The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-10-21
PLuNKETT.
ATLANTA constitution.l
1 like the fall season.

crowd CT young people have been
out gathering them for a week.
These wild grapes are not so abund-
ant as they used to be but the
young generation think they are.
and that is sufficient for them, and
there are plenty still to act as sweet
reminders for old folk and stsrt
flood of memories to yelling in
our hearts. So it ia thst every
thing is cheerful. The young romr
and gather the grapes while the
cool mornings timber up the iointe
and freshen the memory of the old,
till
Over the fields and far away,
1 hear the partridge Sing.
1t sounds as sweet for me today
And has as clear a ring,
As in the years long, long agoue.
When there was never sweeter
song
To cheer crisp and frosty morn
Than Old Bob White!'
The partridge is large part of
the fall season. In old times every
boy had his traps and 1 venture
there is not one of them living to-
day but what can think of these
trapping days with feelings of the
greatest pleasure. To visit these
traps was the first work of the
morning and what delight it was
to find the trap filed with birds.
Where is the old man that does
not take pleasure in studying over
these traps. and where the old
woman that does not remembe the
romps after grapes, muscandines
and chestnuts. 1t was delightful
to hold the girls hands and pick
the brisrs from their fingers, and it
was another delight to stand be-
meath a white oak and swing upon
the vines and have the muscan-
dimes patter down like hail. And
who could forget the old fence
rows we would climb on our way to
the bottoms. ALI along these old
fences the grapes hung in clusters
with here and there a persimmon
tree with brown maypops covering
the ground. 1t was all great for
people and it was great for poss-
ums. If you remember these
things you will be sure to think of
the rabbits and squirrels that were
then abundant and fat and JUICY.
The rabbits are yet but none
of the other things are here as they
used to be; but for all that the fall
season is not SO sad season as
you heard it was.
Our corr crop are splendid. Cot
ton is off but there is no grumbling
over the matter. Farmer young
men have learned that corn in the
crib and meat in the smoke house
Ia far more important than big
cotton crop. and l predict that
there will be lots of marrying be-
tween now and Christmas I am
not fooled about the matter. They
are mating off and sitting up to
each other in the good old way and
when the money for cotton begins
to flow in the marrying will begin,
and one wedding begets another
and the parties and quiltings that
will soon begin will help along SO
that we may confidently look for a
great time in Georgia now pretty
soon, crops or no crops, hard times
or no hard times.
While the young people are get
ting ready to do such things as are
always invited by fall and are hap
py and cheerful in consequences
those too old to enjoy the present
are refreshed in memory by the
pleasant season. till everything in
our settlement. at least, wears more
the emile of a beautiful spring
than the sorrow that the poets
would have US believe belongs to
fall. Old people can find many
comforts in musing over the past.
1 doubt if the pursuits of youth is
any sweeter than to think over the
past All the time there is fight
of change.
Last week 1 watched the sand
wagons taking sand into the city
and it caused me to take up the OBJ.