The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-11-19

afore I seed the Deacon's two dogs com.
in down like as if they was sesin' which
could get there fust.
81 know'd who they wal after-they'd
jine the Bull agin me, 1 war s%artin, for
they war orful wenomous and had a spite
agin me.
$50 says I, old brindle as ridin is
cheap as walkin' on this route, if you
have no objections I'll jist take a deck
passage on that ar back o. your'n. So
L wasn't long gettin' astride O. him, and
then if you'd been thar you'd ave sworn
that thar warn't nothing human in that
mix /! the sile flew so orfully as the crit
ter and I flew round tie ield-one dog
on one side and one on the other, try
ing to clinch my feet!
81 prayed and cusscd and cussed and
prayed until I couldn't tell which 1 dill
last, and neither warn't of any use they
were so orfully mixed up.
"Well, 1 reckon I rid about an hour
this way, when old brindle thought it
war time to stop to take in a supply O.
wind and cool off a little! So when We
got round a tree that stood thar, he
naturally halted !
"Now, says I, old boy, you'll loose
one passenger, s%artain; SO L jist clum
upon a branch, kalkelatin' to roost thar
until I starved before I'd be rid around
in hat ar way any longer.
al war making tracks for the top o
the tree, when 1 heard something maxim.
an orful buzzen overhead. 1 kinder look
ed up and if there warn't-well there's
no use a swearing now, but it WIS the
biggest hornets nest ever built
you'll gin in, Mike, kase there's no
help for you. But the idea struck me
that I'd stand a heap better chance a
ridin' the old bull, than where 1 war.
Says I, old follow, if you'll hold on, I'll
ride to the next station any how, let
it be where it will.
$50 1 jist dropped aboard of him
again, and looked aloft to see what I'd
gained in changin' quarters, and, gentle
men, I'm a liar if thar want nigh a half
a bushel of the stingin' varmints ready
to pitch into me when the word 60 was
givinl .
"Well, I reckon they got it, for all
hands started for u company. Some
on 'em hit the dogs-and about a quart
struck me and the rest charged on old
brindle.
"This time the dogs led off fust
dead bent for the old deacon's, and
as soon as old brindle and 1 could get
under way we followed | And as I was
only a deck passenger, 1 had nothing to
do with steering the craft, I swear if l
had we shouldn't have run in that chan
mel, anyhow
"Bat, as 1 said afore, the dogs took
tho lead-brindle and [ next, and the
hornets dra'kly arter. The dogs yelling
--briudlc bellerin', and the hornets buzz
zen and stingin'. 1 didn't say nothing
for it warn't no use.
"Well we'd got about two hundred
yards frUn- tho- he~eoyCAea-hA-dnnoor
hearn US and cum out. seed him hold
up his hand and turn white | 1 reckon
he was praying, then, for he didn't ex-
pect to be called for so soon, and it want
long, neither, before the hull congrega-
ticn, men, women and children, cum out
aud then all hands went to yellin'.
"None of 'em had the fust notion that
brindle and 1 belonged to this world.
L jist turned my head and passed the
hull congregation I seed the run would
be up soon, for brindle couldn't urn an
inch from a fence that stood dead ahead
"Well, We reached the fence, and I
went ashore, over the old creatures head,
landing on t'other side, and lay there
stunned. 1t want long afore some of
'em as war not scared cum round to see
what I war! For all hands kalkelated
that the bull and | had belonged to-
geth RI But when brindle walked of
by himself, they knew what it war, and
one iof 'em said, Mike Fink has got
the worst of the bargain once in his
life!'
Gentlemen, from that day I drapped
the counting buzziness and have not
spoke to a gal sincel And when ny
hunt is up on this yearth, thar won't
be any more FINKs and it's all owing to
Deacon Smiths Briudle Bull.
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