The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1846-10-31
OCTOBER 81, is46.

ION oosrd steamboat, going to Ecore Fs
Iber. You see, thar was a reward o0srs,
10 any body who would take Dick Stewar
ana SO thought | moughI as we'll aaye i
as not
bu' were you not anxious about the re-
su'H This Stewart was, BY all accounts
desperate character, and heard a man ss,
~ Dick Stewart told him TO swim ,b,
"'ssIs''PPl he would have 10 do i!'
i Know stranger, bu. that was the bes
lot 1t. said to myself: Ru' Bell, you ain,
nad 'earIn' down fghl for mighty LONG
time, and here's a smart chance ,o wake
you up But I'll git somebody to 90 along
jest to see fair play like. SO | called m
Gineral PIummer, and ses he. sas J ain,
go' no'hln' TO do jest now, don't care if
Jlne you'-and then | Knocked 10 Raj.
Morgan, and he said as how though he had
'he agur ray'her tall, he reckoned he could
see the 'un ''wix! the shskins So we go,
our pIunder and pu. it in a dug out and
started for The Bio BerIhoIemence as bearn
tell Stewart was in The swamp up tina, way.
When we got TO the swamp, we bruck
through The cane, maxim bee,line for the
n'gger hn' whar | more'n 'specled Dick
Stewar lar'hed | know d all them dggiDs'
well, and thar warn. a trail | hadn', folIer.
Jed from The Mississippi 10 lhe Washlaw; fol
many time I'D hunted bar and sich like
vsrmIn from Rio Mason right across 10 The
BIO Ber'holemee campin' out O. nights and
siarun' fresh next mornin.'
Bot were you not afraid Of The wolves!'
We'll warn't. hoss Wolves can,
skear me nor painters nuiher. The bars
Is wuss nor all lhe other vsrnin nut 10,
goI mighty nasty hug !
lell ye.'
Then you haze been scared by ,hs
bears?'
'WeIl, stranger, 90 confess that corn
once ia lew. But as | was sayin', We
Struck bee-lIne through the cane, aud
oimeby We come In sight of HE liule log,
house, then ses | to the Glneral, 'Glneral.
ses |, you 60 one side and Rafe the other,
and dont you Two do noIhln' onless Dick
'rIes 10 make tracks for the swamp
HeIl, we won't. Ru',' ses the Gineral.
When | seed 'em stand well off, edges
myself 10 big cotton wood tree. al good
shoo!in' distance and hollers out:
Hello house.. and bimeby seed the
door open Iee.le-jesl eelIe, and then
Dick Stewart pu. hls head round lhe colner
Of The door post. AS soon as he seed me
he ses:
'Wha! do you want here, RuY
Il want you, Dick, ses |.
You ainl come to lake met ses he look
n as black as thunder.
We'll, am, boss, ses |, a sort o. quiet
Iikej and here's GineraI PlummeG and Ra(e
Morgan come 10 Sc fair play
You'd bloody sight better clear out
while yoL can.' ses he, for I'm mol gwineI
o be taken alive, tell ye.
Il Car say ses |, i spscted as much sndI
told tie Ginersl so: but I'm ,he man
what's gwins to take you, Dlck-,hs Gin
ral and Rafe won'I do noIhin'. jest TO Oh,
eye me, onless you try TO sreak it,
GO way, Ru', don't ITO hun you, \
es he; look here you see I'm not onpre.
jared.
'Thars fact ses l.; you've got two
lfles, double barrelled shot gun, two pis-
OILS and bowie.kniie: bul it amt no use
loss--you must come
Must comet ses he, gripping his rife
md glt'in' oudsciously savage. Mos
'ome! look here, Ru' faint five men cat
AXE me. nor ten nuIher, and you know il
10 yoa'd better make tracks for the BIZ
mighty quick, or III blow my rifle through
,ou.'
That's all erect enough. Dick ses
ookin' right into his eye all the time, for II
een he was getlin' cslswampous, That's
III erect enough, Dick, but didn't p,ddeI
III the way up the Bio for nothln', and il
Rould't look well for me TO go home wnh-l
'ut you. Besides, sss what would ,he
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