Year: 1874

| IOfk JuSL ABOUT u VudrIer OF Hail u
quarter of mile, where you will see


big poplar tree that has fell across
| the road with the top sorter towards


the main part of the old road that


goes round by the Westinghouse.


Now when you get to that tree, you
| will see another fork to your left


hand and one to your right hand.


You needn't take the left hand road,


COS that road was cut through there,


when they was hauling cross-ties for
the railroad; but don't know if it


won't be jist about as near as the


other road; howdsomever, you can


take that road and it will lead you
out into the old stage road, about a
| mile, or maybe mile and quarter
from where you first come into the


road leading down from the school


house, on the other side of the


branch. Well, you keep along on
this road till you go through a thick


city sort of black -jackish kind of a


swampy place, where the path


comes out of the edge of the woods


next to the old road coming down


sorter torment the left hand like,
isn't in front of where you crossed


the other road, now you mustn't take
! this road for it will lead you down


through the bottom, and I don't


know whether you can cross the
creek since the last big fresh; but
I'll ak Mary Ann, she was over
to - at a quilting last night, and


maybe she knows. Mary Ann,
can the man cross at the old ford on
the creek, or will he have to go


higher up next the cotton patch?"


Mary Ann said she " reckon" and
the old woman went on: And
when you get to the creek jist go up
the beateGist track till you come to
the fence, next to the cotton patch,
and there I'll be bound, you can
cross the creek. Well, after you
cross the creek, you will go up the
hill till you come to where the boys
burnt coal last winter, and you'll
see two roads then, one of them goes
down to the meader and the other
goes. up round the corn field till you
go down by the still-house, but you
don't take airy one OF them, but go
strait ahead till you come to where
the old man fed the old sow last
winter when she had pigs, and you'll
see sort of a blind path like, that
will lead you up pair of bars at
the edge of the woods. Now you let
these bars down." (cuss the bars)
"and go through, and after you put
the bars up, you 60 on sorter round
the edge of the hill like, till you
come to a mighty rocky place IN the
road; there you will see two roads
one lying at your right hand and
the other coming down into the
plain road, jist out of the woods
both of them plain roads, but you
will take the plainest one and 1t will
take you down through where we
had our tater patch last, was two
wears ago, but we had it in wheat
last wear, or was it the year before
last; can't recollect nothing since
l had the ager so bad, but l believe
it was last year we had it in wheat;
it howdsomever don't matter. And
this road will lead you out into the
main old big road, where you will
go down it about mile or mile
and may be half and you will then
come to where the new preacher
lives, list on the other side of the
meader below where you see the
hay stack, and if he is at home may
be he can tell you, but it's been so
long since | went that way that |
have most forgot. concord ~. ~
SIM