Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-10-25

| trot over TO the Sln:re-s oexg Sunday, and
hitch teams a2a be 1s: abeatthe farpiest
pair In creation.' Sally shet her eyes 1T this
announcement, and gin a sigh as sweet as q
! mockin'-biri's whistle, and trembled dis
kivered my language were takin'. effect, so 1
| continued to pile on the agony quite solemn
cholicism. shy angel ses /, you are as pure
| as robbin bird, and beautiful as morning
glory, and feel as if you made for me-
] sure But if you elope with that are limber-
jinted old hay-hookin' turkey -buzzard what
| have been proposin' to you lately, | shall
knock him down, kill him and then ki II myself.
Why, Sally, in week he'll turn you off like a
| billy-goat would poetry, and most likely you'd
I fetch up like the last OF huckleberry time
DO you think so p said Sally.
sIn course do ses I.
Me, too, ses she, sfor last mite the mean
and said, because was bow-legged he reck-
oned l could ride on two hosses-easy
Gentleman, when heerd that are, my jack
ct riz on my back like tent-cleth,- and list
took oath, an awful oath I'd runate that bar
ber-and feL hot! So kissed Sally twice, and
sed sole Reservoir to her, which means in
French, good by and numbered.
jest as / wheeled around Sally's daddy's
house-torninst old Nanny MeKee's-thcre
was the durnei glnier-legged scoundrel, put
tim in puite smarte for the village, like
monkey on ce-course! /! He'd come up to
see Sally, imagined, but diskivering me
had turned on his heel to luff. fenwed him
up, however, to the Swamp, where the cane
drifted, when told him to halt, for was d.
termined he should either fight or 5uni Ses
he Approach me- and with that he pulled
out big hosspistol, and allowed he'd blow out
my gizzlrd l didn't wait to see if he would
or not, but let him have cke-,cang alongside
of the snelln-organs, and then lit on him -
Bifi biff!--he We it to me in the ribs;--slam!
bang gave it to him in the eye-and the
way his hcld buzzel and flew around were
caution to buffalUesi
Now, the barber had on . bobtailed mon
key jacket, which he esteemed amazin,' and
said it was fashions fnishin' touch; SO we had
it-I holt of his bob-tail, aud he hold of my
hair, tryin' to jerk me out Of my trowsers.-
Then followed bittin' off Of smellers, mp
pin pieces outer one another--Ind lettin of
in big heaps, and the universe was kYered
with blood! Fact, true as thunder!
well, we fit around and about, until l run
the varmint's head in the mud, when obser-
we'd hole in the seat of his pantaloons, what
had wore through So jest sot my 'dental
arrang gslneuts' to work, and took hold of a
good rnouthful, when the itller ieriled his
head out of the mud hoIlered, Enough, and
said he'd cOnfsss stealia' Nanny McHee 5
spoons
We'll, 1 hope L may never be elected to
Congress, If this good-for-nothin' cuss hIdn't 1
been over to the old mans speakin Of her
daughter Mary Ann, and stole all her Silver |
spoons and sugar-tongs-for | found 'em di- 4
reckly after hid away in his boots. So jest /
tot.s Mr.. Barber down to Squire Smiths, and /
SIRE encugl Ie lad recently escaped from {.
prison up beyond Ba.nbo, zle Village for COW 1
stealin. ..z.-=-
That's the way won Sally Birch. Noy /
who's my triend--I want-a chew of. tobaeker.' l
& ladtr