Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-05-28
SUIT t.ovEGOoD's SHIRT.

along in his usual rambling, uncer
tain gait; his appearance at once sat
isfed me that something was wrong
He had been sick-whipped in a fte,
fight, or was just outgroWing one o
his big DRINKS. Bet upon this point
| was soon enlightened
"Why. Sut, what's wrong now?"
Heaps wrong; dnrn my skin eff
haint most dead. Lite off on that
ar hoss, Georg', an take a horn. while
| take two (shalling that everlasting
flask Of his at me.) an plant yersell
on that ar leg an Ill tell ye eff ! ken,
but its most beyent telliu. reckon
I'm the darndest fool outen Utaw
ce?t my dead, fer he acted hoss, an |
haint dun that yet-all rs in sum trap
that cudent kech a sheep. I'll drownd
my sef sum day, see ef | don't, jist
tn stop lamlIy disposition TO make
id fools On themselves" :"
flow is it. Sut, have you been
beat playing cards, or drinking, which
is it?'',
"Nara one; that can't be did in these
parts; but seein its you, George, I'll
tell you; but | swar I'm shamed- sick
sorry, and--and- mad, am.
eye know ] boards with Bill Carr,
at his cabin on the mount@n, an pays
fur sich es | gets when | hev money
an when | haven't eny, why he takes
one-third owe it outen me in cussin:
an she, that's his wife Belts, takes out
tother two-thirds with the batIlin stick,
and the intrust with her tung, an the
intrust's more'n the prineip'l-heap
more. She S the cussedess 'omln |
ever seed eny how fur jaw, fghtin
an pride: She can scold blister on
to bulls face rite on the curl in
two minutes. She out fights every
thing on the ruver-an patterns ar
ter every fnShun she hears tell on,
from bussils 70 briches. OH she 5
one Of EN-. and sometimes she's two
or three. Well; We see, I'd got sum
home made cotton truck to make me
a new shut outen, and coaxed Belts
tn make it, and about the time it
wur dun, here comes Lawyer Johnson
along an axed fur brekfus I wish it
had pizened him, durn his hide, an !
wonder it didn't, fur she cooks a aw-
ful mixings, when she trys. I'm
pizen proof. myself, (holding up his
flask and peeping through it,) ur Id
been dfd long ago.
"Well, while he wur a eatin, she
spied out that bis shut was stiff an
nifty slick; soshe never rested till she |
worm'd it outen him that a prepara-
ton ov fl ,ur did it, An she got few .
perticulers about the proceedings out
en- him by 'oman's art don't no
how she did it, prehaps he does
Arter he left, she sot in an billed a /
big pot ov paste, nigh onto peck ov
it, and souzed in my shut and let it /
soak awhile; then she tuck it an ioned /
it out flat and set it up on its aidge
agin the cabin in the sun. Thar it !
stood as stiff as a dry hoss hide, an it
ratified like sheet ov iron, it did.
1t wur pasted tugether all over
When | cum tn dinner, nuthin wud
du but must putt on. Well, Belts
an me got the thing open arter sum
hard work. she pulIin at one ov the
tails an me at luther, and | got intu
it. Durn the everIastin new tangled
shut, I say | felt like I'd crawled
inter an DID bee gum an hit foil ov
ants; hut it wur like Lawyer john
sons, and | stud it like man, an
went tn wurk tn build Belts a ash
hopper. | worked powerful hard an
swet like hoss, and when the shut
got wet it quit its hurtin. Arter |
got dun, tuck about four fingers ov
red head and crawled up intu the cab
in loft tn take a snuse.
"Well, when / walked up thot /
was ded, or had the cholery, for all
the jints cud muye wer my ankles,
wrists and knees cudn't even muve
my he'd an skasely wink my eyes :
the cussed shut wur pasted fast onto
me all over, from the pint ov the tails,
tu the pint ov the broadax SssOr'msi
over my years. 90,
as a poor COW dpnfbe sold unusually low
| squirm' d ap &c. GOODRICH
er broke aesGE E lot of Eiamkets-5lus, fan
tban Te6lored and ssddle-at low prices. CT
'iieii you need one.
l'- JAMES B cARr1'