The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-05-02
A LETTER FROM DoTE.
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abvul, mundy mite, Aprile 80.
deer editoral,-i heer you is goner
eschoo toun and moove to the kun
try the reesin bein that the men in
toun is now bin put to wurk and air
tryin ter eskape by movin to the kun
trle. that is wun reesin which in
uced me to moove ter watts. seed
hard times cummin fur ther toun
man and sais ter miself Dote talk
up yore bed an walk ter watts, 8. c.
i was up toun sattidy and hearn
all bout it frum dix sonly. he sed
that he he'd bin visitin on greanvil
streat resintly and he foun the doars
of the Set back Kollig cloased with
the prisidint cuttin wood. axed
dix how the presodint was taikin ter
wurk an he sais it is goin reether
hard wifi him. he sais that the prisi-
dint sais that emmy man which Sais
that he luvs ter wurk in gardint is
q Tyre an a man which sais the moar
he wurks in wun the moar he luvs
it is ernuther Tyre an a bigger wun
then ther furst. j goes up an seas
ther presidint miself at the emporium
an finds him not verrie kummuni-
cabal. he wood not say thet he wus
in ther gardint bizness but i fines
that he is a wood chopar from way
back. he is now gittin up at five
erclock an cuttin two sticks of wood
by breckfust. it seams that will
White started the woodchoppin on
greanvil streat and the wives on that
srreat which seed Will wurkin put
it doun that the setback Kollig must
cloas its doars and the fackultie
take up wood chopin. .,. !.
wun Of ther wurst things heerd
in yore toun tho wus from dix sonly
too. he tells me that wide bradlie
has taken ter wurk. now ised ter
lizzie when got hoam sattidy mite
that this staitment almoast made me
bleeve that dix wus a Tyre hissef
tho he stated it ter NEE as plumb
pine-blank fack. now j know that
the pussun which succeeded in git
tin wide ter wurk was sum hummer.
i bets that he kin fine moar things
ter tauk him down toun and then
moar ter keap him .doun toun when
he gifts thar than emmy Of the wood
chopars on greanvul streat. will
barnwell sed that he seed wide ut
work in the gardint wifi a geese
neck hoe and j sposes that dix tole
thetrewth. will sed it wlis wun site
ter sea wide try ter hoe wifi his left
han backwards and he heddint bin
holm but bout Q minnit when he tole
mrs. bradlie bout his broakin arm
an how he kennot hold ter q ho like
he useter on long cain. ] seed wide
too an he sails ther banks is needin
more Zammernations in an durin Of
the war then he ever seed an he
didn't expict to git back hoam fur
nigh on ter too ur three weaks.
prisidint kerr sed tho that the
whoal toun wood soon be doun at
work. he sed that greanvul streat
led and that as soon as it Wus out
that the men on this leedin streat
wus chopin and hoing in ther gar
dints that qholly brown and DR.. infer
and DIR. nickls an all the men on the
yuther streats speshully main, wood
be bying axes and hoas an wood
hear the soun Of axes earle in the
mornin clean out ter watts If wood
stop milkin the cows an issen good.
he sed that all wer standin behint
ther presodint. I CESS it is 50 as i
seed DIR. Nickles wurkin as Gums
on hoam wifi his wife bossin him in
what he was doin.
well crops air pitched and the
leens air also but It doc seem 70 me
that a leen gifts by faster this yeer
than ever seed it. a man do not
have any chanel atawl with the hi
prices Of vittals. i bleeve wood
save mummy by gittin sum Of my
trends IN the cote hous eaven at this
lait day to dorse my note and by no
cash an let the leen 60. wisht you
wood see dix and tell him am on
the grand jurie and see what be
thinks beut it. - tell him he kin let
me kno when j Gums up next weak
to inspect his offs.
hoapin that the war will soon be
oaver that there will be full crop
of peeches an blackberries and that
water MELONS will git ripe earle. j
am yourn as evar,
Dote.
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