Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-05-21


thing was wrong. He had been sick
whipped in free fight. or was Just out
growing one of his big DRINKS. But on
this point was soon enlightened.
"Why. Sut, what's wrong now?"
Heaps wrong; durn my skin CT hain't
most ded. Lite off onthat ar boss, George,
an take a horn while take two, Shaking
that everlasting flask of his at me- and
plant yerself on that ar log an I'll tell We
ct 1ken, but its most beyond tellin'. /
reckon I'm the darndest fool ont en- Utaw,
sept my dad, for he acted boss, an hant
dun that yet-allers in sum trap that cudent
koch sheep. I'll drownd myself sum
day see ct don't, just to stop a family
dispersion to make id fools on them
selves
"How is it, Sut, hare you been beat play
ing cards, or drinking, which is it?'
Mara one; that can't be did in those
parts; but SEEM its you, George I'll tell
you; but Iswar I'm MISUNDERSTANDING,
and-and-mad, am.
eye know l boards with Bill Carr, at
bis cabin on the mountains, an pays fur
when l hevent eny, why he takes one-third
owe 1t outen me in cussin'; an she, that's
dis wife Belts, takes out t'other two-thirds
with the battlin stick, and the interest
with her tung. an the intrusts more'n the
princip'l-heap more. She's the cussed-
est oman ever seed eny how fur jaw,
breedin' an pride. She can scold bis
ter into bulls face rite in the curl in two
minits. She t-breeds ev'rything on the
hears tell on, from bussis to briches. OH
she's one of 'em. and sometimes she's
two or three. Well, We see, I'd got sum
homemade cotton truck to make a new
shut outen. and coaxed Belts tn make it,
and about the time it wur dun, here comes
Lawyer johnson an axcd for brekfus-I
wish it had pizened him, durn his hide, an
| wonder it didn't fur she can cook awful
mixings when she trys. I'm pizen proof,
myself (holding up his flask and peeping
through IT'D ur I'd been ded long ago.
well while he wur eatin', she spiei
out that his shut was stiff an mighty slick,
she never rested till she wormed it outen
HIM that preparation ove.four did it, an
she got few perticulers about the perseed-
ings, tn, outen him by 'omon's art don't
know how she did it, perhaps he does
After he left she sot in an billed big pot
owe paste, nigh onto peck owe it, an
souzed in my shut an let it soak awhile:
then she tuck it an iroued it out fiat an
dry, an sot it up on its aidge agin the cab
in in the SUM- Thar it stood IS stiff as
dry boss hide; an it ratified like a sheet
owe iron, it did. 1t wur pasted tugether
all over. When cum to dinner nuthin'
wud do but must put it on. Well Belts
an me got the thing open arter some hard
work, she pullin' at one owe the tails an
me at the luther, an got into it. Durn
the everlastin' new tangled shut, / say. l
felt like Ia crawled inter an old lee gum,
an it full owe pis-ants; but it war like Law
yer Johnson's, an stud it like man, an
went tn work tn build Belts ash-hopper.
/ worked powerful hard an sweat like a
boss. an when the shut got wet it quit hur-
tin. After got dun. tuck about four
fingers of red head, an crawled Up into the
cabin loft tn take snuze.
well, when walked up ! thot l was
ded, or had the cholery, for all the jints
cud muve were my ANGLES wrists and knees
-cudn't even muve my head and skasely
wink my eyes-the cussed shut wur pasted
fast onto me all over, from the pint owe the
tails tn the pint of the broad-ax collars
over my years. 1t sot me as clost as poor
cow does her hide in March. / squirm'd
an strain'd till got it sorter broke at the
shoulders an elbows, and then dun the
durndest fool thing ever dun in these noun
tins. / shufael my britches of an tore
luse from my hide about two inches owe the
tail all around after much pain and tribula-
ton. OH but it did it hurt. Then tuck
MP a plank outen the loft and hung my legs
down thru the hole an nailed the aidge owe
the frunt tail to the aidge owe the floor before.
an the hind tail nailed to the plank what
sot on. onbuttoned the collar and rist-
bands, raised my hands way up abuv ny
head, shotup my eyes, said grace, an jumpt
thru tn the ground floor"
Here Sut ruminated sadly.
George, I'm durnder fool than ever
dad was, Hoss, Hornets, an all. I'll !
drownd myself sum of these days. see eff !,
don't" ta a rs
well go on, Sut; did the shirt come
off, m
"I-t-h-i-n-k-it /
hearn noise sorter like tesrin' single 1
ruff off owe house, all at onst, an felt like /
my CUTS an bones war all that reach
ed the fure. / staggered tn my feet an
tuck look at the shut. The nails had all 1
hilt thar holt, an thar it wur hanging arms
down, inside out, an stiff as ever. 1t look
ID like the map owe Mexico jist arter one
ove the wurst battles patch ofmy hide
about the size owe a dollar an half bill
here; bunch owe my har about the size
ove brid's nest thar; then sum more skin
hen sum paste; then a little more har; then
skin: an so on all over that new tangled.
everlastin', internal cuss owe shut. 1t
var picture to look at-an' so par l.
The hide har an paste wur about ekeally
ievided atween me and hit. Wonder what
Belts durn hef tho't when she cum home
md foun' me missin'. Spect she thinks !.
.rawled into a thicket an died owe my
wounds. Itmust have shared her good,
mr. / tell you it looked like the skin owe
um wild beast torn off alive, or bag what
rad kerried load of fresh beef from shoot