The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-12-15

W ~ hIH most pertlckler T. uslcal. Go il old
Bumper, says I-speak to him, Eeho!-and
they did speak tohim, | swan. And SIGH mu-
sic:! Tom Coins fiddle and my SAILS sinain,
and all the camp meeIin halleluiahs you ever
hearn, warnt a patehin to it. Oh! man, but il
was some. Bot it wasn't no time before the
barking critters began to PLAY another tune.
and the lust thing | spied was they all comm
tearin like flinders through the cane right
plumb sock whar | stood, and the bar, drot
his Plctur! close at Their tails, putin and blow
IN like a young steamboat, with his eyes shot
close together, and mis- har all turned the wrong
way? Whew! wasn't | mad! | haint been
so rIled afore since parstn James preacI ed
my best sermon down at Ddley's Post Office.
md when | 'tacded him about It, swanned il
was his'n. My dander wns mp, ! tell YOU, and
my har stood straight out like the brs,Ies on
a tom cat, when he's kinder techy. let YOU
know | was dangerous then, and it wouldn't
r done for one o. them are Co,e boys to cross
my path ! was wrathy, you may know, an |
fotch a jump up in the fork of a dogwoud sap
lin bout ten foot high, jest to have a good
sight at him-Skeered? Was that you, Nose
Bonny, said sketred?' Oh! the bar was
skeered? Well, he warn't nothih' shorter,
and ii you'd seen him when | blazed away al
him with both barrels, tight plump slap in the
conntennnce, you'd opinionated he was gwln,
to kingdom come quicker than my Sal can
tote a somerset. What? Didn't he oil and
wabbIe and play kerwollnp 'mong those al
canes and briurs? lie hadn't no more use 70.
his feet nor a toad has for a side pocket. But
he dlt'nt lay thar long fore the dogs gan to
chaw at his hide and kinder tickle the hind
sights Of the vOrmint, and the %crittur, seem
MS how 'twouldn't do to play possum no lon.
ger, gin to grabble about for his walkers; and
when he seed he wasn't perzackly dead, he
sorter picked himself up simultaneously like
and toted off though the cane, like huiuns
Cracky il he didn't travel? Talk about you
railroads aud your telegraphs! They aint {
circumstance. Away he went. Wait fol
the Vaughn, says |; but the varmint though
%'twarn't 10 time for swapin' knives, SO on he
mizzled. Go it steamboat!' SEE |, and me
and the dogs up aud follered. But he hadn't
run fur atore his hi ers gin to git sorter kinder
hot, and the lust thing | discovered, he fotch up
kcrlumpus down in the water in Coles creek.
When cum up, knowed T! had HIM, for he wa:
circumsurrounditied, by the dogs, and his hint
paris kerslap up ugin the tallest kinder bank
You sec, then, | could afford to be perlite ,
few, so | takes off my coouskin cap, and kin
der scraped my foot, and bowed somewhat a
min. Sell Good mornin', Mister Bar. How
did YOU leave Misses Bar and all the little Bars
Iakin' n bath, | diski0er' with your breechet
on!' He admit pay no %'tention to what | wal
sayin', but looked kinder glum; so Itiled VI
and begin to show mad q circumstance. Sc;
|, tYou look hearty, Mister Bar. Good Twin
up in jim Stewards punkin patch, | 'spose?
Then he begin to turn his head side ways ant
look at me pertickler queer, like he smelt wha
l was lHllkll5 'uuut' 1 W~d t1ll SOU1 ~
thought I'd harry his feelius little specI
afore | made bacon Of him. SEE to him, SCI
|, 'the lie what's in your hide would slick tn,
har of all the gals in our neck o. woods I'll
the cows come home. You carry's a most to-
much dead capital in that ar skin of yourn
any how and il it's the same to you, I'll jis
peel the bark ofTn you, and learn you the ru
diments Of pe%rlitical economy And, SEE
to him, { Mr. Barr SEE !, s the tail of your jack
ct is a triAe too short for cold weather, and
Teller might kalkerlate the tailor that made you
coat was an idee sparein with his CLOTH Sc
l.. At that he got most alfred ugly, an,
pitched himself up sorter permiscuousIy, he be
gin rarein an rampugin; and arter awhile, h
cum at mo on all fours, a rppin and a tearin
View! wasn't skeered! The cane was 8
thick he couldn't gil away without comm RICH
by where | stood so when he got agin me,
grabbed him-I wont say w%har-then we ha
it, up and down; first one and then tother
who should and who shouldn't; first one o
top and then tother on the bottom and SIGH
fight you never did see!'
Hero Mike, rolling in his jaws his huge qui
Of tobacco, picked up his coonskin cap an
was about to retire. 'But, Uncle Mike
=, q~ueried Nose, : which one holIer'd 'nuflN
'Why, you see,' said Mike, 'he was tn
4 most tarnationest, rampagin bar ever you Sc,
The bars down on Big Black amt none OF 'eI
primin to him. Thar we had it; up and down
Q nip and tuck who should and who shouldn
till you'd er though: the very yeorth a conn
D to an eend-'
but, Uncle Nike again chimod Mos
Q which whippedN
d tWhy,' said Mike, tho cane was mons'
i thick, and thar we had it, fust one and the
e tothernip and tuck, pull Dick, pull Devil and
and ifyou will have it, | got all fired tired, az
/. list slid down into the creek and dU out OF II
n vprmint's way, or Pm blow'd if we hadn
fout plumb on to christmas2 Come, boys, let
Iicker.'