Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-09-25

ne war d'u9TS6t QOCboff p6tu1 = ShoF VIVA wv
religiong and he had "a kind ofa oily way
ofrnbbin. his hands down his legs as he
sat- by the fire and talked away, that
wouEdltakesthe SPAWN right outaofIa wos
mang and congart lheriin5 two forty. yIejsis
,otW alls til ere he satlarubbimS away and
lswatchin the taters, roastin in Sthe 'ashes
t5andk the bacon a fryin in the PAM and
talking Of Election and Delilah, and them
Eotheriholy wonnenIf fol ks in the Bible. IT'LL
7 begun totfeelI holy myself, and, thought
II was in the land O. Canaan, whenaI FAM
Ecied id;theerdia a painters screeehI lIzwas
wide awake ,inl a mint, stholya Moses u lsez
| Isq The Doetor5hadn' theerdI Ithe .painterS
Esolheithoughts IL was "a gettin grace, ,siand
he rieit:away buckled intos meofwiths all
sorts, of Bible sayins, ,eand3 my bwifes jined
in; but Iajist riz up fandswent to,thescabin
all,swhere there was a little winder that
j. had cut to look out towards the, WOODS
II pulled ed,out'thesshutter and put my head
throughy butyer might as we'll have look
ed ainto sthe Kentucky 'cayeI il was so.
dark. 1.-The, wind come lin ttoocso strong
and chill like, that it made the Doctor
and my old woman dtawtup allittle gclo-
ser together. IIistined awhile to seeif
I could make out any signsgof'the critter,
butnit war no use. What between the
surf hammerin on the bar, and the
branches ,crackin in the woods, and the
squalin of the gullsl that had blowed in,
from the sea. you couldn't heard a
neighbor askin;y you to take drink and
reckon that is what man hears quick
est. Once in while one of the big wa.
ter oaks would topple over in the woods.
l Iknowed that it had blowed. over, for it
made such smashin of little branches
when hull rect come over, and then a
short tug or two as the roots broke.
Then again yer could hear one of them
tall pines on the ridge break. There was
no give there;5it would break short off
with a crack like four or FIVE rifles. I
would have betGI could have told the
very tree that snapped, knew EN- all so
we'll. Then agin the wind would die a
way, and you didn't hear nothin but the
rain. i# Is sa a
Just the night for them varmints, seq
|, DRAWN my head in again; they alters
come down in astorm. kind of unsuspect.
in like; that's their natur.' IL o.
Yes, nothin SO decaitful as the Pisco.
palians. says the Doctor,
/ knowd what he was after: the Doc.
tor wenttooth and toe nail against the
Piscopaliens, and so did the Piscopalians
against him. That's the natur of relig>
ious people. 5aaJ
No. sez 1, sit was the painters
'Painters!' Where? Have you seen
a painter?' 1ia sai d,t&
No, but heerdTone just nowy'
Z9.You don't mean it!' seq he, and he
wenr right over to his saddlebags that
was lying on the bed, and tuck, out two
of the longest kind d-ofaSpanish pistols, and
primed EN- up. sayin all the while some-
thin about how with,the jawbone of an
ass he had slain a Thousand men.H' s
IL didn't believe the critter, for he was
given to BLOWN; but Martha she jistswal.
lowed it all like batter cakes. ~ ne
L seen old Boz, who was asleep by
the fire, whimperin away-you know
how dogs take on when they are
dreamin-raise his head quick like and
make straight pint for the tother eend Of
the cabin, where the logs was little.
open like. He stood there for about
mint, and then came back and laid down
again. l knew somethin was up, and
that screech I kecrd were true music.
The old woman seed the dog, and she
broke in with u ga. aSl-.
Yes. that's SO; when !, my old man
and the dog both smell painter, knows
there is painter, Two dogs don't both
make false pint to once.' 5,i' laeS,
AT this Doctor Smith he walks to the
door and unlatched it; the, wind blew it
wide open. Tsaw a pair of long white
horns outsidesrand that minnit4 the Doc
tor gave one Of the biggest, yells yer eyer
heard wild Ingin ma ake; one Of his pis-
tolls went off. II didn't fknow,ef he fired it
off, or it went off i Off itself, and the
preacher he went oyer backwards as my.
yoke of young steers come rpshin right
into the cabin ID LORD! yer could heard.
me laf a mile. g-,os,..,.., ,.,l..,j
The critters was a frightened in The
storm and may be had smelt the painter,
and were mighty glad 60 git into the,
house where the light was: but they
weren't half assffightenedi iasfthe Doctor
was. He hadn't any more pluck.in him
than an old ker, on a,rainy day; he Ilwas
right wilted down. heAtried o-show the
bullock had hithis arm and chat, ,hadIfred
the pistol. ,t,sii4gus sd . q -as-rI
( we got the critters odt presenuy,''
though they, didn't want TO go, and i sot.
thinkin about it and wonderin- how it
was they were so onnsual skeery, and the
ol 1onineha fixed the Doctor somethin,
warm; and / hadn't .heerd any more Of
the painter for an hour or more, when all
of sudden, squeek:squeeT Tee.ee ek, we.
heard the old SOW, 60. and q thumpin'
noise, and the cattle beloved and run,
around the house. t'i@ = 4
Thar, / knowsd it, seq ]. as grab.
bed my rifle, upsetting the teapot, 'd-ni