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Cattle Show -- Fall of 1853 2? 6 The long looked for Day at last arrives -- Met with it disappointment? to hundreds & hundreds of the holiday event of the Connecticut Valley -- for the sky is overcast with dense watery clouds that indicates instant rain -- it has even now commenced -- the light patter of the drops among the leaves is distinctly audible -- it comes faster -- the Farmers hesitate -- they dont know what to do -- they walk around -- consult the weather cock, look in the West -- try to remember if Cattle- Show days are every thing![ever ??] They hardly know what to do. But they [?] guess, on the white[?], it will clear up ?ly -- They think they can see it growing lighter, and so they again harness up the horses and yoke the cattle and coop up the hens, and box the pigs and hustle small boys along with the sheep -- ?loading? all the big pumpkins and long pear[?] vines and tall cornstalks and homemade bed quilts and the butter and cheese and flowers -- ready for a part[?] as [?] as the smallest speck of the sky is to be seen -- I'd like to go on and tell you how pleasantly the afternoon sun shone out and the roads[?] gradually filled up and how fine every direction men & cattle of all sorts and size, age and condition proved notable [?] till it was full -- another of the squealings and bleatings and lowing and crowings -- and hurrahings[?] [?] -- of the enthusiasm & cheers when the Belchertown [?] [?] decked out with all sorts of [?]s & [?]s, with certainly 180 persons, ?ed by a [?] [?] of music -- of the fun the pretty girls had riding in the procession -- of all the thousand funny & pleasant things I saw and heard -- [?] too late -- by aid of your imagination
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Not to be reproduced in whole or in part without permission. Transcription and commentary copyright 1998 by Martha Nell Smith, Laura Elyn Lauth, and Lara Vetter, all rights reserved Maintained by Rebecca Mooney <rnmooney@umd.edu> Last updated on January 25, 2008 |
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