Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-05-30
CraWfish

WIN. EDllON-l lntenOeu 10 lei you
rest this week, but everything must
come in its season. The crawhsh
season is upon US, and lhave a lecture
on that festive animal laid up in my
brain cells and want to get rid of it
as want to use the shelf ! carry it in
for something else.
When you think you are getting on
well in the world, and everything is
lovely you may look out for breakers
ahead, for the devil is camping on
your trail, and will suddenly spring a
surprise on you when the least ex-
pected.
When Adam was turned out Of the
Garden Of Eden the devil was given
the job Of keeping the world from
ever being happy again. That he has
attended strictly to his business goes
without saying, for though he may be
mean. nobody accuses him Of being
Iazy,
Yesterday | went over the crop ard
found it in good condition, so after
supper last niget my boy Zeke and
myself figured the prospect to see
what the chance would be for him to
60 to college next session. Zeke is
one Of those great big double listed
fellows that can take a little muly
steer by the tail and throw him over
the fence, il necessary, and has good
common boss sense about all the al
fairs of farm life, and while he has
the oId,fashion education that our
daddies used to have, (that is readin'
writin and cipherinJ }, he is ambitious
to 60 higher and his mother thinks
he is End Abe Lincoln-sIow to de-
veIop-but will be somebody when he
does.
This is an age Of education. and il
you have any thoughts which you think
will benefit the world, you must be
able to dress them up in good gram,
mar and a sprinkle or two Of Rhetoric
to make them catch the public ear
II you want to drive a great lrutt
home it depends a great dea. On how
you tell it.
We found it would take all the
cotton to pay running expenses anc
make a payment on some land lately
added to the Perkins estate, while the
hill of early corn would fatten the
hogs and make another crop, 50 Zeke
must look for school money out Of the
10 acres of bottom corn which we put
at geo bushels. ! looked at it in the
evening-rows straight as a gun bar
reI-4 inches bigb. and YOU could al
most see it grow, We had a good
rain last night, and | went down this
morning expecting to see it 6 inches
high, and going on, but mirabIe dictu
the crawGsh had a campmeeting there
last night and cleaned up the whole
business, leaving only 10 stalks It
mark the place where all our hopes
/, went up the spout.
That leads me to say that of all tn,
auadrupeds that walks the Lords foo
stool, the crawfsb is the most to b.
/, despised Of men, and ! am forced to &
into a scientific investigation OF hin
. and show him up in his true %colors.
Let me say in the beginning, SOM
folks spell it crawGsb, bu. don't in
duIge in that kind Of TomlooIery tha
spells one way and %pronounces anoth
I er. am engaged now in overhauIinI
. he English language, and some da
= will get out a dictionary that will la,
: lWebster,s on a bridge) in the shad
and | will prosecute the first man tia
calls it %dictionry, leaving out the a, a
is now the fad with (wouId,be) reforr
/. p~ronounCers.
The crawhsh was born Of poor, BIT
q dishonest parents, and unlike the
oOher pest Of the earth (the muskee
n teer). he does not carry the best bloc
Of the land in his veins, for if til
musketeer (~speIIed mosquito by til
smart EIIix) hasn't got the best bloc
a he goes out and gets it, for he had a
soon bite a king as a poor workin
man, as he is proud of his blood, an
: says it will tell what kind of an an