Connecticut western news., 1907-09-05
UNCLE EzRA'S > DISSERTATION
COOKIES AND BASE BALL SCORES
He Believes in Shade and Dampness Thinks Roosevelt Can't Dodge Presidential Chair-Mirandy and Bub are Preparing for the Fairs.
Pompoonick, Conn,

Bub are Preparing for the Fairs.
 Pompoonick, Conn,
 September 9, 1900 and :.
 Deer MT. Editer:-That leetle rain we had few days ago didn't quite wet down to the pertatcrs but it helped wonderfully. I allus like to look on the brite side of every kloud if possible and while we've had Considerable of a drowth yet August wuz a powerful good month to finish up hayin' and harvestfn' in. I really spose that I've saved enuff on gettin' in my oats without gettin' 'em wet, to pay for all the kurl that the drowth has put in the korn leaves. We've had plenty of water up here on the farm all through. Speekin' about water, I'd rather pay 5000 more for any, farm if was goin' to buy, if it had water in about every lot and that's the way it is up here. There's a never fail ing spring under about every fence and fixed so the stock could drink from both sides. was also keerful to let tree or two stand not far off for shade. Of course you can't raise so much under the shade, but I'd ruther have a little more komfort for man and beast as we go along through life. if we don't have quite so tall korn or heavy oats around that spot.
 Everything has gone base ball krazy up around here this summer. Bub is kaptain of the Pompooniok "Cake Eaters" and he's got grate aggregashun of players Mirandy started in the season by promising hunk of ginger bread, or dropt merlasses kooky, to every player what made run and you can't imagine how much it increased the scores. Good kake has powerful inflooense vixen properly used. Say, want Pres. Roosyyelt's pilgrim speech a dandy though? He's going to hew along the same old chalk line for IS months longer any how and it don't chips fly either. The more I think, think the hardest propersition or rather the greatest predickament MT. Roosvvelt has got to get out of is not to git in the presidential chare again when he gets out. He will be nomynated just as shure as the Republican konvenshun meets and if the man what owns the konvenshun hall is wize he will open all the fire escapes in the roof before the nominashun IS made, because the ap- plause will shake the rafters if anybody lisps the name of Roosyvelt above a whisper.
 Mirandy and Bub Iz gitting things reddy for the Danberry and Crate Bar rington fares. We've got krook neck squash that's twisted twice around u fence post and through not hole, and don't know whether to enter 1t as a kommon squash or a fence post with natural decorations.
 Mirandy is busy finishin' a new de- sign in bed quilt It's sumthing that has taken all the spare time she's had since the 4th, but it's a dazzler, I tell you, and if it don't get prize then the judge won't know good thing when she sees it. Mirandy has used $1S.S9 worth of thread-you know thread has gone up sent spool wholesale-and she will probably get at least the S1.00 first premium and special menshun. The quilt is conventional in design with Bulgarian work around the edges. Just inside the border is display of Hedebo or Relicel with a Mt. Mellick center piece, trimmed with Wallachian work. In the four corners is some Hardanger drawnwork insert, in Darned Huckbuck with Shadow or Alliance back ground Of course this may be giving away Mirandy's speciality, but it's too late now for anybody to get up such a combina- tion of handiwork What night mare fellow will have when he crawls under that Hedebo hodoo work over him. I'll take new hoss blanket for mine on ex- try cold night in preference to that.
 Bub's got hen settin' on dozen double yelked eggs and hopes to have some two headed or 4-legged chickens and if he has good luck he is going to get tent and put it up on the Midway because people must have some attrack- shuns at fair.
 UNCLE EZRA.
 P. S.-Mirandy is also going to make one each of the IS different kinds of pie listed for prizes and if you will have good sample of your variety of printers "pi" there, she will enter it with the lot to make the assortment complete, on her exhibitors ticket, and Mirandy says that you can have the whole bunch what the judges don't eat, after the fair closes. U. E.