New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-12-19
sur IovxNeooDs DADDYs ACTING HORSE

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him whar he is sWop "Wo, ShayetaIL
aHe's q dancing jig These, and like express
sions, we're addressed to queer looking, long
legged, short bodied, small headed, white hair
cd, hog-eyed, funny sort Of . genius, fresh from
some bench legged Jews clothing store, ana
mounted on g Tearpoke,s nick tailed, DOW
neeked, long, poor horse, half dandy, nall
devil. and enveloped all over in perfect net
work of bride reins, cruppers, maftingales
atrana surcineles and red ferreting, who had
reiued up in front Of Pat Nash's grocery, among
a crowd of wild mountaineers, full Of hght ana
mean whisky. -. -. -.
,h;r.. ~ viii yes You never seed rale hoss I
iii rid up; Tearpoke is just next to the pest
hoss that ever shelled nubbins, an he's dead as
| a still worm, poor old Tieky tail J"
6 What killed him, Sutl" says an anxious
I inquirer. ga a;.a
\ 80. died standin' up, at that Warnt tnat
| yood pluck, Froze stiff ?--no, not, that ad-
| zactlv. hut starved first, and then froze arter-
| wards 80 stiff that when dad and me pushed MN
| over. he list stuck out so (spreading his arms
and leps,1 like carpenters bench, an We
| yvaited seventeen days fur him to thaw afore we
could skin i'm. Well, thar we was--Dad an
me Counting ON his fDgersl dad, ana me- aha
Sail, an Jake (Foo1 Jake we called NM IuT
abort. n an Jopass, an Phineass, and me, anu
Calime Jane, an Sharlotteena, and simeon
saul. am Cashus Henry Clay. and Noah Dan
, Webster an me- an the twin gals. an Cathrine
second an Cleopatry Antony, an Jane Lind,
and Tom Bullion, an the baby, an the prospect
! ! an nam herself, and left without ary moss 70
: crap with. That was nice mess TOT o 9specsa-
BILE white family to be slashln ABOUT IN. IN Waln.
;ti / he burned If I didn't feel like sorter
| stealin' a hoss sometimes. Well, we waited, an
rested, an wished and waited, onul well on inte
y | strawberry time, hopin' some stray hoss mou'
N come along, but dog my cat eff eny sich luck a.
q tbat ever Gums whar dad is, he's 30 drattee
IN mean, an lazy, an ugly, an savage.
ssWell, one mite, dad he lay awake all mite
% a snortin, an rollin,' an BLOWN. an !
blowin,' an scratchin,' and whlsperin q
:. nam. and next mornin' says he, SUIT, III tel
nv Won what ye'n Do; I'll be hoss myself, and pul
ws theploueh, while you drive me, an we'll brea
N mn corn groun,' and then the old quilt (that
,g- MANI an the brats kin plant or let It alon'
es list as they please. So out we goes 20 1ne pay
lly nav thicket, and yealed rite peart chance
U, bark. and nam and me made geers for dad, 81
he they becum him mitily then he woud hey
ON bride, so l gifts an old umbereller what
yh- found. it's little forked piece OF iron, sort
like on to pitcbfork, ye know, and we nel
.a- an twisted it sorter intu bride nlt, snan
~ | shane dad wanted it kurb, as he SEQ ne haa
- work't for sum time, an mite m sor,er ieei l I I
| oats and 90 to cavortin0. Well, when We
but but the bride all fixed on dad, he chumped the
oss list like hoss (he alters was most komplica
Is a ed. old fool, eny how, and mann alers sed
er when he warn't about), then put on the gee
tn am out dad and me goes to the held, q leau
ion dad by the bride, and totin' the gopf
,um ,aII, plough on my back.
irty Thep We cum to the fence, let down g.
,es riea an, it made dad mad; he wanted to Jump
fence on all fours, hoss way. hitched him O
the gopher, and away We went, dad leanln I
six rard tn his pullin' right peart, and we mi
m of sharp plowin', dad goin' rite over the spro
mac, and bushes same as a rale hoss. the only di
ence wus he went on two legs. Presently we cum \
lgers a sasafras bush, and dad, to Keep up MS 4
the acter as hoss, bulged squar 1n.u y, anu
!, re- it, and tore down hornets nest nign @ @onto
nilar b;g as hoss's heed, and all the Tribe K1ve
his him rite strate He rsred an kicked one
two an, fotched squeal wus nor ara hosf
the destrict, an sot to runnin away, Jls
act natural as ever you seed LET go the lines
riend bollered. Woa, dad, woae but yemout as
/, says said woa to a locomotive. dewlihcans
credit | he run!
oupe, When he cum to a bush, he'd eiar the U
hy in If. gopher an all; praps he thought there
he in he another settlement ov bald hornets ! \
their and that it wur safer to go over thah tnfu
IF the quicker done, every now and then ne'd pay
pairing SIDES of his he'd with fust one fore leg ana
lining t'other, then he'd gin hisself openhandeo
,e, OBJ chat sounded like Waggln Whlpa an u fu
ligble, all the time, an kerrln that gopher Jise
e at q a. fast an' as high from the yearth as e
human 30 aonher was carried reckon. When he Gu
night the fence he busted rite thru 1t, tarrin
.me at niqb onto seven panels, scatterin' ana D
prem ;ps the rales mitily, and here he leit go
Of the .o.,rs singletree and kleyls, al mixed VI
,rity of with durn. Most oy his snir' stloh y
mount snliute ~ed end OF broken Iaie, a.Au . sA
donor a Dint Oh hornets stalo WIN tne en q 2.
,snavo- p,ue p,l - the balance on 'em, about a
am the a !. - ot ha,f kept ON with dad. He seem
ala ;;st = naa, aaaa,,octIy as fast as hornet coul
son Il ,uur the Il, est race ever did see.
nix, Of tbrn the sedpe- graNs they oil went, the n
h. turns making it look sorter IKE SMOKE d,
e only dads bald he'd, and he with nushln III on !.
,rred in on but the bride, an nlgn on'o "'0 v
irectors. line d sailn behind "a. g., tba
lneotion al seed now that ne was alfnin h,,,F |;
fternoon ,,;,,, hole in the kreek whar the dun y
After Ms y; onto ten feet deep Well, to keep
, forcing karacter as hoss, when he got 10 tne Y
ch were iist leaped off or rather he jist KEPT on
due lead MIN Kerslunge into the creek he VIZ
building. the water fly plum above tne nian ld an
sand dol was. Now rite thar, boys, he oyerdid ehe
,hn,ents r. N at was what he was arter, for there
, haying hoss aver foaled durn'd fool enough TO ~
:, III will sich a place; cussed mule mout done
MI ', - ey dad war,nt a acting mule. ! crept up
edge and looked over thar was dad pai
5z, for all the yearth like peeled enlon, d
eBted III m and down, an Ihe Hoincus o.
ber last, i'm round, turkey buzzard fashloh az
ID draft ~, 70 in awhile ons, and sometimes teu
treet, for n d1 o at dads he'd. nj,
d handed alTe kept up a rite pesrt dodgln ana'
, ,be can t;mes afore they hit him, and snmllme
it in his and the water was kivered with aroWh
ok Meelss, nets nets - What on yearth are ye DON
nd it was dad j. sea T. Don't (dip1 yer see lhe
igned his internal yarmints fdip) arter me!
cred into sez |. them are hoss flies thar-ye an
,eeks ago feared oy them, are ye Hoss d,es,
led that it % tbev,re rale tdip) genuine bald horn
GERS knew (dip5 Internal scoundrel!' Wen, = aa -.
d agains, Sey tu stay rite thar till mite an, an y
full con- 90 tu roost you cum home and ~ M Y
sorter think ye won't need eny eusa, FIJI
sast or So Il wish may never see
recently row. (dip) if 1 don't ruinate you U
yenty y-nine ! do get out SEE dad. Better say
,elation of YOU may never see another bald morn, m
ne Govern sser play hoss agin,' SEE land kno'
ship-build- nnmollifed natur,' broke from 1ns
-fotir more a nd sorter cum to the copper AhiA'
The PEN 81 staid hid out till nextday artefn
until the T sed a feller travellin, an sez !,
the ship ,.a;, on this side the kreek when you
nd half sWhsy. puthin much, only man wa
S in every bis do.9r with nara shirt on, an . J.
3 most per greagin' his back an arms, an his NV,
,g le excep- shont a. hig as ten gallon keg an
she inst sign of an eye--all smooti
man was my dad,' sez l. Been mu n,
parn NidA letn - tn