The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, December 05, 1919, Image 2
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After Long Absence Dote Reappears 1
in New Suit of Clothes a?ici With I
New Experiences. Is Now a t
Traveled Man and Uvea in j
Town But Still Loves the f <
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Dear editoral:?it has bin suA j(
time sints i rote you a letar an sumjs
of mi frends air takin it purty hardj1
so i guest i had betar cum acrost or i*
you will loss kirn subskribars. well j J
^ w -3?u j?m anj soznoxa puAns pcq'snq i 1
Jigent. lurot an foremust i has bin |]
tryin to git thru picldn my cotan so Jj
i cood move to town and be king of jt
lower nuiin. where i now <is. I find; 1
: - this here thing of bein a toun man is 1
not what is air kracked op to be. you i
kno out in the kuntry if you gits ;
tired of the ole woman's cookin ana y
the rashuns bought by yoreself, you1
kin drap by a naburs about a our be-.t
foar dinner time, and they will say *
; to you, Mr. smith wont you stay to *
-1 dinner, and after wipin your mou'h y
wunst or twist and sayin you spect 1
they will be loomn fur yoji at bu??ua t
you all the time*welkin in and taking
a seet, after whitch, it dont make no jl
diffrunts how little they planned to 1
have fur dinner, the ole smoakhous c
door will be oapened and out the t
lady of the hous and its boss, will c
' * cum with bout nineteen slices of fine <
lmntrv ham. and in a little while you *1
u'smellin the gravyicummin out of itj.
on a hot stove, and as yon has had %
nuthin bnt turnip greans and collards
fur bout two weeks you has to go
out in the yard to wait till the dinar,
are cooked and when it'is it do look
good to me like it take a long time '
to git down to real eaten, but when
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x you git started there are no end to
the-foyely wurk till you is too full
fur uttrance. in toun i finds it very
' different, i goes up last Sunday and j
p j stood around one of mynaBurs hous-j
es for bout a hour befoar dinner and i
he cum long and talk mighty rice
bout the wether and how smooth thet
mill run, and all that but there he!
stood, and i didnt smell nuthin cookin
neether but arter a while one of the
little gals cums out and said tc . heir(
i na that her mommer want to sec him,
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so he say good-day dote, 1 will see
you this eavning. now they bin teil >
in me that, the peepul in the ktintry
has kuntry ways*and shood cum up
v to toun and stay awhile apd lurn the
tour* ways, but arter this here experents
it seam to mee that the peepul
in toun shood go out inter the
kuntry and turn how to treet a gentlemen
when he calls at yore hous
bout dinner time, in fack i is bout
reddy to say that i is fur the kuntry,
life, but howsonever^ whether^ moves
back or not i spect to talk a drive
out in the kuntry deestricks every
/ Sunday till groserries goes ddw&,
cept when 1 gqes to brother waiter's.
?, when i goes there i is goin out on
sattiday nite becos if i waits till sunday
waiter will be too sharp fur me
ana oe gone Bamwneres oezoar 1 nn
git there, - thin i do not want to eet
at waiters unless the. cook has had
plenty of time fcp kno that boath waiter
and myself is to be fed. they say
there air always room for wun moar
but that dont apply to mee and wal-j
te? a! ragel,tow,5 . ' i V |
I has bin travelin sum lately and
speck your reeders, if you has any
prints i quit ritin, wood like to have a
line frtiw & man who has bin about
, fctofai. Well, i has bin to boath atalattA
?J alalonfo ia si finp I
in* *1IU av#u ' *w
kitty and maiks a good dcel of noise.
1 did aot see menny persons there
what i know, bat i9seen so many
purty gals oaver there that i wisht
dick sondley had bin with me to look
? at em. i got into sevrul konversations
with them too, and askt them
if they had ever red the prest banner
and knode dick but they did not
seam to do either, but- i guest they
has never been round mutch, well,
was waitin qn the comer fur a streat
kar with jim cox and too ladies driv
up in a kar and, stopt jist where we
wus standin. so i walked up like enny
gent wood and sed ladies air enny-J
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( WMIMP nm|| VI MU i uciy juu 111 ?uuj
partickler. they'sed rio but they wus
/mutch obliged and i guess they no/ '
ticed they wus not talkin to no dudef
but to a man what knode sumthinJ
and they gaged us in a konversashun
and next thing i knode i looked up
up the Vode and there went our streat
kar and i hollered at jim and sed
why didn't he flag her we wood git
left, but jim sed he didnt notice the
kar hisself as he was listenin to what
i was sayin to the ladies, he sed i
was moast as polite to them as Cholly
Lyon is when he is talkin to them and
his mustash is rite, so the ladies they
faffed and sed as we had got left if
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ve wanted them to do so, they woo<
aik us to the depot and put us off oi
he platform in time to ketch th
,rane, whitch we sed we wood do, an
hey tole us to take the back seel
iim got in furst and the cushon wa
>o soft and deep that when jim starl
?d down inter, it, i thought they ha
jlade a trick on him, and i hollere
>ut goodbye jim, but he cum u
ugain and then i got in, and the
rode us thru Ponts-de-leen, they sec
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.nougn uuiiga iuu&b punj^ iat w m
iudgin by the houses what i seec
rite up the street they went, and e\
ything got out of our way and i;
food timev they put us out jist lik
;hey said th$y wood do, awl said the
loaped we wood have a pleasant tri
tome, then-they driv off and jim look
it me and i lookt at him, then
vent and lookt In a glass to see if
vas myself.
, well the uther trip was to anner-m:
o the federal cote., i seed moar bald
leaded men up there than i had evr?
>efoar and they sed all of them moas
vus lawyers. . i went into the co'
ious, and set down and a fellar oi
he same seat with ,mea askt the raai
vhat was next to me what olt fa
awyer that was sittin by him. n6w
las bin in a lot of tite places ard bii
iccused of doin lots of things hu
hat wns the furat time that i ha<
.
sver bin sensed of being in that lin
>f raskality and i hope it jv'ill be tb
est and i tole him so. i guess it wa
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W. E. John
i my clothes though that made me look
n so hansum. you wrote us about ay
e stunnin outfit last yeer, but you aint
d seen nuthin. .you wait till i cums up
t.' town sum Sunday mornin with lizzie
s goin to church when they aint gonei
have no big kolleckshun and i will
i show you Cellars sumthin bout now a
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(j genueraen Kin smmray in a sou re uun
p sute of klothes with oavercoat on his
y arm. i is waitin now till i kin git my
|f order in for a new style hat whitch
e if, will taik to set me off, bekos they
[ tells me that i wood look better in
r. toun with a plug, or i wooder bin up
n befoar now. i guest if they took me
e for a lawyer in annerson they will
y taik me fur a preecher when i gets
p my fulf outfit, but they wouldnt taik
? me for no preecher if i goes hoam
I from church and finds waiter there to
i taik dinner the furst Sunday after i
kills hogs, whitch i am expecktim him
n to do unless i kin keap it a secret.
[.. well, i has bout rote up mylnky
r'and my arm is gittin tired so will say
a MftHKtr fn nil fnonria nnfit mv nAit
n issue, if ennybody wants my addrest
a bout sendin in the krismus presents
n tell them to make it south mane as
t ilie karrier knows the rest
i your ole nusepaper koranpondent.
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