Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-05-21
Love i'm the Back Woods;
Jimmy Wsddic's Fiss: C~ourtship.
COMMrNICATEDToTHE WEEKLY DISPATCH
BY IMpERTURBABLE GRAVITY.
(Concluded.)

She kept me up late, say two O clock,
md spite of the noveltry(it being the
ust time) got 81 epy. Now, the
squire had JUS, come to the parts, aud
had but a DC It ,ry, one room'd log
cabin, and tie whole family, cept' some
the young ons, sicp, below. was
4 leetlc baslful bout z ing to bed there,
but ! Vas three miles from hcme, and
1t WAS rainin' ike blue blazrs; ] had to
DO it, and done it with out exposin, the
blanks in my linen. l resolved to lie Up
up fore any DO yelse in the mornin' IN
III D.. salne o and some others -
That was the last | know till wax
end by the hounds (haif a dozen Of
which slept under the beJ) a pullin
the kivers of n me-. Holy hea-
vcns. the sur two hours high break
fast on the table, and Inc III bed. Just
As was gitten out, in pops the old
oman, with a plate Of vepson. 1t was
,iogdays, YOU know and she cookl in a
shanty. l possum'd sleep till she went
out again, then looked Tor my trowser..
Thar they sur in the jaws Of the pups
at the foot OF the bed. malea nigh
ty luuge over the foot-boArd to rrtake
them, but, oh horrors.-my head do n
aud my heels up. What's the matter
thinks but it hasht across me 10 a
mint that the hole in my linin was over
the POSTPAID a tall one too! lkick'd
and fiounder'd and founded, but to NO
purpose. l couldn't get down. l
strained to break the hem but il was all
no 90. Jist now all the hounds com
nenced yellin' so furiously the old ON.
an and both gals run in to sec wha,
was up, aud when they seed it was me
they run out agin one beginin to holler
for the Squire, while tothe,s through
the cracks, battled with fishin' poles the
cursed hounds that wur wullin' me-
Oh | thought Of Abslem and every DO.
dy else that ever did hang, but he dldn',
hang with the wrong end up, that
WAS a consolation | hadn't. Id Gust my
late like Boston but l remembered /
belonged to mectiu', and it was agin
the rules. l did howsomever think
some mighty hard words if | didn't
speak them. But oil that didn't do
no good. couldn't make nothin' by
pullln' downxrd's 30 | thought Id CLINE
up the post, and unloose myself tina,
way. hail nearly succeeded when
II o the unnannerly pups attacked
me in the rair, and loosiEg my hol,
fell in y knot--desidediy peellng Of
my ne the bottom busted of, AID !
come out full length on the floor, IN
precisely The same . ate of6x JOB said
he came Tito this world! The mex,
mint | WAS under the bed where the
everlasting pups had dragged my trou-
ser. | cuffed them of but e,ey
time | attempted to put one leg part.
ly on, the Internal whelps would pull
tother of. l worried this way some
time, when q p~uucheon give way, and |
fell through into u trough of soap un.
der the house. q sh! | thought |
was in the pit that's bottomless l
apr ing for my life, but in doing this l
threw myself into the face and stom
ach Of Esquire Crampton, who was COM
IN on the run, 'spectin' the Inj,ns was
a massscreeing the whole family. The
collie on threw him down hill, aud
followed suit, heels over head to the
bottom. Here | recovered and saying
uOt even . word, l struck q bc.l,ne ter
homejist - wa>,in oil my native puri-
ty.at . speed that split the Winds my
toe nails striking fire at every jump!
But b'hoysI never went within =
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