WORDS WE USED IN 'OLDEN DAYS' ~~~ Owen Sanders

 

WORDS OF YESTERDAY by Owen Sanders

Words we used in 'Olden Days'
Have faded with the time;
Today, we'll bring them back again
And place a few in rhyme.

Singletrees and neck yokes
Doubletrees and blinders,
Belly band and martingale
Tug chains lines and binders

Bolsters bows and reaches
Stay chains, tongues and thimbles;
Fellies, spokes and king pins
Croupers, hames and spindles

Chimneys, wicks and tallow
Sadirons, flatirons, trivets;
Scrub boards, churns and dashers,
Half soles, brads and rivets.

Steelyards, toils and tally sticks
Snath and Scythe and sickles;
Grindstones, rasps and cradles
Spigots, barrels and pickles.

Thunder mugs and cauldrons
Hearths and blackened kettles;
Woolen dyed with walnut--
Horse hair padded settles.

Brigham Tea and pine gum salve
Golden seal and yarow;
Shampoo soap from yucca roots
Hardwood teeth for harrow.

Plodding ox and stubborn mule
Buckboards, carts and sleds;
Ising glass for windows
Rawhide springs for beds.

Corn shucks for the mattress
Straw and limbs for sheds;
Logs for rustic cabins
Shakes for roofs o'er heads.

Button shoes and button hooks
Muffs and padded bustles
Petticoats and bloomers
Hatpins shawls and ruffles.

Weaving, braiding, plaiting
Knitting, netting, tatting;
Stitching, darning, quilting
Carpet rags and batting.

We could write in endless rhyme
Until all heads were reeling
But we believe we've said enough
To give an Old Time Feeling !!!