Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-09-25

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j, cabin about twelve feet Square built of
!, heavy logs, jiststo stop suchdoins as this!
{ gheidogs had their noses to pthe cracks
) bayipg away like. all fred, and the pigs
I twere "a snortin and squalin inside; but the
tEstrangest thing was, that the. door was
Itig ght fast, The chain across 1t, and the big
Slioak pin'd asstight as ever ssdgfs
Il .Whar's the paintsrgs sez the, .doctors
lIIas he, came up.,set,,s t,,sa..,,,r IN, ~
4 sThats jlst what want TO know, seq I,
,Ias cum round tie buildin to look for OF his his
I,Role. but without fnding'it. "a t~s1 y1i's
II yeThei pigs were a sqdealinl away as if
IIthey1 would split nthreats.s and the,
,Idogss, were, p Idancin and q, .howlin,, The
1l'old woman was sayin somethin, but you
Ic66ldnt hear what It was, for the wind
Il jIblewsas bad asseyefsft only wanted that
j cusseda spainter's, cscreechi toRmakea 1t all
\ complete; and ;jistI then, as ] am alvin,
sinner, the yaHrmmipt ~ m gave his scteech,i and;
Twas inside, the pen. = - ~ 1 - "
! ssr say Squire, It would have done vel
good to have heard that screechr and seen
!, that scrammage.s I've .hearn the yar.
mints .screeeh many. q time. when they
and have been In the woods all alone,
! but'then it was, Kind a soft like, as if he
4 was doin for his amusement when he was
\ lonely;a 'putseit then in the best meatre,
j of course, and it isnitidisagreeable, uni
less he. might be too close to you. But
here he didn't smooth it down, his dan
der was evidently riz, and he yelled out
asif he was filing a ninety horse power
saw with the Rocky Mountains, and
wound.up with a.spit that list took the
hair off a steam whistle. The young pups
drew back little and howled, and the
old, dogs went nearly mad because. they
couldn't get through the cracks between
the logs. E'asf .9aa7 u4E u.
''.The doctor was for settin fire to the
cabin and burn him up. The old woman
was for cuttin hole in the door and
shootin him. That was Kind of onfair to
the varmint, 1 Thought. Sez 1, 'I'll show
you prettier trick, than that: III list
open the door, and then. Martha. if you
hold the light steady, I'll take him with
a poke in the ribes that will stop his stear
lin my pigs. There's no miss fire to my
gun, and that wonitibe imposing on a
Yarmint that's down. I,r.. .-.
1 put my hand to the peg that held the
chain, when the doctor, taking the eends
ofthe logs that stuck out at the corner of
the cabin for stairs, jist put himself on
top of the pen intwo shakes of a dear's
tail. smiled softly to myself, but /
didn't say nothin, for thinks L to myself,
if the varmint does come out here, and l
do miss him, only wound him.. the dogs
will be on him like shot, and then he'll
go TO tree right on top ofthe cabin, that's
sure. 4s .g5i
So I tugged at the peg. and every time
Che chain Irattled the Doctor edged back
on the top Of the cabin. gettin upsto the
ridge, spose, fora sure seat, when all of
sudden he disappeared, Heavens and
ycarth! he had come backwards onto the
hole the painter had dug in the roof, and
had tumbled in! go '',H'2 i7f5' f, ,os'
Yer should have heerd that man
scream! The painter " wasn't nothin TO it.
Painter might have. been some. louder,
and then it wasn't so skeery. It fairly
made me snaky to hear him. AS he
come down to the ground inside, there
was such busting around in that little
building! Pigs and painter and man all
seemed to be stirring about pretty lively,
and to all of-the other noises the old wo-
man set up screamin that made me
more shaky than anything else.
'Quick!' she followed, pull open the
door-quick! Oh, Eliakim! oh dearI
Il pulled as hard as L could, but the
cussed peg had swelled with the rain,
and yer couldn't bulge it, aud chain was
the. OK chain, as went all across the door.
s'Iear, it down, you old pirate! sez the
old woman to me, and she took hold of it
With both hands, but she might as well
have tried to pull down the cabin.n s'1r9
= Al. a. L al, I.
ings of the. dogs and the squealing Of the
pigs; could hear the doctor a prayin
away one mini.ss loud aslhe, could bawl
and at another mint, cal!in to me to come
. and help him. ,...'.,s.,. -,
the house for theiax.n hesa9si3 90 'dpo1
|, Away she started - leayin athe torch
with me, and she run like wild Ipjun. II
kneeled down So as to get on level with
them, andputtin theipih knot tsodt would
shine throughy Ipeepedj inE at the cEar-,
mint. Lord! hut he, was p az beauty
Crouched up in the fur corner Of the. CABS
in, he stood with one foot on the wall,
ready for. arjqmprT His eyes looked. like
two blue, lights on the Florida Keys, and
his open, mouth all the time dropped
water down on his whitish. chest and. on
his feet. Once in while he'd take look
at the whole up in the roof and lay down
his ears, as, TO jump at it, but it was a.
leetle too high for hims and he could not
get room enough TO make the leap. His
feelers were as long as q ramrod, and
j when he looked up al the roof they lay SO
far back that they reached the wrinkle
that crossed his shoulders-the only
! wrinkle on his body. wanted TO take