The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-10-03
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Lige and his gal kissin right there on
the bank and all NV us seen EN-, too?
Yes, dem wuz times, let me tell you.
We went on that hunt and nobody said
anything about il. Dem gals wore
some of the purtiest lincy dresses that
ever wuZ made and they wuZ made
right here at home, you bet yer. No
store bought dresses dem days. And
wild their fingers; there warn't sew
ing merchane in all that country. The
next Sunday after that pOssum hunt,
took Su Springs to church. She rid
one horse and rid anOtner. remem-
Der well how / tuck hold OF her hand
and helped her to the ground when
We got to the church and as we walked
on into the church some of you devil
ish fellers wuz standin' round - door
and grinning at both OF us. Eent
rite on into the church j nd l
tuck my seat rite side q "a; the
bench was already abb ed but yer
bet didn't mind = crowded by
Su bit. Well, y ss .urch wuz over,
here comes o Briggins and en-
his wife and gals and lowed we
just had to go ter their house fur din
ner. They lowed they had killed
pig and had apple pie and a lot of
Onnh fn I'm ma
and at her, and then | SEE, jest sorter
Iow Les CO. and we went, and Nv all
| the eaten you ever saw a fellow do, l
did it. They had chicken and | wuz
awfully funny at a green chap who
said when We had all set down and the
big chicken wuz ere lying on his back
there before us, Mister, fork me out
the nable of that chicken Laughed, |
reckon we did! But that wuz purity
night fifty years ago, Josh. If my
boys and gals would git along on as
little as we did, la, wouldn't | have
money, But these are times, yes,
times But yer know l jist luv to talk
about those days. 1t jist makes my
mOuf water now to think of the do
ings then. But now We have so many
scieties to get people to do right that
l sum times think that these scieties
turn folks rOuno so fast that they Just
go way from right But, Josh, we
would not be satisfied with dose, days
our own selves now We've been get
, tin that newspaper twice a week and
our chillun have been readin' 10 us
about the waw, the suDrines and dem
sky ships and bless God sum times ]
wish [ could start all over. But We.
are going too fast. Mark it, | say,
Josh, mark. Cooling too fast. The
women are going so fast that sum of
them don't TAX time to make them
selves enough clothes to wear and yer
know the les clothes a purity woman
Ookin' at 'em. The Men are going so
fast sum Nv EN-, that they jest fail to
tell their wives how many other
women they have mistaken fur them -
Josh Coins finally unlimbered his
vocabulary and turned on the lubri-
Gator and shot a few Phillipics him
self, in this wise:
"Well, ST, yOuse sho right about
moss you've sed. De lectures. de news
papers, the preachers, the polerticians
and de scieties is ernuff to addle the
brain of Woodrow Wilson. Dat man
must know more than Lincoln, Ruze-
velt and old George Washington his
self. Wilson about hittin' the right
trail, pears to me. Dey is er saying
that everything is er costing too
much, but, ST, we amt gltin' too much
for our cotton, our aigs, our chickens
and our cotton seed, is We? But dem
shoes, la, la. Pair shoes now cost as
much as whole COW used ter cost.
kin recOllect when Jim Winkins driv
that old cow NV his ter town, arter
she had been mired up in quick sand
fer about three days and he'd er
washed it all often her, he got only
SIS fur her and Jim sed he made her
drink lots of water jest 10 she reached
town. l sole a pig luther day. He
wuz five months old. Take notice.
ST, sed he wuz pig. He jes weighed
400 pounds and that pig brung me So
know that wuz not too much for that
hog after l had ruined him outen de
garden and packed de slop and the
corn and other things ter him that
had. 1t wuzzunt too much. But, Si,
after ! got the money in my pocket, I
went round to that corner store and
axed the price Nv laird, and whut der
yer reckon they wanted me to pay fur
it, jist twice whut l got for my hog.