Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-09-18

and cuss'd, and cuss'd and pray'd, until |
couldn't tell which did last-and neither
warn't of any use, they war SO ortully
mixed up.
"Well, | reckon rid an hour in this
way, when my old brindle thought it war
time to stop to take in supply O. wind
and cool of little! So when we g't
around to tree that stood thar, he ia
t,rally halted Now, says |, old boy,
you'll lose one passenger sartain! SO
list clum upon branch kalkelatin to roost
thar till I starved, afore I'd be rid round
in that ar way any longer. | war a ma
kin tracks for the top O. the tree, when
heard suthin maxim an orful buzzin over
head. l kinder look'd up and if thar
warn't-well there's no use a swearln
now, but it war the biggest hornets nest
ever built!
"You'll "gin in" now, reckon, Mike,
case thar's no help for you! But an idea
struck me, then, that I'd stand a heap bet
ter chance riden the old Bull than where
| war. Says l, old feller, if you'll hold
on. I'll ride to the next station! any how,
let that be whar it willp' So jist drop
ped aboard him, agin, and looked aloft to
see what I'd gained in changin quarters;
and, gentlemen, Pm liar if thar warn't
nigh a half bushel Of the stingin var,
mints ready to pitch into me when the
word ego" was gin! Well, reckon they
got it, for call hands" started for our
company! Some on 'em hit the dogs
about a quart stuck me, and the rest
charged on old brindle. This time, the
dogs led off fust, "dead" bent for the old
Deacon's and as soon as old brindle and
| could get underway, we followed! And
as war only deck passinger, and had
nothin' to do with steering the craft, |
swore if had we shouldn't have run that
channel, any how!
"But, as said afore, the dogs took the
lead-brindle and | next, and the hornets
dre'kly arter. The dogs yellin-brindle
bellering, and the hornets buzzin and sting
in! didn't say nothin, for it warn't no
use. Well, we'd got about two hundred
yards from the house, and the deacon hern
us and cum out seed him hold up his
hand and turn white reckoned he IVES
prayin, then, for he didn't expect to he
called for so soon, and it want long,
neither, afore the hull congregation, men.
women and children, cum out, and then
all hands went to yellin! None Of them
had the fust notion that brindle and be-
longed to this world. I jist turned my
head and passed the hull congregation!
| seed that run would be up soon, for
brindle couldn't turn an inch from the
fence that stood dead ahead!
."Well, we reached that fence, and |
went ashore. over the old critters head,
landing on t'other side. and lay thar stun
ned. 1t warn't long afore some Of 'cm
as war not SO scared, come round to see
what | war! For all hands kalkelated
that the bull and | belonged together |!
Bot when brindle walked off by himself,
they seed how it war, and one of 'em said,
Mike Fink has got the wust OF the
scrimmage once in his lifep'
" Gentlemen, sffeaa that that day-fdarapped
the courtn business, and never spoke to a
gal since! And when my hunt is up on
this yearth, thar won't be any more FlSKs!
and it's all owing to Deacon Smiths Brin.
die Bull"
CAVES You are from the country,
are you not, sir?" inquired a dandy clerk
in book store, of handsomely dressed
Quaker, who had given him some trouble.
eyes"
"Well, here is an essay or the rearing
Of calves"
"That," said the Quaker, as he turned
to leave the, store, "tbee mad better pre-
sent to thy mother"
"Anw said old Mrs. Jane Doosenbury,
charming is a great thing, I've often felt
the need of it. Why, would you believe
it, Pm now sixty-6ve years old, and only
know the names of three months in the
| year; and them's spring, fall and autumn ;
I larnt the names Of them when | was a
leetle bit of gall"
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