Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-04-08
Leroy jenkins.

| ed road, heard a noise that at
once arrested my attention. TWAS
a sollloquy in very loud key and
interlarded with an occasional oath,
10 prove the soliloquist was in ear
nest. Guiding my horse in the d.
Irection OF the voice, | saw a fellow
about half corned, deliberately cut
ting a long hickory switch, and
talking to himself at the same time,
with great earnestness. l thought
at first that he intended to whip his
horse that stood tied hard by, and
| was about turning off, when a
new set of phrases in his self>talk
arrested me at once, and made me
the witness of the following scene:
/ CIV ell now, Leroy Jenkins, !
expect you'll catch goss in a little
while 1t Won't be long first before
Leroy Jenkins's hide gets painted
some, III pay you, Leroy jenkins,
for all this, you trifling cuss,
you" Il
Being in some doubt whether
Leroy jenkins was the name of his
hors Sc, or of some expected combat
ant, whose preparations, of a char
acter similar to those have mem
toned, were quietly progressing a
shor distance off, determined to
wait the issue of those fierce threats
and throwing nay leg over my sad
die, prepared to become a calm
spectator of the figh: and perhaps
an umpire when one party or the
9th fr got enough.
My friend of the hickory, as
soon as he had cut and trimmed bis
swl tch, and satisfied himself Of its
elasticity and unbroken strength,
laid it down on the ground, talking
all the time in avery turbule Mt man
ner of Leroy jenkins. Deliberate
lIly taking off his coat, and laying il
on log, he took up his fail, and
| the first | heard Of his succeeding
soil loquy was about as follows.
/ NOW, Leroy Jenkins, amt you
ashamed Of yourself, you nasty
hound pup, and | am just now 60
ingto give you your bitters, you in
) ferl al M can reptile you"
i In the mean timeI leaned little
| forward 10 catch sight of his enemy.
but though the coast was compare
lively clear, could see no human
face, save that of the speaker, and
was now very sure that be did not
mean his horse, for he took an op-
posite direction. had small time.
however, for reflection, for his
speech waxed warmer, he stepped
and aimed sort of a back handed
blow which descended with a keen
sound and considerable force on
his omn back.
8 There, you internal devil, ia k
that, and that, and that, (shr9w
+ shfpw, the switch descended =
That's for your meanness, Leroy
Jenkins. Now, sir, what are VI or
going to tell your wife when you BE-
home, about the money you got fol
her eggs and huckle-berries, yor
mean pup You spentit for llquo r
did you? There, take that, sir
F(shrom, str0w, shrom) She told ybu
Leroy Jenkins, to buy her looking
glass and enough calico to ma k
: her a chicken bonnet, and where
are they, you darned cuss, you? !
Gone for liquor, hey? (8b1o~, s1JBm
shrpm9 WE'LL don't care if it d6e;
hurt, il serves you right, Leroy J&n'
kins, for making beast of yours Flf
and fooling your poor wife, y OF
mean whelp, you. You know, sir
VIII en- you Ieltlhome, she said OF
couldn't pass Simmons GROCERY
without spending all that money =
You know she did, don't you! y
Now, sir, take that, (sHrOw, shroFr,,
and didn't you promise her y gu
Wouldn't go near Simmons; and
you would be sure to buy her a nice
glass and the prettiest kind of cali
co for her; bennett Didn't you, now.
you cussed mean dog, you? Yes.
sir, you know you did, ($lrotc, shr4v,
and the hickory descended with
frightful keenness,) and, Leroy Jen-
kins, what made you such a fool
as TO go by Simmons at all when
you saw Tom Walker standing in
the door ready to treat you, and
drink up all your money? What
made you do that, you rotten her
ring, you? (shrow, slsrow) Well, sir.
III pay you for this, fslsrow, sErok.)
You go TO town and spend you
;. wife's money for whiskey again, will
i you!n (1And the blows were now