The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1847-06-18

| haint got no ant, what you call it


haint got no ant, what you call it
no how
q mean, you appear TO have dis
like to that part of the country
wall, it would seem so to mar
oh a boss, to hear me cuSs at it; and
now Pm cooled off a little, can
open my tater-smasher. feels al
nifty stirred up into a glorifcation
at leavin' that hole. Why, stranger,
it amt no country at all!-no one
who's seed it ever said it wus.
haint no KILN dislike to the place,
but when the country is to be cuss'd,
! l'll be planted for taters, eff doesn't
have my share of doin' ftp
SIS it not good growing country p
'Gr0win', did you say? why thar's
the thing, stranger. It's growin'
meaner every day. The ager grows
thar, rot it and it amt gone to seed
yet! Why, the darn'd shakes didn't
leave ne till got tw twenty-five miles
and 3 quarters from Frog Pond
Plant-i-ation and the last one was
orfully hard and airthquakisbly pes
terinG, that had to hold my britch-
es with both hands to keep 'em from
tumblin' off on me.'
And this induced you to leave
home? p
'Pmty much that, stranger. Yon
must know haint got no children,
wife, mar family, but my yaIer dog
thar, Snake, and him, and me, and
another black puppy that sellcd
atore | started, was the only people
that lived right down in the Plant-i-
alton, and it was nifty lonesome of
nights. | got my broughtin' up two
miles from thar and traded in coon
skins, ginseng and beeSwax. Well,
coons got nifty skace round, and I'd
had my eye on this 'ere place long
afore. So builds a cabin, packs
up and SquatS. Well, it wus a love-
ly looking place for coons, mister,
and thort on making my everlast-
in fortin'. But ! thort id lie. |
guess! The fust night took Snake
out, and went a coonin' down in the
bottom. 1t was as dark as a mig
gers hide, so thar warn't much
chance of fndin' the critters nap
pin. Howsomever, by'm bye Snake
smclt one of the varmintS, shook his
skillet-handle, and shyed off artcr it,
and ] arter him. Purity soon hear'n
Snake spittin' out like ali thunder
jest near at hand. He had freed the
critter, and | got stick to twist
him out; but it warut no go-the
varmint wouldn't be twisted: so |
cIawed up an amazin' lot Of brush,
struck light, and sot it on fire.
AFTER awhile it got as lot as HI +
and the varmint thort it time to make
for higher timber. Purity soon he
put his scalp out on a hole and Jump
ed; but Snake wus down on him
like an arm-full of briars, and gin
him shake that made his grinders
rattle. | tied him and struck bee
line for the cabin. lie felt nifty
slick like-jest as eff he'd bin souscd /.
in a kittlc of solt-soap-and shook
like he'd young airthluake ogrow-
in in him. When I'd got home, |
drawcd the erittcr close 10 the fire
to take squirt at him. Oh, sweat. .
what sigAtn he hadn't har on
him! His skin was smoother nor
mine, stranger; and he shook like
he was skcered to death. Wall, to
bring the matter to pint, stranger,
| kept that 'ar varmint three days,
to see what WIS the matter with him,
and eff he didn't have the aver, may
| be shot It's fact mister: and
he shook all on his har out with the
Internal pest. | tell you, | saw two
on his grinders fly out, when he was
adoin' his purtiest! sot it down
that this warn't no place for me, as
| halnt no chawerS to spare, nor har
nuther; so | ups and puts-and here
| am, mister, a putin dirt between
me and that ar Plant alton; and
feels for all the world as ef was
gwinc to a weddin', and | wus to be
!
AMI Sal 10 mo a bic huss gin
An nag To carry NV ,oh ,ckrr int
We soon entered a small village,
and ] did not come across this oddi-
ty again until after supper, when |
saw him in crowd surrounding a
pedlar's wagon, handling the differ
ent articles exposed for sale.
'What do You AK fur this ere frog
,ticker, mister? said he, handling
one Of the knives. |;
'One dollar replied the vender.
The Sucker gave a low whistle
Of establishment, and said Il tell
you what I'll 90 with you, mister:
Eve got q nifty nice shoolin' iron III |
'eIl you cheap, eff you'll throw that
Knife in 5