Show farmer Bun bunken bunker keron kenon on dress old iti timo tiro lim liw a rel rea regular ular contributor to fhe the american hais has written a good many good things s arid and tha too generally beneral ly of a and practical character tile the following we wd think may be read with profit by every farmer and might not be wholly inapplicable to others 1 MK AIR EDITOR I 1 was considerably astonished to see the letter from tucker and jon jones in jour your last paper I 1 did not suppose that I 1 had bad said sald anything to break th peace or to stir up rny iny ay rl neighbors and even that letter dont fairly convince me you see it is a great country where it takes two folks folka to write a letter any lody loay lody that knows those two men knows know that they did not write that letter it is not in them and what is not in a man cant come out of him any way I 1 took the ant paper aper r right ift ht ta C as soon asi as it come ani and says I 1 to him says bays 1 I iivo do you know who wrote that let oer fer no I 1 dont square 1 says y he blamed do and d neighbor 0 r jones said the same thing if it they hey told a mv whopper hopper it probably is not the first ift itt one they have tod od for though I 1 say it hat liht should not their reputation dont stand K any the highest for speaking the truth they either got somebody to write the letter for them or some envious person wk 0 wants to get hold of my piece of reclaim 4 ed marsh wrote it in their name meaning to r run an it it down so as to get it as cheap as ate dc that is about the drift of the letter as far as I 1 can see any in it but I 1 may as well say first as last that that piece of land is not t in the market land dand land that will cut three tun of hay to the izac falc fave cave re or pasture a cow through the whole sea sn is about good enough to keep the marsh has aas turned ae the heads of some people and I 1 lave lavo had a lot of folks folks from abroad to see it and to learn how the trick was done A fellow filow called the other day from way down beyond boston ile he had a project in his head to reclaim three thousand acres and make a mint of money out of it it can be done just as tia easy as to flip a cent if be he has the money to do it with that cettei letter ietter tried to make it out that I 1 had spent a great deal of money on my marsh this shows how little the writer knows about it I 1 have got more than muck enough out of th ditches top to pay pax ay for all ail allabe the I 1 improvement ent tnt sand top eop dressings ap applied trat lied to it so that I 1 lama iama am a good leal leai in debt to that land today to day the principal pai p al part of the expense of such an improve 1 bentig men tig in the embankment and arid that was wag all anade in this case As to this marsh ever going back again of course it will if itis it is not taken care of any fool can see sec that if the tide gate is not kept in order the sea water will come in and the salt grasses will grow a again aln ain but any fool in teli telf Hooker town will tell teil you that tim bunker knows enough to keep a tide gate in order antt anti and to shut out crabs and eel grass the letter tries to make a handle out oat of my dass and on this subject I 1 guess lain iain I 1 brn bin posted about as well as some of my neighbors I 1 be leve in peo peopled paea pleA dressing according to their t k characters h arac t ef s and their business if there is any thing thing better than rubber boots for a ditch half uli uil f full ull of water I 1 should like to see it I 1 have fo got gob above my business of farmin farming yet and ido dont nl t expect to very soon some folic folk I 1 suppose like tucker and jones if they should be madea justice or elected to any high office t would not hot wear any thing but calf skin for the rest of their lives and thereby I 1 think 4 they would show that the calf was a little t more inore than skin deep you see mr sir editor this matter of dress is ov 0 V more importance than most people think it makes or ruins a multitude of people and has a great deal to dewith do with these crashes that vou ou have in the city every few jears years and to begin e edwi with alth a as mr spooner would sax say there s 7 is a great greab ea deal in dressing folks alp ilp up with the I 1 rii rit night right kind of names when they start in life I 1 dont think your correspondents were as lucky in there names as they might have been george washington tucker and benjamin franklin frankiin brazlin jones sound considerable araud and fixed up as if a man would have to stoop some when he come into the room where such people lived but I 1 guess if you knew the folks that wear them as well as I 1 do you would not think there was much call for manners you see tuckers father was never worth a red cent in the world above tie tle the clothes he had upon his hi a bachand bac bacic kand rand wand nd his mother had more pretensions than any woman of her size I 1 ever knew he ire vias ikas was a tailor by trade and spent all his earnings upon broadcloth and silk for himself and wife I 1 remember when parasols first came round tucker got one for his wife and she was so anxious to showie that nhe khe he carried it to meeting with her and hoisted it in meeting time just as mr spooner begun his ser sermon nion a as s much as to say tuckers wife wita is some pumpkins arter all the wa wax way the minister looked at her was a caution to ati ail all ali peacocks logs dogs and other vermin deacon smith had to come over and tell her to take down that windmill for he seen one before and he did not know what to call calf it mrs bunker said she thought she would have stink sunk into the earth well you see sec when their first child was lave jorn lorn orn thinking I 1 suppose that they would not llave much else to give they gave him the name naine of geo washington tucker now nov the usa use of d dressing res sing up a poor boy with such a big name you see it makes too heavy p load for an ordinary mortal to carry through life jf if ho he ever makes any thin thing becomes a business man it if is a great waste of paper and ink to have to write so ion lon long a name and if lie he dont make anything he lie becomes a standing joke like the present george washington t tucker ile he has always lived in a hired house arid and worked hired landi lands land wilen he worked any to tell the plain truth he has never hurt himself with work of any kind and though a farmer has been about as shy of the dirt as his father was before him I 1 suppose its wicked but I 1 never see him in meeting without thinking of that parasol forty years ago the green of that silk went as ag straight into that boy as if he had grown on a mulberry tree instead of being born like other mortals jones came of a better family his iris father gen geni 1 l jones was flourishing forty years ears ago ago ile he had a good deal of money left him lim by his father and married rich the general was mighty fond of cocked hats epaulettes epaul ettes and other military fixings and his wife was fond of french fashions and extravagant dress they used to drive through through t the street in Hooker town in a splendid car carriage r lag drawn by a pair of black horses with harness glittering with silver buckles and anti mountings mountings nobody held their heads higher than tae the joneses of the last generation the generals I 1 house was crowded with gay company from the city his wife and daul daughters fay gay dressed splendidly and gave brilliant parties where the wine flowed like water and the dance and song lasted till morning the geni died a bankrupt when the present benjamin franklin jones was a boy of ten of course the property had to be sold and ben had to go to work for a living which was the best that ever happened to him or any other mail man accordia according to to my notion lie he however had bad got so some high notions in his childhood that has prevented him from succeeding in life ilfe lie he has never loved work like I 1 one who has grubbed in the dirt from the time he could grasp a hoe handle you must begin early with the boy if yon want to make them love work rub their noses nores in it as soon as they can run and they will always love the smell of mother earth as long as they live but isyou if you dress them in fine clothes until they are tell ten and twelve and then try to break them in it is just like breaking ili in a six year old pair of cattle mighty 0 hard work to state the case just as it is benjamin franklin jones is too tod much afraid of dirtying his clothes to gettling gett long iong in life and tes these e are the kind of folks you see that are arc laughing in at tim bunkers old had and long iong ong legged boots and talking of throwing stories stones because I 1 live in a glass house they have the advantage r of me in flinging stones for they got any houses at all of their own if I 1 should want to throw back again a aan my hat is old as they say but it is palt pait paid for which is more than can be said of the hats of my illustrious neighbors george washl washington ton tucker and benjamin frank franklin frankiin lin jones jonee ke one was wag won in a bet at the last presidential election and anti the other has been charged in the he merchants book bool for more than three years yours to command TIMOTHY tinothy BUNKER esq or CT oct 12 1859 |