The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-08-28

a.-- a.Hf AiDN 1890 p'opit
'ar 10 say a word. There's
a-- ,.... aho beats the band. for
". ......E citing her tongue run,
- ....- about everybody; and,
a ..y lu.E little she does know,
... s~uoHiugest woman | ever
.. ID. uy life, for she can star.
.... Using OF the sun and ak
...a IuHn Of the same. Tha.i
something about everybody
"' .....llS business; the very day
that every child was born
.-.#gaJaThood, and she's helped
more dead people. and she
.... what every one died with.
they lOOked after they We're
.... she remembers every text
... hoard preached from, and
... l.. every person within t.
".-. .r .rr. prOfessed religion. and
-.,., we're baptised, and who
.... dipping, ana how deep The
...~ lney Uaptised in; and she
... .pu uHen to plant Irish po-
...u callaTd seed, bed sweet po-
uIaut onions, and the right
.....t the moon to make soap, plant
..,- .eed and set Il goose; and
...... f. anything else you want to
nc could tell it. for she knows
.... and her tongue is hung III the
..,.Ip and Wags at both ends. and.
sd, saving j., she can talk the
..l. uII Of a billy goat.
g. never talks much; | don't, for
rr.uA its the unbeconingest thing III
a.. ...Id for any one, especially a
...,,. and that's what / claim to be
f.. p. rt-ruaIy talking, talking, talk
Ing tud never saying anything good
.r.nl folks. | wouldn't be like some
t4- luat | know, for the world So
.I.sE. talking about their neighbors.
yhele.- Becky Beans for instance, she's
.Hu4elv got The right name-"beans"
,Y. instead of Becky Beans her
name ought to be changed to Run
mig Beans. for she's the runningest
Bean that was yer raised in this
ne.ghDOrhoOd. That gal-she's q
..put' Gal. indeed! She'll never see
r8ltg-fEe again, nor fifty neither, if
SHE does go to Sunday School, and
try TO make out like she's young. Ye-
there's Becky Beans, who wears out
more shoe leather than any three we
men in the neighborhood, and has q
tongue that's awful to listen a.
She makes out like she's mighty pious,
but I've hearn as how she talks scan
daluus about people If what I've
hparu about her is true, and I'm sure
ii Is. if she was to talk about my old
man, as I've hearn how h talks about
some ok ia mash her mOuth What
do Won think she sed about old Uncle
NOUN '1lIiilt = why inc Ih1otS, Eo'b-
t~oI-uothing thing had the imperdence
to tell my old man that old father
Moon Shine was doing more harm
than good, in this neighborhood, just
because he's got q little still down in
the COW pasture. and is stilling a little
Whiskey for medicine, n family pur-
poses. Every body knows we can't
Get along without campfire; and, in
a snaky country like this a person ma!
be bit by a high land mocosin or d
rattle snake most any time; and there
is nothing better for snake bites than
whiskey.
And the women-folks are almost
bound to have a little in the house, at
times. AS for me, l think old father
Moon Shine is the most usefulest man
in the neighborhOod, for how are we
To get any whiskey here, in Johnston
coanty if somebody don't make some?
Becky Beans needn't make out ike
she's such a good temperance oma
Everybody knows her old father was
the worst drunkard in the county.
She's q pretty thing to be making out
like she hates whiskey. AS good as
her father loved it, it stands to rea-
SON she'd get drunk, too, if she want
alI the time trying to catch q preacher
Tor Il beau.
No. I'm not a person as talks much;
and | told Sister Watts the othcr day
if every body was like me, there'd be
a. sight more peace in this world than
there is. But I'd like to know how
folks can live in peace with people
who have tongues as long as black
snakes. and keep 'em running all the
time. the are awake, telling hes on
other folks! 1t can't be done.
| try to live in peace with everybody
and. if my poor heart decelVes me not,
/ am ready to go whenever olu
Marster calls for me, but L can sec
for the life of me, how some 1olks
can expect ever to get to heaven.
There's Gincey Walker who gets nap
py-or pretends like il does-eVefy
time she goes to preaching, ana 1 can
prove by cynthia S~priggins, VINO
eHprvbodv knows, will tell Tue
truth. (f she was turned OUT Oh lhG
church for dancing and playing caluS'
that Gincev Walker talked scandaiouS-
IN about our preacher, the night of the
Wedding. over at Mr.. SaWyerS, ana tlat
Juu after she had shouted. or pfe'ellu-
el to shout, under his preaching ING
Sunday before. No. | can't tell You
Nhal she said about him. for as L am
i person that don't talk about my
u,iahb0rs. unless | can say something
good Of them. I'd rather not tel you,
Lut This much I'll say-I don't beileVe
OUR preacher was drunk that night II
BE- did eat six glasses OF Syilapuo'
which seen him do with my wv,
rtr~. | told Cynthia, il l was III lel
14rer | wouldn't talk after Sucn q
ELnE huzzy as Gincey Walker put
that She ought TO do like | do-sdS
nothing. and let them who nave ioHs
Tongues do the talking.
No., don't believe our eac VIZ
avuUk. but I'll say this. if I'm turned
'nl Of the church for it: SIX glasses .,
wat syllabub was enough to Ilake az az
elephant trunk. / didn't eat put nall
d 2la@sfull. and that made me so dlzzs
and ~tongue-tied | know | looked any
talked like a foo No, / haven toat
Nobody what Cynthia told me 'idt
:HIoev said about u preacher ioi
I'm a person that don't like to tat'ie,
AND ii YOU We're to stay win me :,
week.. you'd never hear me SPEAK eVli
"r anybody. My motto is: III ohs
,anI say something good of aholnel
.- u2Rht TO say nothing" some iolks
.-.} all they know that's bad ABOUT
t"'plr and don't tell the good.
last year when our preacher Wa
1"I>iiig on a revival at our church.
H~ -noly did preach as good sermons
~ ever heard anybody preach put
""' day when the meeting was III Il
good way, Bill Snipe's yaller ooS
At Hhhh NC Iii T.