The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-08
THE MULE THAT WENT
/ TO JERSEY.
A Reply From the Csaekes Barrel
to Aspersions Cast on the
Knob Country.

LAcKAwAxEN, March II got 20 ag-
n ryated," said the man from the Knob
country. that iz right up of,n the
mack'ral kit and says TO Nose:
Here says, II you amt got gumption
enough to say anythin', ! says. git onen
that cracker bar'l' says.
.'Cause the stranger that got outen his
wagon and tied his wall-eyed hons TO the
hitchin' post in front Of the Eddy store
| had come In lookin' su er than vinegar
| bari, and I could see that II his whiskers
hadn't "a been dyed they'd been as yaller
az dandylines in a medder. He looked
| around, sort o. 'sniffin' and snortin'. and
he says:
I'm headed for Jersey says he. and
I can't git there none too soon.' Gays he,
i seen to once that the Teller was stickin'
| up his nose at the Knob country, and hrst
| felt sorry fer him bein' 40 misguided.
| but after another look around, and snifiin
| and snortin' ag'in at what he see. he says:
sIm pinin' for Jersey! And the more
| look around me here he says, the more
piner
| Then that stickin' OF his nose UP at the
Knob country got to be aggervatin', and l
| didn't feel sorry for him no more. Nose
he sot on the cracker bar'l where he didn't
have no business to be, cause he can't
| talk. and the cracker bar1 Is always the
place for the man to set on who can talk.
sot on the kit O. maok'ral, and the idee
| OF man who can talk bein' squatted on
| kit o. mack'ral!
| .Simon was a leetle wan and weary,
cause business was slack, and was layin'
| on the counter with his head restin' on
| roll o. calico. Job was straddle o the
slab bottom cheer, chawin' plug terbacker.
ton TO the strangers stickin' OF his nose
up at the Knob country, and there was
| on the mack'ral kit and couldn't half talk.
so when he shifted and snorted and
said he was pinin' for Jersey. and the more
ne looked around on to US the more ne
right I'D offen the mack kit and j says
Here / says, 4 you amt got gum
ton enough to say snythin', says, GIT
often that cracker bar'lP says.
And Nose elm Often the cracker bari
who 'E xes be ain to oo jersey says to him
ever been there! he says, lookin'
around some more, and sniffn' and snortin
why, slndfeas a-hoppin! was born
.Tben I sort o. felt sorTy for the Teller
| ao'in. but he shifted and snorted and turnsd
up his nose at the Knob country worse
ever, and my aggervation come Daok 10
| wunst. ,,
s sMan sy'' more TlnR he says. Hull town
ships Of emf he says. Jest like me, he
SAYS, only a Dustin sight more so! he
says .,.. o,n,.,,. .ome-
grass a-srowin'f / says. I never knowed
no one but old Joe's Ebenezer that'd ever
been to Jersey, ! says.
And IN pet you q two,.year crap o,
cramberries that he's braggin on II yitv
nose more and more AZ In the Knob country
Say says the Teller. hufy a. Sam
Hill. DO you mea1 to at there on that
cracker bar Hn s he se' s. %s that mes 'A'n
NO. says l., I don't. cause he never
said q word as'in it, says !. Not durn
Should say not the Teller says, And
he hadn't better says he, sn ma and
And I srinned and said that he could
count sure on II that Ebenezer mover would
and then I sot square on the cracker bar
and says: 49,, r
says, old Joe traded q tract O. hemlock,
back o. the Knob. for q farm some'rs' way
down In Jersey. One day he says to Shorty,
which was his hired man and a good un:
w s%ys a ne to dc s somet nG
with Ebenezer. The bstter ] treat him
the meaner he acts.
'He won't 60 and plough. he won't
work in haydn, he won't d. no,hin, that nat
gray mare in the belly this mornin', and
she won't be worth a ~ io for a week. he
got mad at the old woman and chased
her from the cowyard clear TO the house
and into the house and half way up the
kitchen stairs.
.'.Therc amt no Twin with Ebenezer
any longer. Somethin's got 10 be done.
II seems q shame Ia send him out O. the
Knob country, but III have 20 do y. I'm
70 send him and you 70 o scE tx. the nc"
with Ebenezer, but Old Joe was soi on II
and Shorty and the mule-oh' say. 20 tho
.our.loosin' Teller, did ! toll you that Eoe'
sThe Teller had jest sot down on one end
Of an empty shoe box. and he give setch I
shout when ] said mule thar the end o.
the box caved In. and. kerslam' he went
] sprawlin' on the floor. Job, he busted
I out laughln' 30 that his cha~ Of "backeI
few ouien hi mouth like a cork ouien .
sody water bo, tie. and hit Mo-s plumb 10
the eye, when he squaited on tile mack rs
kit, and stopped hls gria quicker than u
had started Simon he nf up oden thu
roll a. csiioo. loOkin' msddern We, han
and hollers gu, TO the Teller. Who Wa
" .'Thst's ast,r We holl.r-. That. al
I keep store Tot. Jes, for folks "a come 10
an lump on ihinss and smash 'em' hhaI
| I yit you an aIr hs hollefs
| The Teller got ZAP, and fret along
| thought lac xss goin' Ga pllch in snd siss
us all q rough And-tuinbls, bui hs ooinI,.r,
inia.d u 10y "a VIA 90 slmon, ugly a. a l,aaI
| cDHls IN hsre IA a. ave n.nts sorl
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az Va ils knuL country
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