Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-08-30
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THEIR ORCHARDS

let it be corrected at once!
"Mystharion, son !. of Heron, aged :
about forty years, having scar on the
little finger of the left hand, agrees that
he has sold to Satabous, son of Pekusis,
aged about thirty years, having a scar
on the little finger Of the left hand,
female mouse-colored donkey, shedding
its first teeth, just as it is irrevocably,
and that Mystharion has received from
Satabous the price agreed upon between
them. ffty-six drachma of silver, di-
rectly from hand to hand out of his
house, and that he will guarantee the
sale. with every guarantee"
Would not any man of to-day, SINH
larly situated as Pisais was two thou
sand years ago, pen letter after the
fashion of this one, which he evidently
sent to a resident of neighboring town:
aPisais to Heracleus, greeting: When
ever you from necessity want to borrow
anything from me, at once give it to
you; and now please give TO Cleon the
NAASS Sse'eSAS WHICH 0eleuCuS sCOlQ YOU
to give me, even if you have to pawn
your cloak; for | have settled accounts
with his father, but he has allowed me
to remain IN arrears, and now j: want
to get receipt. ,,Seleucusi has eyaded
paying the money by saying that you
nave made an arrangement with him to
pay instead. Now, therefore, please
consider that you are lending the money
to me, and don't keep Cleon waiting; but
go and meet him. On no account fail
to do this" & So
Here IS a townsman's invitation to a
friend that reads, except for the proper
names and the word centurion; as if it
were written to-day: 30 SN.e
"lsidorus invites you to dine with him
on the occasion of his daughters we'd
ding, at the house of Titus the, centur-
ion, at nine O'clock" sfs, s
The form of making business pro-
posal by letter has changed scarcely at
all, except as regards the style of adj
dress and greeting. g
TO Achilles, also called Sarapammon,
| through his guardian ,Sarapion, from
Apollonius, son of Apollinous, son Of
Soterichus, from the Goose-farmS quarter.
j wish toalease from you for four years,
from the thirtieth of the present month
Mesore, Of the oil presses owned BY YOU
at the village of Dionysias, one oil press
in the Evaporation quarter, fitted with
a wheel and containing two machines
and cauldroc, with all the appertain-
ing upper rooms, and ] will pay each
year in all one metretes six schoes Sof
strained olive oil, and likewise, one me
|tretes six choes of raphanous oil, pro-
vlding every year at the harvest six,coty-
lac of raphanous oil, etc, after the pres
ent fashion of expressing the terms
infinitely. "
Finally, the Oxyrhynchus colony. and
countryside, white and black alike, were
not unacquainted with the spoiled child.
Here is the letter of "a Greek youngster,
who certainly deserved great many
more spankings than, his less petted
playmates undoubtedly got from time to
time:
"Theon, to his father Theon, greeting:
1t was fine thing of you not to take
me with you to the city. If you, won't
take me with you to Alexandra / won't
write you letter or speak to you. or
say good-by to you; and if you go to
Alexandria won't take your hand or
ever greet you again. That is what will
happen if you won't take me- Mother
said to Archelaus: 1t quite upsets him
to be left behind 1t was good Of you
to send me presents on the 18th, the
day you sailed Send me a Tyre, !, i'm
plore YOU. If you don't, | WON'T eat /
won't drink There now" ar
| Yes, Mr.. Dooley, though we have
many things that these ancients Wot not
of, though we of city, and town and coun-
try-side are vastly superior in many ways
to the men and women Of city and town
and countryside two thousand years
20, still we are the sons. and daugh-
tiers of our fathers and mothers, and you
once more revealed your shrewd philos-
ophy when you said:
u see great changes going on every
day of my life, but see no change every