The Mississippi lynx. (Panola, Miss.) 1846-18??, 1846-06-13
BARNEY sOXMAN AND THE EVIL
ONE.
BY SAM SLICK

SOuIu CdTOilHd, lLldl Illu q III &c lOi 'lh
and only darter.-She was a wilder, 4
miser, and a Drunken. She was very
good and very cross, as many righteous
folks are, and had loose tongue and
tight purse Of her own. All the men
that looked at her darter she thought
had an eye on her money, and she
warn't far out Of the way mother, for
it seems as if beauty.an money was
too much together in a general way.
Rich gals and handsome gals are sell
dom good for not him else but their cash
or their looks. Pears and peaches amt
/ often found on the same tree, tell you.
She lived all alone almost, with nobody
but her darter in the house, and some
old niger slaves in hut near at hand;
and she seed no company she could
help. The only place they went to in
general way, was meetin', and Jeru-
sha never missed that, for it was the
only chance she had sometimes 10 get
out alone.
Barney Oman had most beautiful
voice, and always went there, too, to
sing along with the gals; and Barney
hearin' Of the for tin Of Rusty, made
up to her as fierce as possible, and sung
so sweet, and kissed so sweet, that he
stood number one with the helress.
But then he didn't often get a chance
to walk up with her, and when he did,
she didn't let him come in for fear of
the old woman; but Barney warn't to
be put off in that way long. When a
gal is in one pastur', and lover in
another, it's high fence they can't get
over, that's fact.
81 tell you what" says Barney, "sit
4 up alone in the keepin' room, Rusty
I dear, arier Old mother has gone to bed
put out the light, and I'll slide down on
the rope from the trap door on the roof.
Tell her you are exercised in your
mind, and want TO nenditate alone, as
the words YOU have heard this day have
reached your heart
Jerusha was frightened to death al
most, but what wont woman do when
a lover is in the way? So that very
night she told the old woman she was
exercised in her mind, and would wres
tie with the spirit.
do DEAR" said her mother, "and you
wont think Of the vanitieS Of dress anC
idle company no more. You see | have
given them all up since | made PROBES
sion, and never SO much as speak o
them now, no, nor even to think o
them"
Well, the house was a fat-roolet
house, and a trap door in the ceilin
over the keepin' room, and there wa
a crane on the roof with a rope 10 il
to pull up things to spread TO dry there
As soon as the lights were all put oul
and Barney thought the old woman wa
>, asleep, he crawls upon the house, AM
= opens the trap door, and lets himseI
down by the rope, and he and Jerush
q set down on the hearth in the Gimme
re corner courtn', or, as they call it j
! them diggins, "snufin ashes" Whe
81 daylight begun TO show, he went n
ut the rope hand and hand, and he haule
IF it up after him and closed the trap dooI
i and made himself scarce.
Well, all this went on slick as coul
be for while, but the old woman see
- that her darter looked pale as if sh
hadn't had sleep enough, and there We
no getln' Of her up in the morn!n'; an
at when she did get up she was yawnil
n and gapin' and so dull she had not
n word TO say.
r, She got very uneasy about it at las
ps and used TO get up in the night SOM
$; times. and call her darter, and max
= her 90 off to bed; and once or twlc
n came very near catching Of them. )
IL what does Barney do, but takes tw
IL niooers with him when he goes arte
y that, and leaves them on the roof, an
o. rastens a large basket 10 the rope, an
: told them if they felt the rope pulled,
I'd hoist FOR dear life, but not to speak
word for the world. Well, one nigh
the old woman came TO the door as U
ual, and sails
aJerusha," says she, "what on ear
ais YOU, to make you set up all mig
81 that way: do come 10 bed-thats
tn dear"
Id "Presently, marm," sais she, Il