Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1851-04-10

umel Wen, you'll hev To try The OLD var
miut naked | reckn The Bull war on one
side o. the creek and on t'other, aud the
way he made the 'sile' ny for a while, as
if he war a diggn my grave, war distress
int
Come on, We beerin old heaihin, said
/. and don't be a standn' thar; for, as the
old Deacon says o. the devil, yer not come
" 10 look on This kind o reached his
understandin', and made him more wishous,
for he hooied little like, and made
drive And as / don't like to stand in any
body's way, | gin him plenty sea-room
So lie kind o passed by me and come out
on tother side and, as the Captain O the
Mud-Swamp Rangers would say bout
face for mother charge Though ] war
ready for i'm this time, he CAME mighty
nigh runnin' foul % me. So made up my
mind the next time he went out ne wouldn't
be alone. SO when he passed, grappled
his tail, and he pulld me ont on The sile,'
and as soon as we war both top o. the
bank old brindle stopp'd and war about
comm round agin when | begin pull'n
rother way. Well, | reck'n this kind o
ria him. for be fust stood stock still and
look'd at me for spell, and then COM
menc'd PAWN and bellerlu, and the way he
made his hind geariu' play in the air war
/ beautiful But 1t warn'I no use, he couldn't
tech me, so he kind o stopped TO get wind
for suthin develish, as edged by the way
stared By this time | had made up my
mind to stick to his tale as long as It stuck
to his back bone | didn't like to boiler
for help, nuther, kase II war agln my prin-
ciple and then the Deacon had preachia'
at his house, and it warnt far off nuther.-
know'd if he hern the morse, the hull con-
eregution would come down; and didn't
feel as If would like TO be seen in that
predlcament.
So. SAYS /, YOU old sarpent, do yer Gus
sedesi AAd so he did for he drug me
over every briar and stump the field, until
/ war sweatn aud bleedn like d fat bear
with pack o. hounds at his heels. Aud
NV name amt Mike Fink, if the old crit
ters tail and didn't blow out sometimes
az a dead level with the yarmluts back -
So YOU mas kalkerlate we made good time.
Bimeby he slackeaed a little, and then
had i'm for a spell, for | Jest dropped be-
bind stump and thar snubbed the crliter
Now, says |, youll pull up this ere white
oak, OF break yer tan. Jest hold on bil
I'LL blow
well, while was settn thar, an idc'
struck me that had better be a geltcn on
o. this in some way But how, adzackly
was the pint If let 90 and run he'd b.
afoul O. me, sure So lookin at the matte
in all its barrins, cum 10 the conclusion
that I'd better let somebody know whar
war So Gin a yell louder than LOGON
olive whistle, aud II warn't long aiore | sec'
the Deacons two dogs "A coming down lik'
as if they war seem which could get tina
fus,. | know'd who they war arteT-they'
inc the Bull agin me, war sarlln, for the
war orful wenemous, aud had spite agii
me. So saws /, old brindle, as ridin is a
cheap as walkin on this rout, If you've n
y objections, iil Just take deck passage OF
that are back o yourn So | wasn't Ion
gettin astrlde OF hun, and then If YOU
been thar, You'd ave sworn thar warn
nothing human IN that ar mix the sIl
flew So oriully as the crltier and | role
round the hcld-one dog on one side an
one on rother, trYln 10 c.inch Roy feet =
Drav'd and cuss'd and cuss'd aud pray 4
until / couldn't tell which did last-an
neither warn't of any use, they were SO OF
fully mixed up.
Well, reckon rid an hour in ih
way, when my old brudle thought IL va
time to stop to take in a supply % win
aud cool off little So when we Q,
around to a tree that stood thar, lac natra
~ hated Now, says |, old boy, you
lose one passenger sartain So | Ji'
clum upon a branch kalkeiatin to roosl thi
ull starved. alore I'd he rid round IN thi
arnay any longer. | war maxim track
for the top @ the tree, when heard suthi
a maxim an orlul buzzin over my head.
kinder look d Up and If thar warn'i-we
r. there's no use a swearin now, but II WI
w the biggest hornets nest ever built.
r. You'll gin m now, | reckon, Mix
N case ihar's no help for YOU But an i'd,
ID struck me, then, that I'd stand heap be
,e ter chance rlden the old Bull than whar
n. war. Says !, old Teller, if you'll hold q
Q I'll ride to the next station, any how !
nd that be where it viii !" SO jisl droppc
aboard him, agin, and looked alofI TO 5,
an what I'd gained in changin quarters an
ed gentlemen. Pm liar If thar warn't nigh
I'M half bushel of the stingin yarmlnts ready
as pitch into me when the word go was gil
a. Well, | reckon they got 1t, for all hand
er started for our company Some on en- j
ed the dogs-about quart struck me, and 4
rest charged Oh olA Dlluulc. Ills lllit u
er. dogs led off flst, dead bent for the O
OF Deacon's, aud as soon old brludle aud
could get under way, We followed And
M war only deck passenger, and had not
nd in 10 do with sleer,n the craft, swore II
had we shouldn't have run that channel a
,ul how
II But, as | said alore the dogs took {
lead-brIndle aud | next, and the horne
ler dre'ky arter. The dogs yellin-brlnC
bellern, and the hornets buZZin aud stir
you ia didn't say nothin, for it warn't
ces use Well, we'd got about two hundr
III yards from the house, and the Deacon lac
no us and cum out. | seed him hold up
IL, hand aud turn white | reckoned he "
= prayln, then, for he didn't expect to be C;
In ed for so soon. and II warn't long, nlther,
was fore the hull congregation, men, women a
was children, cum out, aud then all hands we
aw' to yellin None of them had the tust mott
un that brindle and | belonged to this wor
a llst turned my head and passed the h
hai congregation | seed that run would
thu up soon, for brindle couldn't turn an IN
D from the fence that stood dead ahead