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the bile, and for once I guess the doctors are about right. 

 In the absence of fruits, which are not always to be had, 

 keep pickles on your table the year round. 

 Tours to command, 



TIMOTHY BUNKER, ESQ., 

 Hookertown, July 10, 1865. 



78. TIM BUNKER ON THE COTTON FEVER 

 AND EMIGRATION DOWN SOUTH. 



MR. EDITOR. Your notice in the May number took me 

 considerably by surprise. The fact is, I have been so 

 awful busy with my own aifairs, and Hookertown matters, 

 that I had pretty much forgotten the world outside. 

 Court business, of course, I had to attend to. And then I 

 never had so much advice to give in cases out of Court, 

 since I have been Justice of the Peace. I have pretty much 

 come to the conclusion that I am worth more to keep 

 folks out of lawsuits than to settle cases after they come 

 into Court. 



You see, Hookertown has been in a great stew all win 

 ter, about going down South and raising cotton, and be 

 twixt the meetings and the private talks around to the 

 houses, there has not been much else done or thought on. 

 You know our son John went to the war, and a lot more 

 of the Hookertown boys, and they came home full of the 

 matter, and they have kept the pot a boilin ever since. 

 To hear them talk about the Cotton States you would 

 think there was never such a land lying out a doors any 

 where. Canaan wa n t a touch to it. If it didn t flow 



