Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1855-01-30
SUIT Lovesood's Daddy g Acting nOrse.s
ny s-t- OF TENNRsss,

| Hes q G..aeillI a iis.' These and Ike eX-
,,ressian-, rrere addressed to queer looking,
lunS -es--cI shprt.bollied small headed, whites
haired hog cred, :laa7 SOFT Of 4 Eehias, ftesE
from sorre benCti-legsed Jews clothing store,
and mounted ou Teerpoke;' nick-tailedi bow
r=cked, lorg, poor, half-dandy, half devil and
e9velopen al over in a perfect network OF
bride rains, crupPeF, martingale, straps, cir
cngles, and red fetretin, who had reined up
in front of Pat Nash's grocery, aluoug 8
crowd of mountAineers, full Of light and mean
.Wha, HIed him susr Ssys s1s al a. anxious in
Why na,bin, roa 'tnraai fool He just died
So, died >. stsp,iiD' mp, at that, Warut that
good pluck - Erose stiff 70, hot that, adzaot-
y but starved fl,ssl I'D then froze afterwards.
SO stiff that wheC dad and me pushed him.
over, he Just siuce oGt.so (spreading his arms
and legs.) like a carpenters bench, an Wa
waited seventeen days for him to thaw atore
we c6nli skin i'm; we'll thar we was-Da'i,
an me counting on his fRgeTs( Dad, an
me and Sail, an Jake {Fool Jake call him
fur shorty ga JouaSS an PhiueaSs. and me,
ana Cal;rs Jane. and Shaiottean, an Simon
Sv''l, au CaSl,ps Teiry Clas, an Noah Dan
Webster M re and the tt7o twin gals an
Cathriae Second, an Cleopa;ry Antony, and
Jane Lind. and Tom Bullion, an the baby, an
Tho ,,rosJect. AN mann herself, ali left without
.ea boss to era;, with. That nice moss
for a 'sp-ct;,ie white family to be s(ushin
about ia, wa'nt itl l be darned if didn't
! fee like sor;cr stealing a hOss sometimes.
Well we waited, an wished and writed, on
Ill we'll INTO strawberry time, hopi1' soma
stray boss ucut come alorg, but dog my cat
| cf ery rich luck, as that comes whhT dad is he's
so drafted mean an lay, an U15I, an savage.
Well, o.a aite ,dai ho !sy awake all mite
| thnEirg 2 tncrtn' a1' a -ollen,' an a blowin'
| an Il sc.ntchn' and whispcrin' at mann, and
mex rror:lin' gays he, 'Sut I'll tell you what
| II DO Il! be hoss myself, and pull the plough,
while vou drive me, and we'll brake up the
| corn groun,' and the old quilt CHATS many
an the brnts kin plant or let it alone jist as
they d--n please. So out we goes to the,
| paw paw thicket and pealed rite peart chance
! of bark, and mann and me made geers for dad,
and they becum him mitily; and he agoula
have brjdln. SO / gets an old umbrella what
Id found i q little forked piece Of iron. sorter
! ike onto pi;chfork, We know, and we beat
an twisted it sorter into br:dlebit spafl
shape (cl,.d wanted it cUrb,} Is Ne sed he
haa'nt worked for some time, an mite sorter
feel his oats and 20 to caYotin.', Well, when
we got The bride all fixed on dad, he chomped
the hit ;u-. like n hoss Che alters was a most
complicated, durn'd old fool, eny how, and
mann nera sed so ween he warnt about) then
put N the geers an ont dad and me goes to
the field l was leadin' dad by the bridh2,
and t9tin' the gopher plough on my Rack.7--
When we chm toihe fence, let down tAe
gap. an it made dad mad he wanted to jump
the fence on all fours, hoss way. hitched
him onto the gopher and away We went, dad
Ieanin' forard 10 his puiIin right peart and
made sharp ploughin,' dad goin rite over the
sprouts and bushes same rs a rale hoss, tn"
onIv differ wus he wc;.t on two legs. Present
" we cum 70 4 sassafrac bush, and dad to
keep Up his kar-actor az a hoss, bulged squariIg
tn it, and tc I'd IN q hornets nest nigh oIte AZ
big Us horses head, an all the tribe kirered
HIN rite strate. He rared an he kicked once
OF twice. an fotched squaal WIS nor ary
h0ss in the destrict, an s2t to runnin' away,
list rs natural as ever you seed. let go the
lines and Lollered, Won, dad, woa but ye
moul as well said ENoa' to n locomotive
Gewhicans. ho,7 he runl When he cum
10 = bush, led clar the top of it, gopher an
all prars be. thought their mout be another
settlement or bald hornets in it, and that it
wur safer to 10 over than thru and quicken
done cvery now and then he'd paw the sides
OF his head with fust one fore leg then tother,
then ko'd gin Lisself g openhanded slap, that
sounded like a waggir whip, an 4 runnln' all
the time, On . l;errin that gopher iist about AS
fast an rs hicE Go:n The yearth as ever 60
phe- 7ias carried, I swar. When he cum se
the farce he hustled rite. thro it, tarrin' down
nigh onto seven pannela, ncatterin' and a
brcakin' the rails mitily, and here he left gro
pher, geeTs, singetree, Eevis, mixed up not
wuth a darn. Most Of his shirt stuck on the
sptutered end Of e broken rale, an nigh onto
a pint o!horets ataid with the shirt Gtingin'
il all over, tlG balance on 'eIn, about gallon
and half kept on with dad. He seemed to
run list adzactly as hofhet. could fly, for it
wur the ttest race over did zee. Down thru
the scdge grass they all went, the honcts nak-
ing it look sorter like a smoke all 'rOun dads
bald he'd, and he with nuthin on yearth on
Jut the bride, an nigh onto yard Of plough
Iire 1 sain behind.
al seed nc-7 th1. rs vas amin fur tie swim
min hole in the creek, whar the bluff is over
twert--fv. fee. perpendickeler tu the water
ar hits nj onto ten feet deep. Well, to kcsp
up his kar-acte7 as q lIoss, when he got to the
bluff lie Just leared off, or rather he ji5t kept
on rrunin,' hersupge into the creek he :THrti
seed the water ily plum above the blutt from
whar was Now rite thar boys he overdid
the thing, if that was what he was after, for
there's nary hoss ever foB!ded durnd fool
enough to lope over 'e1n sch place a cuss-
I'd rsl.!e rnout a done it, but dad warn't act
iuy mule. ! cropt mp to.the edge and looked
ovsr: thar was dads bald he'd for all the
ycarth like pealed onion, bobbil, up and
down an the Loncts sailin, round turkey-buz-
zerd fashion an every once and awhile ono
and sometimes ten 'nd, make q dip ~ 5ed's
| he'd. He Kept mp rite peaFt dodgin' under,
su:utinses afore they hit hin, and sum-
times after, and the Tater Tas hYered with
| drowned honeta.--
!"Whn. OF ysarth .are you doin in thar
dad sez I. Don't {dip) yersee these cussed
(iipl internal varmints dip arter me9 What,
sez /, them are Hoss f'ieS thar-ye amt reilly
feard OF them, are ye! Hoss flies h-I seq
dad they're rale dip genuine, bald honets,
yea dip informal cussr Well dad you'll
hev tu stay rite thar til mite, an arter they
go tn roost you cum home and III feed ye,
sorter think ye won't need aHy. currien tor
th-Lnnr.