Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1846-07-11
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placed within it. In a few minutes ots n
the most athletic looking riders appeared In
knit garments fitting closely TO his fine. m,a.
ctlar form, md was introduced to tho an.
diencc rs Nr. Sands, who was about r.
perform some surprising RymDasfc fats.
~ hope he won't hing himself said fbs
old lady, looking earnestly nj bis splendid
bgnre' hes TOO handsome, and there's been
onaf Of that jimnasty now
"bht Mr.. Sands after n few preliminary
performances, 10 assure himselrthat be yvs.
all right, relieved tho good wotpan'q appre
pensions by setting himself into q snrt &c
rotary motion in the mir, like d human wind
lnlll: cosnted twenty-nine ortbese str.
pfising igrial revolutions, and then trrned
away, 90 the spectacle grew patpfJ.
"heH KIT himael,' said nv egeitabIa
nelghhor, why don't they take him awov9
stop hlnF she sereafued. he can't sion
%himseltl Why don't you catch hold orbfs
legs ard arms, sotne Of yo17 feo,Id b0J
him myself If was thar and the sytona
thizIng creature rose on her Gaef and s,d.J
cSPostalating with the hearless audiences
sotne seconds before the performance ceas,
ed; when It did, there WINS u great deal 6r
confusion for a few moments, aDd then .
shrewd ncighbor, who understood. tic co.,s
tf1tional inGrmities Of Old nun G.
remarked to him.
wen, Mr.. c., for Yankee how.
that was pretty Eily done oh p ~
"Oh, ] reckon it'll pass amoag ya,tesa
b't u = no account among us. When We
was IN the army, we used to do that every
day, and we had some feflerg who Womb
t1rn Them sorncrsets sixty.feet RIGHT M a
tree + 60 ""
What, branches and all =,
NO; we cut away the braehea oCsorus
Of the trees round the camp, q purpose 10
have en- ready. Its no account IL il ,Lst
A right srnaft man would turn cigbtv 80
ninety without stoppin' to breathe. fhat Ccl.
low, now u n putin like Il bent horse
Yes, he doris beats little quicker. ~.
true, but We think he has done veil,
oh, it's right for you that never scs
anything better to think so. but I've rot
smarter blood than that myself
" 'Ahi how T.
MY grandfather fit the British undor
Bcgyne, thar in Old Vfrqjpuv. and ,ybcn
orders was give Tor every man to take care
OF himself he took II ~knapsack from q FILLER
That was dead close by him, and put Il ON
hisn, and started. jest us he poi 10 the fen.
CO., q powerful, big, old Niger. that ba
know'd n long time, hoTlered fo him Cor
help, Tor both his legs was broke by q ran
noh-ball, md he allowed the Indians n
scalp hfin If they got hold on him. M the
old icller Just throwgbim oyer the two khan.
sacks, and Jumps the fence. But the British
was mos. on his heels whom he cleared n
ne retreatedG fccn miles in sirfcen minutes.
ana then be come % the raee.way ola mil
eighteen feet wide; that he jumped, and tho
brush halted on the other side Cgr 4 raft
and 20 be got away
with the two knapsacks and The b1ack
man 2 said the listener.
Yes, and the next day they weighed
en- al, and what do you reckon thew an
made p ."
" Two hundred pounds =
Two hundred I The knapsacks weigh.
ed eighty q piece and the old man WEIGHED
two hundred and fifty without his Ieos, G,r
they cnt EN- off before they weighed him,
" Indeed {! your grandfather must have
been Il very powerful man. 10 retreat a. 70.
pldiy under such an immense bnrben.,
Yes, he was a right smart old G,ller.
but I've seen younger men that could do
more than that 2
" All and who were thev7'
"'Why, amt Of much account for a man
TO Drag Of himself but I've done better
tint ar ~ my IS time (whippfnp
his boot y b hi whip more vehemently fhan
ever. When | was with Gen. n, re-
We wanted to make forced march once,
when the roads was mighty bad, and tbe
streams all in a fresh. 50 the general Ia
to NE IN the mornin' and said he cal.
Hated Fdte the best MN 10 90 ahead. for r.
anybody could do i'll could: and the man
hollow me better than any other man
50 Jest to oblge him | started on. and toll
he boys to come, f I'd clar the road far'em
went on till after night, and it erowed
% cold, we thought everything would freezs
ip anyhow. At last we come to a stream
hat had risa right smart sence mo,ning
md icit the ice under water; / halted here
Ind waited for the gineral to come and ;,
.nIt with him afore / tried It. We wa ted
N hour, and at last the rare-euard coroo
told the gineral that I reckoned we bottor
rot try it that night, but be said he wanted
0 git over; and he allowed | could gff tbo
'oys TO follow. Sol never waited far him
0 try it agin, but | put right in, and g,vnn
horse through, and broke the ice all nc
Yay. When | got on tother side. + fotad
1uF or five old trees to the water. and laid
m across myself cause you see the stream
narrow, though it was right deem.
" At last they all got across, and then
marched five miles afore the pfneraI
,ould let as camp. When we come n fLa
lace, started to git ofro' nv bor-e. arJ
stir. | was froze fast to the sad5T.
was growing colder and colder. andI
.dnt know what | should do. Some offhs
oys allowed they could warm some wafar
I'd set still, and thaw me 40. So tbar
to building fires, but / didn't want II
there and wait; and, at last give a MICH
spring that LIED the horse right off h.
et' and when he come down, the ice crack
! all around, and get loose
=" You must have been sick after If , s.;5
g listener, and so lost the battle the inert
~,
Z" Not a bit oft. I never was ba,,e-
an was the next day; and I'll tell Won
hat ] did. | had a boy to load me e.
while ne was doing It, lift the indians
It'll a Ratchet. / shot twenty.one. ard
but here a surge Of the retiring mail.