The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1845-04-19

RIPLEY mis-
He saw the congregation come out Of the
church and scatter hither and thither like sheep
without shepherd, yet he darest not leave the
apple tree, because there was-not lion-but
. bull in the way!
The congregation were At lasei fairly tired out.
Two hours had they waited, and no pafson
came. The sexton Jeff of tolling the bell, and
indeed II was quite time, for he had nearly
worn the rope Off The people all came out Of
the church. having, after two hours debating
upon the matter, came to the conclusion that
there would be no sermon, and that there was
a good ground for alarm a. to the fate Of the
minister. They then sent off parties east. west.
north and south to explore the country, and
presently ichabod discovered crowd advaac.
ing along the road headed by the Deacon and
Sexton. Ichabod mustered up II tha sirsasth
lot bic lungs And bawlsd out 20 them IKE eevsn
|watchmen upon tower. The whols party came
10 halt and gazed around with astonishinent
and fear; At length they sp ed something snugly
posted IN the apple tree; they took il at first for
q huge black turkey cock, but on . nearer ap.
proach they found It TO be no other than the
Reverend Parson!
Now the bull just at that moment happened
TO be paving and snufing with hs nose to the
ground on the other side oft tree. so that b.
was hidden from the party BY thorn bush al
i,s foot. The people seeing Ichabod petched
on high IN that same manner, were struck dumb
with amazemenis. Was the poor man be.
wiched! or run mad, or what had possessed
him to spend the afternoon dangling like scase
crow an the boUgh of an apple tree, instead Of
holding forth cody discourse in the pulpit
For some moments no one dared advance step
farther or speak single word. Al last Bill
Muggs the sexton, plucked up courage and
advanced 10 the stone wall. He was old sailor,
who, within q few years had taken his land tacks
aboard and settled himself up in the bushes; he
took up the trade of sexton because il con.
sisted in pulling rope. On this occasion he
undertook to De spokesman of the party, for the
Deacon was absolutely frightened. Bill put h,s
head over the wall, cIapped his hand up to the
corner OF hrs mouth, and sung out
,Parson ahoy!'
Ichabod lifted up his voice. like an owl in the
Blast your eye-balls,' said Bill, clawing a
huge quid of tobacco out of his mouth and
throwing j, slap upon the ground why don't you
save YOURSELF
i cant, can't said Ichabod. Drive him
away-drive him away.
BY this time some Of the party, and the Dea-
con among the rest, had got over the wall, and
were advancing towards the tree staring and
wondering TO hear the pareon talk in such 20
unaccounlable manner. @
J. .C,oneA down. come dn,rn., aid 4he Deasent
What have you been doing al the afternoon in
Col. Nhute's orchard!'
.Ay, ay,' said Bill, 'what are you about there
alott without your hat and shoes!-looking for
all the world like starved monkey citing on
lee backstay!' i
At this moment the party had nearly came up
10 the tree. Look out! cried lcbabod. He's
coming! They had no time to ask who Il was
that was coming; for before they were fairly
out Of his mouth, they heard furious below.
and bounce, in an instant the bull was among
them! Heavens! what scampering! The
whole squad took fight quicker than fiock
Of wild ducks on hearing shot--The deacon
lost his ha. and wig and Capt. Burberry ran
out of his boots, which were too large for him.
Divers other accidents happened. Tne great.
es. ca,astrophes were those Of Squire Snake.
root and Lieutenant Darling. The Squire, be.
inp pursey and short winded, was soon overta-
ken by the bull, and received tremendous butt
in the rear and famed him SO that he could not
ali down with out double cushing for fort.
night. The bull after knocking him over. ran
of after the others, and othe Squire made
shift to climb up into the tree and take sides
with the parson.
The Lieutenant's was more frightful case.-l
He was short, fat, thick set, duck legged TEL.
low, and happened to be dressed IN par o.
stout old fashined leather breeches. Inc QUIZ
having Aooved the Squire, came in the twink
ling Of bed post, right upon the Lieutenant
who was wading olfin double quick time. Tue
bull bit him poke behind, intending to serve
him % he did the Squire, but one OF his horns
catching in the waisiband Of the Lieutenanrs
he was taken of bis legs 10 an
instant and whisked of upon the bull's back
Awav went the bull securing Alter the fugilives'
with the unfortunate Lieutenant dangling y
the waistband, and fairly out Of his wits WIN
terror. HIS cspers 10 the aif were only orougni
10 an end BY the bulls brininging up, butt a.
rainst the stone wall, and pitching the L'euten'
ant completely over into the road.
The rest Of the party got ovefthe wall with
ont any help, and escspsd the fury OF the ant
NAL.
And now commenced . regular Get to. The
party armed themselves with stones and CLUBS
and begun . pitched battle with the BULL for the
|deliverance Of Iohabod. Thumps. bangs. thrust
pokes, and miss,lss Of every description, were
ehowered upon ~ hide Of The furious beast J.