The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1857-08-29
! VOLUME XIX-NO. 965.
NORTH CAROLI,irrA,N..
SUIT Loyegeod's Shirt.
FaYETTE VILLE, ". {

TENNESSEE.A
The FIRST one met was "sut," lefte,
sing the Hiwasse, weaving alongfsn
ual rambling uncertain, gait, H4S appe
at once satisfied me that soalAth'is ajSs
He bod sssa lss wahiRssaf aai!, lssf s
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am take horn, while take two, tsrS
that everlasting flask of his at me.) an,x
yerself on that ar log, an 1'll tell ye ell
but it's most heyont telling.' l reckoiN
the darndest fool outen Utaw, 'scept my
for he acted boss, haint done that yet-aliN
in some trap that cuddent keen sheep
drownd myself sum day, see CT l. don't, just 10
stop family dispersition to make id 1oois
I of themselves.
| Glow, is it, Sut, have you been beat playing
ca rds or drinking which is i!'
"Nara one that can't be did in these parts;
but seein' it's you, George, I'll tell you; but
| I'll swar Pm shamed-sick-sorry aho-aho
mad, am
| You know l boards with Bill Carr at his
cabin on the mountain, an pays for sch es l
gifts when hcv money, an when heVhC ehs'
why he takes one-third ov it onten me Ill Gus.
sem an she, that's his wife BettS taxes GU.
tother two-thrds with the battlin' stick, an
the intrust with her tongue, an the lntrust Is
more'n the prncip'l-heap more Shes the
cussedest 'oman ever seed, eny how, Tor nere
jaw, breedin' aud pride. She can scold niis-
ter onto q bulls face rite on the curl III TWO
mnts. She outbreeds ev'ry thing on the ruVer
am PATTERNS artcr every fashun she hears tell
on from bussils to briches. Oil she's one ov'
'em, am sometimes she's two or three. wen,
ye see, I'd got sum home made cotton tfuch "
make shut outen, and coaNcd Belts TO hi"he
it, an about the time it war dun, here comes
LAWYER Johuson. along. am axed for breaktus.
| wish it mad piZencd him, durn his h'ed. an
| wonder it didn't for she cocks awful miSens
when she trys. Pm pizen proof, myself \ho,o
ing up his flask and perping through W. Ut o<
I ben ded loug Ego.
..W ell while he wur a eatin' she sped. ont
, that his shut stiff an misy Sick; so she
never restedtill she worm'd it onten HIM fhaC
l. a preparation -four did it, an shc 60: ".'t y
: particulars about the proceedin's tn, dute'.
by 'omans art--I don't know how she did =
perhaps he does-Arter he left, she sot in AMI
billed big pot paste, nigh onto peck ov it
and soused in my shut an let 1T soak awhile, !,
then she tuck it an ron'd it out fiat and dry,
an sot it up on it's adge agin the cabin in the
sun. Thar it stood, stiff dry boss hide,
an it ratified like sheet iron, it did 1t
wur pasted together all over. When l cum to
x dinner, nnthn' would do but | must put 1t on
G Well, Belts an me got the thing open arter
u sum hard work, she. pnllin' at one ov the tails
, = an me at luther, an got into it Durn the
everlastn' new-fanged shut, say l felt like
o I'd crawled inter old bee gum, am hit full ov
e SAINTS; but it wurslike Lawyer Johnson's, an
= = stud it like man, an went to work to build
Belts ash hopper; worked powerful hard an
te swet like hoss an when the shnt.got wet it
quit its hurtin' Arter ! got dun, tuck about
a four fingers red head. an crawled into the
10 cabin loft to take snuZe.
''Well when walked up thot was ded.
le or had the cholery for all the jints l could
move were my ankles, wrists and knees-cudn't
leven muve my he'd, an skasely wink my eyes
the cussed shut wur pasted fast onto me all aver
:. from the pint the tails to the pint ov the
broad-ax collars over my years 1t sot to me
on as clost as poor COW dus to her hide in March
ge | suurmd am stran'd till l got it sorter broke
W ,v at the shoulders, an tlien l dun the darndes
es fool thing ever did in these mountains shufff
u ed my briches off an tore lusc from my hide
IN about two inches ov the tail all round, III muct
. pain an tribulation. Oh! but it did hurt. TheI
nd I tuck up a plank outen the loft, an hung
ac- legs down thru the hole, and nailed the
is tail ov my shut to the aidgc ov the fo21G
VI an the hind tail | nailed to the plank
sot on onbuttoned the co lar AM
so bans raised my hands way up abuv
90 shut my eyes. said GRACE, an Jumpt th'%
Sc Sc sEm esSqes s4sl ede ey{s4ahl ll( a s.sllyo
&c Gorge, I'm a durMler fool than
soy was, hoss honcts.an all. I'll dre
sum ov these days, eff don't"
. "Well go on, Sut,-did the shirt
ott -t-h--n nk--it--dii!l
a noise sorter like tariu shngled ruff
oo, house. all at onst, an felt like my gut
Ives bones wur all that reached the floor; sta!
and gered to my feet, an tuck look up at~ti
-, Shut The nails had all hilt their holt, a
WIZ ns tn IT it wur hangn' down inside ont, a
(. stiff as ever 1t looked like map OF Mexic
L list ater one of the worst battles--a patch
~ nv hide about the size OF a dollar an ia
ON bill here; bunch of my har about the size OF
also birds nest there; then sum more skin; tn
yer's sum paste; then little more hari then he'
Mix ~ .t;n +bop moro har. then skin: am, so
e. all over that durn'd, new tangled. everlastin
. Internal cuss ov a shut. 1t wur pictur
for look at-an' so wur 1 The hide, har, 8
= paste wur eqcally divided atween me an mt.
H. Wonder What Belts, durn her, thot when s
- cum home an foun me missn Spect
thinks I crawled into the Inject an died oy I
81 wounds. 1t must have skared her good, foi
- teiI vou it iookt like the skin OF some VI
benst torn off alive, bag what had kerr'
load ov fresh beef from shoolnf o, ,f1 match. D.
!. A Now, George, eff ever ketch that LawJ
,sent 1o,,nson ont. I'll shoot him, an ef ever
.,e ,oman talks about fat'nin' a shut for me q,
te ,,urn NV everlasting pictur ef don't fattes