The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-11-18
SUI LcvENGooD's DADDY ACTING
HO3S.

fly now Keep him whar he is
Z Woe, woe, Shavetail-'He's dancin
jig
These and like expressions were a,
dressed to queer-looking, lopg-legge,
. short-t lied, smaIl-headcd, white hal
ed, hog eyed, funny sort of geniu
fresh from some second hand s,oth-in
store, and mounted ON 'Tarpole,' Dit
tailed, long, poor horse, half brandy
half devil, and enveloped all over in
perfect net work of b1idle reigns, crur
pers, martingales, straps, circingles, an
red foretin, who had reigned up in from
of Pat Nack's grocery, among Gro e'
of wild mountaineers, full of fight ant
bad whiskey.
I saWgou darned ash cats, jist keel
your shirt on, will ye? You never seec
rale horse till rid up: Tarpole ii
jist next to the best hoss tha t ever she
led nnbbius, and he's dead as q still
worm, poor old Ticky-tail.'
What killed him, Sut p said an anx.
iously inquirer.
why nuthen, you tarnal fool he jist
died, died standiu' up, at that. War
emit that good pluck ? Froze stiff no not
exactly, but starved fust and then froze
afterwards so stiff that when dad and
me pushed him over he just stuck cut
so, (spreadipg his arms and legs) like a
carpenters bench, and. e waited seven
teen days for him to thaw afore We could
skin him. Well, thar we war--dad am
me -(countipg his fingers, )dad' an me,
Sal an Jake, fool Jake we used to call
him for short an Phineas, an Slime OIL
an Jonas, an Caltina Jane, an Charl t,
teen, an CasIus Henry Clay, an Noah
Dan Webster, an Catherine Second, an
Cleopatry Antony. an Jane Lind, an
Tom Blu. Lion, the baby, an the pros
pect, an nam herself, all left without
any boss to crop with. That was nice
mess for spectacle family to be slash
in about in, warn't it declar' if
didn't feel like steeiin hoss sometimes.
Well, we waited and rested an waited
till we'll into strawberry time hopin
sum stray hoss mout cum along, but dog
my cats eff eny sich luck as that Gums
where da3 is he's 50 drafted mean, an
lazy, an ugly, an trifin.
Well, one mite, dad lay awake all
mite. snortin, an rollin, an whisper
ing at nam an next moruin' sez he,
'Sut, I'll tell you what we'll do will be
hoss myself an pull the plow, while you
drive me, and we'll break up the corn
ground, and then the old quilt CHATS
MANY and brats kin plant it or let it
alone, jist as they please"
So out we goes to the paw-paw, and
pealed right smart chance of bark, and
nam and me made gears for dad, and
they becum him nightly; then he
would have bride /; SO gifts old um-
brella what found-its little forked
place of iron, sorter like unto pitch.
fork, ye know-an we bent an twisted it
sorter into bride bit, snaffle shape
(dad wanted it kurb, as he said as he
hadn't worked some time and might
feel his oats and go to cavortin.) Well,
when We got the bride all fixed on dad,
he chomped the bit like rale boss, (he
always was most complicated darued
old fool, eny haw, and nam oilers said
so VIXEN he warn't about,) then put on
the gears, aud out dad and me goes to
the field, a leadiu' dad by the bride,
and totin' the gopher plow on my
back When we come to the fence l
let down gap. and that made dad mad,
he wanted to jump the fence on all fours.
boss way. hiched him onto tho go
pher, and away he went, dad leanin' for
ward to his pullin' right reart, an we
made sharp plowin', dad goin' right over
the bushes and sprouts same as rale
boss, the only difference is, he went on
two legs. l i
Presently We cum to sassafrac patch,
an dad, to keep up karacter as boss,
bulged rite square into it, and tore
down hornets nest nigh onto as big
as boss head. and all the tribe Xiv
cred him rite strate. He rared and
kicked once OF. twice and fetched squcal
wus nor airy boss in the district, and sot
INTO ruunin away as natural as ever yon
seed I let go the liues. aud followed
xoa, dad, woa but ye mout as vol hev
,ai wos to locomotive. Gewhilikins
low he ruul When he cum to q bush,
le'd clear the top oft, gopher and all;
,'raps he thort there mout be another {
settlement Of, bald hornets in it and
hat it war safer to 60 over than tLrue .
md quicker dun; every no1 and then
le'd give himself an open,baaded slap
hat sounded like wagon whip, and
unniu' oil the time, and karrien that .
,opher about as fast and high f,om the
;rouud us ever gopher was karried, /
war. Whom he cum to tho fence be bast. ,
d rite thrue, II, tariu' down nigh onto i
even paunel, seatseriu' and brakiu' the !
aies mighty, aud he left the gopher
,eers, sieeletreets aud klevis all mixed
Up, not wuth duFn, Most Of his shirt 8
tuck to broken rale, aud nigh onto a
int Of heFAsts staid With the shigt .