The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-05-16
KIND OF FRESH
MEAT FOR cHlckENs---Hu.
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THE{.BRoTHER IN HLAc Ky eALks
y Attic i"slGN OF THE CROSS 4
n AND CHANGES TITO FIT
EMERGENCIES. I.

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Some folks say dat
Nlggahs won't steal;
Butt cotch six in
My con felt Did Song.
| This Yankee was from up some.
where In Connecticut. It seems that
the fellows who come from Connecti;
cut are all smooth goods. He had
made himself a place in the Sand Hills
Of North Carolina and he had mixed
Yankee ways with North Carolina
practices. One day he happened into
town.. He was accosted by a fellow
granger from out the pike some.
4 where. and as they began oaswap
rural lies at Pat Kelly'ssbeef and pork
parlors, on Pennsylvania avenue, the
man from towntthe Yadkin road wen.
tured Es
"Hens a layin, any?'s
"Doinsg right we'll said the Con.
necticut man.
4. Jewell, I wish you'd tell me. Mine
alnt earnin' the salt they git inttheir
4 feed.
Raw snake I'm givin mine most
I OF the time nowadays, and Y makes
'em hump emselves,s said the Con.
/ nectlcut genius. You see they's SO
!, tpagy many black snakes and coach
!. whips and pilot snakes and pig noses
i. and all 'em sorts o. serpent that they!
/. get to be a nuisance, SO one day.
when old Isham killed a black racer
about thirteen feet long, down below
d the barn. says to him that lowed
a fresh meat ought to be good for the
It chickens. SO I took his axe and q
4 laid Mister Snake on a log and made
c. him into weiner meat In about a min
b. ute. Then l called the chickens, and
b. they comes shackn' up, an say, YOU
n hain't seen a banquet with old Chaun
"a cey Depew In 1t pass off In a liveliel
a manner than hath did 8SS Took that
i snake Just like a corn.field nIggerd
n a took leg fried possum an a dose
". O. corn licker." 4 "a !! Ill
= Want We 'frald O. maxim ZEN
r sick?" This came from the man dowr
the Yadkln road. sifi Is
y. l"Sick, nothn'! Snake meat&is jus
= the same as any kind O meat, an yot
\, know chickens never stops to ask {
= grubworm or grasshopper II he be
y longs to the ophidian family orr h'
:. !. Lepldopterous family. or any othe
= family. What an old Plymouth Rocl
- hen wants when she sights a mouse Q
- a lizard is meat, an she gets meat
v them critters don't do \ buck.ant
AZ wing ,scurry when she sets the pace.
VI. Uncle, Dave Buchanan stood lbac
= by the porch taking I'M all ofs the SC
& entiics information dropping from tn
lips Of the Connecticut naturalist, an
K his gray wool wreathed an $intereste
~ mahogany face as tile old darke
It drank in. the awful fact that Ethis pr
os fame dog Of Yankee had so llttle,e
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