The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-02-18
DOTE DELIVERS DOPE
ON GOOD ROADS-LIQUOR
AND HIS TWIN BROTHER

last letter trend Oh mine says DIS
how it seam strange to him that me
and Corp Kerr has never got our
akounts mixed becos we looks so
much alike. he say if it were not fur
my mustash we wood look the same.
ne says that we is ezzackly the same
hite, and we ways the same and wears
the same SCOT of close, and the same
shooes and stocking, and in evry way
we air list alike. you see we is boatn
ball heded jist alike, and my friend
says that if we wood walk down
street with my mustash shaved OF
and me with a scot of close jist like
the one what Cuzzin percie give to
Corp. and him with a Ben tillman hat
on like mine that we wood he took
fur twins, as he says we are also OF
the same age accordin to appear
ances. He say that this is true if we
air not talkin but that if we wood
git in a argument my wit wood give
me away. He also say there air a
little differnce which a man on gal
lopin horse wood not notice. he sais
that Corp is ball heded both inside
and out while I is ball heded only
outside, but he say that Corp look as
plus in church as do jist after I has
taken a drink of ticker. he say that
he wood advise me to keep wearin my
mustash jist like it is, if do not
want to git shirt or so charged to
me which is bought by the Corp. and
have a great deel of trubble gittin
matters straitened out.
i see that the trubble with the top
soiled rodes is that the cut outs on
the john henry foards has been blow
in the top of the rodes away. it ap-
pear to me that this kind of rode
wood not doc for abvul county. if a
cut out wood blow them away what
wood become of them when our pol
lertishuns which will be runnin for
offs this yeer gifts out on the stump
and begins to blow there own horns.
insted of hlowin the top soil out in
the cotton patch next to the rode
they wood blow all the top soiled way
down luther side of mccormick or
into gorgy or sum uther seaport
town. we needs sumthin which will
not blow away in this here county,
and it must be fixed to stand strong
wind because we have some power
full blowers round here. if you had
heered sum of the fellars which ran
against me fur the Kurriner you
wooda thought they wus with gorge
Washington when he krost the della
ware on ice, or that they helped
rails gen. Lee, or winned the hole
Mexican war and diskivered Kuba to
boot. i never heered sich BLOWN be-
foar. i thort dote Smith was a big
ernuff lire. and lizzie had always said
i wus purity slick when tried to git
cut of anything, but wusnt in it
with these here pollertishuns, and
unlest all the signs fails this here
summer the fun have jist began.
bruther walter was down town
luther day and told me a trick which
i wish j had a knode sevrul yeers
ago. he say there air a fellow up in
his part of the kounty which dis
covered it, and it is this way. he say
the fellar like drink of Ticker pur-
ty we'll and that his wife give him
down the kuntry when he go OF and
come back smelling like he had sevral
drains. so this friend of walters
have struck on this patent. he keeps
some Ticker in his hous for the meddi-
sinai purposes at all times, that is his
wife keeps it hid or he and walter
wood a done drank it up, and when
he goes off and gifts little full, he
comes hoam sayin he air feelin sick,
all the time holdin his breth to keep
his wife from smellin the ticker and
tell her that he think a little dram
wood help Him some, so she give him
small drink and he at onct recover
but say the Ticker make him little
IL L