. Stories of a country doctor . as the party broke up, I heard the man of forty say, Oh, may be I didnt; Yum! Yum! Yum! CHAPTER IV. CIVILIZATION AND PIONEER WEDDINGS. GOOD FEI^LOWSHIP AND HOSPITALITY—EFFECTS OF CIV-ILIZATION—DANCING PARTIES—A CONSPIRACY AND WHATCAME OF IT—Toms appetite works HAVOC—WEDDINGS—THE preachers two STORIES. T is something remarkablewhat good fellowship ex-isted between neighborsin those good old have spoken of theclearings, the log rollings,house and barn raisings,and tobacco settler felt it to behis duty to go to hisneishbors assistance onall
. Stories of a country doctor . as the party broke up, I heard the man of forty say, Oh, may be I didnt; Yum! Yum! Yum! CHAPTER IV. CIVILIZATION AND PIONEER WEDDINGS. GOOD FEI^LOWSHIP AND HOSPITALITY—EFFECTS OF CIV-ILIZATION—DANCING PARTIES—A CONSPIRACY AND WHATCAME OF IT—Toms appetite works HAVOC—WEDDINGS—THE preachers two STORIES. T is something remarkablewhat good fellowship ex-isted between neighborsin those good old have spoken of theclearings, the log rollings,house and barn raisings,and tobacco settler felt it to behis duty to go to hisneishbors assistance onall such occasions, and hevery reasonably expected a return, in like assistance,from his neighbor, when he had anything to be donewhich required the help of others. I have knownmen to go fifteen or twenty miles to one of those gath-erings and then ride home in the dusk of the evening,unless they remained to the dance which almost invaria-bly followed the work of the day. Nobodv had locks on their doors and it was a most. Civilization and Pioneer Weddings. 63 common occurrence for a neighbor who desired to bor-row meal, meat, tools or anything which he wanted, onfinding the family away from home, to enter, take whathe desired and inform the family of what he had donethe next time he saw any of them. Here is a most ludicrous incident illustrative of thisperfect confidence which existed between incident is true, for the writer knows the names ofboth parties to it. A pioneer was awakened one night by some oneentering his house, and who seemed to be fumbling-around as if in search of something. Hello ! who is that? he asked. Its me, John, answered the intruder, revealingthe familiar voice of a near neighbor, Im out o to-backer; aint had a chaw sense dinner, an I jestcouldnt go to sleep without some. I thot, mebbe, Imight find your britches without waking 3^011 up/ They are over thar on a cheer at the foot of thebed, said John who turned over and was snoring sol
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