rjfi>iam and Mandy’s
ew Year Resolutions
By SIAM CLODHOPPER
* Yes, Mamly’s laid in erg-in wid
the flues. It shore looks lack ev
ery year, she picks the most on
necessary time and season to git
abed. She’s ketchecl cold at every
body’s hog killing she’s been to
but I dasn’t tell her so. I’ll bet you,
Mandy Clodhopper has riddled
enough chillins, tied end to end, to
string around Johnston county a
dozen times amost. And the neigh
bors through these parts, I spose
would go outen the hog killing
business if it weren’t fer me and
Mandy helping them to kill 'em.
They’s depended on us so long. We
started out two weeks afore
Christmas to helpin’ em as they
come- to us. We started oven* at
Tim’s first. He alius says away
ahead he ain’t gointer kill his’n
till attei* Christmas. Then he’s apt
to head the list by killing his first.
I Says he wants to be shore to g’.t
Nsuch help as me and Monday, and
irHkevshould wait till atter Chris
stand in the way of his gittin’ two
of the best hog killin’ hands in
all the surrounding settlements. It
is good this year that Me and
Mandy had a chance of starting
out in the hog killing business if
she jest hadn’t ketched cold. Per
we had jest three little razor backs
that seemed to be a mite hide
bound, fer us meat another year,
an’ gittin’ an early start in the
} hog killin’ business kept us table
surely well supplied with freshes.
1 But seems that since we begun
gittin’ a few freshes all us neigh
I bors what hadn’t killed hogs ner
had none to kill drapped in on us
for a meal or two. Pears there’s
alius sompin’ a knawing at each
I end of a fellow’s progressibility.
Bout time we thought we wus lay
ing in a considerable supply of
fl eshes and had a most decided not
to raise any hogs at all next year,
> we wus gittin’ in sich a supply of
Jchittlins, sassage, cracklings and
slets, they’d last us till long
Y jlfTp into the spring and then we
jJj could sell aigs and git us a few
£ strips of white Cincinnatty to bile
m with us summer garden vegetables.
I we could rais$ a few more chick
9 ens and make ends meet by making
I us corn last till housing time one
would be shore to
We hadn’t mor'n got the idee
in us heads afore company begun
to pile in afresh, and it didn’t only
take all the freshes we had oh
hand but Mandy had to rush out
alter dark or had me to rather, and
slay two of her yearling size roos
ters she wus savin’ fer Christmas,
in case any of the chillem should
come, I fetched ‘eni in all right
and dressed ‘em. I wus fearful I
had made a mistake but I did not
call Mandy to see if I had the
right ones and so all went well
till next day she seen the two roos- j
ters she sent me to fetch awalkin’;
a”ound in the yard and bless me if j
1 didn’t think she wus gointer git
my goat right there afore ’em
all. But Aint Nance Spivey wus
there and she tuck up fer me and j
Jaughed and said, “Wlhy, Mandy,;
surprise at you rufflin’ up
siam. Poor fellow, if I’d a been
him I’d a retched in and got the
fust ones I could a layed my hands |
on if they’d had gold combs and |
diver toe nails. And sich a crowd
here to dust rate him.” Well I got
by fairly easy for the time being.
Then on top of that, yearly meet i
ing at the Creek meeting house j
broke loose on us the next Satur- |
day which should abeen in Sep
tember. Through somebody’s care
lessness it wus put off till it look
ed lack nobody had no time to go,.
it wus so nigh Christmas. Butj
Mandy said we wus jest obleeged
to lay down and go since brother
Jiner had writ us a special notice .
and we had been the main church ■
pillars fer so many years. So Sat- j
tidy morning at four o’clock we riz
and got busy to meet brother Jiner!
at the yearly, feet-washing meet-1
ing at Sugar Creek meeitng house. J
1 says to Mandy that means that
hiiUier Jiner will be here fer din-j
Tier today, fcr supper' tonight and
breakfast, dinner and p’raps sup
per tomorrow night and breakfast
too Monday morning. I spose Man
dy said ye*, but abody could do
wus than have a minister of the
gospel in the hfousc. Pears lack ev
erybody down in these parts, be
case me and Mandy air’ honest
hearted and law fearing, trustable
people we should ort to ;be pun
ished- by taking keer of all the
ministers all the time amost. Man
dy said she wouldn’t mind going
to meeting nary bit, said she felt
lack a good sermon would be both
meet and bread, it had been so
long since she beam one lack
brother Jiner generally preach s,
only r.he wus afear-i Hank W’ould
tare loose with some of his crazy
Coin’s and kill hogs on that very
Saturday and she’d miss helpin’
him and miss gittin’ them freshes
Said he wus jest that headstrong
kind, not thinking one thing about
how it would put poor Jennie to
it, a having all that hcg killing
and smelling around on Sunday and
company might come in. Fer to be
lale clean she said it generally
took two or three days to do up
the killing of a couple of shoats,
letTalone a dozen hogs.
Well, she had a roaring far in
her stove and wus precedin’ to
cook a pot of collards and back
bone and some ‘tater custards. She
said if there ever wus a man that
loved to eat good rations it wus
brother Jiner, and backbone, col
lards and tater custards- wus his
hobby when it cum to the eating
business. I broke in and said, no
wonder the preachers took our
house fer eating and lodging since
Mandy wus sich a good cook and
tried to outdo all the other wim
men in keering fer the preacher.
She’s got one of the fattest feath
er beds you ever seen that sets in
the north corner of the company
shed room In the summer, and in
the south corner in the wdntei
time fer sich fellers as brother
Jiner. I have alius wanted to know
je&t how that bed laid, but I don’t
spose I‘ll ever know fer I wouldn’t
dasn’t to ax her to let me try it
no matter how sick I am. becase
I know I’d be denied. I’ve been
tempted to try that bed out some
time when she wus called away
at night anussing the sick in the
community, but I know’d blame
well I’d never git it fluffed, puff
ed and fixed up ergin. So I spose
I’ll never know that one rale de
sire. And what’s the use nohow of
takin’ chances at a thing to pleas
ure yourself on the sly, when ye
know good and well ye will be
ketched and it will be the plague
of ye by and by. Mandy hadn’t
more’n got her stove sizzlin’ hot
aforef hearin’ Hank’s familiar ‘Han,
Siam,” outside the kitchen door. I
says, “He’s atter us Mandy as
shore as smoke.”
She says, “I’ll tell him some
thing.”
I stepped outside and axed him
into the far and he said no, he
"wus-in -a terrible hurry, that he’d
Urn over to ax me and Mandy to
help him kill nis shoats. Mandy
cracked open the door and bawled
out, “That’s jest lak you, Hank.
Don’t you know poor Jennie don’t
want hog killing strung all around
on Sunday? Some men folks hain’t
got no respect fer ther wives no
how. Put off your hog killing and
you and Jennie go to the yearly
meeting today. Brother Jiner is
going to hold feet washing at the
creek meeting house.”
Hank said, “Brother Jiner won’t
see" me ner none of my folks to
day. He ort to a hilt his feet wash
ing meeting while it wus in sea
son to wash feet, fer I wouldn’t
have my feet washed as cold as it
is fer ham and eggs and besides
he might expect me to ax him
home with me, and Jennie hain’t
got no time to fool wid the preach
er ner no one olse till we git thru
wid them hog doin’s. So 1*11 git
on back and see if I can’t git
somebody else, Siam, if you and
Mandy kaint come, though I hate
blamed bad to know I’d eat a chit
lin that Mandy hadn’t had a hand
into. Ner I don’t know who i’ll gn
to stick and knock a hog lack you,
Siam, since I’ve alius depended on
vou.”
He turned and started on down
the path. I wus awful sorry not to
•go, fer I did want to hold to my
reputation. About that time I hurd
the kitchen window shutter rattle
and I heard Mandy holler, “Oh
Hank, how many hogs air ye goin
ter kill?’' He hollered back, “jest
five pigs.” She says, “We’ll shore
ibe there by the crack of day. Have
everything ready.”
I could not imagine how she
-wus gointer manage to go to
both, a hog killing and a foot
washing meeting too, at the same
time. But I did know Mandy wus
a good planner; so I lushed on to
git the feeding done so's to git
back to the house to hear Mandy’s
strategy. Afore I got nigh thru
she squalled, “Breakfast!” I dou
ble-quicked fer a few minutes and
wus at the door wid my usual turn
of wood jest as she opened the
door to see why I didn’t hurry on.
She says, “Hurry, Siam I think we
can manage to help Hank and
tend the meeting too.”
I says, “It’s all your plans and
I’m at your services.” Course I
hated to lose my reputation of be
As we wus quibblin’ down u=
flour cakes, coffee and molasses,
ing head of everybody’s hog killin'
in the season, and we did need all
the freshes we could get.
Mandy hurriedly let me in on her
plans. We can take us an extra
shift of clothes along to slip over
theserns, take Club and the cyart
along and about eleven o’clock we’ll
slip in us clothes and drive over
to meeting. By pushing, we’ll git
the big of the killing over with a
fore meeting time. Jennie alius has
a big pot of liver hash any^ay^ah-d.
we’ll - fetch brother Jiner back to
Hanks fer dinner for he is per
tickler fond of haslett hash and
he’ll enjoy nothing better than to
hang around that hog killing the
balance of the evening. After din
ner all hands will go to it and do
up that hog works, so’s they’ll keep
till Monday and then I’ll run back
over and help Jennie wind up and
that will mean more freshes. We’ll
have plenty of freshes fer brother
Jiner’s supper and breakfast and
then sum. I told Mandy she wus
as smart at planning as they make
'em.
Ail ready, we jumped in us
cyart and fer Hank’s we hit ‘em.
Me and Hank went to knocking
hogs arjd Mandy went in to tell
Jennie her plans. Jennie alius did
agree to a thing to your face. By
tight tooth and toe-nailing we got
the hogs all on the gallus and
managed to let the wimmen folks
have the inards to riddle and we
got things in good shape so’s me
and Mandy slipped in us Sunday
clothes and hit fer the meeting
house. Brother Jiner wus setting
there alone and said we wus about
all the two of his flock that he
wus fully dependin’ on. Course we
felt well paid for us scuffle in
gittin’ there. We sat another half
hour and nobody else came and
Brother Jiner said, “Suppose we be
a-gwine, Brother and Sister Clod
hopper, how about making a bee
line fer your house fer some grub
fer my stomach feels lack it ain’t
got a friend in the world. I’ll bet
ye have got backbone and tater
custards fer dinner. We started
and Mandy let him in on her plans
fer gittin’ to meeting. He told
Mandy she wus one of the blessed
est,most faithful, whole-souled,
whole-hearted sisters in his flock
and that she deserved the best of
husbands lack Bro. Siam. Right
then, I wouldn’t a swapped wives
wid the president of the United
States.
When we got back to Hank’s,
Jennie was dishing up the hash.
She had erbout a peck of peeled
por-man’s-friends, pertaters, on
the table and a pot of piping black
coffee. And such a blessing as did
Brother Jiner ax, I never hearn
Hank had gone off a step on biz
njess and cum in jest as we wus
\iinding up. He had eat a snack a
fore he went off and it wus good
he did, fer we lack to a made end3
meet with that dinner. Brother
Jiner called fer a pair of old
breeches to slip on to help with the
hog work, said there wus nothing
he liked better to do. I wus afear
ed it wus all a bluff, fer I didn’t,
see how he wus gointer be able to
bend around at all atter packing
all that hash inside his shirt. But
he shambled around pretty swift
as did the rest of us and wound
up all the necdable work that wus
necessary by sundown and wus
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ready to go home. I hinted around
abQut. leavin’, bout a half hour be
fore we started so’s Ilank would
have time to git up us some of
the freshes, but he did not take
the hint, though when we did git
started he said he would give us
a liver but he had carried them
all off to a neighbor’s to sell fer
him. Said though he sposed giv
ing such a crowd dinner wus most
pay enough, weren’t it. Mandy
says nothing, ner me nuther. We
driv on home a thinkin’ a whole
lot. Mandy had to far up and bile
■the pot fer supper atter it wus
dark, saying she meant that Bro.
Jiner should enjoy another bait of
collards and backbone if he did git
his supper a little late, and if we
had missed gittin’ freshes for us
work that day. Brother Jiner told
Mandy not to go to nary bit of
trouble fer hts supper fer he won’t
a bit hungry. But mind ye when he
set down to that eight-oclock sup
per I thought afore he finished,
Mandy would hatter git up and
start the pot biling again. Next
morning Mandy had to break into
her aigs, as high as they is, fer
brother Jiner’s breakfast and that
means me and Mandy will have to
be a little skase with us snuff ar.d
tobacker fer a few days.
Afore we started to church, I
says on the shy, “Fer misery sakos
Handy, don’t ax e^ery body home
with ye to-day and she said she
were’nt, Brother Jiner wus com
pany enough fer her, but low and
behold all of Jeff Slocum’s gang
wus ready to come home wid us
; without being axed. We hurried
on home wid ‘em and afore Man
; dy got her meeting clothes of, up
rid Buck Weaver, Kizzie, and all
that eight head of youngerns. I
jumped in me overalls and jacket,
i and went to the wood pile whar I
spent half of the evening cuttin
and toatin stovewood and building
jfars in the great house, gittin out
j taters, running down chickens,
I toatin water and the company a
I setting back. The last of us com
jpany left about dark, not till they
; had got ther sepper though. Man
ny had a bustin’ headache and feel
to sneezing a fresh. My jints felt
lack they wus driv up from the
constant stain. When we got in
f.round the far that night, I says,
I ‘‘Ilaint this been a keeping of the
Sabbath holy though ? I ruther a
I been rolling logs or splitting rails,
ner it wouldn’t a been nary bit
more sin.” Mandy broke out and
said neighbors, or no neighbors
I
reputation or no reputation she
weren’t gointer run a free' eating
place fer the whole community no
longer.
I says, “Amen, sister Mandy,
less jine hands on that.” And since
Mandy’s been all Jai 1 in with the
flues she ketched running around
imposing her self to the evils of
the whole settlement, we’ve made
no resolutions fer this year.
I’ve had all the in and out work
to do, churning, milking, cooking
cleaning up fer company thats not
been a nigh. Mandy has to have
about three courses of rubdowns
a day and afore I git through one
process its time to start on anoth
er. Its git her fixed and then
make a dash fer the woods fer
fresh pine boughs, lions tongue
snake weed, and rosin drip; then
rush back, bile, steam, and stew
tecs, mixtures and rubdowns and
the wust of the job is applying
‘cm. My! that’s the wustest of all.
Manay scolds and says I never
think to warm my hands, and that
they feel lack a pair of batting
cyards. being drug across her
chist. I dasn’t talk back, but my
how I’d like to, I know there’s no
job under the .Sun as bad as a
man tryin’ to fill a woman’s place
especially when it comes to doc
toring: the family. When I had the
flues last winter I felt lack Man
(iy werent half tending: to me and1
now since I’ve not had a chance
to slik off me breeches ner shoes
in several days and nights ner
hardly hit a cheer in all that time,
my mind’s changed considerable.
Whar’s all us neighbors?” I ax
ed Mandy, “that we’ve been nus
sing and helping to spell all these
many years?” She said I’d ort tj
a sent some of ‘ern word. I says
by-grab they already know it, I
hollered and told Kizzie Cylarter
the first day you wus in bed and
by gravy you know she’s the com
munity tattle box, and’s been all
over this neighborhood a dozen
times since you’ve been sick. Yes
they know it. And Mandy, I’ve
rubbed and greased and doctored
vc twell I have got ye well an the
way to diskivery. And here-atter,
fer misery sakes, less look more
atter us own household, and be
more charatable at home. In two
more days, if Mandy keepes im
proving, I hope to have one more
day’s freedom. The wood pile is
as clean as a whistle and a full
day’s cutting and ; hauling wood
will be a rale treat to Siam. Man
dy’s gitting iller and crosser.
That’s why I know she’ll soon be
well. It’ll be jest lack some of U3
crazy neighbors, though as soon
as they find out she’s able to be
on her feet, again to rush over
Sunday fer dinner. Heres wishing
every body a happy new year and
our adviee for 1028 is, when ye are
sick, down or out don’t pin your
faith too tight to no neighbor’s
coat-tail.
NOTICE OF RE-SALE
Under and by virtue of the au
thority contained in that mortgage
deed dated March 11, 1925, by J.
T. Hales and wife, Sallie Ann
Hales to the undersigned, record
ed in Book 149, page 226, Regis
try of Johnston county, default
having been made in the payment
of the bond thereby secured, a
raise of the bid made at the prior
sale having been made the undei*
signed mortgagee will on Thurs
day, Jan. 12, 1928, at 12 o’clock
M. at the courthouse door of John
ston county offer for sale to the
highest bidder for cash, the fol
lowing lands, to-wit:
Situate in Beulah township, said
county, and beginning* at a stake
in J. T. Stancil’s line, J. W. Wood
ard’s corner, and runs with said
line S 2 W 96 poles to a pine in
J. W. Woodard’s corner; thence
with said Woodard’s line N 86 W
4314 poles to a stake; thence N
2 E 96 poles to a stake in J. T.
Stancil’s line; thence S 87 E 4314
poles to the beginning, containing
26 acres, more or less and being
lot No. 1 in the division of Con
trary Hales, deceased.
This Jan. 28, 1927.
H. FITZGERALD & SON,
Mortgagee.
ED F. WARD, Attorney.
SALE OP STANDING TIMBER
By virtue of authority vested in
me under a mortgage from Wil
bur M. Lee dated November 29,
1927, registered in book 197, page
531, default having been made i:i
payment of the debt thereby se
cured, I will, on the 1st day of
February, 1928 at 12 noon at the
courthouse door at Smith field, N.
0.. offer for sale at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash all
the merchanteable timble which is
situated upon that certain tract of
land in Bentonville township, ad
joining tho lands of L. V. Massey,
Carson Hayes and others, begin
ning at a black g*um on Mill Creek.
Carson Hayes’ corner and runs
North 144 poles to a pine, Carson
Hayes’ corner, then East .°,6 poles
to a stake in Buzzard Pond, J. M.
Massey's corner thence with his
line north 23 West 34 poles to a
stake, J. V. Massey’s corner, and
thence south 1G east 202 poles to
a stake on Mill Creek, thence down
the meanders of said creek to the
beginning, containing- 8914 acres,
more or less.
Together with the right and
privilege to enter 11pon said 1 and?
and to cut and remove said timber
for a period of one year from ar.!
after the 16 day of November,
2927, and also to exercise all such
rights and powers as were conferr
ed upon said Wilbur M. Lee under
a timber deed from W. A. Massey
and wife which is registered in
book 175 at page 292.
Dated this December 30, 1927.
J. H. FUSSELL,
Wilmington. N. C. Trustee.
R. C. LAWRENCE, Attorney for
Trustee., Lumberton, N. C.
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
SALE
By virtue of the power of sale
contained in that certain mortgage;
deed, executed on January 20, 1920,
by W. F. Watson and wife, Emma
Watson, to Barnes-Lamm & Com
pany, recorded in Book No. 208, at
page 13, public Registry of John
ston county, default having been
made in the payment of the in
debtedness therein secured, the un
dersigned mortgagee, will offer for
sale at public auction for cash on
Monday, January 23, 1928, be
tween the hours of 12 M. and 1
o'clock p. m., in front of the court
house door in Smithfield, N. C.,
the following described real es
tate:
town lot situate in the town
of Konly, N. C., and being Lot No.
1, in Block A. B., of Plat No. 2,
town of Kenly, of the J. C. Grady
subdivision of the lands of Lottie
Watkins. Said lot having a 70 feet
frontage on Railroad street, and
running back to the Watson line
125 feet, said lot being a corner
lot on said street, and being the
identical lot conveyed by J. C.
Grady and wife to W. H. Pittman,
the deed to which is recorded in
Bock H, No. 13 at page 233, John
ston County Public Registry, to
which reference is made for more
accurate description.
This December 19, 1927.
BARNES-LAMM & COMPANY,.
Mortgagee.
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