Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-01-27
No. 4S.

till he "cut his eye teeth" He don't
make no mention of his wisdom teeth;
guess there weren't none 10 cut; ormaybe
he dropped them out when he left Oft
making bad stand" to make his good
run. lie says he was like a bull-pup".
but he wasn't. Most bull-pups I've
knowed was mighty good AZ stsnding
and tarnal poor at running
He concludes-writing crosswise on
the margin Of the paper-by saying that
he won't favor no bridges till the "moun-
tain sides are dotted all over with cas-
ties built bv city folks away from here.
We amt got no castles, except in cleo
ton times when one Of YOU fellows rides
over on the boat to tell US fellows as how
a poor man home is his castle. but we
can build them according TO you If we
Just mortgage our lands, and If that's all
you want and will take my mortgage.
sen ling me the money along by the
stage, as much AS she can tote AZ a trim.
/ til begin my castle TO once. not stand
ing back for the freeze. But if mort
cages is so bad YOU oughtn't make Us
! do II. but just give the bridges 20 US fell
| Ter citerzens and democrats We won't
! let our boys and gals spill no buckle
/ berries on them, and well wipe our feet
good before we goes on-weIl he real
caretul and Wen come TO Berryville
and help catch them rabbits, and take
little Winston way for you. if the Jedre
says so. Wen help you all we can.
And mehbe when the bridge is up
/ youI come and stop a spell yourself.
We amt got much 20 show YOU like YOU
has 90 show us I'm your fine big city. but
well do the best we can. and we'I show
/ you what YOU haven { seen. a part Of YOUR
own county that, whatever il is or amt.
nj true and votes true and amt deserv-
ing TO be pushed from you like it was
dirty beggar. It's your own brother.
| poor and down at the heel, because he
amt had the chances YOU has had. II
the bridges help him YOU oughtn't TO
mind, ought vous And mebbe when we
can get across and see how you folks
! does things and get some style notions
al your stores. Wen perk up a heap and
/ be known as residents Of the eastern
portion of our county instead Of those
( people and "eas;sideIs." We are east
Siders don't make as outsiders.
Just a word more, Mister Editors. for
I'm mighty near writ out.
/ When they was building the Washing
tom Monument, down there in Washing
ton City. I remembers reading in the
paper a. how 10 wouldn't stand Up
year. there was tightening to hit it. and
winds 90 rock il. and earthquakes TO
shock 10. and 10 was built on mud any
how and was bound 20 ink az the butt.
But its there yet and If ii falls tomor-
row its done a sight Of good in its time,
and George W ashington deserved it, and
it ought 90 been built. and it has been
worth every cent il cost. Now YOU.
Mister Observer, YOU would never have
built it. would you,-for spose it might
fall, And spose Noah had been a 'spos-
ing and predicting man. where would
you and me be today: Right along with
| ten-leECed chickens and eight-hammed
hogs and other things which never has
been; for Noah had never left the top of
the moutain. Come back. Snem, You.
Ham he would have called Don't 20
down there in the valley; there's been
hi of freshet, and there may come
| another. stick close 20 the ark. But.
/ pap, the waters gone now and we want
20 20 down and build houses for our
seves and wives and turn up the ground
and get something 90 eat" Houses
old Noah would have beloved. why
hood viii wash them away in a minute.
stay up here close 20 the ark" And if
they had minded him. and Noah had been
a sposins and a predicting man, they'd
have eaten the ark empty and then died
on Ararat leaving an empty world. But
they went down 20 the valley snd built
houses, and your great-great.
was bornin one of them and so was mine;
and there's been no Hood like il since.
II we must 'spose, and we must, for
the mind viii guess where it can't look.
LEI Us spose good things, not bad: let Us
spOse the bridges stand. let us 'spose
they help the whole county. and 10 for
this part OF her what can be done with
out them, make il more prosperous and
more like the othe- and more favored
sections
And now. Mister Editors, and Mister
Observer I'll quit Writing amt in my
line. There was others here who could
have writ it better'n me, and I wan,ed
them TO bad, but Mr. Buggs is JUST now
suffering with writer's cramp, and Mis-
ter Tubbins' typewriter is broke.
Meaning no otreuse and with compli-
mentS 10 you all. ! am
Your Obedient servant.
JOIN EAsTSDE.
The Board of SuDeryiSOFS