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

that'was pious in so short a lime. i think
ef wanted to convert a sinner I'd shut
him up with a painter. saslo57 sob
q just as he was sayin sometlin about
.rePosin on the protectin arm Of God; the
painter gave q Jump for the hole ins the
!. Jshoshayhat! what janapl Hs got
his fore claws onto the shingles. but the
shingles gave way and tsAhe. came down
with spiteful screech. With that the
pigs rushed around in double time. and
Fliakim, forgettin his prayfn, holiored for
me and Martha to come and help him. ].
he was like the old woman who said She
trusted in God when her horse run away
with her. until the britchen broke, and
then She gavesup..s en@ 49'f'Eel f2fis = sf1
Poor fellow felt for him; every time
Ithe painter moved he ana the pigs d, owed
too and they were hazei around that pigs
pen in double quick time, for the painter
rs q restless brute, and can stand stili.t n
: Soon the old woman came back with
the x,.and I commenced ,cuttin the peg
that held the clains. : This ffled fhe pain ain
ter, and he commenced rinhin afound
liyelier than ever, and. away Went the
doctor, rannin and idmpin Over the seoSwS
the painter had Killed praSSil away aud
calm to me by turns ~ Z - isotl fs'1eis
ga stroke or two Of 'the ak cut OFF the
plug. Stand aside Martha seq I. as II
pulled off the chain. and threw open, tie
door. I had my rife to my shoulder.
The first thing that come out was the
DOCTOR. it nearly cost him his life, Tor l
was jist Pullin on him when be said sone.
thing and saved himself; then come the
painter quicker than lightning; as he
struck the ground outside after his first
jump. I pulled on him. The ball struck
him just in. the shoulder, breaking one
leg; he fell, but, was on Ills feet again
quicker than thought, and, every one of
the sixteen dogs, pups and ell. on top Of
him. - 80
.Phewl What a tussell i,'Go it, pupsl.7
says Martha holding up her right 60
it, yaller ,backsp That old woman was
clare grit-well she was.
The painter fetched himself up on his
hind legs. like bar, hissin' all the while.
One leg hung down-that was the bro>
ken one-the other one he fetched around
among the dogs. and knocked 'em over
like nine pins. Old Boz took some of it,
and it keeled him up straight, and then
Tinker, and Sumter. I seen 'em gittinn
cut awful, and so I walked into the muss
with the ak. One, cut did the business,
It took him just over the ear and druy
into the brain, and there's his skin-now
aint beauty?p r ti' 80, -. ms ms ~ =,
.Wall, the doctor was in the house
when We come in With the pafntey, and
he was sin holding onto his pistol. He
was just used up and all my !arfn az
him, and. Marha's Schiedam Schnapps,
didn't cure him. He took the fever and
ague, and couldn't leave the house for
week and when-he did 60 he war SO weak
in the back that he could hardly sit on
his horse. ~.
He stopped there purity often agin that
winter, goin and comm, but eff we ever
heard anything out doors of nights he
would always coax me 70 go off and see
what it was, but he never left the house,
and was purity sure to, lock the doorowhen
| was gone, to keep the yarmints OUT
That's the natur of a doctor.rI5H 5sra n