Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-10-17
Gr1tS and
Gravel !.
By T. MOSES JONES

4A11S 10 00COA0oy AAAOA~~~--0,
am trying to think up enough to seno
N for Mondays column. You may
nave read the short notice in the last
column telling that I had just gotten
IN after ten in the morning, having
been out all night. Some of the folks
from out home came in late Thursday
afternoon, so Mrs. Jones and myself
went back out with them and spent
he night. We hadn't been out home
N couple of months or more.
Just before dark Slim and I walked
jown into the woods with the dogs
20 see if they would not jump a rabbit,
out the main dog was not in the
punch and we did not hear a rabbit
chase. And back to the house to
good country supper which we en-
Joyed.
Then Slim and myself went up to
he store at the crossroads where
here was a mob of hundred or more
tolks. They had come up there to
lear the fox and hound chase. Some
one had turned live fox loose about
eight o'clock, and about nine some
thirty or forty dogs were put on the
rail. We waited around the tore
Until past midnight and heard an oc-
;asionaT bark or two, but the ground
was so dry the dogs never really got
IN the trail. So we all got fooled and
4eft the store about one o'clock for
nome and bed.
Friday morning we rode with the
others up to school and then walked
lext door to the beautiful country
aome of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank E. Par
rott. Frank has been sick for several
Months but returned home from Duke
hospital some time ago, and is greatly
improved, and hoping to be up and
out again before very much longer.
We had not been to see him sooner
only because we did not have a way
to do so.
Their little two year old Jennie
sue is very cute little girl, and has
a big picture book of the alphabet.
with picture beginning with each
etter. And she knows what picture
ach letter stands for.
After while we got a ride back
lome by ten-fifteen and it was nearly
eleven when I got uptown to work.
Yesterday afternoon the clown adj
1ertising the Ford cars was on the
street walking around and telling
okes and entertaining the school chill
rem as they returned home from
chool And about that time George
West and Hammet Hayes came along.
20 between Hammett and George AMI
he clown, they made a pair, plus one.
Had a bit of paper pinned on my
oat lapel and the new fellow who
works in at Roses pointed at it and
;aid, "Now don't you forget to re-
member to think of, what you were
trying to think of to remember not to
,orget.' So / went at once to at
end to same, which was to see a GER
ain man whom some one had told
someone else and they had told me
hat he wanted to see me. But the
nan WIS at dinner.
- So later while standing on the
corner, some one else asked me what
it was I had to remember, and I at
once went again, and then again, but
he man was still very busy. So 1
hall try to find out this morning
what he wants to tell me
Papa fused to get mama to tie a
string around his finger so he would
think of things-that was years ago
when we lived in the country. But I
find it more convenient to pin little
bit of paper on my coat. It hardly
ever fails, for sooner or later one will
pass and ask what it is for.
And until sooner or later, 1 hope to
remain your
T.. MOSES JONES.