[Letters from A. C. Abercrombie, Jr., 1885-1897] Page: 65 of 82
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old and one 14 years old and one still younger came down on
Sunday be fore Christmas and staid untill the next Wensday
and I had a good time. they left for home that morning and
just after they left Dr. Morris sent after me. he gave a
big dinner. I went and taken Lizzie Carroll and my old
fiddle and a finer dinner I never saw. they plaid all day
untill bout Sundown. The old Dr. taken me in the Back Room
and pooled out a two gallon Jug and told me to go back and start
the music and in less than a pair of quicks they (was)shorel y
pooling them girls round. they paid me for fiddling for them.
The next night I went to one bove Griffin at the old Boon
Place if you knew it By that name and I did not have to
fiddle and I got to dance some tho I found the Sweetest
talking girl I ever found. she lives the other side of
Jacksonville. She's a honey!
The next day G. W. Weatherby gave a dinner tho nothing in
the way of playing was to go on out side of snap and I'd
just as soon gut frogs as to play snap.
And then they found I would go and they came after me far
and nigh tho anuf of enney thing is a nuf and I quit for
a while, their no use in one going until he get sick and
I Just quit.
So Tell Charlie and Bud I was in Henderson Just be for
Xmas, got 4 quarts of alcoholl, made a Big Egg nog
Christmas Eve morning and Bob Carroll one the next
morning and then we had whiskey left. I'll not tell
no more Jo, tho that is not all tho Charlie and Bud will
die now, wishing they was here. So I'll close for this
time. write me soon. Menney good wishes to you all
for the New Year. I am as Ever yours
A. C. A. Jr.- 12 -
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Abercrombie, A. C., Jr. [Letters from A. C. Abercrombie, Jr., 1885-1897], letter, Date Unknown; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth389513/m1/65/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.