Southern marksman. [volume] (Clinton, Miss.) 1838-1839, 1839-01-01

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cent?
'Extortion! miscreantn
Lift the poor gentleman cautiously over
The bannister, and don't hurt the wall for
the next coner,' muttered an oily sfaced in
damp black, the smell of which was avs
| fully suffocating. saw and smeit through
the boards that covered me. Bang they
went against tho staircase wall, and they
staggered under me.
well done, sOId Scratch cried anoth-
| er.
was horri6ed-was he one of my bear
ers? We passed the door of the room
where my mourning friends were assem-
bled. 1t was open. Who would believe
it? they were ia iocund coaversation.-
My surgeon, whom had considered the
tendsrest and most humane sf beings, was
facctioas with the parson; how they, too,
wers true sPortsmen-aiways in n the
DEATH There was sonae ccaflisi0n in the
hall. The great door was open. / saw
TOO mutes the horses Of q part Of the boz
dy of the hearse, and heard the wheels Of
mourning coaches behind
Go on says one.
'We CAN'T says another, Lawyer Cod
icie isn't come yet
Il sent him Maitland and gloves, said the
son of an undertaken, and coach al his
door,
coach ia returncd,' said another; she
can't come, he says, but will be hsse after
the funeral to read the VIA
sOh, he will, Will he,' thought /; but |
conldn't jump cut Of the coffin, though |
tried. He will take the will for the deed
and / never Will employ lawyer Codicile
again.
There are no lawyers where you are GO
ing, something suggested to me; and do
you forget you are deadi you are going to
be buried.
Go on SAID the son of an undertaken.
Out came the procession in ciCaks, and
he Yves raging them in order, two and
Two. Isaw the pharaphernslia, hat-bands
ETC., blown by the wind as we got o',t OF
doors, but couldn't feel q breath of it
| have no breath in my body, thought l.,
and therefore tho air will have no sympa-
thy with me; l shall never feel it again
Then all the men about me looked the
nacst solid substances ever beheld; they
had been all the morning real beef.eatets.
They showed me into the hearse. ] was
sensible of the Gfst SLOW nsotioa--then
that was quite dead-ia fact, fell fast
asleep; and when awoke they told me
was better-and the good seFgeon was feel
ing my pulse, and did LOOK jocund, and /
foSgave him. BUTT was sometime before
] could reconcile myaelfto the sight of any
relatives, who had put on hilarious look
as they struck against my bursa. Though
| knew perfectly that was then alive,
had at first confused notion an If l were
two persons, one dead and one alive; and
then, then that the living and the dead
were at issue, and had . lawsuit, and that
the living had decision of the court OF
chancery in my favor-that my dead self
was outlawed for contempt Of court, and
that the court below had issued an 'habeas
corpus against him. He was condemned
in costs. The surgeon was plainly meta
morphosed before my face, into lawyer
Codicll. insisted upon discharging his
bill; he told his clerk to make it out; and
then behind him, with his pen in his hand,
saw the aforesaid son Of an undertaken,
who asked him if he should take no more
than forty per cent
will not attempt to run through an
hundreth part of the detail of the wander
ings Of those two days and nights, scenes
various in character, but in all of which,
in one shape or another, this for,y per CEN
tage was my persecutor. But, whileI am
on the subject of this mental delusion dur
ing illness, / will just mention two dreams,
the effects Of laudanum, which do not re-
collect that had ever taken before.
1t is utterly inconceivable 10 one awake,
and as he trusts in his senses, how such
an idea could ever enter into a sick brain.
| thought my head was forest; that there
was 6Gttge IN it; there were plenty of
birds and of sportsmen in it.; shots were
fred, and brace Of cartridges fell right
through my eyes to my feet. The shots
were suggested only by the slaming of |
door.
The other dream was more painful. To
understand which it must be told that
had suffered under acute inflammation, and |
it had been found necessary to apply a |
mustard plaster. Aud here cannot but |
remember my own simplicity, for when my
medical friend, good creature-and he was |
really my friend, and | ought to be thank
full to him that am able to write this
when, say, he told me that might keep
on the said mustardsplaster, if pleased,
till saw him next day. l,who had enjoy.
ed such good health that had never had
such thing in my life, and knew not what
a mustard-plaster was, said, in the limo.
cence of my heart, that to oblige him,
would keep it on for week if he wished
it. But, oh! fortunes, all that ever were
or ever will be, are centered in that thing
called musard-plaster! One hour was