The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-05
;poTE SMITH WRITES TO ED.u.
After Long Absence Dote Reappea's
in New Suit of Clothes aud With
New Experiences. Is Now
Travelled Man and Lives in
Town But Still Loves the
:.-..a Country.

..-..a = Country. 4.
Dear editoral:- it has bin sum
time sints rote you a letar an sum
of mi trends air takin it purity hard
so guest had betar cum acrost or
YOU will loss sum subskribars. well
-Ssu Am I'M ssznoxs InIAns psq ssQ
Ggent. turst an foremost has bin
tryin to git thru piclin my cotan so
i Good move to town and be king OF
lower main, where i now is. find
this here thing of bein toun man is
not what is air kracked up to be. you
kno out in the kuntry if you gifts
tired of the ole woman's cookin ana
the rashuns bought by yoresef, you
kin drap by naburs about our be-
foar dinner time, and they will say
to you, Mr.. smith wont you stay to
dinner, and after wipin your mouth
wunss or twist and sayin you spect
they will be lookn fur you at hoain
YOU all the time. walkin in and tadn
a sect, after which, it don't make no
diffrunts how little they planned TO-
have fur dinner, the ole smoakhous
door will be oapened and out the
lady of the hous and its boss, will
cum with bout nineteen slices of fine
kuntry ham, and in little while you
is 'smellin the gravy cummin out OF it
on a hot stove, and as you has had
nuthin but turnip greans and collards
fur bout two weeks you has to go
out in the yard to wait till the dinarl
are cooked and when it is it do look
good to me like il, take a long time
to git down to real eaten, but when
you git started there are no end to
the lovely. wurk till you is too full
fur uttrance. in toun j finds. it very
different. j goes up last sunday and
stood around one of my .naBurs hous-
es for bout hour befoar dinner and
he cum long and talk mighty rice
bout the wether and how smooth the
mill run, and all that but there he
stood, and i didn't smell nuthin ceokin
neether but arter a while one of the
little gals Gums out and said tc .hefN
pa that her mommer want to sec him,
so he say good-day dote, j will see
you this eavning. now they bin tell
in me that the peepul in the kdntry
has kuntry ways and shdod cum up
to toun and stay 9 while apd lurn the.
toun ways, but arter this here ex-
perents it. seam to NEE that the pee
pull in toun shood go out inter the
kuntry and lurn how to treet gen
tlemen when he calls at yore hous
bout dinner time. in fack is, bout
reddy to say that is fur the kuntry
life, but howsonever whether i moves
back or not spect to talk q drive
out in the kuntry deestricks every
sunday till e groceries goes down,
cept when j goes to brother walters.
wheni goes there j is goin out on;
sattiday mite becos if, waits till SUM-
day walter will be too sharp fur me /
and be, gone sumwheres ibefoar kin
git there. thin i do not want to eet
at walters unless the. cook has had
plenty Of time 70 kno that boath wal
ter and myself is to be fed. they say
there air always room fur wun moar
but that don't apply to NEE and wal
ter at msel time. n II
I has bin travelin sum lately and
speck your reeders, II you has any
sints iquit ritin, wood like to have a
1ine frufa q man who has bin about
shfn. well, has bin to boath atalan-;
Ia and ANDERSON. q atalanta is a fine H
sittyoand maiks2a good deel Of noise.
i5did mot see menny persons there
what know, but i,seen so many
purity gals oaver there that wisht
dick sondley had bin with me to look
at EN-. got into sevrul konversa-1
tions with them too, and askt them
if they had ever red the prest ban
ner and knode dick but they did not /
seam to do either, but. guest they
has never been round mulch. well,
was waitin on the corner fur streat
kar with jim cox and too ladies driv
up in a kar and stopt jist where we
wus standin. so j walked up like emmy