The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-15

SHE SAT with HER FEET I'll IN ANOTHER
CHAIR M AID SHE WASN'T GOING TO
DO o MORE WORK.
knows herself he's aelnd to get Il jar.
He's bound to find II that he don't
know her at all,
Take a hog. non. and yOn can find
out all~about hlIM i'll IN hour. He was
born a hog. and he's going to stay n
till yosl turn him into pork. You can
depend upon him until you start to
~Glrivefaailn somewhere.
"It dent take Il Teller long to learn
the ways of. a cow. She'll either jump
fences or she woE't. She'll either k!IN
the milking pail over or she won't.
She'll either settle down and grow fat
or she'll be ~trespassing all over the
fields and be as thin as a rail.
Tive got a yoke of oxen ten years
old. I've known the critters ever since
they was yearlings. / know just what
they"will or they won't DO under sartiu
circumstances. If there's solid ground
and it's a bit downhill under their
feet they'll hump themselves to pull
an .oak tree up by the roots. If it's
soft ground aud uphill they won't pull
hard huff to ! bring a towel off the
clothesline.
Tive got ansold boss sixteen years
old. Il learned his ways before be was
four. If he gets the lines under his
tail when Pm driving he's going to
kick. Can't SAL why, but he'll do it.
If he meets a flock of sheep in the
road he's going to bust for the fence.
~one side or t'other. Can't say how he
seasons, but away he'll go, and some
thing will be smashed. l know him
aFom head to tail, and I drive him ac-
oordingiy.
Can Understand Most Men.
IA fe1er can understand most men
IL Lemnel jackson say he'll bring ne
a ton of hay tomorrow at S16 the ton
I'm going to depend Oh it. II Darius
Taylor says he'll sell me a bsrl of pork
next fall I'm feeling as safe as if the
bard was already in the cellar. I've
come down here t Pap Perkins gro
Gerry and pestoffice every night Of my
life for the last twenty years. Pap
has 5a1us been the same. He was the
sane the day bis wife got bit by a
mad deg. He was the same when he
fell off a load of hay and broke his
leg. The irestof you. are jest the same.
We've all had chances to be meaner n
pizen toward each other. but we hair't
taken advantage of 'em-
But when YOU come down to Eom-
en- ~folks-that's different. When / was
twenty-five ] thought | understood 'e!n
and would have bet a COW agiE Il
lamb | did. but j amt talking thai
way now. I'm jeGt saying that THY
are a puzzle. and ! wouldn't bet On
'em nOhoU.
Il amt saying nothing but what yox
all know when | say that I'm living
with my fourts wife. Some folks have
been kind huff to say that it's two
too many, but / reckon ats as ose feels
about it.
81 thought my first wife was al
angel. Used to run in on her at al
times when counting. but always found
her as placid as a millpond. Never
showed the slightest temper. not ever
when she stumbled Over a hog. Said
that if anything happened to me she'd
commit suicide Lord. but If n one
had told me that I didn't know that
gal I'd have answered that he'd better
go to the Iunatic asylum.
WED been married four week
when she pulled out a handful Of N
side whiskers. because1 stepped on he
corn.
WED bee married eight when size
said she wished I was dead.
1--WE hadn't been married quite sir
months when I come hoEae with a lead