Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-06
By 81, OF TENNESSEE.

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sIIold that ere hoss down to the
yearth. He's a. spreadin' his tail to
fy now. Keep him whar he is Wo.3
1Wo, Shayetail.' Hes a dancing q
iig. These and Ike expressions, were
adAIressed to q Queer looking, lank-
legged, short-bodied, snlall-headed,
wllite-haired, hog-eye, funny sort Of
a genius, fresh fromsome bench-legged
JEWS clothing stbre, and mounted on
'TrpokeS al niek-tailed, bow1neck-
ed, long, poor, horse, half dandy,
half devil, and enFeloped all ever
with aperfect network of bride reins
cruppers, martingales, straps, cir
cingles, and red ferretin, who had
reined up in front of Pat Nash's gro
Gerry, among crowd Of mountaineers,
full of fight and mean whiskey.
I say, you burned ash cats, jist keep
yer shirts on, will ye? You never seed
a rale hoss till I ridup; Tarpoke is ijist
next to the best hoss that ever shelled
nubbins, an he's dead as still worm,
poor old Tiekytail. Is9 100
What killed him, Sut?' says an
anxious inquirer.
why, nuthin', you 'tar1lal fool; he
list died so, died standin' up, atthat
Warnt that good pluck?--Froze stiff
no, not that, adzactly, but starved fust
thenfroze afterwards, so stiff that.Wher
dad and nae pushed him over, he iisr
stuck out so spreading his arms anc
legs Ike a carpenters bench, an VIC
waited seventeen days fur him to thaV
afore we could skin i'm. Well, thai
we Was--Dad an me Counting on his
fngers) dad, an me, and Sail, an
Jake Eoel Jake we call him; for short,
an JOnass, an Phineass, and me anC
Calline Jane, and Sharlotteean an
Simeon Saul, an Cashus Henry Clay
an Noah Dan Webster, an me, anC
the twin gals, an Catharine Second
an Cleopatry Antony, an Jane Lind
and Tom Bullion, an the baby, an tn,
prospect an nam herself, all withou
ara hoss to crap with. That was /;
nice mess for spectacle white famil,
to be slashin about in, warnt it9 I b,
burned if 1 didn't feel like sorte
stealth hoss sometimes. Well, w
waited, an rested, an wished, an
waited, ontil well on into strawberr,
time, hopin, some stray boss mout com
along, but dog eat my eat,e ery sic
luck as that ever Gums whar dad is, he
| so dratted mean, an lazy an ugly an
savage. s ~
! We'll, one mite, dad he lay awake al
mite a snortin' an a rollin', an
BLOWN, an a scratchin, and q whis
perrin at nam, and mex mornin' say
he, sSut,, I'll tell you, what wen dc
j lTn be hoss myself and pull the plov
while You drive me, and We'l break u
corn ground, and the old quilt fthat'
many an the brats kin plant or let
) alone, iist as they DIN please. S
out We goes to the pawpaw thicket, al
I peaIed a rite peart chance of bark, an
! nam and me made geers for dad, an
. they becum him mitily; and he woal
: hev a bride, so I gifts ansoldIumberelle
what I'd found, its a little bitof forke
piece of iron, sorter like onto pitch
fork, We know, and we bent an twiste
/ it sorter intu a bride bit, snail shap
dad wanted it kurb, as he sed b
hadn't work't for sum time, an NIT
! sorter feel his oats and go tocavortin.
(, Well. when we got the bridle all fixe
on dad, he chomped the bit fist like
boss lhe alters was complicated, durn'
Did fool, eny how, and mana alers Sc
so when he lwarn't about,) then I pr
c on the geers, an out dad and me goe
Ito the. field, IaIeadin' dad by the bridl
land a totin' the gopher plow on m
, lback. When we cum to the fence,
llet dewn a gap, an it made dad mat
he wanted to Jump the fence on a
TOURS hoss way. y hatehed. him to tt
gopher, and away we went, dad leanii
!. forward tu his pulKn' right peart, an
we made sharp plowinss, dad gein' ri
over the sprouts and bushes same as
rale boss, the only differ was he wei
i on two legs. Pesently we cum to
: sasafrac bush, and dad, to keep, up b
a Ear-acter as hoss, bulged squar I'M
lit. and thru it, and tore down a hornet
/ nest nigh onto as big as a hoss's hea
an all the tribe kivered him rite STRAIT
He rared an kicked. once or twice, a
/. fotcheda a squesl wus nor ara hoss in IL
district, an sot in torunniEi away, il
III as naeural as ever yon seed. l let {
gf the lines and hollered, won dad, wo
es but ye mout as well said 'woa' to
y locomotive. Gewhillicansl how heru
When he cum to a bush, he'd clar Il
top pc il, gopher an all; praps
Thought there mought he anoth
v. settlement ov bald hornets in it al
thatiit Wul safer to go over than thrl
and quicker done; every. now and th,
he d paw the sides Of his he'd with fl
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