Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-10-15
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n BY BENZ. e. WULFF, OF STOCK Z
TON, CAL. A FORMER GREENE N
N COUNTY, MISS. RESIDENT

lhc appearance of fall is seer on
every hand; but the Stockton mos
quito is still singing his nightly |
song apparently exerting his mus
zeal talents to lull me to sleep as
soon as l retire | may seem un-
grateful for this orchestral enter
tainment, but I teel that ! do not
need it. Then | have always en-
tertained a doubt as to his purpose.
1t is all very good to sing a man toI
s.eep, but the anticipation of a pune
ture Of the tire on ones nose soon
after he is asleep does not breed
exquisite rapture over the melody.
especially when one does not know
he kind of bacilli is going into the
puncture.
Since l wrote you last, [ took a
ride, with a lawyer friend of Minis
some miles out in the country. We
sailed along beautifully for miles and
and [ congratulated myself upon be-
ing independent of buggies and
plugs. Mexican plugs or American
plugs or any other kind of plug. l
even sang little song as the zeph-
yrs dallied with my brown earIOcks
slightly tinged with gray. Before
we arrived at our destination now
ever, we came to a deep sand bed
and the auto chugged and pulled and
squirmed and grunted, but 80 far as
travel was concerned, we might as
we'll have expected to ride around in
a coffee mill. AID Obiging farmer
near us came and pulled the auto
into another farmers yard. l had
quit singing by this time. Then the
machine got mad, it would not even
make noise. I stood around non-
plussed with my abdomen protrtrud-
ing like a bay window in a tenement
house, hopping the perspiration
from my brow and asking questions
and wondering how we were to get
home. Att a time the machinery
in response to my friends manip-
ipulation began to come to, and
and make a noise. Then | learned
chat the spark plug had caused the
trouble. Yes sir, the spark plug
had taken the studs just as natur
ally as any confounded Mexican
plug Darn plug anyhow.
7 see your correspondent from
Lower Greene writes very interest
ing letter for the Herald OF recent
date. He speaks of the Ankle Elk
press no plugs about that l war
rant. Then he says that LOnnie
Ball had just returned from Sweet
water Church where he attended
religious services and perhaps enter
tanning "wngless butterflies. Now
take it that d wingless butterily is
chrysalis, a worm. Now | cannot
! see how religious services can have
anything to do With the entertain
ment Of worms. | used TO entertain
them on the Chickasawhay and did
not havs to 90 to church to com
mence the entertainment. Whether
was at church, at school or sit
ting down on the grass scratching
my toes for the ground itch, the en-
tertainment went on just the same
until old Dr.. Payne of State Line
broke up the entertainment. lie
broke up the entertainment with
vermifuge. The taste of the vermi-
! fuge is in my mouth yet.
Speaking of DR.. Payne Of State
Line, reminds me of another un-
pleasant incident. You all know
Bill" Avera, brother of Sam
Avera. well he is the fellow l have
held a grudge against for ali these
years. | suppose he has forgotten it
but have not. Alexander MCLEAN,
they alwaps called him Sandy for
short, but as this story will show,
he was a gritty fellow too, Now
Sandy had u turkey pen down on the
river and he caught two fine wild
gObblers on one occasion. Sandy
took one in each hand and started
and as trudged along with pride in
his heart the turkeys became heavier
and heavier and kept slipping
through his hands until the spurs on
these gentlemen turkey legs into
Sandy's wrists and made quite pain
full cuts, but Sandy stuck to the
birds till he landed them safe at
home enduring all the pain. He
could not Let either of them loose to
arrange his grip as he would fly
away. A few days afterward I
undertook to tell Bill Avera about
this; [ became doubtful Us to the
turkeys having spurs, and | did not
want Bill to laugh at me, so | told
him the turkeys bit Sandy. Ha!
hal hal" broke in Bill. The tur-
keys bit him did they? Hol hol no!
That takes the rag off the bush!
Well, I did not want to say any more
about 1t, I wanted to quit; but Bill
wanted TO know more about it. He
wanted to know If the turkey chew
ed up the pieces of Sapdy's arm and
swallowed them or spit them out.
Bill was very much interested. He
wanted to know which was the worst.
turkey bites or snake bites. Then
he would roar and laugh and say he
,,a1,or hoard vtbipor like this before