Las Sabinas, Volume 4, Number 1, July 1978 Page: 13
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access to the buggy. A well dressed buggy might have blind
bridles of patent leather that would shine when polished. A
fine harness was made from well polished black leather or some-
times tan or brown to match the color of the buggy horse. The
buggy whip stood in a hollow cylinder about a foot long and on
the right side of the dash board.
In the Fall season of the year roads to the markets were
filled with wagons loaded with cotton and cottonseed. They
would be rolling toward the county seat towns when the sun came
up and the clucking wagons with the crack of whips and songs of
the drivers are memories of the time.
In the late afternoon these same wagons and teams with
happy drivers would be rolling along country roads toward home.
The dust would be floating in clouds into the fields along the
way and the wagon bed or box would be loaded with food and nec-
essities for the family back home.
In there would be the YC Sugar, the green coffee, the caddy
of tobacco for dad and big-bale smoking tobacco. A few twists of
the old favorite smoking and chewing tobacco known as Granger's
Twist, would be included.
A bolt or two of calico and gingham for shirts, as well as
jeans for work trousers. Always there were the shotgun shells,
a few boxes of Winchester cartridges and other hunting necessi-
ties. As the sun went down in the west, the farmer would relax
in the spring seat of the wagon and let the mules have their
way.
Soon the voices of nature's wildlife would greet the driver's13.
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Orange County Historical Society (Tex.). Las Sabinas, Volume 4, Number 1, July 1978, periodical, January 1978; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth255383/m1/21/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Orange County Historical Society.