Judge — December 24, 1881 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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wid Hi wid | | i | do hurry and put up the shing my hat and deenching my P DID YOU EVER? DID YOU EVER ATTEND A BARN RAISING? Like huskings and quilti ‘ lo not often take plac large towns you | country wh where the © to ge k into the people are more primitive, and s mnore of the genuine neighborly fecling ; whe us you would y for himsel i | | hindmo: i Farmer Hawkins has been bu 1 time hauling, hewing, a for a new barn, the subject of which has been the prit the farming tion in the past year, He has had one or two carpe work | from time to time framing it. from time to time, because the carpenters : i y perl y in such eo also long time dy to go tog ‘The first thing todo isto get the sills on to the foundation and lay the floor. This is gene by the farmer and one or more carpenters, and when this is completed the great work of raising the frame is rea commenced. Sow, in lal circus will c it blocks the neighborhoods Hy don y to be ies the advent of a n, In New Jersey ness, but in in his mind's uses never ven- | ture, a barn raising i 3 fully | equal to other things in o | Well, Farmer Hawkins gets things all ready | | forthe raising, but among the “things barrel of hard anda sul dinner, to be partaken of af ov antial farmer: r the labor is No written or prin | out, but word is Hawkins is toh j afternoon, invitations H around that F his raising sent rmer such an liate res and there is an imi sponse, ‘armers come from 1 nen folks and far, ‘The little or nothing to do with ially a stag party, the fun there | gathered for hard work anc is tobe got out of it. And the fun there is to be t out of such ed at, for all | lows go to them, and the | old fe ill not have it said that they have lost their grip or an gatherings is nothing to be st i the stout your lows, w strength, naturally pit themselves agai them, In side from the fun, and the good-fellowship, and the m ighborly good-will, th ations of there in fine feather, ready to contest: with anybody, either in liting or wrestling, and they make the old fellows fi | ready, they engage in friendly contests to | show that they are th as they were twenty ye They sometimes fail in this, but th fail in showing their genuinene: hood. ye in every respect do not dd man- nd pinning 3 the others cider, sway lifting con! elves until they are wanter nd sinew of the town is the sions all differences, of what- atten, and a wild good ously. ide of the barn fr Ys upon the tloor, ready to be raised perpendicularly, and all: hands re reigns almost be Finally a broadsi upon the s¢ nother in And of course the fimny ms on hand at such gather: laugh, he nd odd of ways. there. 1 ings, and if he how yer ider works!” he calls. yw, then!” and ting the example, he bend a board or some grunts until he ‘Then they frame. E Iso lifts, and seizes t object and lis and supa laugh, all bound dows shouts, the heavy «seize the at everybody framework and then *! pike pol ition, A hund a hundred odd je ently and surely th rises to a perpendic introduced into the mo sills with a thud, and then the whole i in place, A wild hurrah announy over m: into req lers are give dulged in, but pre broadsid tenons the triumph of nd then there is aire thering around th Where comments are exehanged te and a be cider ba on the bus’ put up that Josh Bisbee, did alls the funny pr see me Wy gosh, but I scen yer puttin’ down ud lot er cider!” and the laugh. “Wal, but, by down myself, of course there don't see me put the funny man, “ But Lean put yer down,” “Come ont Fil bet yer!” and while the to prepare another © the friendly wrest more Well, finally another broadside together, and the same thing x sh with, as it is when the end 1 are made ready, are up. Then comes more cider; more hi rugged jokes, and a homely dance floor of the now al By this time th things get lively. jokes, and funny pid succession, Next comes the rai I cut and rea ary to put the rity; more upon the t completed barn. ler begins to work, and Son stories, h other in ing of the rafters. 1 IY, but only a few m in plac , so the others are engaged in little contests of strength, or trying the strength of the cider, until a royal kee laugh hovers over the entire party. and while a few | n comicbooks.com