Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1845-04-10


he, Rise boys!-l've got him!- Durn
my skin if hain't!' And sure enough
there was somethin' houncin'and slosh-
in and maxim devil ola confederation
at the eend of his lire. Jess hesprung
up and got long stick with hook at
one eend, and retched out and cotcht
the line and tried to pull it in; but the
thing on the hook gave iirt, and the
stick bein' a leetle to short, which
made him step forward; in he fell!-
He shufiied out tho tolloble quicl;, and
says he, 'boys, he's whaler!-cuss my
etarnul buttons if he amt the rise of
sixty pounds!-Old Biggs may go a.
way noao with his forty pound cats, he
emit shine no wayn When ! heerd
that boys, /
when you heerd it, exclaimed all.
"Yes!-me;' said Biggs, laughingly;
didn't tell that before? Well, Il ough-
ter done it, but forgot. DIN it, We'll
take drink on that any way" and so
he did.
$50 twas you instid o. the Divil, he
cotchedt' observed jim Waters, appa-
rent'y much relieved by the DISCLOSURE.
sJist SO; and the way it vast seed
the rascals as they were comm here,
and knowed what they were arter. So
when nigh. comes, slips down the
roover bank, mighty easy and nice,
/ twe!l | could see in the campfire
But thar was dogs along, and was a.
fraid TO venture up that way. See,
was AFTER stealin' their fish, they'd
cotched thro' the day, which l knowd
in reason they'd have string on 'em
in the water at the kunnoe landin' to
keep fresh. Well, SEEM of the dog l
'cluded I'd tack the inlmy by water,
instid O. land. So with that took the
roover about thirty yards above here,
and, sure enough finds the string OF
fish Just whar knowed the'd be; and
then I starts to swim down the rooyer
little ways, and get out below, and
go TO Jerry Whites and tell him the
joke. Boys, amt you all Citing nigh
! ty dry | am
And Daddy Biggs drank again!
sWeiI, boys, jist as got whar that
blasted hook was, not thlnkln' OF
nothin' but the fun, the cussed thing
ketcht in one thigh of my overhauls
and brought me up short. | tried the
cussedest ever a fellow did to get
loose, and couldn't! I had no knife,
and thar l few round, and pulled first
forard and then backards, and reared
and pitched and made the water bile.
Fact boys, | was ''hitched to swing
lng' lmib,' and no mistake. Once or
twice got on the top O. the sugar-loaf
rock, and je- e-est about the time I'd got
to unite the rope of line, the blasted
rock was so slippery, of I'd slounch!
Fact boys!-And it aggravated me;
it aggravated me smartly-so it did!
EfI'd "a had liquor then, I'd a took
some, l was so id mad! Well in
this time, that long-legged cuss, Jess
Cole, wakes up, as l telPd you, and
hollees out the way | norated. Boys,
what do you all say to another drink! -
1t makes me so cussed mad every time
| think bout it!'
Once more Daddy Biggs looks a,
the stars!
soon as Jess said that about his
cat hein' bigger'n mine, I said in my
mind, 'Pll whip you, certin!' Well
they all kept most terribly holIerin',
and every now and then, some on ZEN
would throw a long log o. wood as
they had cut fer fire, as nigh at me as
they could guess to stunt the cat, you
see; but the branches of the tree favor
ed me nightly in keepin' EN- of-tho
they strike pretty close by me 'caslon'
ally, ca-junk! strikin' eend foremost
YOU see. SO they kept up right
; smart THROWN o logs, and me RICH
peart dodgin', for some time; and tel
you, it took raal nice judgment to KEEP
the internal hook outen my meat; i
Grained the skin several times,as twas
Atlast Jess he climbs into the tree ant
gifts on the limb right over me, ano
SAYS he, 'boysI believe hits a muo
turllle, for see somethin'llke the form
o. one right under me- Thinks,
uouW find it one O. the snGppif' sort,
nudge. Then another one ses, thar's
way to try that, Jess, efyou see HIM
a - ho,ds less a oip. Now ses
he, gig him.
GIG THE DEvIL!' ses /, fer l acas
pestered!#
aGreat Heavens squallec Jess
;shit's the Devil and down he tumblee
right top O. me' / thought | was
busted open from one eend to 'tother!-
Sure enough tho ! warnt but onl,