Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-05-08


was the pint! I'll let 20 and run he'd be
foul o. me sure!
80 lookin at the matter in all its bear
ms, cum to the conclusion that I'd better
let somebody knooc whar was! So gin
yell louder than locomotive whistle.
and it want long afore seed the Deacon's
two dogs comm down like as if they war
seein which could get thar fast.
4 know'd who they war arter-they'd
jine the bull agin me, war sartin, for they
war ortnl wenemous and had a spite aeiu
me.
so says old brind!e, as ridin is as
cheap as walkin on this route, if you've
no objections I'll jist take deck passage
on that ar back O yourn! So l wash,
long ge'tin astride CT him, then if you'd
been thar you'd ave sworn thar warn,
no'hin hnmin in that dr. mix! the sile flew
so oriully as the cri,ter and rolled round
the tield-one dog on one side and one on
t'o'her tryin to clinch my feet!
i prayed and cuss'd and cuss'd and
pray'd, until | couldn't tell which l did
iast-and neither war'nt of no use, they
wa. 50 oTiuiiy mtSeu up.
We'll l reckon rid about an hour this
way, when old brindle thought it war time
to stop take in supply of wind and cool
Of llt'i.! SO | jis, clum up on branch
kalkelatin to ronst thar Till starved, a;ore
I'd be rid round in that ar way any lon-
ger.
Il war maxim tracks for the top O. the
tree, when heard suthna maxim an orful
buzzin over head. l kinder looked up,
and II thar war'nt-well ther's no use
swearin now, bnt it war the biggest horn
nets nest ever built!
You'll gin in now I recon Mike, case
ihars no help for you! Blu, an idea struck
me, then. that Id stand heap better chance
ridin the bull than whar | war. Says
'old teller il you'll hold OH III ride to the
next station! anyhow, let tha, be where it
will!'
SO | jist arapped aboard him agin, and
looked alott 10 see wha, I'd gained in chang
IN quarters; and gentlemen I'm liar if
thar war'nt nigh a half bushel of the
stlngin varmin's ready to pitch into me
when ,h. word go was gin.
well, recon they got it, for all hands
started for our company! Some on 'em
Int the dogs-abont a quart stuck me, and
The rest charged on old brindle.
This time the dogs led of fust, dead
bent for the deacon's, and as soon as old
brindle and could ge, under way we fol-
lowed! And as l war only deck pas
senger, and had rothin to do with s,eerin
the craft, swore il had we shouldn't
have runs that channel any how
But as l said aiore, the dogs took the
lead-brindle and next, and the hornets
dre'kly srier. The dogs yelIin-Brindle
5ellerin and the hornets buzzin and sting
III! didn't say nothin, for it war mt no
use.
well we'd got about two hundred yards
from the house, and the deacon h@arn us
and come out. seed him hold up his
hand and turn uhHe! reckoned he was
prayin then, for he didn't expect to be call :.
ed for so soon, and it want long ni,her,
atore the hull congregation, men, women
and children cum out, and then all hands
wen, TO ysllin!
None Of them had the fust notion that
brindle and belonged to this world. |
j'st turned my head and passed the hull
congregation! see the run would be up
soon, for hrindle couldn't turn ainch from
fence that stood dead ahead!
well. we reached that fence, and |
went ashore over the old critters head,
landing on tother side, and lay thar stun
ned. 1t warm; long afore some Of 'em as
as was not so sacred, come round to see
what war! For all hands kalk kela,ed that
the Bull and belonged together! Blu,
when brindle walked off by himself, they
seed how it war, and one of 'em said,
Mike Fink has got the uusi O. the scrin.-
moge once in his hJe!'
'Gentlemen, from that day TO this l drap-
ped the couriin Dizziness and never spoke
to cal since! And when my hunt is up
on this year,h, thar wont be any more
FINK! and its all owin to Deacon Smiths
Bfindle Bu'i!"- Milton Pa. Miltonian.
a FINE PRIzE.-The fishermen Just