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


on that stream, and SIGH other dancin'
and eatn' bar steaks, and corn dodger,
and huggn' the gals, Don't happen but
once in lellar's lifetime ard scarcely
that often.
Old A!ic h ad a darter Molly that war
the most enticin', gizzard ticklin', heart
dstressin' feline creature that ever made
felar git owdacious, and | seed Tom
Sellers cavortin' round her like young
buflaIo-puttn' in the biggest kind llcks
in the way Of courtin,' and betweeN her
eyes and the sweetened whiskey he'd
drunk, you'd thought the (cIar would a
busted. Jest TO make matters lively, /
headed up alongside OF Molly, and shyed
a few soft things at her, seech as askin'
how she liked bar steaks cooked, and if
Jim Tarrant war'nt equal IN the elbow to
a mad panter's tail, when he war fdlin'
that last reel, and sech amusin' light con-
versation, Well, boys, Tom started swell
I'M inStanter. lie tried to draw her at
tentlon from me but | got to talkin' about
sum new Improvements war contempla-
TIM bout my cabin, and the COW 'spected
up from st. Louis, sides the lonely feel
ms I'd bin havin' lately, and Tom couldn't
git in show of talk, edgeways. Didn't
he git mad? wur you ever near enough TO
a painter when his lar riz with wrath?
Well, eff you have you can create some
idee of Toms State o(mlnd, and how cleo,
tllcity from liquor and love, run out to the
eends Of his head kiverin.' 1t wur easy
to see he wur gittin' dangerous, so | slid
off and left him alone with the gal. Ar
ter got TO talkin' with another one of
settlers young women, Molly kept lookin'
at me, and every now and then sayin'
somethin' peasn' across to me, while she
war'nt payin' any attention to Tom at all.
He spread himself into stiff bow and left
her; then movin' across the floor like n
wounded deer be steaded hmsef on the
back of my seat, and lookin' me in the
face, says sinister Elkhorn, shud be
strenuously obeeged to you eff you'll step
down thar with me by the old persimmen
tree"
| nodded my head, and told him TO trot
outside and wait until got the DOCUMENTS
and as soon as he moved, | sent his old
daddy TO accompany him. | jest informed
the old tellar that Tom wanted a fight,
and as he was too full of corn juice to
cut carefully, | didn't want TO take ad-
vantage of him. The old man said he
was obleeged to me, and moved out.
Tom, thinkin' it wur me staggered ahead
of the old man, and concluded, as it war
near mornin,' to leave; cause | know'd
when Tom found out his daddy was a
long with him stead Of me, he'd have a
fight any how ! acknowledge the corn,
boys, that when started my track war'nt
anythin' like a bee line THE sweetened
hiskey had made ne powerful thick
legged; but arter fashion got TO my
dug-out, with nothin' Of weapon along in
the world but the paddle. Thar war jest
enough light TO tell snags were plenty,
and jest enough corn juice inside to make
felIar moi care cuss for 'em. | felt
strong as a boss, too, and the dug.out
hadn't eaped moren six lengths from the
bank afore-zip-chug--co, | vent
the front eend jest lifted itself agin saw
yer and emptied me into the element! In
about a second | came up bang agln a
snag, and | guess grabbed it sudden
while old Missouri curled and purled a.
round me, as eff she war in hurry to
git to the mout h so she might muddy the
Mississippi war'nt much skeered, but
still didn't jest like to hang on thar till
daylight, and didn't want to make fuss
for fear they would say war skeery.
| had sot myself on the eend of the snag
and war jest tryin to cypher out some way
Of gittn TO shore, when | thought ! dis
kivered a felIar sittin' ON the bank. Al
lust, he looked so black in the coat !
thought it war Tom Sellers, who'd sot
himself down to wait for fight Tom
had On at the frolic black blanket coat
with velvet collar, and he thought il
particularly nice. AFTER lookin' at him
move about and sit down on his hunkers
once or twice, thought Id boiler to him:
but he appeared SO dreadful drunk didn't
expect much he p from him.
"Tom," shouted |, scum out here with
dug out, and help a fellar off, will your
He sot still without sayin' a word.
"Well," says to him, "you're meaner
than an Ingn! and would bait trap
with your daddy's leggins." He didn't
move or spell; at last into the drink he
popped, and now, thought he is mad and
no dispute. could see him padlln' rite
fur me, and hoIer'd to him that ! had
no instruments, but he didn't say whisper
only showed along the faster. At last,
up he cum agn my snag, and the next
mint he reached fur me, and then he
tried to fix his teeth into my moccasln; so
uuessin' il war time to do sumthin,' | Jest
Grabbed for his muzzle, and I'm blessed