It had rambled but a little way from its bubbling home when there came to meet it another stream, that finds its birth near Friendship Church, and has been known in later years as Friendship Branch. Aeons and aeons ago, when the world was young, it began its babbling life and trickling and gliding through sunny valleys, whose spring time air was laden with the fragrant breath of bay and jasmine and honeysuckle, it passed on its maiden path a mammoth boulder from whose granite heart long years later, grindstones and gravestones and millstones were chiseled into form, giving the stream its peculiar christening. Nestled away in a shaded cove, not far away from our little town, there is a gurgling spring, whose limpid waters form the source of Grindstone Branch. The memory of its sweetness and its wholesomeness as it comes back to me today over the waste of vanished years has prompted and inspired this unpretending tribute to this old time mill, that furnished for me the staff of life for nearly forty years. And then during the coming week, whether in the old-time hoecake patted smooth and thin by old Aunt Hannah's honest hand, or in crisp and flaky muffins, or in corn dumplings, dished from the cavernous pot that hung from the crane, or in old time ''cracklin' bread" that I have tried to canonize in homely verse, it was the sweetest, the most tempting, the toothsomest that ever touched or tickled my hungry palate, for "Uncle Jack" and old Aunt Hannah were simply adepts in their special lines. If a rainy day occurred during the week it was utilized in shelling from the glistening ears that lay heaped in the old log crib the usual "turn" of corn, and on Saturday Peter or Joe or Alfred or Henry or old "Uncle Moosher," whose name I have never learned to spell, would take it over to the old Rhodes mill, where, under the skilful manipulation of "Uncle Jack" Rhodes, it would be transformed into the softest and whitest and purest of meal. Of the aftermath when Judge Rhodes learned that he had been accessory to the purloining of his own chickens I have no traditional record.ĭuring my boyhood days Saturday was always "mill day" at the old homestead. Thanking the judge kindly for his timely aid he went on his way rejoicing with fowls enough to supply his table for weeks and weeks to come.
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Tribe the nimble footed darkies would capture them until the basket was taxed to its full capacity. After serving his generation by the will oi the feathered^ Uncle Nickie's ministerial labors embraced an ''appoint ment" at Richmond Factory and probably at New Hope and Liberty churches, with an occasional service at the old Brotnersville Academy. Schley again, two weeks later, the unsightly protuberance had gone "where the wood bine twineth."
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