66 THE TIM BUNKER PAPERS. 



You see, full one-half of Uncle Jotham s talk about the 

 muskrats is gammon. He don t like to own that he has 

 learned anything from me, or any of his neighbors. But, 

 you see, he has already made up his mind to plant that 

 bog with potatoes this season, and substitute tubers for 

 tadpoles and muskrats. The fact is, Mr. Editor, that 

 horse-pond movement has done the business for quite a 

 number of my neighbors, and is working better than 

 physic. There are at least four of them started on a new 

 track by that enterprise. Now, if you have the least 

 spark of patriotism, come up and see us Independence day. 

 If you expect to see anything of the Hookertown of the 

 present generation, you must come quick, for I tell you 

 now, this world moves, and 110 mistake. If you don t 

 come and see what s going on, we shall get up a rebellion , 

 we shall do anything but stop the paper. That we are 

 bound to have, whether you come or not. 

 Yours to com man 



TIMOTHY BUNKER, ESQ. 



Hookertown^ June 5, 1858. 



(It is put down in our note-book to visit Hookertown, 

 July 4th if we can. ED.) 



. 23. TIM BUNKER ON MAKING TILES. 



MR. EDITOR. j. didn t like it a bit, that you did not 

 come out to attend Sally s wedding. You must know 

 that weddings do not come every day in a farm-house, and 

 in mine they come only once in a generation, for Sally is 

 my only daughter. She had got her heart very much set 

 upon seeing you out here, for she and John have read the 

 paper so much, that they think you sort o belong to the 



