Home Titles The Cairo messenger. January 15, Image 8 The Cairo messenger. Cairo, Thomas County, Ga. Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.
It is also available as plain text as well as XML. A aTso 7 John, Frank school. They set out. The furnishings were not but they had a Uttle air of that seemed to be missing in ours There was a tin trunk, which had sat on until it had a great in the top, and a leather trunk, ously plastered with labels.
There was a cot with steamer rugs. Quite a some shaving set was scrapped to wall of the tent, and a great belt with a prodigious revolver from a tent pole, while a rifle leaned against It. Spoof evidently meant to sell his life dearly, if there should he any demand for it. Three or four Eng lish magazines lay about, and a to bacco Jar with pipes stood in the cen ter of the table. But what caught Jean's eyes were the pictures on the walls. The law of compensation, you know. Have to do for the present.
Beastly expensive business farming. I shall write that to the governor. The governor, dear old chap, thinks this country is rather a bit off the mai. He writes to know If I find the native labor satisfactory, and can my man mix a decent whisky and soda. I must set his mind at rest. I let him think I run quite an establishment, you un derstand; he sends a check now and again, which, of course, bears a rela tionship to the position I am supposed.
A lounger Son is a very successful form of extrav agance, don t you think? There are some sketches by an artist showing his conception of homestead life. I rather suspect the governor has let him read my letters. The bullocks never took kindly to the compass. No doubt it was a foolish notion of mine that a furrow' should run either east and west or north and south, seeing that the whole farm has to be plowed anyway.
