Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-02-21

III naQ nOtnln III tue yedTlH Dut SHldll
fancy penknife, but stuck that in him So
quick that he let me 60, and while he
swum TO one snag ,Seached fur another.
| never heerd a rlaff out loud alore,
but I'm sucker eff he didn't Singer twice
at the way he rolled me off my log.
We'd sot looking at one another for a
spell, when seed the varmlnt gittin' ready
to call on me again, and in about second
more off he dropped, and strait he took a
shute for my location. As he came up
close to me slit his ear with small
blade and he got mad; but jest us he was
+ circling round me to get a good hold, i
dropped on to his hinder eend and grab
bed his har, my little blade KEEP hm
dreadful itchy Well, the fun Of the thing
wur, boys, as soon as the varmint teched
shore, he turned right round on me, and
I'm cussed if hadn't to turn round, too,
and scratch fur the snag agin! with that
consarned bar leein' my legs with his
paw every stroke was maxim 20 get a.
way from hun! got little skary, now,
and good deal mad, fur thar the var
mint war watin' fur me, and whinin'
as eff he had been il-treated, and war
perched up on q sawyer, boggin' up and
down in the water At last | sot hol-
lerin' and kept on at it, holered louder,
until seed some one cum from the house,
and singin' out agin they answered me.
| asked who it war, and found that it war
, Molly, old Alc's dar:er; so | gin her a
description of my siteayton, and she war
into dugout in mint, and paddlin' to-
wards me. believe | said wonce, boys,
that bars wur KNOWN creaturs, but Ell
thar's any,hin' true in this yearth, it's
l the fact, that this consumed animal had
made up his mind to upset that gal, and
Pm blessed eff he didn't jest as cute as eff
he'd bin human! Startin' from his snag
he swan to the dug-out, put up both paws,
and over it wenl.-over went Molly into
the stream, aud off slid Mr.. bar, latin out
loud! as Pm white man.
seized Molly as she came noatin' to-
!, wards me and stuck her upon my sawyer,
while started for an adjoining snag.
could hear Molly griffin her teeth, she
+, was SO bilin' mad, and jest as soon as she
could git breath she holIered to me to be
sure never rested till killed that var
mint. swore on that snag that I'd grow
thin chasin' the critter, and she seemed
to git pacifed. Well, thar we wur, in
the stream, and it IeetIe too rough to
swim in easy, so we had TO sing out fur
help, and yelled till war nigh onto
hoarse afore anythin' livin' stirred about
the house; at last niger Jake came down
to the edge Of the river, jest as day was
breakin' and putin his hand over his
eyes he hollers--
"Why, Massa Dan, is dat you wot's
been hollowin' eber SO long for some
body?"
"You've jest took The notion TO cum and
see, have you, you lazy niger Now
git dug-out and come out here and git
your missus and me off these snags, and
do tquick, too, or I'll make you holler!"
"What, Missus dar, too!' shouted the
niger, swell, OATS lunny-de Lorw and
off the cussed blueskin started fur the
house, and in few minutes all that
could, gethered out to see us and laugh at
our water locations.
\ had bin gittin' rled by degrees, and
now was at dangerous pint-the steam
began TO rise off on me till thar wur a
small fog above my head, and as the half
drunken varmints roared laffin', and
cracked their Jokes about our courtin' in
the middle of the drink, got awful ex.
cited. Gill make ribbons Of every man
among you," says |. when git whar
thar's chance to fight" And then the
cussed crew roared louder. Tom Sellers
yelled out that we'd bin tryin' to elope,
and this made Molly mad,-- her daddy
got little mad, too, and | bein' already
mad, thar wur wrathy trio on US, and
the old Teller SAID, ef he thought I'd bin
Iplayin' a two-faced game, and bltn' his
friendship like pizen varmlnt, he'd drop
me of'the log wur on with ball from
his rife. | jest told him to fire away and
be id, fur wur wore out patience.
Some Of the boys held him while others
got the dug out and came to our assistance.
| jest got them to drop me on my side o
the river, and TO send over my rifle, and
as soon as it war on hand Embossed my
dog Yelp, and started to wipe out my dis
grace,
That nfarnal bar, as soon as he'd tossed
Molly in the stream, started Tor the
woods; but, as ef he had reasoned on the
chances, the varmnt came to the conclu-
sion that he couldn't git away, and SO,
got into q crotch Of low tree about u
quar.er OF mile from my cabin. Old
Yelp smelled him, and as soon as clapped
pepper on him let silver, when the var
mint dropped like log,--l went to him
and found he'd bin dead for an hour, NY
little blade couldn't killed him, so us