Show logrolling LOG ROLLING DAYS A ORIGIN OF PHRASE COMM COMMON ON ITO PO times r on southern plantation in the old time times it bennt a pearled of kiar hard s wort work folk wed by frolic and mer merriment ament bk if Eve body knows the af 0 logrolling log rolling in political lea I 1 parlance in plain lansu lang asid kinge it means you tickle me and IU 19 tickle you or you vote tor for my bill and ill vote for your yours 1 I 1 I ho he ordinal org int meaning way not I 1 ip V sa a well known to city readers ava gave the va correspondent q if the philadelphia record the word came from the plantation tt it Is now almo tt in this part pact of 0 virginia ba cause tho ting it represents has away the memol of the writer runs back bael 60 year when i it leg rolling was an 11 annual affair on every big plantation tho the practice then waa to clear wf tie ground ever year for tobacco po felling the forest forea trees and preparing the ground for cultivation was as no tie 31 small mall undertaking i karst the tho vas scared f away and then the flao big trees antio wa attacked by the ax brigade consisting on un ow plantation of 0 ten or twelve i men I 1 well remember the scene it impressed me in my boyhood 4 a 5 m real 11 work and it was nas liar hard d work orb A dozen aab axby wielded by strong eng continually and ever and anon a great treo tree the growth of tk cent century utY fe fell 11 to the earth with a tremendous traub 9 the new grodd v was us e about 20 acrea acres 1 in extent oi 01 as it w wn aj usually spoken of hy by plan planter tend tf tobacco hills h ilia allowing hills to the acre when i the trees were felled the work waa as not halt done the branches had to be b cut off and prepared for fuel and I 1 the great trunks hit had d to be cut anto nto 4 manageable lengths the lo 10 logrolling rolling was ln invested ested with all the interest that attaches to an all ath athletic game and festival aa as w wea il A bis big dinner was as prepared for till tile 01 occasion and plenty of whisky wa wit pro victa vided the litter latter was seldom slighted i by aej an of tho the men the hands from the he adjoining plantation invited taji II 11 and ud there was wa always f r adly r rivalry between the bews of the several plantations and between the men on the same saitie plantation the big loss logs fur furnished dished excellent mean meant t of the manhood of the contestant in a trial which taxed their muscular power ers land iland stick were verle placed under tinder the log and as many men vere were assigned to the ip 19 tim 10 weight required were chosen n irly equal in strength traen it if a it nun out lifted ahli fellow at te we other and nd oc of the stick and brought him fu tu his knees or as the phrase was wag pulled him down he waa was victor if it then the game a man pulled down all other in ho be carried curried off the pennant so to speak for that occasion and still it equal ly successful at other log rollings rolling 4 that reason wa declared the champion strong man of tho the neighborhood tha contest was art ard d on with perfect i good humor and sometimes with great hilarity many cx changes of wit anil and sharp repartee it wa a co eted lonor to roine out victot la in a logrolling log rolling contest after the of the dat da a dance to music or the I 1 1141 1 ly followed ht ut night and this merry imaging conti cont Hurd aided into the small hours of the rooming morning the incidents of tho day furnished for and anti conver conversation matlon for months nother grot event on tho the plantation was the corn shu shucking eling the affair Is I 1 called in the north a husking beo bee but bitt in his this part of the tho world it Is it corn shucking here item the enve en elope of the ear par Is the abuck and the ob the husk if it you geould bend a negro to bring you some husks he ho would briny ou cobs I 1 ahe he corn was hauled aud and thrown out in a long pile containing from front GOO to 1600 or ingre tle of corn taun a br nt ht ut la Is and anti tile of the plantations planta tlona are invited they ale a not slow to respond soon u big cr li to on tho the ground and woric wor kand arid fun begin A leader Is 1 t hoben who has ha i x loud voice and ome skill in music hi takes hit place on top of and nn rinh from en end to end of tho oil vile ining a cou couple and all the lite ao res 11 with another couplet or joins in the refrain thu the music 14 1 wild and weird but the effice Is pip specially tu at a littia distance the th leader doea not much corn bl b L he ie Is tle mott important all and ni tit t man in tho the part beca timp ho be enlivens the crowd and und keep keeps nil all le and in good hunink huni nr tho tl work continue continues till midnight p r nl some later it fe Is follow followed cd i he the bl big supper and the ili int dance |