The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-27

4 " liz SIdW anu DIS
told everything that d woman should
be told by her old man. cause. Mr..
journal, you know that thar are
something's a married man comes in
| kontact with, particular when he goes
TO Mardegraw in Pensacola, that the
Old woman needn't no. cause she is
| ike all women, particular when they
| says, yes, / warn't RACED to such do
| ings nor ISOLATION with them that
bankers after sech."
l told Milinda all the things l seen
and hearn, ceptin, of course, some.
She was so interested she made me
sit right down; the scripter says
Adam sit right down and wept or
cried, and l always thought it were Il
green apple Eve give him, cause
green is the color that means jeal-
| ousy, and women is fearfully so.
But l must tell what seed and not
ramble so much. Invent on that
airly train, and when the conductor
stopped at Pensacola ! got Off l
never seed sech a crowd, ceptin
when thar are preaching at Pleasant
Hill church and it has been narrated
round that thar would be dinner on
the ground, cause when this am the
case everybody for miles are expected
to be thar for dinner. You must try
and drop round bout them times.
Well, I showed and scrimaged
through the crowd and at last got
around to the front yard of the de-
pot.
had to stop and look at two fine
looking men dressed in blue with
brass buttons and down on thar close,
and a hard billed hat on. Says |,
these must be soldiers for the Mar
dagraw," so | asted darkey and he
says, they is perlice. Well, / had
hearn of Pensacola perlice. I thing
that perIice should be skinney men
that could run good, but one of these
men was too fat to run and to wide
to hide when thar was anything doin.
l went clost to them and asked whar
they were going to hold Mardagraw
He sure were pleasant, and laughed
and said down the street, and / lowed
he was a temperate man, as thar was
no scent about him, and when I offer
ed him a chaw of my pure home
made tobacco he refused. 1t gave me
confidence in my safety. cause onct
when ] was in another place the per-
lice would take anything even to a
fellow a little drunk
From Bluff Springs.
Well, as | started to go thar was
a dozen darkies that made a dive at
me. One hollered at me. Escam-
bia, No" says |, from Bluff
Springs He sure got back quick.
Thar was something that kinder I'M
strung him.
Then another says, ''Man-hat-on."
you fool, lows l. do you think l
wears womens hats?" Bout that
time a darkey grabs my dog-house
| and yells Saint Carlos!" l go fer
! him, for | was gittin enuff of THAR
slack, and this was THROWN the fat
| in the fire, cause the last words Nj
linda said to me was to look out and
| don't loose my sweat-case. It's a
beaut and l don't blame her. It cost
two dollars and six-bits and looks
nearly like leather.
! Well, | grabbed that darkey and
shook him and says. There's ST.
Peter, St. Paul and st. Carlos, but,
| darkey, turn my clothes bag loose, or
I'll introduce you to all the saints,
past, present and future. l am Mr..
Joseph Henry Jinkins. ESQ.,, of Bluff
Springs, Florida. and | jest give that
darkey a look he will never forget,
and he will sure know me if he ever
comes to Bluff Springs. Well, l went
on down the street with the crowd.
When | got down on the main street
| asked q perlice, he warn't the ones
met at the depot (guess they were
looking for their friends and did not
come with the crowd) whar l could
get boardin house. He said, do
you want to buy. rent or lease one?''
He thought I was a greenhorn.
| spoke short, for it made the blood
bile. So | said, IF | wanted to do
Gather I'd get the foundation your
hat is on; move out the wheels and
gear and furnish rooms for the whole
push that am here today
Jest then a fine looking girl comes
long. Seemed she must have nown
me, for she smiled and as I was bout
to speak threw a double-handfuI of
confederacy down my mouth and
and while | was gettin it out that
kop stood and laughed stead of 'restin
her. He walked away and said
"Old man, clean out your whiskers.
Says | to myself, you've got the adj
vantage of me now and the town am
not lendin' money but borrowin', and
I hain't got any to lend. but I'll get
even, for every dog has his day and
| got mine now"
Found Boarding House.
Il went up the street until I cross
ed another and soon I seed house
with a sine hanging on it which said
"Bordin.' l steered strait up the
steps and pulled a kind of brass thing
and a, bell rung. ''Misus, do you keer
horders?" She lows yes" and said
come in
Well, I wish Milindey could have
seed me setten in that ar fine room
lookin at the pictur' of a man lookir
like myself setten in a chair not fa1
from me. l looked real clost, and seed
pretty soon that it was a fine lookins
glass with a gilt frame and it ware
me. | kept settin for a while, ramb
lin my gaze all about that ar room
at the fine pictures, dishes and lots
of little trinklets. Bout that time
hearn a bell ringing. / lowd, oil
course. it war another border, but
purity soon the lady came and says
Don't you want any breakfast"
why, course I do" says l.
well, come right on?' says she
and up l jumps and follows her int
the dining room. Thar was eight o.
ten regular piney-woodsers thar.
sure can tell them. cause I used t.
one myself before 1 moved in town