Squatter sovereign., 1856-12-09
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For the squatter Sovereign.
BY a SHORT -sIGHTED EIAN.


"Bat am seldom stupid, HEvTR DhfE.'
EPEs SARGENT.
It isa vulgar fallacy that it requires eyes
to shoot anything.
I've tried it.
Give me pair of ears. or rather. as
Marryat's deaf s,apleton' expresses
it, give me the sense of feeling
Tell me about taking sight at an object.
whether butterfly or an alligator. I've
shot squirrels, have. felt 'em. / am
net one of your crack shots. l can't kill
pigeons inside of the line, as they raise
from the trap-I can't creel horse. and |
never shot buffalo in the forehead; but
I have an instructive feeling, that when !
raise my double.barrell gun something
ought to fall.
1 rather prefer srILL-hunting. One
Isaac Walton once informed me thatif you
wouldn't catch many fish. The solitary
occasion upon which I did hunt was low
down in Texas, two hundred miles south.
east from Bear creek-lhey (the profafs-
ons uulgus) called il rIRE-uuNT1SG.
Let me describe it.
1t happened that the E;liopians with
me-real, genuine, incontrovertihlc mig
gers-one of them carried tin convent
ency on his head with fire On it. consisting
principally of ligh.-wood, as one OF the
colorcd individuals called it-aIthough =
proper regard for the truth OF history re-
auires me to STATE. that his co-ebony de-
scribed it as cypress splinters. At al
events. it burned, it did.
SURELY
We had camped by spring. near BY
n,uskeet charparel, and after walking {
mile and half over the prairie, in bots
: ou:er and utter darkness. Git was night
{ Mrs. Grundy, and eleven by the diai), we
found ourselves FIVE miles from everywhere
, Directly Tom (niger Trimas, niggerogi
cally writing) called my attention to 6
: pair of something. half hundred yard
or so ahead of US. that Fimmered ike th,
: the twin stars they call Castor end Pollux
cnly they were Of the color Of Mars in tf,.
D occid ent.
If Ten is niger. he has more giz
zard than some poor white people have
met in my travels.
drew on the object, and shot-A CALF
Veal was fish in them parts, so Nebu
chadrnzcr (nigger two, and Neb wfel
you didn't elongate his cognomsn) volun
teered to carry the vegetable into on
jcamp.
Speaking oe Nebuchadnozer (charmin,
Mrs Grundy, Tn touching my hat to you
reminds me OF an incident that occurre
on Lower Hog Thief. in cur neck Of tn
woods. OF go spiritual character, that
mus, tell it to you.
We had neighbor, (sbe didn't be!on
to your church. madam VINO had been 9
unfortunate as to bury her husband, an
she was giving my Aunt Ophelia an ae
count of her experience, including the Gil
cumstances, and concluded as follow:
But, Sister Knutt." my Aunt's nam
is Knut,, Z" if the dear man is gone, it is
great consolation to me to know that he
in Beizebub's BOSOM"
"Dear Sister Jones'" said my Aun
"you must certainly mean Abraham
bosom 2"
"Well, did, Sister, bu, amt they bot
Scripture namess"
But have left Nebucnadnazur with tn
calf on his shoulder. It has occurred {
NE, that he ough. TO have BEEN named Al
nais or Sapphira. for more pron,isin
niger it never has been my lot to NEE
However, 1t took us some time to get bac
to camp; and we had some trouble IN fint
ing it; but, if we hadn't mads it, this a
ticle never would have been written.
MoRAL.-Always put water and sap
rits' in your canteen.
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