Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-11-29
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SUIT LovEYeooDs DADDY ACTING HORSE"

SUIT LovENGooDs DADDY ACTING HORSE"
Hold that ere hoss down to the ycarln."
"IIc's il spreadi's his tail to fly now" Keep
him whar he is. "Wo." "Wo, Shavctail." ="
Hes Il dancing js" These, and like express
sions, were addressed 10 queer looking, long
legged, sllor-bodicd sulall-headed, whiIe-haired,
hog.eycd, funny sort of genius, fresh from
some bench-egged Jews clothing store, and
mounted Oh "Tearpoke," II nick-taied, bow
necked, long, poor, horse, half dandy, half devil,
and enrcoped all over in perfect network Of
bride, rcs, cruppers, martngales, straps, circil-
giles, and red tcrrctn, who had reined up in front
of Pat NaSh's grocery, among = crowd of wild
mountaineerS, full of fight and mean whiskey.
81 say, you burned ash eats, just keep your
shirts on will ye! You have never seed \ raIc
boss ill rid up; Tearporkc is jist next to the
best hoSs That shelled nubbins, an he's dead rs
Il still worm, poor old Ticky,ail."
What killed him Sut" says an anxious
inquirer.
"Why nuthin," you 'tarna fool; he just died
so, died standiu' up at that. Warn that good
pluck! Froze stiff; no, no that, adzactly, but
starved fust, and then froze afterwards, 50 still
that when dad and me pushed him over, lie lisi
stuck out so Spreading his arms and legs), like
4 carpenters bench, an We waited seventeen
days fur him to lhaw afore we could skin in
We'll thar We was-Dad an me Counting on his
fngers)-D&d, and me and Sail, an, Jake Fool
Jake We called him, fur SHORTY, an Jonass, an,
Piinrass, and me, and Calnc Jane, and Shar-
lotteean, an Simeon Saul, an Cashus Henry
Clay, an Noah Dan Webster, an ME, and the
twin gals, an Catlarine Second, and Cleopatry
Antony, an, Jane Lud, and Tom Bullion, an the
baby an the prospect, at mann herself, all left
without ara hoSs 10 crap with. That was nice
mess for u Spectacle white family to be slashiu,
about in, warnt it be burned if didn't feel
sorter like stealin' 4 hoss sometimes. We'll, We
waited, an rested, an wished, and waited, onlil
well on into strawberry time, hopiu' some stray
boss mout come along, but dog my cat, ef eny
sich luck as that ever Gums whar dad is, he's so
drafted mean, an lazy, an, ugly, an savage.
"Well, one mite, dad he lay awake all mite, 4
snorin an rolliI', an b!owin', an = scratch
in, and whisperin' at nam, and mex mornin'
says lie, 'Sut Ill tell you what we'll do; I'll be
hoss myself. and pull the plough, while you drive
me, an We'll break up corn groun', and then the
'old quilt (,hat's plam) an the brats kin plant
or let it alone, jist as they d-n please. So out
we goes to the pawpaw thcket, and pcalrd Il
rite pcart chance Of bark, and nam and me made
gccrs for dad and they becum him mtily, then
he would have bride, so gets an old umbrcI-
Ter what Id found, it's little forked piece of
iron, sorter like onto "a pitchfok, ye know, and
we bent an twisted it sorter intu bride bit,
snafl shape dad wanted it kurb, us he sed he
hadn't worl'l for some, time, an mite sorter feel
his oats and 90 to carortin') We'll, when we
got The bride all fixed on dad he chompcd the
/ bit jist like boss (he alters was most kompl!,
Gated, durn'd old fool, cny how. and rlam alcrs
sed SO when he warnt about) then put on the
gcers, an out dad and me goes TO the field, | Il
eadin' dad by the bride, and I totin' Tie gopher
plough on my buck. When we cum to the
fence, let down gap, an it made dad mad
he wanted to jump the fence on all fours, hoss
way. hchcd him onto the gopher, and away
we went, dad lcann forard III his bit pullin' right
pear, and we made sharp plowin,' dad goin' right
over The sprouts and bushes same as Il rale boss
the onI; differ WIS he went on two legs Pres
emily we cum to 4 sasafra2 bush, and dad, tC
keep up his karactcr as boss buIgcd-squll
lntu IT, and thru it, and tore down Il hornets nest
nigh onto us big as i hoss's lead, an all the tribe
kiycred him rite stra'e. He rared m kicked
! once or twice, an fotrhcd 4 squeal WIS Eor ar