The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-01-03
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horse Old Gunpo9der was "a faith
fnt old horse but he IL gon. and peace
10 his memory. | have driven him
man q mile Ia sunshine and ia
shadow. BY the lighi II the sun aad
by the CLINT of the stars. on grareled
roads and threugh muddy lanes. !
have fed him oats. corr and hay.
which he liked and at times
fed him wind pudding and walk
a hout sauce" which he did not like.
| have urged him on in his mad ca
reer With buggy whips of many
makes and have whiazed rocks and
tin cans around his ears, and for all
this he kicked the stuffing out OF
me twice and on several occasions
he has stuck his little mind foot
through the dash board OF my buggy.
but such is friendship.
Friday was pretty and | took a lit
tie dash out toward Palmer. n. NJ.
Petty's was my first place TO stop.
He was cooking out lard as he had
killed hogs the day before. He took
the Enterprise, said he didn't care
much for IT.. but the children loved
to read 1t. His children are all six
foot men and 1t is SO good In him
to sec that they have good reading
matter. There is no better mar in
Ellis county than Mr.. Petty and his
sons are all nice men too. Field Pat
terson lives just a little further on.
He has a good farm and a good wife
and seven boys and of course they
are good too. Field came from Ten
nessee and | used to know him back
took a job to dig a we'll. We got along
nicely till we got down about 50 feet,
when one day I was in the well and
the niger turned the MINDLESS loose
with a tub full of rock on me and
would have mashed me as flat as a
pancake If Field had not caught the
MINDLESS and saved me. This made
Field mad so he paid the niger up
and turned him off, and to accelIer-
ate his leaving he hit him right be-
tween the eyes with a four-pound
rock. The niger went off to the
at dinner he came back and dumped
a whole family of pole cats into the
we'll. When we came back 1t was
Fields time to go down, and down
he went smoking a cigar, but when
he got in about two feet of the bot
tom he sent up a universal shout
to come out. | pulled him up as
quickly as | could and after he had
| recovered his breath he made a few
preliminary remarks about nigsers,
skunks, etc. | can't give his dis
course in full, in fact | have forgot
ten a great deal of it, but what I dc
remember I don't think would be APP
propriate to this occasion.
/" l. wa oahN
corn of which he has made quite a
J yield. 1t was dinner time when l
got there and Southall wouldn't let
any body pass his place at hal time
of day, so I ate one of the incest din
ners and a lot of it, too, for | was
hungry. Rev. keaton and wife were
y-ic;tipo thnr, anl fhay nra oil boy-
ing IA good time. Rev. Keaton is a
Primitive Baptist minister and has
done a lot of work in his time, but
he is now aged and is peacefully
waiting for the summons. His son,
James Keaton, took u paper again.
He has gone into business with his
brother-in-law, Sam Prude, at Rock
EFT. and | am sure these worthy
Young men will do well.
Mrs. NJ. V. Marshall took the En-
terprise too. said she wanted to begin
with the new year and she shall.
Coils. Arch Prude and Buck Farrar
| found in good spirits and in a fine
humoT. Col. Prude and his son,
Dave. have gone into the hog bust
ness and have quite a number graz
ing on alfalfa. They expect to make
a lot OF money out of them and 4
| guess they will. r. 5. Andrews lives
near Rocket and has a nice home
and several farms. lie has quite
an extensive lawn in front of his
house aud some twenty OF thirty
prairie dogs burrow there The
sercech owls live with them toc so
u you want to see a real live prairie
dog town Just go TO MIR Andrews
place Mir Andrews will go to Cor
pus Christi after "A few tays ana
spend the rest of the winter tss
likes lo live down there in the ain
ier time and says il il an ideal place.
: w. Miller know horses and has
= training stable and probably more
hors~s than any mar In Eiiis county
Some II the horses that he has train
"a have mad" fine records and