Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1903-12-11
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gum fools. VI course thcv's hcal
nv 'em that's got ord ary sense
but mostly we're dadgum fools il
A heap nv ways. Not all the fool
are farmers. and not quite all tn,
farmers are fools. but the exception
jist goes to prove til rule. An ei
any NV 'em jumps INTO Uncle Josh
understand this talk don't go-he's
the exception that I'm talkin'
about.
We're fools in n heap Of difrunt
ways. We're fools about what We
raise an how we raise it. We're
fools about what we buv an how
we buy it. We're fools about how
we sell our stuff. an then. by Sal.
we're all dadgum fools for thinkin'
we're so gol darn smart, when We
amt.
We air Dimmvcrat: like our dad
dies WIZ; We air Pops because we
hey long whiSkers; We air Republic
ans cause we want 10 boss tn mig
ger an git the offices. OF we air So
cialists cause We want TO 90 cahoots
with the teller thet's got more'n we
got. an we're all fools together.
We plant cohn on one side Nv the
field and cotton on the other, cause
it's allus been planted thataway, an
we can't learn no difrunt. We won't
plant nothin' else cause we don't
know how to take care Nv ennv crop
that we can't iist plant an then
turn over TO tn good Lord to do
tn rest an we're too dadgum big
fools 70 learn. That is, some Nv us,
We understand. Don't furgit they
is always exceptions.
Yer Uncle Josh is agoin' to try
somethin' else this year eff he CANT |
fgger out nothin' bctter'n popcorn
an COOLERS. Wuz a talkin' to anoth- |
er ole hay seed tother day, irwin to
git him to put in a pump an crop
NV onions an irrygatc frum the riv-
or. Explained tn who dadgum thing
to him, that he could make more
often ten acres than he'd bin maxim
often 200. Like to a scared him to
death. He begin TO edge Off
thought Uncle Josh WIZ lococd.
Good Lord. man. what in the
Sam Pat would l do with the rest
Nv my land?" he SCI.
"Jist let it rest" seq I. 'Tand
can stand heap NY rest. 1t amt ,
like folks-folks can get too much J
rest as it is.
"Then sposcn,' he seq, "sposen l
raised ez big crop lv onions ez YOU /
say. what in thunder would | do
with EN-? That's more'n the whole [
world would eat in forty yearw L
'Taint no use a argyin' with a 7
iadgum fool like that. He reminds O
ne Nv the fellow I met in rcfugin'
rom Kansas. Had q ole lunchpin b
raggin full o white-headed kids. all 8.
With their heads stuck out frum e.
lnder the Vaughn sheet. He WIZ a
ittin in a hickry chair a driyin' a Il
IL bob-tailed, one-ercd mare. an b,
neck an discouraged lookin' ole Il
op-eared mule. with one ear a pint e.
4 to the future an tother to the Z
asst. n
Hello stranger scz l, "whar yc
.um ?" q,
"Frum Kansas, pore ole bleedin' kr
he SEE. 'bin out there to
lrce wears an haint got my seed
lck. Fust year put in sod corn.
idn't expect / make much. Didn't
axe nothin' Wuz a goin' to leave, :,
1t ] had done homes teaded hum va
ed an sixty an The old woman va
lnted me to stay. Dry winds got a.
corn, chinch bugs got my wheat ~ ~,
didn't git my seeds back. Wuz "
D pore to leave an had to stay -
other year. Grass-hoppcrs got -,
G whole dadSum shootin' match Az AZ
Int git my seed back an We roll 20
ont. Wouldn't stay in no goldurn Wv
lntry where l couldn't git my w.
d back" nv
How'd We git away" scz 7. On
Sucker frum Mizzuri cum along US
] bumped him. Snapped him ful
hty fur his outiiI, an rolled it d
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What We do with tothcr cightv?" pas
oh. the dadgGmmcd fool dcr
ldn't read an we slipped it on ore'
l." mel
Whar We hcadin' fur now seq LEI
gro
Back to Gods countrv--back to o Wv
:ansaw" a. Nv
knowcd it," scz !. "knowed it FREQ
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