The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
THIS SUMMER IN HISTORY.
What the Oldest lnhabltant Will Have
 to Relate in 1867.
From the ChicagosNews.

From the ChlcagoeNeWS.
 "Yes," said the oldest inhabitapt- he was talking in the year 1967-"that summer of 1907 was a corker. I re- member one morning when I went out to hoe corn I had on my felt boots and earmuffs and a pair of old yarn nit tens my mother had knitted for me. I wasn't wearing all these things for my complexion, either, mind you.
 "A light snow had fallen in the night, and 1 went past the kitchen garden I saw where a rabbit had hop ped across the road after gorging him. self on the early cabbages. One place, ' where a litle drain emptied, he had slipped three or four feet on the ice.
 q remember that at the breakfast table my father had quoted from some poet UT other: What Is so raw as a day in June?' Mother had corrected him and sad it was rare instead of raw Father said: Well, all the June days will be rare if they don't turn no more heat' Whereupon he laughed so heartily at his own joke that none of the rest of us needed to laugh at 1t bit. That was about the only kind of labor father ever saved us children and mother from.
 After reaching the corn field I started boeiGg, but noticed that large number of the plants had been cut off even with the ground during the night In ordinary seasons I might have had to guess what had done the damage, but that June it wasn't necessary. l toe; my hoe and followed up the trail through the snow and traced a large cutworn that was hurrying to his lair He might have got away but for the fact that he had frosted his feet and was Hmping badly
 Later the corn began to show such symptoms of goose-pimples and dis couragement that I went all over each of three large fields and set out hot pepper plant by the side of each hill of corn. Tie rest of the summer the crop just bonmed One 6ay in July, when the snow was nearly gone, we had to go out and fan the corn and wipe the precipitation from off its fore head the pepper plants had made it so hot
 "The snow falling on those peppers kept up laud hissing sound all sum- mer.
 About the middle of July we boys conceived a fine scheme. We began feeding one Of the COWS vanilla extract and milking ice cream from her. When we grew tired of vanilla we fed her chocolate and SD on. Finally we so Lverworke3 the COW and changed her diet so often that she became insane and then gave nut sundaes.
 cb0rt limo hof0ro fhic opa oe fathers harvest hands became over- heated He showed all the earmarks of sunstroke. We were in such a hurry to get through the harvesting, however, that no one went for a phy- sician. We laid the poor, overheated chap on a snowdrifta in fence corner. By noon he was all Tight, with the ex- ception of chilblains on his shoulder tlades ~
 About the middle of August we went to a Sunday school picnic down at Nolan's Fork. Those of us who lived upstream from the place took c'ir ice skates and were there two ours ahead of the rest, who had to founder up hill through the snow drifts. It was the only picnic I ever attended where the ants didn't bother II was huge fun to swing the girls and hear them squeal when a big lot of snow from an overhanging bough went down their backs. Millie Enright got mad and went home early because she thought somebody had stolen her neck fur. Afterward it was found in Jim Harper's overcoat pocket We joked him a good deal about Millie after that
 "A thaw that came about the 2oth of June did lot of damage. It let the ground sink away from all sides of the sweet potato plants in their ridges, SC that when the next frost came, two days later, the roots were exposed and froze up so tight they scouldn't put out aoy more shoots for three weeks.
 Tt was nothing unusual for the sap to freeze suddenly as 1t was rising in the trees and stab right through the 7 bark Sorae of the trees were fairly , bristling with icicles. An uncle of mine made his fortune that year sell 2 ing rock candy from the sugar maple grove near his house.
 .In many respects, as you will see from what I've fold you, it was pe- culiar year"
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