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They taste just as good, though, and I don't raise any to sell. There's a clever man down near the landin' who has a big vineyard, and he's trimmed it as your vines ought to have been long ago. I'd advise you to go and see him, and he can show you all the latest wrinkles in prunin'. Now, I'll tell you what I come for, in the first place. You'll remember that I said there'd be a vandoo to-morrow.
The corn and the cattle, the farm and its hogs were all sold at public "vandoo," or auction, at low figures; and with all their household goods on a big "ironed" wagon drawn by four oxen, the three related families of Hanks, Hall and Lincoln, thirteen in all, pushed on through the mud and across rivers, high from the spring freshets, out of Indiana, into Illinois.
The assembly resembled a "vandoo" as Asa Walker said. "It's worse than that," laughed Mrs. Turner. "It's a silver wedding and a 'send off' combined." They would not let either the "bride" or the "groom" do a thing, and with smiling resignation my mother folded her hands and sank into a chair. "All right," she said. "I am perfectly willing to sit by and see you do the work.
I went down to see 'em arter the vandoo, you know they got red o' most everything, an' they had fried pork an' apples for dinner. Old Bashaby dropped in. 'Law! says she. 'Fried pork an' apples! Well, I call that livin' pretty nigh the wind!" Josiah chuckled. He was very warm now, and the savory smell of the dish he decried was mounting to what served him for fancy.
I went down to see 'em arter the vandoo, you know they got red o' most everything, an' they had fried pork an' apples for dinner. Old Bashaby dropped in. 'Law! says she. 'Fried pork an' apples! Well, I call that livin' pretty nigh the wind!" Josiah chuckled. He was very warm now, and the savory smell of the dish he decried was mounting to what served him for fancy.
The man here tells them that something might be done for her hearing by a person skilled in such things, and Miss Hoskins says 'there's a little money of the child's own, from the vandoo when her father died, that would pay for traveling and advice, and 'ef the right sort ain't to be had in Portsmouth, when she once gets started, she shall go whuzzever't is, if she has to have a vandoo herself! It's a whole human life of comfort and usefulness, Leslie Goldthwaite, may be, that depends!
Perhaps I can pick 'em out for you, too, at the vandoo. You can go along, and if anything strikes your fancy I'll bid on it." "O papa," cried the children, in chorus, "can we go with you to the vandoo?" "Yes, I think so. When does the sale take place?" "Next Tuesday. That's a good breed of potatoes. Jamison allus had the best of everything.
Occasionally, by the latter part of the eighteenth century, we read the advertisement of a "vandoo" of "full-made gowns, petticoats and sacs of a genteel lady of highest fashion" a notice which reads uncommonly like the "forced sales" of the present day of mock-outfits of various kinds. About the middle of the century there began to appear "ready-made clothes for men."
You're not goin' to scrub the dirt floor, are you? Well, well, this looks like business just the place for chickens. Wonder old man Jamison didn't keep 'em here; but he didn't care for fowls. Now I think of it, there's to be a vandoo the first of the week, and there was a lot o' chickens printed on the poster." I smiled.
"I guess they won't put you up to 'vandoo," she said; "or, if they do, I'll be the first to bid. There, that's the last! I never did see such a heap of rubbish as come out of that garret; your Ma, and your Grandma, too, I reckon, never throwed away any thing in all their days. Often and often I used to propose to clean out and kind of sort over the things, but your Ma, she wouldn't ever let me.
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