The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-01-24
SEQ Fits ABOUND THE CAN
DIE AND GETS HIS WING SCOR.
CHED.
Shady Grove,
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lk8L W 66k bOEt6E poShlu dEOuh OlAlou6 yol
Abber Williams and incerdentally drapt II
to see Joe Jones'. Ov course I weren't goin
10 loot erroun' 'thout byin' suthin
SO l wrapt myself eroun or half pint OF stuf
know how cotton wuz goin 80 I Jes mosec
over 10 tibet place under the Ureeker hotel
whut ;they oall the Cotton Exchange. Tn,
Deacon calls 1t q Bucket shop" but how II
the dickens he got tina name fur 1t 1 lon
Well the thing wus new TO me. l never
he'd seen 'nuthin like 1t before. They wa
elegent cheers an tables an desks an things
Abber Villians wus roostin erroun comfort
able like, smoltin seegars AID spittin red
an the scene W'us 80 interestln' went u
roost too, put in er chew uf "ole Hickory.
flung my huns in my veskit, an rared
back to wait developments.
Their wus q feiier listeniD' to a Token
merchine an writin down hRgers on the
big black board. an ever now an then bed
letter an fetch 1t to Their table. By this time
[ was feelin' perry good an In q talkatiS
mood so l acosted . gent settin' by me.
See I. nabor, whuts that Teller dom wrlti1
cotton an stocks, ssz'e cotton an stocks, scz'e
cant yer read? Look up there.
I he'd already seen N. Y. cotton writ up
Their In big COLE letters, an q crate long line
on I, o. Us and o. o. Mes an l, g 8 and " y
potry heard when I wus q kid. 1t run
snther like this II saw Esa~ Kissin Kate, this
is whut we three saw I saw Esaw he saw me
an Kate saw saw Esaw." Bou this time
my pard spoke up and SEE:
What yer dom byin or sellin?
Nuther, seq I.
Better buy, seze'e, she's goin up.
What's gion up ? SEE /.
Why cotton, Be5'e
know thet, SEE l .
Sez'e, then why In the John Henry don't
yer buy an get rich?
O~keeienokee swamps, an dident know whut
TO say, so l jest begin TO think an l thunk
and l thunk. In the mean time my psrd ex.
planned how ever pint up or down meant
sessI now 60, 81, 81, 81, IS, SS,es, 81 81, an so on.
SEE I, Do you mean that II Id bought when
that TELLER writ 80 that now Id be In SIS. 90
Ez shore ez yer roostin In that cheer. sez'e.
shance. Ez l say, my visit to Joe Jones he'd
got me In q most grstifyin frame OF mind an
I felt several persent better of then l rally
wus. immeedyetly went over an invested In
cotton to Their ermount Orwell its sort Nv a
q delicate subjec. an not nessary ter men
ton.
Then / resoomed my roost. after which 1t ia
needless TO say, l wus q much more interest,"
ed spectator.
$500 said I 70 myself, IS, GU, II! licenses
River, thot I to myself, whuthev I ben plow-
in an cleanln up brier patches an grubbln
all my life fur. this Is er dead sinch. II, 70
an l begin ter wunder whut I'd do with the
muney. l felt like 1 wuz ridin In or morris
cheer on a cow ketcher OF a mile or mint
train, er wus bein waited by the gentle
zephers over peaceful valleys an green hills to
q land Nv milk an bunny.
"a, the Teller wrote an then 70, an / almost
yield hooraw fur hamton rite In the shop
I made up my min I'd get Madam Sed such
since she used Ter slide down the gullies,
dam up the ranch, an eat green apples, Is,
SIS at q jump, an I made up my min I'D buy
me a rubber tired buggy an give ole Deacon
s 81, = The col cold nasG1jn ~ y6 she Re registered 1 ;sm ds an al l
canoo IN q shady lake OF Eckstacy where
glorious feathered birds touched on notes
Olympian, and flowers OF er thousan' hues
transplapted frnm the Elysian fields reveled
With earth, sky an Dir ip maxim one gram,
sublime Eckstacy nv delight,
" I wus Bettin there. almost entrapced, until
she reached 80, an l ielt like my fortune wus
made.
me. She begin TO dip like q kite when It's
tale is TOO short, dip, dip, dip, she went. In
the words Of the immortel TllImun, "Shall !
speak, or shall I keep SILENT" All at once
like er buzzard thets a mile hi an wants 10
come down quick, she folded her wings,
stuck her head uHder her feathers an fell
with or scoop that wud do justice TO Lucifer.
Erbout the best way I'kn describe my teelins
did when / wus to Atlanta an climbed up the
stairs Nv one OF them SIX sk rapers. l thought
I'd try a elevator fur onot, and did,. Do Sou
know how IL feels? That's Just the way !
felt when cotton took tibet swoop. ! lost
several plinks.
just let me say here whut l believe bout
the whole thing. You know tibet a seet on
the New York exchange is worth emmy wher
rs 10 100 thousand plunks. Now I'm
under the impreshun that you ken by a
lether bound mayhogny morris che r frum
ether McDill er Kerr or Calvert and Nickles
fur less mummy. Here IL IL, suppose me an
Pab an the deacon deals In futures, JUS fur
Nv course theirs more, an Inc AN the
deacon believes its goin down an We sells
And Pab believes its toin' up aud he buy.
Whuts the result? Them Wall Street scoun-
dels cost up accounts, they git together ana
asks what In sight, an Their henchmen tells
them theirs 500 bought an 500 Sold. Alrite.
says they, draps cotton 20 points, take bacon
Smiths mummy an pay Pab Slitz and divide
Guilermo Sed's ermong us.
The erbove Is weut / believe TO be the tru
state Nv atfalrse.
Emmy tuing that costs IS to lU0 Thousand
dollers is bleeght 10 have sum graft erbout II,
thet hes no more intrinsic value then q seel
the stock exchange.
don't believe I'd er ever got caught In the
thing ef II haddent been fur hat ole dlspen-
sery lick Ell. Good home made Ticker never
wud er done 1t.
Guilermo Sed.
P.S. believe I'd reether you wouldntl
this es its g rether delicate subject
ms Iaat now Il