Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-11-15

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Cold air these days and my klose air
very thin,
The wind blows hard and goes thro my
skin.
Seckerent verse.
Mrs. Dofetchit and l am out wonce
more-We've had a tarring fife,
We jawed and talked and slashed a
round-Oh l tell We it wus site
kinder wish we hadn't fout. 1t
seems little quear
That we kant live like other folks an
be satisfied here,
But she has got temper, sir, an ! got
a temper 3.
An when we begin to fife we fife the
battle threw.
In this, our last littel fuss, she fairly
-skreuched me down;
She grabbed..me by mi hurley locks and
tore them frum my Known.
She took me by mi Roman noze-the
handle Nv my he'd;
She rung and twisted it about oh,
thunder, how it bled
She sed l WINS an ugly man mean
an lyin cheat.
An up.her foot went suddin like an !
went off mi seat
NOW, Do, sot ye there an listen
while talk.
I'll show We, sir, I'm boss an make ye
tow the chalk.
Ye are nice man of hi an morrel
tone
To lounge around them drinkin holes
an leave me heer alone.
Gee whizz can't sing the thurd
VERGE now. am so sick at my STUN
mick.
A friend asst me eff / ever had any
speriments In the chicken bisness
We'll now, l kilkilate / have. Mrs
Dofetchit told me all the time ther'
, wus good money in raisin chickens
: She kept after me 9 buy % hens and
, rusters, and see what the quickense
s. wood be at the end of three mnnths
Wei, / did SO. We got - china egg
fur nest eggs to start the hens off on
Well, / fixed up % nestes, nest ful
every hen and hen fur every nest
Wei, l worked about week gettin tn
nestes and things fixed up like | want
Q ed them. Them hens commenced +
3 lay before got all the boxes put u
d an tina laid to beat the band the frs
" munth but aigs wus just sellin fur
}; cents duzzen. wus feedin theI
= chickens dollars worth of corn mea
an brand every day. At last / sal
to Mrs. Dofetchit that there is nothi
in chickens aigs is to cheep, and sh
wus tryin to keep me in good har
!, 4 She said aigs will go up next munt
! an then we will make our mummy bacl
70 Wei, shore enuff, aigs riz to ~ cent
8, dozen an every blame hen we ha
= stopped layin rite short off. Well,
fed them good; fixed their nestes u
with straw, put a china aig in eac
nest, talked good to EN-, coaxed @
= an called EN-, pretty chickens, a
done everything we cud do but all
= yane Them enfernal hens never lai
another aig tel aigs fell to 5 cents
per duzzen and when aigs fell to
y cents one old hen said "tick, ticl
y tick 90 tick, tick 90 tack oo'' TIL
: made me as mad as the duce an g
in among them hens an | broke up q
the nestes, ! broke all the china ali
and l broke the necks, arms an legs
the hens, broke up chicken farmin
!. / broke the 10 commandments an eve
Y thin elce that wus breakable. Sum
4 the ole cripple-up chickens got wei |
sum dide The foxes come to s
thems NV mites. an.the mytes.got to ca
tin EN-.
a. -eWel, ..at.the-end of 3 munths, Mr.
= Dofetchit sprained her rist an t
:. docktor sed to put poultry plaster
- it an we didn't have chickens ent
to make-.a poultry plaster to go on h
rist. l had to by hen to make
\ plaster Wei, you CANAL raise y
n chickens an aigss. that want to but
a fer my part. !. i eat mud turkle al
n before I'll fool with raisin hen aigs
4 Now, be kawtious and never, .ney
4 let a hen cross.yer path. Don't ev
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