Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-10-25
4plt anb Numor.
FToa, the Yankee PrirGteer.
Bu6um's Fight.
BY NED ALBRo.

They ut and ut, and gouged and bit,
And struggled in the mud,
And all the ground for miles around,
Was kiyered with their blood -
Ard piles of noses ears and eyes,
In hills and mountains reached the skies
sAre that fact, Billy p
1T are: and the way / won the female were
this:-I toute for her like Washing did for lib
erty, and ID say naturally biedi'
Tell US about it, said Tom Soop.
Il WILL said Billy.
sLook out for q screamer,e gentlemen put
IN sThe colonel from that neck o. TIMBER .for
at story tellin' Bill Buffum beat the world
'Silence 4: Sie cou-t,' yelled B.sly, ris!z,' O.
goa'n pat me out
And then taking s. chew of tobacksr,r he
'commenced:-
: 'YoE Sally Birch hankered after me as
tonishin' until aforeign fellcr arriv in our set
tlement, trigged out in sstore close and fancy
fs-ups, and then she commenced to ieca -
Creation seq to myself. and felt as though
had the bumfuijins-and sysore Now, that
gal were the most beautiful gizard ticklin, she
female that ever got outer bed to scratch and
turn over. She was as graceful as hollihoek
her eyes twinkled like dimuns, and her breath
was sweet prairie flower. Hueh when
ever I'd see her spropel' in dance it would
make me yearn for matrirnony hypercutteuarn-
pus,fy,-and one day ses I, "Bill Buffum, you
mnst either marry that gal--rite strate--or
bust yer bfier' Well:
Shortly afterwards this ere foreign fefler
'come to town., to knock my happiness all in
TO finders, and introduce foreign fashions on
a republican soil. He was hairy Ioozin' cir
cumstancc-a barber-with whiSkers over his
hp, who Travelled around the country establish
ing smustuchers,' and peddln' rose water
1t was as | expected. Wash me under hogs
head OF pork ii Sally didn't take notien to
the varmint rite off, jest because she allowed
he was from the Emporium of Fashion and
'earorted' amongst metropolitan society
(That want the word he used, I reckon it
means the same thing.)
'Well, gentleman. l tell you felt quite
hostili and warm AZ this state of affairs, and
for fear I'd melt and run away into oil, went
down to the creek, to sshed flannel, and cool
OFF, lille laid there, like Moses in the Bull
rusaes, amongst weeds snd water-snaix, and
yeller flies a buzzin, happened to hear nois
1 hope hay never taste weddin' cake if
there want Sally trippin' down the wagin track
-bare-legged, with her stockins and shoes in
one hand, and bar of soap in the other a
pintin rite for the Creek where was and for
that same particular purpose, tool Now ,bsing
mighty modest turned my eyes and riz and
Topped behind some bushes, and got my .duds'
on uncommon sudden. When / come out
Sally seed me, and blushed like abiled lobster
and commenced to scratch the ground with
her toze. I swar, gentlemen, she never look
ed soenticin' before ss<F Is @e
$50 walked up to her and tuck her hand,
and ses to her ses 1, Sally and Just then /
happened TO look down towards the earth, and
l hope to be shot if there want-Jcrrlsa-
len, ! how skared were,
sAs was sayin' ses to Sally, ses I-sYeu
know dream of you powerful You have
run into my affecshuns jest like steamboat
into q sand-bank--and can't be got loose g.
Nov. if You'll only say sYes.' we'll positively