The Panola star. ([Panola] Panola County, Miss.) 1856-1857, 1856-11-12
crap with. That wasa nice mess for
a spectacle white family to be slash

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didn't feel like sorter stealin' q hoss
sometimes. .-Wellwe waited ontil well |
on into strawberry time, hopin' some |
stray hoss mout come along, but dog
eat my cat ef eny sieh luck as that
ever Gums whar dad is, he is so drat-
ted meen, an lazo an ugly an say
age.
"Well, one mite dad he lay awake
all mite snortin; am q rallins an a
hlowin,' an scratchin', an whis-
perrin at NAM an, next morning he
Savs-'Sut, III tell you what we'll
do; I'll be boss myself, aud pull the
plow while you drive me, and we'll
break up the corn ground, and the old
qui(t that's mann and the brats kin
plant or let it alone. jest as they id
please So out We goes TO the paw
paw tlicket and peeled rite peart
chance of bark; an mann and me made,
gears for dad, an they become him
| nitely an he1would hev a bride, so
gets an old umberiller what | found
its little bit of forked piece of iron,
. sorter like onto a pichfork, yu know,
am we bent an twisted 1t sorter intu
bride bit snafil shape dad wanted
it kurb, as he sed he hadn't worked
for some time, an mite sorter feel his
eats an go TO cavortin'.)
We'll, when We got the br!dle all
fixed on dad, he chomped the BIT jisi
= like Il hoss [he alters was kornplicate(
burned old fool, eny how, and man
alters Sed so when he warnt about,
hen l put on the geers, and out dat
and ME goes to the field, | leadin
lad By the bride, and totin' the 60
4 phcr plow on my hacl.u a..s e J.
A ,'When We cum to the fence | le
down a gap, and it made dad mad; h
wanted to jump the fence on ail-fourS
. hosS way. | hitched him 10 The &c
u phcr plow, and away he went, dad
leanin' forrard to his puilin' rite peart
4 and we made rite sharp plowin', da
going rightoycr The sprouts and busl
es. same as rale. boss, the only di
ference was he went on two legs.
=, Presently We cum to sasfrac bus
n, and dad, to keep Ills karacter
H. boss, buIged squar intn it, and TIN
. it, and to thru 1t, and tore down
Il hornets nest nigh on to as big as
u hoss's head, and all the tribe kivert
+ him rite strate. lie reared and kick(
once or twice, and fotched a sque
wos nor airy boss in the district, al
sot into running away, jist as natur
o. rs ever You seed ! let go The lin
:, and hollered, woa, dad, woa but
!, moat as we'll holIered 'woa' to a loo
motive. Gewhillicans how he
=, run! When he come to bush hi
=, claf,. the. top of it, gopher and a
:, perhaps he thought there mout be {
other settlement of bald hornets
it, and that it wur safer to SO o'
"a than thru, and quicker done; ev'
- now and then he'd paw the sides of
=: he'd with fust one four leg and Il
!. t'other, then he'd gin himself an o.
: handed slap, that sounded like a W
- gin wip, and runnin' all the iii
..ad a carrin that gopher jist about
fast and as high from the yerth as
;ost Ter a gopher was carrid, l swar.
ronl "When he cum to the fence he j
up; busted right through it, tarrin' dc
loss nigh onto sevenpaneis, scattering
hes a br.ihin the rales mitily, and hers
Ky left the gopher, geers, singletree
klevis all mixed mp, not worth a q
on Most of his shirt stuck on the 50
tered end of rail, and nigh on
ho mint of hornets staid with the shil
hat. singing at it all over, the ballenc'
! st;f 'em, bout gallon and a half, KEEP
! al with dad. lie seemed to run jist
,hay tzactlv as fast as a hornet could
;est for it wur the tighestl race | ever
and see. r 80
an, "Down through the sedge
~ to they all went, the hornets maakll
we'll look sorter lik smok all around {
> on bald he'd; and he with nothin on
IAN on but the. bride, and nigh onto a
hort) of pillow line sailing g..t.slin behind, /.
J, an II seed now he was aiming for
,;,ne- sr;mming hole IN The kreek, wa