The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1858-08-25


git somebody 10 fill my place."
" Pour down butternut by the gallon and
slap on talnarack by the yard, mother, and
you'll last q dozen years vet. Married
didn't try it onst and run the gantlet worse
nor any white man through row of Indians,
and gii knocked down, cleaned out, at thar,
by Jim Sykes and Poll Rhineharti Me git
married Catch weasel asleep"
!" That don't signify, Ambrose. II your
rifle misses fire you don't throw it away you
pick the flint and try it again"
That common sense, mother, but tryin
to git ga,-G-st out!'
!" Well, Am, you yarmint, its time you
had wife, and YOU shall; iheumaty or no
rheumatv. you shall get married !"
The old woman grit wur rlz. and you
mout as well try to catch thunderbolt IN
lcaky gourd as put women oft when her
dander's up.
/ was bound to be victim. ! skip over
three days and nights of the orfulest feelins,
but finally made up my mind to 20 into II
as lamb to the slaughter, aud then mother
got cooled down again. On the fourth night
| slipped into them yaller jean pants, that
come cen almost down to my ankles, and
flop about at the bottom like a ray on a been
pole.
Didn't that calico vest and saul wanmus,
all fringed around the cape, cuffs an bo ION
with red yarn fringe, that the old woman
made herself, louk elegant; and them new
cowhides, with about pound OF taller on 'e,n
and my coon skin cap, w.ih the tail brought
over the top, take The shine OH any eyeras-
ting easel-taced. heron legged, pucker.
mou thed, be-whiskered dandy IN Sacramen
tn, Whnnp hnys-wern't roarer--glt
out O. the way, I'm comm myself. Calls IN
the settlement, look out, I'm rlz again like a
+. dead possuln, In, goin trappin for gal, ami
sure enough took the trait for old Bob Nc
: I.aughhe's. Now, Rach. was gall OF con-
siderable pretensions. She was Bob's oldest
daughter. she was, and he had seven OF 'em
that run from five loot nine down to the hit
]. tie end Of nothin, and I.though out of sich a
e crowd was sure Of one. Rach held her head
r. pretty high, because she could lift BARRE
N of white eye out of the wagon on to the
ground, and because she had licked the
10 schoolmaster when he tried to lick her. BE
i tween you and me he was no great shakes
Iy for he never was taught with all his larnIF
:. to use his limbs properly. As Wolf and n'
a we're pokin along among the tall TIMBER OF
,hs bach ss cid Boss cssrnS Ssswss' 81 wee
te dayllght anu uark, heau lhs Souhu :" 49,
he bells. and who should come along but hach
en- Mclaughlin drivin in the cattle.
u How are you, Rach," says l, IN sort o
4 I insinuat.ng way.
Nune the better for you, as knows on,
his says she.
is regular roarer in Missouri J"
n, Wal, YOU aint noth,n else J" says she.
n
be "0h I'm buster" says l.
ou That's a fact" says she. "fou bu'
nd your bler and blowed all your steam OF
g. when YOU let Jim sykes take Poll Rhlneha
rap out o. yer traps :,
yht .Oi glt out, I've got repaired and j
nut so.n 10 fire up again = aud give her s.
,ey nudge wth my elbow ~ the RIBS.
e,r you needn't come here tor wood, then
/ of hs. ha, ha! Pm no k,ndlings for you;
ple you can take the back track in a little lie
,wn than no time, Am. swamp. TO long, "
6x old Salamand.r !" aud club flew at an o
the mooley about as big as rail, ami she sun
IN "rhe frog he would a curtin rile.
.he With sorl aud pi,iil hy his side"
was II that yal had been com. and nv n
be. had mi ,sel fire, would have hung my no
her on i peg and never burnt powder again y
Jim a, she Was game hadn't larnt the nature Z
set maIyelled on, straight by old Mel.iug
that l,n's cabin, and went up to Bezaieel Moor
md shanty. =,
,han Al was climbing over the fence, all
tlon once Bazale,l's old dog sut up the all hired
har, hoIIer,n. and thu first knowed he had
rgot me by the hind leg as ! was backin OIL
male fence.
der. "Geet out! geet ont you yarmint
AL 4 Wnlf Khar il you Z" The creature /
thar .neaked hume, after Raeh. Mclaughlin
M vin me the mitten. | couldn't blame
some annual. for lelt little sneaky too.-lt
en- 1 sneaky business Wal, the cabin door open
ovid and out cum old BaL., has wife, Nance,
rth's All the yonny ones, tu Sc What war up.
,inc .Geet nut, Tig--geet out. Nh0s on
love. fence. thar! Who afe YOU. stranger:
hut. I'm AIN. swamp, Bazaleei Munre !
aster of Tig he hold on to nv new pants wt
rain nor hound to hairy COON"
the "What on arih sent suu here, AIN. At
tool, time o day y saws Baz.
al come" saws l. "tu--iu--geet out, l
ways come I'd, tu-gert out, ,nu sarmlnt
he you I'll swallow you without greesin. +"
/ and I've come tu--tu ,tay with Nancy"
mint. "Stu boy, stu boy bite 'em, u
mir. screamed Nance, like a yuung lnjun.
" the 1nfarnal CTtt'tt WuN "N" "o' -
I" mouthfui out 81 the seat nf my trowsers,
! she. sprung on the fence agin. ani old bah,
.r-ls the whsle family set up regular bre
what down. laugh, like a Young airthpuake
" Nance Muore," SAYS |, giiten wra
feels !" hope yoall live and old maud all the ,
les is Of YOU life, yuu am tit to bake horcak
! out auy white man =" jumped oil the fence
a aud made the chunks Nv under my cowhides
J" outrun the dug. Just one week fro,
histe night, Nance Moore was married to " 81
Wolf. Thomas" who owned two sections 81 Ia
Of the "what luck. Ambrose, my son = say
when old woman. as come pulling into our q
.sksd like . slowed badger.