Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-06-28

side Of bacon. One of the wore. cases of
rum foolery that I've heard Of for q long
time, tux place in PinevilIe las, fall.
| Bill Sweeny end Tom Culpepper is the
two greatest old coveys in our settlement,
for coon hun,in'. The fac. is they dom,
do much OF any thing else, and when they
lcsn'' catch no'hin' YOU may depend on,
coons is scarce. Well, one nigh. they had
Everything ready for reg'Isr bust, but ow-
in 10 some extra good fortin', Tom had
got pocke, pistol, as he called it, Of reg'Isr
old Jimmskey, TO keep off The rums,ics.-
Al,er tskin' q good s,.r,in' horn, they went
out on their hunt, with their light wood
torch bIszin' and the dogs bsrkn' and
yeIpin' like forty thousand. Every now
and then s.oppin' 10 wal, for the dogs, they
would drink one ano,her's health, till they
began 10 feel very comfortable, and chs.ted
away bout one thing and another, wi.hou,
mindin' which way they was g'wine.--s
Bimeby they cum TO fence. Well, over
they got, wi.hou. much difficulty.
"Who's fence is this 20 said Bill
"'Tsint no ms,.er," sez Tom, "Ie,'s take
somelhin' Ia drink"
After ,skin' drink they went on, won
de'in' wha, on air.h had cum Of the dogs.
Next thing lhev cum TO was terrible mud
dv branch. After pulIin' through the briars
and ge.,in' on Iotber side, they ,uk sno,h-
er drink, and sf,e, g'winc LILLE ways, they
cum TO another fence snd mons.rous high
one this time.
"Whar upon airth is we got to, Culpep-
pc :" sez Bill. 81 never seed sich a heap
Of branches end fences in these paris"
"Why," sez Tom, ':i.'s ell old S,urlid's
doins-you know he's always 5uildin' fen
ces and maxim internal improvements, as
he call 'em. But, never mind, we's through
'em now"
"Reckon We isn'.," sez Bill, "here 81 The
aIl.fredis. fence ye..'
Sure enough, thar they was, righ. sgin
another fence. By lhls time they begiflo
be considerable tired and Timber in The jein,s,
and it was such q terrible high fence. Tom
dropped the las. piece Of the torch, and thar
they was in The dark.
Nov you is done ill., sez Bill.
Tom know'd he had, but he though, j,
was no use to grieve over split milk, so
SAYS he, "Nevar mind, old hoss, cum a.
head, and l'll lake you out" and The next
rninni', ke'sIash, he wen. in the water.
Bill hung on The fence with both hands
IKE he iho't he was slewin' round TO throw
him off,
"HelIo, Tom ~ seq be, I" whar in the world
is you 90, to 20
''Ilere is." sez Tom, spoulin' the water
out Of his mouth. and coughin' like he'd
swallowed some.hin'-''Iook out, there's
snolher branch here.'
"Nsm o. sense whar IS we :" SCI Bill
"lf This isn'I fency county, dad fetch my
Ibuitons."
"Yes, and q branchy one, too," sez Tom,
I"und the highes. end deepes. and .hickes,
that ever seed in my born days"
"Which way is you ;" sez Bill.
"Here, righ, over the branch"
Cum ahead" seq Tom, "le.'s 90 home"
"Cum thunder, in such place as this,
wbar man 'sin. got bis Goa. tail unhi,ch-
ed from fence, fore he's over his head and
esrs in water"
After ge,,in' out and feelin' abou, in the
dark, they got together again. Af,er .akin'
another drink, they SO, out for home de-
nouncin' the fences and branches, end help
in one another up now and then but they
hadn't gone more'n twenty yards fore they
brung 10 a halt by another fence,
"Dad blame my pic.er.' sez Bill, "if ]
Idon't think we is bewi,ched. Who upon
airth would build fences oil over creation
ibis way ;" .s.s
Il was sbou. an hours job to get over
this one but after they GO, on the top they
found the ground on The other side without,
much trouble This time The bottle was
broke, and they cum monsnous near having
a 6gh, over The catastrophe. Blu. il was Q
very good thing, it was for, offer crossin'
two or three branches, and climbin' as ma
ny more fences, il 60, Ia be Daylight, aud
.hey found that THEY HAD BEEN CLIMBIN'
THE SAME FENCE ALL NIGHT not more'n
hundred yards from whar they first cum TO
it,
Bill Sweeney sez he cent account for j.
in no other way bu. that the Ticker sort O.
turned their heads and he sez he does on
ly believe if it hsdn'. gin out, they'd been
clmbin' the same fence and wadin' the same
branch till now. Bill promised his wife 10
jine The Temperance Society, If she would
n, never say no more about that coon
hunt.
TRAPPING GRUBs AND Cur worms
''Lae. spring." says c. G.. in the Michigan
Farmer, ~ tried on experiment with the
'vsrmin,s,' which ] relate for The benefit Of
whom i. may concern" He planted his
corn on clover sod pIouehed in The spring.
While planting he found plenty Of The small
grubs. The corn was planted about the
2Olh Of May, and ss soon as it came up
they commenced their mischief. knowing
NJ ..l,ahlo -. na.A.in mana of aarinn iLa