tlIXTY 5IGE
-he wants ter know,
Ef you casts fee nibbles, and
hook-in yer bites, aint you apt to'
add to ther fishes in yer pouch'’
Tuther nitc I wus readin bout !
that town down in Georgy, name j
Atlant.v. Way back bout ’50 yem !
ago, when river-travel by water,
and buck-boad by land was ther j
only ways a feller cud git er-bout.
-— —r-■ =
one thorn noo-fcngle things ralld
rail-roads, poked hits nose outn
Augusty. a old river-town down
on ther long water-way frum
Savanny by ther sea. Hit eased
out into thei pine-country, a-look
in fe rthings t ohaul to ther boat
docks, sos to multyply trier com
morse down to ther sea-boats that
saild for forin parts. Well, this
here rail road kep poking long
thru ther pine-lands twell rhit
(inly struck ther hill-country way
up close to old Kenn.vsaw moun
tin, whar ther granit-rocks and
mable beds abounded, thick as
was ther mud noles round Augus
te. And rite whar that railroad
stopt, thay bill a black-smith
shop, arid sum shantys to hous in,
and one shanty thay called a com
usury to sell grub and overalls to
thei lejers that thay wus pay in
to work on ther railroad. And
thay called ther settlement T.-:
minus, meaning ther end of ther
rail-road, cans hay want a-goin to
dim them hills no further. V.'eil.
ther people in ther hills got to
drivin that ox-cyarts to Terminus,
and bringin in things to sell and
ship, and thay must-afollowd
ther mbit-paths ther way thay
i crooked in fruni all directions,
and headed-up to ther comisai v at
ther depo. Then when ther shan
tvs bergun to multiply round Ter
minus, thay nataly ouilt-up on
them rabit-path ox-roads, no mat
ter how crooked thay was And
whar thay ended up to ther d-po
and comisary, was called Five
Pints, caus thar was five of em.
And one thay named Peachtree
i street, arid one Whitehall, and one
Marietta, and one Deafer, and one
Edgwood. all buttin in as Five
Pints. Then after Terminus got
to be sort of a village ther folks
got a urge to do sum name chang
in, so thay settled on Margaret
vil, as baing more hi-toned fer
a growin town, cause hit sho wus
a-growin, Ther ox-cyarts had
swapt fer 4-team wagins with a
plenty to haul and ship. Hit jest
lookd lak ther low-country need
ed evy thing frurn up in ther hill
country, and vicy-versy. And
then sutnmo railroads bergun to
cum in, and ther town to spied,
and ther folks got wary of so man
size a town being named lak a wo
man, and out popd ther name At
lanty, that want nuttier male or
female, and sounded city-fied.
caus ther folks had dun made up
thay mind to head it fer ther big- j
gest manufactrin and distributin
pint of ther whole south-country.
Then cum that war her tween ther
states, when ther yankeys mar
awded evy whurs, and burnt
down Atlanty, twell hit looked lak
a sheep-ranch after a nite-prowlin
I dog-raid. But what hapend then?
Why them old Robs that dodged
ther yanky bullets, and throwd
up ther war-sponge fer ther want
of hog-and-homny, plus a big
sprinklin of returnd yanky sol
diets that had fel-in-love with
ther boys that eud be put down
but not kep down. All bergun to
biId back ther town into ther fu
ture city ther fust settler had
pland it to be. And ther jaw-bone
grease thay put forth to ther out
world, a-boostin big things that
sho did git results to move-in and
share ther gains. Why when ther
| yaller-fever was ragin on ther
Gulf, and evybod.v leavin fer ther
hi-country, and all ther towns
long ther way had thay police
meet ther trains and say—Keep u
boad, nobody gits off hear. Thens
when Atlanty advertised — Our
gates air open. Evy-body cum.
We got a climet no fever kin live
in. All them whats sick of a
fever—cum-cum-cum. Now all
that boostin and biddin. and pulin
fer a pint sho did make a load
stone that keeps on a drawin and
, a-drawin twell this day. Hit all
shows that of you cast fer nibbles
and hook-in yer bites, you’ll keep
addin to ther fishes in yer pouch.
“Giants,” extremely large per
sons, generally are sterile, ac
cording to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica.
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