Plymouth weekly banner. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1856, 1856-06-19
T WHOLE NO. 221.
/ dOu't do nothing else, said l. bold as

dout do nothing else, said i, bold as
brass.
Aud with that ] ketched hold of her.
! like seen other fellers DUN 10 their gals.
and if didn't sling her then theirs no
snow on ki,lingly Peak. few compli-
men.ary remarks, such as go il boots
( from the bystarders. encouraged me to DO
my best and the way flung them cow
hides was pufficily orful; ] say it with a
realizing sense of the moral sponsibilily
/ OF the sertion. Once IN q while ketch.
/ sight of Sal, setiin egain the wall in soli-
tnry glory. but it only made me cut up
/ the harder.
Bime- by got kinder dizzy and next
thing | knowed / ives sitting on sofy,
and that are angel aholding salts TO my
nose and bending over me like speck
ed hen over poor faintin and spawned
chicken. didn't think no more nor see
no more of Sal arter that. How she got
hum didn't inquire. / waited on my
angel 10 the door, and when she told me
"a. partin--I might call on her. went
home chuck full of glory, and dreamed all
night the sirangest kind OF drea MS
about bein in the Garden of Eden. and
playing high. low. jack with General
Washington and Mary Queen of SCOTS.
Next day called on my charmer. l
busted right out. and called her all the
angels in creation, and told her l loved
her better than maple sugar and new ci-
/ der.
J Will you do me favor7 says she.
! 10 x.oSou or again fpaa0U
said /.
Well, said she. looking good enough
TO eat. want you to buy me cowhide.
Hers bi: to pay for II.
OFF | went, proud of the commission.
and brought her real stinger--cost me
wondering who she wanted to
give licken 10. | have it. thought L.
Some other feler she don't like, has been
prosecuting her. and now she's goin TO
give him lickin in the bargain.
So says |, as handed her the cowhide,
Miss Evelina (that was her nsme,) L
should like to know the name OF the in
dividual that ere cowhide is destined TO
asionish.
He's about Jour size. says she. with
!
like. Then she tel'd me how Sal had
been there. and told her how shameful
had treated her. And then. my stars.
If she didn't use that ccwhide powerful
ly!
Hold on says I. II hurts!
+ Glad OF IL, says she. Plenty more licks
where them cum from! And she pelted
away on my head, and ears. and limbs.
and arms until the air seemed full OF licks
and cowhides. | then hollered enough!
but it wnrnt no kind of use. | hadn't
had such o lchin since | blowed up the
old skulehouse stove with my dads pow
DER horn. and got ketched just as | was
techen off the train. rid home in car
riage, which cost me dollar, and | KEEP
nv bed for fortnight. My he'd swellec
up bigger than yeller punkin. was a
pooiy sight, sure.
When got we'll went 10 see Sal, and
make it up with her; but she didn't care
10 make my acquaintance. The ingrati-
tude of wimmin is unsccoun;able! And
, there was filler with black whiskers
, setting along side of her. who said some-
thing about spi.in for fife. which made
, me make tracks in double quick time.
! The story got into the newspapers, apd
darn'd ifit din'nt make New Orleans too
: hot 10 hold me. Sal. too. soon married
, the clerB of steamboat so cum north
but hain't been to see no gals since.
and haint been to no balls-for cowhides 9
J grow as vigorous in Boston as they do in
J New Orleans; and feller that's had one
such lckin as I've had. don't care . bout
another, at no price whatsumever.-Fog.