Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-12-23

tail sprouts, then he'd stomp, then run his han
atween his waisbun an bis shut, an reach down
roun mitily with it-then he spreu bis big legs
an give bis back a good shakin sort owe rub
agin the pulpit sorter like a hog scratches agin
a stump; a leaning III his work powerful, aud
squirmln ginerally zifhe'd just cum out of a dog
bed, ar had slep on a pisant trail. About this
time wun owe my Lizards (seared and hurt, |
spose, by all this rubin and scratchin an slap~
pin) pocked his he'd out atween the passon's
shut collar an his old brown neck, tuck a peep
at the circumstances, and lodged back apin.
Old Builn's speech now cum tn him; his eyes
sticking out like two buckeyes flung aglu a
mud wall, an his voice trimblin; Sez he.
'Bretherln, take keer owe yersefs, the Hell Sar-
pints heV got mel" Sum owe the wimmin fotch
a painter yell, an a ramrod legged doctor what
sot near me-, allowed it wur a clar case owe De-
licious Tremendous, and | thot he wur rite. for
it our tremendous afore it wur dun with. Off
went the claw hammer coat, an he flung hi
ahind him like he wur a gwine inter a 6ae, the
he'd no jackit on) Mex he foteh bis shut
over his he'd faster nur. got outen my pasted
wun, an he flung hit up in the air like he didn't
care a durn if hit kept on up forever. but hit
lodged onto a black jack. / seed Wun owe nv
lizzatds a ratin about over the big old dirfy
lookin shut, shared like the devil. Then he Gin
q sorter shake and a twist, an he cum outen
his b%rltches, an he tuck um by the bottom owe
the legs an swung um roun his he'd a few times
an then fotch EN- down cheraliup over the front
/ owe the pulpit. You culd'ye hearn the smash
a quarter owe a mile! Nigh onlo about fifteen
shortened biskit, a Drilled chickin with hits legs
rossed, a big dubiI biaded nife, a slab owe ter
hacker, a pipe, sum copper ore specimeuts. a
heap owe brokln glass, Il cork, a sprinkil owe
whisky, a squt an three owe my LIZARDS flew
permiskusly all over that ar meetin ground.
outen the upper iud owe them big dax britches.
Wan owe the Smartest owe my blue lIZza rds lii
he'd fust inter the bussum oge a big fat oman,
as big as a skia'd hoss, and nigh unto as ugly,
who sot thirty yards off a tannin herself with a
tuckey tail, an smart tn the last, hit commenced
runnin down.
So she was bound to faint, and did it fust
rate; jist flung her tuckey tail up in The ar rolled
down the hill, tangled her legs an garters in the
top owe a huckilberry bush, an war thar ali safe,
fair. an quiet, when left.
Now old Buliin had nulhin left on him but a
pair Of hevy low Quartered shoes, short woo!in
socks, an eel skin garters tn keep of the cramp,
an his skare wur a grown on hin fast. lie wur
pltm crazy, for he jist spit in his hands and
leapcd over the frunt owe the pulpit rite inter
1 TIE LIfduiC obG tuG pIuS pau I'VE III hUbSiCSdN
ton, kerdift an sot IN tn geliin away. He run,
or rether went 10 a Iumherin gnllop. hevy, like
an ole Vaughn boss skared at a locomotive.
When he jumped a bench he shook the yeatb
an his self la. The bounelS an fans ctared The
way. an he he'd a purfectly far track 10 de woods
| He weighed nigh nnt0 three hundred, he'd a
| black stripe down his back like onto an old b j.
| dill rein, and his belly looked about the size and
| cutler owe a big beef pauuch, an hit a shakiH
frum side to side. He eined back frum it like
| a little Teller q tOtin owe a big drum al muster,
! an | hearn it slosh plum Ia wher | war. Thar
wur cramp nots on his legs as big as warnuts,
! an all over he minded me owe a crazy ole ele~
phaut what wer possessed by the devil, with
hits years, snont, and tushes sawed off, an rare4
no an a gwino on hits hind legs away from
emediate irubble an tribulation. He did the
louAest an seariest an fussiest runnin ] ever
seed since Dad raced WithAthe hornets, tu be no
faster than il wur. Wellgaie disappeared in the
! tI,icket, and owe all the nises sc ever hearn il
wur thar, in q cirkie OF Two hundred feet or
| tharabauts-Sum wimen screamin-they W.
the skery wuns; SUN latfn-they was the wick
ed wuns: sum crYiu-they was the fool ones,
(a sorier owe the Loyengood stripe;) sum tryifl
Ia get away ar hide thar faces-they wus the
modest Wuns; sum lookln artef ole BullIn-they
wus the curious wuns;s sum hangin III thar bows
they wus the sweet wuns; SUN on thar knees
with thar eyes shot, but thar faces turned the
way the old mudluFkii was II ~rannin-they wus
the beautiful wuns; sum DUN nuthin-they Wns
| the waitin wuns, an the most danlerous owe all
owe EN- by a burned long site. | tuck a big
skeer myself. arter a bibila about as big as a
brick, a disipId line. an a book called a kata-
plasm, a Sew rocks, an SIGH like fruit spattered
- r. 1nin;t 81 ovxfo rn17 had. an Nc tta I M.
enooods durn EN-! knows nothin but III run
when they git shared, jist put ont towards
the swamp on the krick. As | started a bIack
boitil owe baldface smashed again tree ~forninst
me. Sum durnd fool perfessor dun this. who
had more zeal than sense; for 4 sag that eng
man who'd waste a qudrtove good whIskey fur
The chance owe knockin d pnor devil like me
down with il, il the bottil aCous with nuthin,
isn't as smart as squire MackTDuIin, an he shot
his self with d hoe handii, and bit warnt loaded
al that. Well, you know, George, orler run
fast-jist look at these legs--l used en- sum
atween that meetin grown an The swamp, an
they haint kotch me yet.
Old Rarbelly Bullin las they call him since
| his tribuiation with the Hell sarpints, llaint
| preched but wunst, an then he hednt an omar
tu heer him. His tex was, "naked | cum inter
this wurld an I'm agwine outen ii the same way
eff I'm spared till then" I'm told 'twur a pow
| erfui sarmint--it wus hearn three miles. He
proved that nakidness warnL much, arter all. ct
Won take the rite view owe the thing--that hell
sarpints owe all sizes Wus keary, cold. az tfu.
oilfsm--lhat it warnt tu be expected owe him.
a poor. weak fraiI wam owe the dust to be sar-
pint Or lizard proof either--that wnn small
sarpint of the tribe owe milkiizidick ruinated q
wurld through an oman--wlile he was beset
with 4 barril full owe EN-. An sixteenthly an
finally that Sutty Loyengood il The biggest ras-
Kill, fool, an skarecrow ever Matched ID the