The Penn's Grove record., 1923-08-03

lust seems to fitch out a fellers de-
fccts especially if they are in his head.
New if my ize was as bad as some
feIIers eve have seen in a court room
ide go to the toy shop an git me some
winder glass specks believe me no you
they sed we lied.
There was a Teller there h come
from ever the river, wherever that IS
eve have herd as there was a song
over the river faces eye see Maype
his was one of them at any rate ne
had his face with him and it wasn't a
bad loekin one either.
VOL the governor made him STICK
mn his hand two and them lawyers
begun to ask him a hole mess OF cues
tions and come to find out the hole
trouble started over some water anu
a boat. One Teller wanted to nave ms
boat on the water an the other feller
didn't want him, so as n poor 80
was runin around wild like an laoeI
70 get in summans water melon patch
he lust tolled the poor thing nome
with him an put a chain on II an
fastened it up good an tite. Inc Iel-
Ter that owned the boat didn peer 70
like it very well so he had the law on
him an the law sed as how as the
poor boat got inferred while 1t was
away from home that the man That
IL SnOulu let II So pOSH
roost and pay the doctor bill an also
pay the law for sayin now while
the law was havin it's say some OF
the |fellers kept a saying
dewpont," every once IN a "hile'
Meybe they dew most of the time put
it loked from the rode like that TINS
was one time that hey didn't. Wen
eve up and asked the Teller with the
face from over the river if he keered
-. ,r.,.laJ no,ca1f in that there
water an he looked me over an soon
seen as how he needed a wash an sed
eve could. an eye dun it to. Eye didn't
find a suit of cloze that ide Tor
got about but eye looked a u site
better an maybe the Teller wouldn't no
me now.
Eye didn't hurt the water any either
for all the holes eye punched in 1t filled
rite up agin. An lie just tell you II
the low eve felt when eye found out
that eye could bath myself in that
pond had of all shoed in my face you
could have rubbed it off with a dish rag.
Maybe you think that eye anna little
dfppy about water havinn sed so much
about it but water is a mighty fine
thing to have both inside an out. Eye
had so much respect for the Teller
that told me to go wash in the pond
that ime thinkin of writin sum verses
III III VI III ONNcRANA'
the first verse will start somethin like
this:
He told me yes He told and that with
askin enna bond
that eye could wash my dirty carcas
in the waters of the pond.
An the next one like this .
Go +ber a1e hang nv weller britches on
a sweet gum tree
An TIM 0 Mister pond you bet lie wash
in thee
Well when they got thru herring
the witnesses the Teller hat had on
boys pants up an sed to the other fell
Ter as how heed have o earn his money
so he got up an told the governor that
some Teller by the name of case didn't
have a leg to stand on. He ment as
how he had no visable meens of sup
port an he also begged the governor
not to slap Mr.. Justice in the face.
Now if he ment the Mr.. Justice that
eye have seen eye wouldn't want to
swat him either. Well then he sed
some more an the other Teller he sed
somethin twice an then it was all over
an the big Teller heed up an gone an
wastd all his talk an it proves just
what eye always had in my he'd that
the Teller that hollers the 1oudest most
always has the weakest horse.
Well dere pepul eye ges lie hafto
cloze or eye shant never be able to
write agin from this here nick of the
woods an you mite think that his was
a sort of a ramblin Letter an maybe it
is but ime just what eye is as the
darkey sed, an no izzer an besides eye
just cleaned the hens bed room an the
mites are still ramblin an eye hope
this finds you all the same.
Your for miteless chickens
THE HIRED MAN,