Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-06-05

SullllIlS4, SNS
critters and get the milk off to Prov
idence and if I've got to get up at
three" ses he, 81 dunno but it'll kill
me-" "Wall," ses l, ''it's goin' to give
YOU a whole hour mor daylight at
mite, so you can have a longer day."
Longer day." yelled Dan'l, 81 don't
want no longer day. Pm a workin'
from 4 o'clock to s every day now"
ses he, ''and Pm clean tuckred out
and 1 amt a-goin' to put in no long
err day. 1 jest wish them fellers down
to Washington had to milk forty-lev-
en- COWS afore daylite," ses he. "Ill
bet they wouldn't want no longer
days"
"Wall, anyhow" ses I, twe've got
to set the clocks ahead jest the same.
President Wilson has made a law and
we've got to do it," ses l, in order
to be in the fashion," oval, there
want be no clocks set ahead in this
house." ses Dan'l. 81 don't aim to he
in the fashion to that extent" "Them
railroad cars has got to do it," ses
the hired man "and you won't get
YOUR milk aboard unless you git there
afore the train goes" "And," ses l
"the law ses we've got to get up at
two o'clock and set the clocks an
hour ahead" oval, I won't git a wink
of sleep all mite" "Git up at two o.
clock and set the clock an hour ahead
and then git up agin at three to milk,
it's all darned f%oolishness," ses he,
and he stomped off to bed and the
hired man after him l had to darn
some stockin's SO l sot up a spell
longer thot mebbe President Wilson
wouldn't never know whether l sot
the clock ahead at ten o'clock or two
in the morning, so l sot the clock
ahead myself and went to bed. l
heered a noise jest afore / went to
sleep but didn't pay much attention
to it. Dan'l was dretful uneasy and
had to git up and git a drink of water
so l didn't go to SLEEP very early. 1t
didn't seem no time at all afore the
alarm went off and the clock struck
four I walked up Dan'l and ses, "it's
four o'clock Dan'l and you'll have to
git up and milk" He was dretful slee
py and snappish, but we reused up
the hired mar and they went out to
milk.
They don't generally have breakfast
till they git back from the depo, SO
II didn't hurry none about gittin' up
myself. Its four or five miles to the
depo and the road bein' bad I didn't
worry none when it was seven o'clock
and they hadn't come but it seemed
dretful dark for that time and hunt
ed up the almanac to see if there was
an eclipse. "Wall," thinks I to myself
"them chaps at Washington hain't
made it work fust time tryin' any
how for the sun don't show no sign
of gittin' up" 1t was well on towards
ten before the men folks got home
from the depo. I had made up my
mind that President Wilson or Hoov
er or some of them fellers had made
a mistake and sot the sun back in
sted of forrad. Finally they hove in
site. Ses l, "What on arth is the mat
ter. Was the train late or suthin'
happened? Here tits most ten o'clock
and the sun is jest risen." The hired
man looked kinder tickled but Dan1
didn't open his head-jest gin the
bosses a slap kinder spiteful and
come in and ct his breakfast without
a word. 1 didn't say nothin'. I've
learned by livin' with a man nigh on
to 40 years that there's times when
it's best to keep still. When he'd ct
his breakfast he felt a little more
cheerful and finally sed, "Betsey, did
you set the clock ahead last nite?"
eyes," ses I, ~ knew you'd, got to
git that milk to the deepo afore train
time and you wouldn't set it, "Wall
l did," ses he. When I got up to git
a drink of water 1 moved the pesky
thing ahead an hour"
Then the hired mar begun to choke
and gurgle and finally he lay down
and 'affed till I thot he'd suffercate,
"What in time be you latin att" ses
Dan'l. "Why," ses he, 81 sot the clock
back an hour too You was so sot
about it I reckoned you'd get left
with your milk so I got up in the mite
and sot the clock back" WALL" ses
Dan'l, give heered of tarnal fools
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