The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-08-04
DAILY DISPATCH.
SUIT LovENGooD's SHIRT
M S. OF TENN,
TUESDAY MORNING. AUGUST :. 1857.

nj s. OF TENN.
The hrst person met was "Sut" (after crossing
the Uiwassee1 "weayiug and moving along IN tine
usual rambling. uncertain gait; his appearance AZ
once satisfied me that something wss wrong ne
had been sick-whipped in free hgh1. OF was !ust
outgrowing one Of his big DRINKS. h"' "P"" "i'S
point was soon enlightened. 49,
'why. sut. what's wrong now .,
''IIeap's wrong. durn me SKIN II Hiht "ioet u"u
lite on that boss George. an take horn "h1ie
TAXI tv, that everlasting flask OF ms AT me-
an plant yourself on that ar log ana II Vll ~ ~
ken hat it most beyond tenn. IetNon IA
the darndest fool out en- tta", s,ept my nau ~.
he acted ho.@ an haint dun that yet-aiiefS IN
some tran that cndent koch sheep II grown
myself snm day see ct don t just to stop family
disposition to make Id fools on themselves
"IIoW is il, SUIT have you been beat paH my '''N''
or drinking. which isitF'
MARA one; that can be did In these parts hnl
seein' ith Won George. ri tell YOU but swar IA
shamed-sick-sorry and-and-inad am.
eye know ! boards with Bill Carr, at hl' cHpih
on tho mountain and pays fur sch Ar gitN "heh
! hev money an when heyent any, why ne t'h"-
one-third outeu me in cussn; ana ahe. ,'.t' W.
wife, Bets, takes out tother tWo-third' WIN lHe p
tin stick aud the iutrust with her tongue, ana
the intrnSt' : NOR. n the prnci heap more shcs
the cusscdest oman ever seed cnS no" ioF Jaw
breediu' and pride. Sh" can scotd bItstcF "hto a
bulls face rite on the curl ia two mints She out
breeds ey rythiHz on the riFef-ahd pats rms artcI
ey'ry fashion She hears tell on, from bussels 10
hritches Oh she's one on en-, and sometimes
shes two or three Well We see. got hum made
cotton truck To- make shirt outcn. and cOayrt!
Bets to make il, and about the time il dun here
comes lawyer Johnson along aud axcd for bredkfus
i wish it hod pizenod him, durn his hide, aud
wonder it didn't for she cooks awful mixings whoa
she tries. I'm pizcn proof myself lhnlding up lis
flask aud pceping through it, ''or Id been dead
long ago.
Well. while he were a catin'. she spicd out thdt
his shirt was still an mitv slick 50 she never rest
lgIn - RAJ tf.Jt
Of -four did it; and she got few particulars about
the perceiings outen him 10y 'oman's arts-l don't
know how she dill it, perhaps h. does. After he
left she set in an billed big pot Of pastr-ni-h
on to peck of it, an soused in my shirt an let 1t
soak awhile then she tuck it IN and ironed 1t out
fiat and dry, and sOt il up its aidEe agin the cat
bin in the Thar il stood as still "a dry hoss
hide. an it ratified like sheet OF iron, II did IL
were pasted together all over. When cum to din
ner. nothin' wui DO but must put it on We'll
Bets an me got the thing open arter some nara
work. she pulling end Of the tails and me at
the tothcr an | got into il. burn the everlasting
tangled shirt, ! say. felt like had crawied
into an old bee gum an hit full OF psants; but II
wcr like lawyer Johnsou's an stud 1t Ike a man,
and went 10 work to build Bets a ash hopper.
worked powerful hard, aud SWEET like hoSs, ana |
when the shirt got wet II quit its hurting.
.Artcr got dun. took about four fingers OF red
head, and crawled up into the cabin lott 10 t'he
snuze.
We'll when walked up thought was dod. or
had the cholery for all the joints could move "tr
ylya INK .g knpAs-gnIiliiuI
la,,J and skasnIv wink nv eve.-tbe cussed shert |
Vas ra,t,d fast onto mo all over from the pint of
the tails to the pint of the broadsx collar over my
Years II .nt to mo n, close ~ a poor cow lus to
her hide in March squirmed and strained till /
rtur r,t il hrnke st the shoulders and elbows. and
then done the durndest foolish thing ever did IN
th,sn mountains | shuttrd nv hrtches oil and
tnra I,ose from nv hide about two inches of tn"
tail ALI arnuud in much pain ana trihulation. oh
hut II ,Ii,i burt Then took up a plank 0ttru the
loft and hung my legs down through the ho" and
nailed the ailg of the front tail to the floor before
mo and I'm, hind tail | nailed to the plank whot |
snt on | unbuttnned the collier and rsbauls
raised INV hands away above nv head. shot up ny
ey,. sail Grace and jumprl through TO the ground
fore
Here Sut remarked sadly:
oG-orga Tina darn,lar fool than ever dad was
has L,rnrts anil All III drown myself sum OF