Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-10-22
How SUIT. LOvengOOd ExplO.
ded.
Ills EXPERIENCE WITH SODA POWDERS.


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Sut. related the story thus: George, did you
see Sicily Burns Her dad lives at the Rati
very handsome girl" Handsome. that word
don't kivcr the case; it sounds like CALM good
. hiskey water, when We are at Big Spring and the
still house ten miles off, an hit rainln', and yer
Task only half full. She shows among wimen like
sunhower as compared to dog fennel an smart
weed and jinson. But thar amt no use irwin to de-
scribe her. Couldn't crawl thru whskey barrel
with both heads stove out. if wur hilt stedy for
her, and good foot holt at that. She weighs Just
two hundred and twenty-sx pounds an stands six
teen hands high. She never got in an arm cheer
in her life, and you can lock the top hoop of a
churn big dog collar round her waist I've
SEED herjump over the top of split bottom che,
never show her ankils kctch her dress onto it.
She kerred devil enuf about her to fill four boss
"a sgin bed. with skin white as the inside NV (,
frog stool, cheeks an lips as red as perches gls
IN doGwood blossom time. an sich smile Oh |
be drafted CT il : eny use takin. That gal could
maze Inc murder old Bishop Soul hissel or kill mann
not TO speak of dad, eff she jist limited that she
wanted sieh thing dun
We'll, 10 tell it at onst, she war a gall ali over,
from the pint of her toe nails 20 the longest har OH
The hest knob oy her hed-gal all the same, ever
where-and that oY the exctinst kind. o. course
leaned up to her as close dar tu an in spite
cng legs, appetight fur whisky my shnrt scrape,
dads actin hoss,-shc sorter leaned tu me, an |
was beginnin to think | wur jist the greatest and
comfortablist man on year,h, not exceptin Old
Buck or Brigham Young, with all his rddil cutler
ed, wrinkled wimmn cradels full Of babies, and
bis Big Salt Lake thrown in. Well, WIN day, a
cussed, deccivin, palaverin, siinkin Yankee ped
der, all jack-knifc and jaw. cum to ole man Burns
e., with load apple parins, callicicr ribbons,
jewsharps, an so-dy p-o-w-d c r-s. Now. mind,
I'd never hern tell or that truck afore, an be durI-
ed eff don't want Il to be the last--wus nor rifle
powder--wus nor perkusslon--three times as smart
and hurts WIS, heap wus. | wis had all the sody
powder they ever made in him, and a slow match
fixed 10 him, IN iIsd chunk ov fire. the fellei
nat found peac oy him big enough to feed cock
zach ought TO be King oy the Sultun's hartm
thousand years for his luck. They amt human
nohow. The mint at Filadelfy is thar Heaven
,hey III NIX their God catg halfdimcs fur breakfast
iashcs the lsayins for dinner, an swallers cent Oh
dried aTp for supper, sets On a stampin machine
FIR tbrone, sleaps on a crib full Of haf dollars, an
measures men like money, by count. They hain
enc ov them got 4 soal but what kud dance Jig il
: kabbase seed, and leave room for the fiddler
"Well, Sicily she bought tin box Of The sody
f.crl HIM, and hid it away from her folks, q savil
j: for me. happen to pass next day; ov course
stopped TO enjoy look at the tempter, as she wul
mighty luyen TO me, put WIN arm round my neck
81 tothey wliar the circngle goes roun a hoss
TUX intrrn on me with her left foot, and gin me
Kiss Says she. sutty, love, I've got somethin ful
ye, new scnshasbun,-an believed it, for | be
gun TO feel it already. Ny toes felt like little min
nerS wuT Z nibblin at em-a cold streak run up al
down my back ike lizard with turkey hen af
Ter him il settin timc my heart felt hot and onsat
isGed like, Al then III cut old Souls throat, e
she'd limited at needsisity fur SIGH an operation
then she poured ten or twelve blue papers ov the
sody inter big lumber, and about the same mum
Der oT white wuns inter luther tumblcr an nut n
onto pint ov water both ov them an stirred
sm both up with case knife, lookin as solemn a:
oleja ckas in snow storm when the fodder is al
gin out. She hilt wun while she told me drink thu
luther. swalered it at wun run-tasted salt,
like, thought il wur part the senshashun Blu
wur mistakened, all the cussed internal scnsa
shun wur to cum, and il wurnt long at it, boss
you'd believe me. Then she gin ne luther tumb
Ter, and sent il after the first, boss fashion
In about wun minet an haf ] thot I'd swal
Tered thrashin machine in full blast, ur cupple o.
bull dogs and they had sot inter fehtin. ! see,
that wur cotched agin-same family Dispersion
70 make cussed fools ov themselves every chance
so broke for nv boss. stole look back an tina
Sicily lay on her back in the porch, screamin wit
latin, her heels up in the air, kickn ov em to
gether Ike she tryin to kick her slippers of
But had no time tn look then, and thar wur roa
or foam ftom the house to the boss, two foot wild
and four inches deep-looked like it had teen
snowin-p0ppin, an hissin, an bilin, like tub o
hot soap suds. had gethered cherry tree linn
as run, an lit straddle ov my boss, whippi
kickin like mad. This, with the scarey noise
made flor wur . whislin, an hissin an a sputtei
in outer mouth, nose an eyes. ike steam engine
cot him rarn cavortin like he skeered on
ov his senses. Well he went. the foam rolled, a
the old black hoss few. lie fist mizzled--scare
nj tn death, and so wur 1. So We agreed on th
pint the greatest d;stanDein the smallest time.
Stained fur Dr.. Goodman's at the iIighwasse
Copper Mines. tn get suthin tn stop the exploshu
in my innards. met sercuit rider on histravel
towards fried chichen an hat full ov ball bisket
Az cum tarin along he hiit up his hands ike h
wanted tn pray fur me, but as preferred physic h