The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-08-30

But what did Charles p. harrington
say?
EYES said he. The farms al
right, i s'pose. But it's wonder
Uncle Todd wouldn't "a cut the
brush and fixed the fences little
before he went to willin' it to folks
There's most a quarter of an acre o
brush that's got to be cut in the
back lot, and more than ten rod o.
fence that's got to be fixed. Before
Uncle Todd went to leavin' his farm
to folks it's wonder he wouldn't "a
cut that brush and fixed that fence!'
Bound to kick and complain,
Charles p. harrington was, and be
unappreciative and ungrateful. But
what started in to making folks
travel miles ont of their way to see
such acknowledgement kicker and
complainer as old Charles p. Barring
ton was something that out-ding-
bumblegusted anything in the way Of
kicking and complaining. and of in
gratitude and nnappreciativeness
that even old Charles p. Darlington
had ever given specimen of.
"A great big pepperidge tree stood
IN field on his place. end he wanted
it out of the way the worst kind,
but II You know anything about pep
peridge trees you'll know that il
amt any gentle piece of work to
move one out of the way. There's
no more grain to a pepperidge tree
than there is to cork, and the wood
is as tough and springy as rubber
betting.
$50, by blasting a tree to pieces
with dynamite or such, you get il
INTO chunks you can handle, the
wood makes first-rate firewood. but
It'd be worth good deal more than
folks could pay for 1t to make II
profitable to put on the market.
We'll, old Charles r. Darlington
figured and figured on what il would
cost to blast that pepperidge tree
out OF the. way and grub the roots
up. Any way he could figure it he
couldn't make the cost come out. SO |
ne felt that it would warrant him
IN DONG the work, but he wanted
ina. tree on of that lot mighty bad.
lie used to lay awake nights try.
ing TO think up how he could do IL
o.e .nere was no use, and it worried
nm hke Sam Hill. One night in the
summer time there came up a big
us great place for thunder
storms, back of Hopewell Junction
ma the lightning does cut up around
here enough to make some foil.
ak. At least it used to when I lived
'ver there. Well, this thunderstorm
anne up and seemed to Just more
nan throw itself about the Barring
on place.
The lightning shot around and
ropped down in regular chunks
Vhen old Charles P. harrington got
p next morning and went out to ,
axe . look over his farm, he found .
nat the big pepperidge tree Wa
one. Lightning had struck IL. and
'e tree stood there cumberine the
IT no more.
And lightning had done more than
mpiy strike that tough old pepper. ,
ge tree 1T had cut and split that :
ee up into cordwood lengths, and :
mixed 1t all up in rows ready for :
luling away.
NOW you would naturally suppose,
rowing how bad old Charles p. Bar
ngton had wanted to get that tree
IL OF his way, that he would have !
st jumped and howled with iov =
hen he saw that it was gone. and :
It only gone, but all ready cut and
to put on profitable mar. !.
t. g
But did he? Not he. He was old :,
aries r. harrington first, last and
the time. He looked at the wood :,
corded up as regular as could be. -
q then growled out: >.
It's wonder the lightning could.
just as well "a chucked that wood :,
er the fence yonder, into the wap- G.
that's standin' there and not nut :,
to the work o. comm in here and -
din it. -
Well, there! When folks heard Of :.
v Kick, they took to travelling
les out of their way to see the man q,
o was such a dingbumblerustetl =
ker and complainer and migrate. az
citizen as old Charles p. Barring II,
! was. And"
But say!" interposed Farmer Bill ch s
'nard, while the man from over x,
yard Pochuck still stsres at Baldy ~
n his mouth open. "That light be
g. What did folks seem to think =,
that?" .t
The iightning?" said the landlord. :.
II he wasn't exactly clear as to in
1t the lightning had to do with r,
oh, what it did to the tree? Va
y, that wasn't anything out of the az
for lightning back of Hopewei, /.
ction, and nobody thought much no
that pepperage tree act" ;ns
aldy, the landlord, paused. Farm. tai
Bill Leonard sighed. The man de,
n ever toward Pochuck closed his 70
lth with a snap, rose from his
r, glared moment at Badly, the
lord, and strobe Pochuckward
tout word.
low amt that too badl" er- So
ned the landlord, going to the
and looking after the retreatinr Is
tuck citizen. Just as ike as not.
we'll never know what he came
here to say!"
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