The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-10-03

~ the nati Snatk springs III w tuo uuot
i ~ linew eyes, . very handsome GIRL
"Handsome that wurd don't kiver the case
il sounds like CALM good whisky water
when you ar At Big spring and the still hous'
ten miles of, an hit . rainin', an yer Hasl
only half full. She shows amung wimen lik'
a sunhower as compared to dog fennel IN
smart weed an jimsen. But thar amt M
use tryin' to describe her. Couldn't craw
thru whisky barrel with both heads stow
out, If it wur HID study for her, an goot
foot holt at that. She weighs just two hun.
dred an twenty-six pounds, an stands six
teen hands high She never got in an arm
cheer in her life, an you can lock the TOT
hoop of churn VI . big dog collar rount
her waist Eve seen her jump over the tor
Of split bottom cheer, and never show heI
ankles or ketch her dress onto it. She ker.
ried devil enuff about her to FIJI four hos,
Vaughn bed, with skin as white as the in.
side Of frogs.ool, cheeks an lips rs red u
apearche's gills in dogwood blossom time
an SIGH smile Or, be'dratted Of it il
eny use talkin'. That gal cud make me mnr.
der old Bishop Soul hisself, or kill nam not
to speak Of dad, ef she jest limited that she
wanted such thing dun.
swell, to tell it at onst, she war gal all
over, from the pint of her toe nails tn the
longest har on the hiest knob nv her he'd
gal all the time, everywhere-an that ov the
| excitinsst kind. Ov course LEANED up to hel
as close as dar tn, an In spite OF long legs,
appetite for whisky, my shurt scrapc, an
dads actin boss, she sorter leaned tn me,
am was beginnin' tn think wur jist tho
greatest and comfortablist man on yearth,
not exceptin' old Buck or Brigham Young,
with oil his radd cullered, wrinkied wimmin,
cradcls full Of babies, an Big Salt Lake
thrown in. Well, wun day, cussed, de-
ceivin', palaverin, stinkin' Yankee peddlor,
| all jack knife and jaw, cum to old man Burn
SEES, with load Of apple parlns, caileker,
ribbins, jewsharps, an s.o-d-y powders.
Now, mind, I'd never hern tell ov that truck
afore, an be burned il don't want it to be
the las.-wus nor rife powder-wus nor
perkussion--three times ~ smart, and huts
wus, heap wus. Durn him. Durn all Yam
kee pedlers, md durn their principals and
prac,ises, | say. | wish had oil the sody
powder they ever made in his cussed paunch,
an slow match fixed tn him, an had a
chunk Of fire, the Teller what found peace
ov him big enuf tn reed q cockroach ought
to be King ov the Sultan's hxrem thous-
and years for his luck. They Amt human,
nohow. The mint at Filydelfy 10 thar Heav-
en- they shink their God eats half dimes for
breakfast, hashes the leavin's fur dinner, and
swallers cent an dried apple for supper,
sets on stsmpin' machine for . throne,
seaps on crib full of half dollars, and
measures men like money, by count. They
haint one ov them got sole but what cud
dance a jig in kabbage seed, and leave
room fur the fiddler.
swell, Sicily bought tin box ov the So
dy from him, an hidit away from her folks,
a sayin' it for me. happened to pass next
day, ov course stopped to enjoy a look At
the tempter, an she was right luvin' to me,
put one arm around my neck, an tother wun
whar the clrcngle goes roun' hoss, TUX the
inturn on me with her left foot, an gin me
kiss. Says she, 'Sutty, love, pve got sum.
tain fur you, n new sensashun' am be-
iieved it, fur begun tn fen it already. My
toes felt like little minners wur nibblin' at
Jena cold streak ran up and down my back
like a lizard with turkey hen after him in
settin' time, my heart felt hot and onsatis-
fed like, an then I'd a cut ole Souls throa
ef she'd limited at needsessity for SIGH 40 OPP
erashun. Then she poured ten or twelve
blue papers ov the sody inter big tumbler,
and about the same number 0v white wuns
into luther tumbler, and put nj onto a pint
ov water on both ov them and stirred Fem
both up with case nife, lookin' Us solemn
as an ole jackas in snow storm when the
folders eli gin out. She hilt one while she
told me to drink luther. l swallered il at
wan run-tasted salty like, tho't it wur II
part Of the sensashun. But was mistaken.
ed, oil ov the cussed internal sensashun wur
to cum, and it wurnt long At it, boss, you'd
believe me. Then she gin me luther tum-
bier, mn sent it after the fust, race boss
fashion.
'sIn about wun moment an a hat tho'tFd
swallered thrashin' masheen in full blast,
ur n cupple ovIbull dogs, and they had sot in
fer titin. see,>sAat were cotched agin-
some family disrsNxition to make cussed
fools ov themselves eNery chancs--soI broke
for my boss. stole look an thar lay Sic.
ily on her back 10 the srch, q screemin with
latiin, her heels up in the air kicken oy
'em together like she wur u tryin' tn kick
her slippers OF. But had no time tn lcok
then, am thar wur = road oy foam from the
house tn the boss two foot wide nm four in.
chcs deep--lookcd like it had been snowin'
poppin', an hissen', aud sizzlin' an q
biin', like tub ov hot soap snds. he'd
getherod cherry tree limb as ran, an
lit asstrsddie ov my boss, whippin' an q
kickin' like mad. This, with the scarey moi.
SEES made (fur wur whistlin', an = his.
sin', an . sputtcrin', out Of. mouth, nose an
eyes, like steam angine,) sot him : rearia'
am cavortin' like he was scared out OF biz
senses. Well, he vent. The foam rolled
an the ole black boss asw. He jist misxled
scared nj tn death, an DO wur I-so "
agreed on the pint Of the greatest distance
to the smailest time.
II aimed fur Doctor Goodman's ct tn.
Hiwassee Copper Mines, to get somsthins tu
stop the explosion in my inards. | met q
sercuit rider on his travels toward frisc
chicken an hat full ov ball biskiss. Al
oam = searin' along hs hilt up his hands liz,
he wanted to pray fur ne, but - prcfcrrst
physic to prayer, in my pecoolisr situwashul
at that time, jist rolled along.-Hs tuck
skeor - cum MI on tu him, his faith ii,
out, am be lodged hosa, saddil-baga, n
overcoat, later q thioket jist like yos's,
seed tcrkil take watsf often log when
tea<in' big steamboat GUMS along. --As b.
passed ole man Rurns's, Sicily hailed him
an axed him il hs'd met snnybody in hur
~ gwine up the road. The poor man tho
perhaps he did an perhaps be didn't, bu
he'd seen q site, Nv spook, Nv ghost. "
ole Beelsebub himself, ur tho komis, =
didn't adsastly know which, bat takin al
things tugetner an the short timo he'd 10
preparation, he thought be met Grassy
long~legasd, shakin' Quaker, : Assin' frou
shs wrath n cam, on black an white spot
4 tod boss, whippin' Nv him with big brush
an he he'd white beard what sam fran ri
unto hiS eyes "a the pummil ov the saddil
an then forked an went to his knees. an
then snmtimes drapped.in lunches - big .
a crows nest ~ tho ground. an hsarn
sound like rushin' ov nifty waters, and b
wur mitily exercised about It snyhow.--Wel
guess he wur, an 90 wur his lat boss, an
wur ole blAckcy wust exercised oy al o