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THE CLEVELAND PROGRESS.
By JOE H. REESII.
DEVOTED TO THE MINING, AGRICULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS
I/ 1 CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY AND NORTH-EAST GEORGIA.
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TERMS: 1.00 Ter Year.
VOL. V.
CLEVELAND, WHITE CO., GA.,
Friday, September n, is»6.
NO. 37.
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THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
News Notas from the Empire State
of the South.
tmproTsaaanU, •ntlofank aal Fr»t-
raw. Itama Abaut Tklaga Tf»n»»trln* lu
Oar On Great State. rtaa Bnkaii|«a
u< athar taonaa.
Winterville is to hare a new 1800
school house.
Athena will entertain the Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows in 1897.
Cordele haB been visited by a severe
conflagration. Loss $3,000.
The cotton and corn in Colquitt is
ahead ot anything in the memory of the
oldest inhabitant.
The state normal school at Athens is
reported in a most flourishing condition.
The attendance has reached 200.
Macon will in a few months be talking
with Americas, Augusta and all with
Atlanta via the Southern over the tele
phone.
Atlanta business men have promptly
subscribed the $2,500 necessary to secure
the exposition park and grounds for the
amusement company.
In a few days ground will be broken
for a cotton mill at Cartersville. The
gentlemen at Ihe bead of the enterprise
are well known business men of that
town.
A stamp cancelling machine is about
to be put in tbo Savannah postoflice. It
will be operated by electricity. The
connections for the motor will be made
at once and the machine will be here in
a short time.
A Glascock county boy, Matthew
Lewis, shot a chicken Tuesday evoning
and three sons of Mr. Hud Daniel were
wounded by the charge, though not
seriously. The boys were not seen when
the gun was fired.
Joe Allen, who is in jjiil in Atlanta for
.('.forgery, -tried, to 'fcnk tl*#,'"insanity
held out pretty well for a
tewd*ye, but floejlly had to give it up
;^«a a mental
in danger ot
parks is to be fixed up. The park an
tree commission is at work baring 100
benches prepared to be placed in Forsyth
park. These benches are to take the
place ol the present worn ont lot
Mr. Joe Biaeky'-the other morning,
heard something strike the side oi bis
house and then fall on the varanda. lie
went ont and found a silver dollar on bis
back veranda. Who threw it there he
hasn’t any idea. Free silver has come
at last.—Marietta Journal.
Monroe Female College at Forsyth is
the second oldest iemale college in the
world. Wesleyan at Macon is the old
est, and it is said that Baptists founded
that. If Wesleyan was fonnded by the
Methodists, then Monroe is the oldest
Baptist female college in the world.—
Christian Index.
The Macon order of Catholic Knights
of Amorica has raised an appeal for help
from the hundred or more Catholics who
were sufferers by the cyclone which re
cently devasted St. Louis, The Knights
immediately responded to the appeal
and have taken measures to give aid to
their suffering brethren
The demand for lots in Meldrim has
been so great during the last twelve
months that a large part of the original
plat has been taken up. To meet the
increasing demand for building lots,
Moj. Meldrim has employed G. A.
Schneider, of Savannah, to survey and
map out a hundred or more additional
building lots, both north and south of
the present limits of the village.
A Big Trade Issue under the auspices
of the Savannah Morning News is to be
issued in September. The Trade Issue
will contain the advertisements ot the
leading business houses, merchants,
manufacturers and mechanics of Savan
nah, and will illnstr&te to the outside
world what the city has done and is prc
pared to do in the way of trade and com
merce.
Mr. W. J. Shaw, one of the best known
men in this section of the state, died at
home near Rays Mill. Mr. Shaw Lad
been in good health up to two weeks ago,
when be went into the field and pulled
a row of fodder and returned to the house
very nervous. He grew worse each day
until death claimed him. It wae believed
that his death was due to the excessive
hot weather in the firld where he began
work.
Atlanta has given a deed over the old
state capitol for $250,000 to secure the
money to build her new city hall.
City Marshal Feagin of Americus is
proud in the possession of a pair of
Kontucky bloodhounds, with pedigrees
us long as a clothes line. They can
catch anything that runs, swims or flies,
and woe now to the jailbird who escapes.
Miss Nellie Davis, of Ice, Ga., five
miles from Waycross, is one of the three
Kennedy heirs that will inherit a fortune
from her uncle in the north. Mrs. Davis
Hays her unde is not dead, but he wants
to divide up his estate among his heirs
and also pay the claim that Mrs. Davis
and her brother and sister hold against
him. the claim amounts to about
$18,000, it is said.
The South Georgia ;railroad is being
pushed right along. President Oglesby
has bought from W. E. Algee & Co., of
Atlanta an engine, a passenger coach and
new rails for twenty-two miles. The
line when completed from Quitman to
Adel on the Georgia Southern and Flor
ida will be thirty one miles long. It
will probably be connected with a road
owned by the .Atlanta Lumber Company
and the roads together will have nearly
seventy miles of track.
Simeon Shaw of Madison has a chip
on his shoulder. In the current issue of
the Advertiser he has a card which
reads: “To Whom it May Concern—I
wish to say that anyone who says or in
sinuates that 1 1 came back from Japan
from any motive of interest or cowardice
—or any unworthy motive or cause what
ever. or for the purpose of precipitating
a prohibition contest or for any other
sinister reason is an unmitigated cow
ard in the first place, and a dastardly
liar constitutionally. Simeon Shaw.”
A Western and Atlantic train struck
two mules near Marietta last week; the
drive did not heart the train, nor could
the engineer see him on account of & cut
at the crossing. One mule vrae thrown
KWerity-fi^e fe$t,- th«f other
driver saved himsell from deatb py jump*■’where A little girl has been taught the les
*?*• He ;■■■**•• brni<iod the fal1 - A
t that ft wae 8 egco wo<nan, namtjd Emma Marshall,
,llty, was on the sett with the driver end she
THE HOUSEHOLD.
For Our Housekeepers and Lady
Readers.
Hilttn Fort* in tug to th« Home—Help*
Md Hints for HoqnvItm abA Others,
from Kitchen to Parlor.
Order in Our Homes,
It is an undisputed fact that, an orderly
home is pleasing to its occupants and the
same is true looking on the other side—a
poorly kept house is a disagreeable abode
for those whose tastes are formed for order.
An exchange Bays:
It is a pleasure to see an orderly house,
where everything has its place and where
the members of the family delight in keep
ing the place tidy. Now, there is n vast
difference between ordor and stioh primness
that neither chairs nor pillows are allowed
to be moved from their respective positions,
and if such a thing should happen, the
housewife hurries to place them into their
corners again. This sort of order mnkeB
husbands and sons feel that there ts no com
fort in home, and consequently they seek
other resorts where they havo some liberty.
Each member of the family, even to the
tiny toddler, should be taught to be orderly.
It will save a great amount of work tor the
mother, besides teaching valuable lessons of
neatness to the others. Little ones should
be encouraged to pick up and pnt away
their toys when they do not care to play
longer. Let them get as clrty as they
please, for soap and water will correct that 1
No healthy child is always clean. If he is,
something ia decidedly wrong.
Instead of permitting the children to
place their dirty or greasy little fingers on
furniture or window panes, give them a
Cloth and show them how to take the finger
marks awav. In this way they will learn to
be careful and keep others from doing that
which they would not do. If the little ones
are permitted to help “mamma" or “papa"
ever so little, they will take more pride in
their snrronndings and in the efforts pnt
(brill to keep order.
It hi wonderful what an lnflnenoe can be
brought to'bihr on the children along this
The I line lb the home. Wie know of an instance
moving ttain and
waa knocked out of place.
At a fire in a email shanty near Dyson
postoflice recently, when the roof had
fallen and the floor had (riven way, two
kegs of powder exploded almost eimnl-
taneouly, injuring a number of specta
tors. No one knew the powder was there.
It must have been placed under the
house when the railway was building
eleven years ago.
The cleverest shepherd dog in Georgia
is probably Nero, who is owned by Ben
Ellis, of Waycross. Nero was brought
here about two months ago by his owner
from biB Dome at Dade City, Fla., and
hia numerous clever tricks and strict
obedience to his master made him popu
lar at once. Nero attracts attention
everywhere he goes. He is always with
his master, and night he occupies
place at the window in Mr. Ellis’ room.
A burglar wonld fare badly if he tried to
pass Nero at night. Nero is a splendid
messenger and carries notes and bou-
qnets to his master’s sweetheart, and
delivers packages and other things, never
making a mistake.—Waycross corrospom
dence Morning News.
Messrs. Brobston, Fendig & Co., ot
Brunswick, a few days ago sold to Mr.
Kinney,of Indiana, a tract of 1,000 acres
of pine land near Everett City. Mr.
Kinne.v will build a new sawmill on the
tract and emplov a large number of men.
Many odd contributions have been
made to the museum at Savannah,
the latest being the ear of a negro woman
brought there yesterday morning. Liz
zie Phelps is short one ear, which she
carried to Justice Graham yesterday
wrapped iu a handkerchief. According
to Lizzie's statement, Bhe and Laura
Mann engaged in a knock-down argu
ment yesterday, and dnring the circus
Ltura masticated the bearing apparatus
on the starboard side of Lizzie’s anatomy.
Justice Graham will get the details of
the scrap.
The report of the receivers of the
Eagle and Phenix Manufacturing Com
pany of Coiumbus waa issued yestered.
The report, which has been in process ol
preparation for erane time, is very full.
Its summary shows: Total liabilities,
$1,588,737; quick assets, valued, $110.
673.49. These liabilities are mainly in
1 is reported on reliable authority 1 bonded indebtedness, $892,000, and in
ihtt' ttie S'reet Railway Company lias bills payable, some secured $269,429.70,
bought out Hie Thomson Houston Com-1 some $70,468 79, claimed to b- secured
pnuy and are attempting to secure the j by cotton and merchandise in Eagle and
G as L ; gbt Company nnd wi 1 do all the , Phenix warehouse, hut not found by
lighting f ir the city. It is asserted that, the receivers, and others unsecured,
t e purchase oi the Thomson-Houston $137,337.05. In assets the value ot the
ia a positive deal and that the second real esta'eis not included, and stocks
purchase is pending. i ware-listed at their face value
son of neatness by an older member of the
family. Taught by example and it stands
to reason that the mother should follow
strlot lines and rules in the care, of her
itougbtone- 4*rom the yttunguet to the att
est there should be a system of order. Each
one should have a peg on which his or her
wraps and bat could be hung on removal,
and not left for the weary mother to pick np
when the others are resting. No unneces
sary work need be made by any member for
another if eaoh one is taught orderliness.
It is a mean form of selfishness.
No comfort need be sacrificed for perfect
order. It is merely a thoughtfulness on
the part of each member of the tamiiy,mak
ing the home life happier, if anything. One
man—naturally an orderly man—of the
writer’s acquaintance, would never think of
nutting his dirty shoe on the cleanly scrub
bed floor nntil be had carefully pnt papers
or pieces ot carpet down first. He never
sits down Into a chair on which is a pretty,
clean tidy, with his dirty coat on; in fact,
be nsnally removes it neatly folded to one
side. It Is the same in everything he does,
and yet bis home Is the most comfortable
and one of the happiest in existence. He
appreciates the neatness and cleanliness in
his home, and there is no doubt but that his
wife is the happier for it. She will not go to
an early grave from overwork if he can
help it, which he daily does by his orderli
ness.
The husband will naturally fall into line
with the order of things be they uplifting or
degrading. A sigh of sorrow for the home
where his tastes are lowered.
eoohing aOkild Self-Oontrol
If o, child can be taught self-control it will
be a b|tosing to him all through hts life and
for those who live with him. Much of the
critno committed is done In fits of passion.
Many pqople of good family have so little
contrqlajver their tempers that they are
njjiisances to everyone they know. Others
nave made their own lives miserable through
thelr^bufsts of pnssion, which they were
novoriaught to control.
Somo of the earliost impulses of a child is
to cry loudly, kick or thrust out its tiny
fists on every provocation. This the parent
may control long before tho child Is able to
speak. Of course, everything the baby
does is considered "cute," and his little
bursts of passion are merely laughed at.
Dear mothers, this is n loolish practice in
buff’s training. lie Is small and helpless
now, birt the influence is not for his best.
Ampler thing, too, when the child has
fallen or hnrt himself in any way he nat-
uralljwcrys and screams, probably from
fright or,pain. Here, too, the mother may
teach selfrcontrol. She oan hush him, ex
plain the cause of the trouble and teach him
that, to give vent to shrieks and tears will
not help In the least. A child should never
be coaxed into quietness by promises of
sweets or gifts. Tnls is too apt to encourage
noisy denionstrations rather than other
wise, and many children will scream until
hev are pacified by pennies or cakes.
Even a.llttle child will understand that he
must not allow his body to gain control
over him, and the earlier he learns it the
hint.better for Lst him learn to be master
over his appetites and passions, thus better
fitting lilmselt to battle with this world,
which at best Is a bard school, —Prairie
Farmer.
WITH THE WITS.
Things to Laugh at During the Hot
Days,
Floating Fun Cunningly Chronicled to
Make the Nley-et-Home. Smile,
“You can’t keep a good man down,"
said Jonah when the whale had got
through with him.
The Funny Mnn'e Fancies.
In one of the Bmatler towns of Ken
tucky lives a negro familiarly known as
Tim White.” On one occasion it was
necessary to rocord his full name. The
not. unusual supposition that “Tim"
stood for “Timothy” was met with flat
denial. “No, sab I My right name is
Wiint-timorous-Bouls-we-poor-mortals-
be White.’ Dey jes' calls me Tim fo’
short, sah.”
The Ideal Housekeeper,
Here is what one sister thinks of it.
To my mind an ideal housekeeper is not
one who hire? tervants torun her house.
The moat daintily kept homes are those
swept and garnished by the lady of the
honse. It may require some household
management to make other ends meet, but
a wise housewife enjoys this test of her
prudence rather than shuns it. What is
obtained without effort is enjoyed little.
Have home made food not bakers’ food.
To he an ideal housewife one must under,
stand baking, washing, Ironing and sewing,
each a trade in itself, a housekeeper must
be mistress of each trade. Ideal house
keeping is doing something more than do
ing general honsework. If one has children
there are greater duties to perform. Watch
anxiously for the first sign of sin and re
press it; punish a fault becanse It is a fault,
reprove with calmness; pnnish as often as
yon threaten and threaten only when you
Intend and can remember to perform; say
what you mean and do what you say. Re
member that one sentence of honest praise
bestowed at the right time is worth a whole
volley of scolding.
When a man comes home from business
and finds his wife worn out with care he is
apt to think that she should have been in
his place; then she would have something
to worry her; he does not stop to think that
she has conducted a university, a clothing
establishment, ( restaurant and laundry
while she is also health officer and police of
the home.
Now let us hear from others—what your
views are and how far yon are able to cirry
them out.
For Cleaning Various Substances.
Alabaster—Use strong soap and water.
Hlaok silk—Brush and wipe It thoroughly,
lay on tajjiie with the side up that ia in
tended td show; sponge with hot coffee,
strained through muslin; when partially
dry, iron.
To remove stains or grease from oil paint
—Use blsulphld of carbon, spirits of turpen
tine, or R dry and old, uso chloroform
These and tar spots can be softened with
olive-oIlAnd lard.
Stainjpton rust or ink from vellum or
parchment—Moisten the spot with a solu
tion of oxalic acid. Absorb same quickly
by hlotUBg- paper or doth.
Gnat hum steel—Take half onnoe of
eaiefty-MHet mixed with one onnoe of
Fruit spots lrorn cottons—Apply cold
soap, tLeif tonoh the spot with a hair-pencil
or feather dipped in chlorate ot soda, then
dip Immediately Into cold water.
Grease from silks—Take a lump of mag
nesia, rub It wet on the spot, let It dry, then
brush off' the powder.
Iron rust may be removed from white
goods by sour milk.
Scorch stains from white linen—Lay in
bright sunshine.
Mildew—Moisten the spot with clean
water; rub on it a thick coating ot Castile
soap mixed with chalk scrapings; rub with
end of finger, then wash off.
Oil-marks on wall-paper—Apply paBte of
cold water and pipe-clay, leave it on nil
night, brush oft In the morning.
Pain^ spots from clothing—Situate with
equal parts turpentine and spirits ot am
monia.
To cleanse house-paper—Rub with a flan
net doth dipped in oatmeal.
Black cloth—Mix one part of spirits of
ammonia with three parts warm water, rub
with sponge or dark ‘cloth, clean with
water; rnb with the nap.
Furniture, lor [linger-markr—Rub with a
soft r.ag and sweet-oil.
Chromos— Go over lightly with u damn
linen cloth.
Zinc—Rub with a piece of cotton cloth
dipped in kerosene, afterward wiili a dry
cloth.
Hands from vegetable stains—Hub w ith a
slice of raw potato.
Window-glass—Faint can be removed by
a strong solution of soda.
To clean tinware—Common soda applied
with a moistened newspaper, and polished
with a dry piece, will make it look like new.
—Exchange.
Notoriety is no proof of merit. A thou
sand dollars’ worth of roses will only
scent up a fete yards, while a dollar’s
worth of fried onions will scent up a
whole town.
Little Clarence—“Pal” Mr. Cal
lipers—“Well, my son?” Little Clar
ence—"I took a walk through the ceme
tery to-day and read the inscriptions on
the tombstones." Mr. Callipers—“And
what were your thoughts after you hod
donoso?” Little Clarence —“Why, pa,
1 wondered where all the wicked people
were buried.”—New York Truth.
Soon Kuna Out.
Ho (well born, but not well bred)
(pompously)—It takes six (fenerations,
you know, to make a gentleman.
She (innocently)—Yos. What a pity
that it only takes one t,o unmake him!
Tho.a Hummer Hoarder.,
Mrs. City Flat (who has insisted on a
very small lump price for her two chil
dren)—I think my little boy would like
a biscuit. Wouldn’t yon, Tommy dear?
Tommy Dear—Yep, ’sanse Sarah’s had
seven, and this ia only my sixth.
A Maine girl slnoe her return from the
shingled the barn, the
j did manTOtFIl^rilest 61 her little
brother’s trousers. Some young fellow
ought to pay her board.
“Do you love me?” bhe asked fondly.
“Dearly,” replied he.
“Would you die for me?”
“No, ray precious one. Mine is an
undying love.”
Bhe had to make the best ol it.—Town
Topics.
George—You do not call on Miss Rose
bud now? Jack—No, I got disgusted.
She has such a coarse laugh ! George—
I never noticed that. Jock—You would
if you’d been within bearing when I pro
posed to her.
Mrs. Pilgrim—Now, these boys air sis
ter’s. The Census Taker—No, you mean
brothers. Mrs. Pilgrim—No, sir; I mean
jes’ what I say; they air my sister’s. 8he
lives nex’ door in the red house.
The Justice—You are accused, Sambo,
of stealing three chickens.
Sambo—Jedge, your honah, de man
dat calls dem old hens “chickens” has a
mighty tough conscience to appear in
court I—Truth.
Do Was Not on a l*u| or
In ono of the London law courts on a
certain occasion a youth was engaged in
making some sketches for on illustrated
paper, and behind him stood a burly
gentleman, who might have hern taken
for a county magistrate.
The latter watched the young uri ist.
(or a while, and then, touching him on
the shculder, ventured to observe that
this, and that, and the other points of
the sketch were not exactly what they
should be. The artist, simply replied by
inquiring, “What do you kuow about
it?” Tho gentleman persisted in kindly
and persuasive criticism. At length the
youth, convinced that after all the criti
cism was just—indeed, the gentleman
had himself taken the drawing-block and
made the necessary alterations with his
own hand—remarked, "Well, you do
seem to kuow something about it, cer
tainly,” adding, “Are you on any pa
per?” "No,” answered tho gentleman,
“I am not on any paper, but 1 do a hit
of painting now anti then. My name is
John Millais.”
Of Courio.
“I’ve been readin’ most every day in
the papers about them hoseless ker-
ridges,” said Farmer Applejohn, “but
I’ve got ono that suits me to a T and
works like a charm.”
"How is it built?”
"Jest like any other wagon.”
“How do yon make it go? Electricity ?’,
“Nope.”
“Gasoline?”
“Nope.”
“Kerosene’”
“Nope.”
“Steam?"
“Nope.”
“Well, what furnishes the motive
power?”
“Uh?”
“What makes it go?”
“Oh, why oxen I Haw, there, Billl”—
Wilkesbarre Record.
Tommy (at the zoo)—I wonder why
that elephant fills bis trunk so full?
Tommy’s Father—That’s a girl ele
phant, my son.—Detroit Free Press.
heart! “Or ff thou wilt
marry a fool.”
"Very welt," she said sweetly, and the
announcement was made as soon as the
“fool” bad seen the old folks.— Detroit
Free Press. -
A Long Life for the Broom.
Examine a nev broom, and you will find
the ends otV.rawsand base otbrnah equate;
examine It after ttee for some time, and you
will find the straws as sharp as needles,
cutting up clouds of lint from tho threads of
the curpei every time you sweep. And
right, here is the secret of the new brrom
sweeping clean—Ilia square ends of (tie
square-cut brush. When the broom gets
those sharp points, dlpin hot sndsand shear
neatly, thus preserving the fquare shape.
This gives you virtually a new nroom. A
good carpet-sweeper will prove a great
saver of the broom, an well as the carpets
and hard labor ,by brushing up lint,crumbs,
etc., between regular sweepings. This is
much batter than the frequent bru9hings up
with a sl’ghtly dampened broom, for it in
jures a broom unit causes It to become
harsh and unshapely if it is used while wet.
Yet occasional soaking in hot suds or brine
will make it more pliable and durable it ait
owed to become perfectly dry before tislt g.
Maude—Ethel got her now bicycle last
night, but she isn’t happy yet.
Kate—Why not?
Maude—The boy across the street bus
got a snap shot, camara.—Somerville
Journal.
Caught Napping,
(Waterbury:) Sam. I always pretend
to be asleep in a street car, and then, of
course, I can’t be expected to get up
and give a lady my Beat.
Ned. Well, L tried that, and the lady
looked down on ae and said to her
friend: “Isn’t it awful to think that
such a young .nu.i should be euch a
heavy drinker?” Then I hud to get up
to prove tlint I was sober.
Ituuu cd.
Siii*. Ddarest, am f the first girl you
ever loved?
He. L'ttla sweetheart, the man who
could look into those trusting blue eyes
and tell a falsehood is not fit to live.
So prepare yourself to hear the truth.
You are —Cincinnati Enquirer.
“Learn to labor and to wait,”
The motto’s of the best,.
But we oinit the labor pait
And simply do the rest.
—Washington Star.
"Oh, dtiHr,” sighed a little girl of this
city, “I’m so tired of lessom ! I know
what I’ll do when I grow up.”
“What?”
“I’ll be a teacher.”
“But teachers have to study too.”
“1 know that. But it’s so much easier
to learn the questions than to learn the
nswers.”—Washington Star.
Beg Tour Fardon.
The politest man in Boston has beeu
discovered. lie was hurrying along a
street the other night when another man
also in evident haste, rushed out of an
alley-way, and the two collided with great
force. The second man looked mad,
while the polite man, taking off his hat,
said : “My dear sir, I don’t know which
one of us is to blame for this violent en
counter, but J am in too much of a harry
to investigate. If I ran into you, I beg
your pardon; if you ran into me, don’t
mention it.” And he tore away at a re
doubled speed.
“I wonder why roses wither so soon
on that Florida girl’s corsage when that
Boeton maiden can wear them all even
ing and keep them looking as fresh as
evoi?”
“Why, old man, don’tyou know flowers
will keep a long time on ice and wither
in a few minutes in the sun?”—Cleve
land Leader.
Those perfunctory questions (conver
sation overheard on the street today).
“Whose funeral?”
“John Blank’s.”
"Why, is he dead?” in some surprise.
“No: lie ib just riding in the hearse to
be putting on style.”—Chicago News.
Mens.
A composition by a California boy
reads as follows, according to the San
Francisco Newspaper Union:
Hens is carious animalB. They don’t
have no nose, nor no teeth, nor no ears.
They swallow their vittles whole, and
cbew it up in their crops inside of ’em.
The outside of hens is generally put
into pillars and feathers diiBters. The
inside of a hen is sometimes filled up
with marbles and shirt buttous and
sich.
A hen ia very much smuller than a
good many otbor animals, but they’ll
dig up more tomato plants titan any
thing that ain’t a hen.
Hens is very useful to lay eggs for
plum-puddingH. I like plun-pudding.
Skinny Bates eat so much plum-pud
ding once that it set him into thecollery.
llene has got wings, and can fly when
they are ecart. I cut my Uncle William's
hen’s neck off with a hatchet and it scart
her to death.
Hene sometimes make very fine spring
chickens.