle finger of his left hand and
the thumb on his right and said:
"Yes, sir; an open winter. That's
good news, o. course. And there's more
news than that. Murphy's bulldog
made the mistake of his life, and the
amazin' Drownded Lands snappin'
torkle is dead. Deader'n marble slabs,
and it's a hard blow to Aunt Sally
Beckendarter.
"Uncle David is takin' on considerable
about it, too, and Murphy is madder'n
wildcats. Murphy's bulldog had grit,
all right, though, but he ought a.
nowed that amazin' Drownded Lands
Enappin' torkle better.
Eyes, yes. Ives get quite a wad o
news this trip Quite a wad. But the
dyin' o. Lat amazin' snappin' torkle
sort o. bows me down. Spot cash, you
think, is the best you could do as to a
little ive-fngers deal in Jersey gin
ger?"
Badly, the landlord, said he thought
It was. The Pochuck citizen cracked
his other thumb, and said:
1--WE don't know exactly jest how old
that snappin' torkle was, but the fig
gers he carried on his undershell, cut
good and deep, was 1901, B. c. but he
must "a been a good deal older than
that yet, because"
Hold on!" exclaimed Badly the
landlord, rising quickly to his feet and
lifting up his hands, while Terry, the
S~cotch-Irish terrier, stood ready to
take a hand in if the proceedings be.
came strenuous. ANY snappin' turtle
with a pedigree datin' back to 1901, B
c., is plenty old enough. If you've got
one older than that you must go some,
where else to talk about him!"
"Jest what Sam Bailey thunk, BY
catsl" exclaimed the Pochuck news.
carrier, slapping his knee. Jest what
Sam thunk when he came onto thai
tOrkle as it was pullin' turnips in his
patch, in the fall o. 1926, and turned
him I've and read them fggersI"
"'Great Gabriels Trumpet SAYS
Sam. Here's the father of all snappin
torkles, by gimbletsl 1901, B. CIR
Badly the landlord sat down ant
glared at the seventeenth century
Claudius Smith musket hanging su
pinely on its pegs over the door. Terry
the Scotch-Irish terrier, hurried out
to inquire Of Ike Edwards bull pun
what business he had nosing arounC
there. Farmer Bill Leonard, who lives
opposite Goose Pond Mountain, turned
to Farmer Green, Of Jolly Farm, anC
remarked that if eggs didn't go VI
pretty soon you might as well keeI
guinea pigs BIS chickens, and Farmer
Green said yes, and a ding sight better
for guinea pigs didn't git the pip. TheI
nobody said anything further, and th,
man from over toward Pochuck re
sumed.
"No," said he. "We don't know az
actly how old that amazin
Gnappin' torkle was, but olt
Sol TerPy used to say tia
be must "a been quite q pup Il
1901, Is he hadn't growed none 4
speak If when Sam Bailey run onts
him In the turnip patch in 1926.
says 70 my uncle David Beckendartel
only t'other day;
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