Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-04


answered "No sir" he said call right,
I will read it to you," so he read
'Whosoever is found tresspassing on
this property will be prosecuted" The
farmer said "Do you know what "who
soever means?" and my father said
No, sir" and he said "well, you will
before /. get through with you" He
began to lug my father across the
field, still hanging on to his ear. My
father was small for his age and some
times his feet were clean off the
ground land he was crying and prom
ising and protesting that he would
never go near the orchard again if
the farmer would only let him go.
Eventually the farmer relented, he
let him go with a caution, and he
threw an old shoe at him, but he for
got to take his foot out of it.
Fur-lined Pants.
After this father got tired of over
all. His father had trousers and his
brother had them and he wanted
them, and one day going up into the
wagon he looked into his fathers
face and said "Please dad, can have
pair of trousers?" My grandfather
said Certainly, will give you a pair
of mine." My father was very small
for his age, but my grandfather stood
six feet and weighed 24O pounds.
Getting pair of his corduroy trous-
ers which hung up in the wagon, he
got a., pair of shears and cut the
trousers off at the knee, and then
throwing them off on the grass he
said: "There you are, son, go and get
into them" My fathertook them into
his dressing room, which was behind
the hedge, and proceeded to get into
them. He was having a great deal of
trouble, while his father and brother
were making sarcastic remarks, and
his brother with a piece of string in
his hand went ehind the hedge and
said "Rodney, what time does the bal
loon go up?" He said he felt very
much like balloon, for he had lots
of room and it was a windy day, and
when he came from behind the hedge.
his father said to him, (Which way
are you coming? Are you coming or
going?" But, he saw what they want
ed to do. They wanted to laugh him
out of those pants. and he would not
be laughed out of them.
A few days afterwards they were.
the guests of the Prince of Wales,
our late King Edward, only the prince
didn't know it. They were camp
ing on his ground and were poaching.
his rabbits. They had bagged nine
rabbits when they were surprised by
the Princes game warden, and OF.
course there was only one thing to.
do. and that was. to break for cover.
NV grandfather hesitated for a mo-
ment. He did not know what to do
with the nine rabbits, whether to
leave them or whether to be caught
with them, which meant long peni-
tentiary term; suddenly he saw my
father running towards the woods
with those old trousers of his on and
he called to him and said "Rodney,
come here" and when my father
came back, my grandfather took the
nine rabbits and hung them on his
suspenders inside the trousers. So his
first pair of trousers became fur
lined.
The Change in the Gypsy Home.
But want to tell you of the real
change that came into our Gypsy
home. My grandfather never got over
the loss of his wife, and the winter
following her death he made up his
mind he would go to London, where
he knew he would find some of his
own people, for the companionship
of those who would understand him.
One day on his way to London he
saw over distant hill coming towards
him two other Gypsy wagons. When
they got closer he found out by the
color of the paint and by the build of
the wagons that they belonged to his
two brothers.
When these three big fellows met
in the center of the road they put
their arms around each other and
kissed each other, and my fathertold
them of his loss and they tried to
sympathize with him, and their wives
came out from their tents and tried