The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-10-07
PLUNKETT.
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potato oustards TO begin and fried
chicken to be plentiful and the
hams that were stored away for the
big meeting are now brought out,
for the corn crop is good. SO good
that every farmer rejoices in spite
of the heat and the bad prospects
for cotton.
We went over to Gwinnett last
week and took in the opening of
the court at Lawrenceville, watch
ed the horse swapping as it is seen
in but few places today The whole
horse swapping process as it CO.
ours there is more like old times
than anything that can be found
1t is amusing all the time and oft
en- borders on the pathetic when a
fellow gets horse that is SO differ
ent to what he expected to find.
OF all the amusing things the
kicking horse is the hardest custo-
mer of all the swsppers. An old.
innooent-looking mule or horse
tied up to post turns out to be
terror when you have swapped End
go to take possession He may be
docile enough till you go to put
him between the shafts and then
turn to cutting up fully the equal
of any of the trick mules of the cir
GUS. We watched one old gray
that stood as innocent as could be
till they went to put the orupper
under the tail and then the kick
ing began and never circus mule
did we ever see that could half way
equal the antics. AS he kicked he
backed and and the sides of houses,
posts, vehicles, other animals and
the swappers themselves caught a
lick and it looked like that he
would kill everything on the
ground aud then kick his own fool
self to death. 1t is worth trip
over to Gwinnett county just to see
these horse-swappers
But rse-swapping is not all
you see or become impressed with
tits a place TO see the true Georgi-
ans-the Crackers" If you please
and if those people who start out
to study our southern sections fail
to visit Gwinnett they have lost
much that is pleasing in the old
southern character and the sight of
a fine country also. The bloom of
health, the crystal streams, the rol
ling hills and shady wales will sug-
gest to the observing stranger that
the erroneousness of the impress
ions of the south being fit place
for chills, fevers and so on. An in.
telligent northern traveller to me
once said that ne expected to find
Georgia a sort of frog pond, and
the people with ssIlow cheeks and
wasted forms-also ignorance and
ku-klux spirit. Gwinnett coun-
ty will do away with all such no.
tions the most completely of any
county south of the line, and yet it
retains the old customs and is the
best preserved from the hand of
progress of any section we know.
The roads have not been graded ss
the roads of some counties and you
Gross the branches and creeks just
as we used to before the days of
fills and grades. know that good
graded road has a whole lot to it's
credit, but the roads of Gwinnett
are delight all the way through
aud all the time
A horse can get water from a
branch plenty good for people TO
drink and grapes and musoad:nes
cluster just as they used to cluster
and the gathering of these is one
of the delights of a trip to Gwin-
nett.
1 really think that the town of
Lawrenceville has more of the "old
south" in it today than any town
of Georgia, snd>this means a Dig
nifty. a culture and a hospitality
that is always charming and very
often great convenience to stran-
gers travelling. The country homes
of the south were just the charm
ing things they should have been
and the homes of LawrencevilIe
stand as reminders of these. One
meets there a few of the breed
known as the .'old-time southern