, 1858-02-26
Sut Lovengood's Lizzards.
BY 5. L., OF TENN.
ss-EIT DULLER REWARD.

: juce to be collected at ur aboute mex kamI
4 meetin by eny wun whot ketchs him, 70
the carcus ov wun SUrTY LovENGoOD de,
r or alive and safely gin over tn the keer o
] PasSon John Bullin at Squire mack Jenkin
] for raisin ov the devil permiscusy, dis
, cumfartn the wimen powerful an Skaril
r ov folks ginerally at the ratil snaix spring
big meetin, signed by me
JoHN BUILIN the Passou.
: attested tn by
Q Jehu Wethoron."
| found witten copies of the above high
! ly ineligible and vindictive proclamation
, stuck up on every blacksmith shop, doggery
and store door in the Frog Mountain range
/ Its bloodthirsty, vindictive spirit, its style,
and, above all, its chirography, interested
me to the extent Of stealing one from a
tree for preservation.
In a few days l found Sut in good
crowd in front of Capehart's small doggery
and rs he proved to be about "in tune" ]
: read it to him. nI
"Yes, George, that ar dockymint am in
yearnest, sartn. They dus want me pow
= erful bad, but l spect cit dullers wont fetch
me. I'll go myself fur fifty, planked down,
ef yu'll go long and see me hev Justice
Lite, lite, old feller, an let that roam owe
+ yourn blow a little, and I'll splain this GUS
sed afar what hes runated my karacter as
a Plus pusson in the sciety about here. Ye
see, went to last years big meetin at Rat
il Snaik Springs, and Wer sitting in q nice
shady place conversil with friend in the
huckil berry thicket, wben the fust thing !
know'd l woke from a trance, what I'd
been knocked inter by four year old hick-
ory stick in the han Of old Passon Bullin,
durn his alligator lookin hidel an he wur
standin a stradele oV me, foaming at the
mouth an preachn tu me about sartn
sins an my wickedness ginerally. My poor
frien wur gone, and was glad ov il, fur
thot he msnt tn kill me with his club ef he
failed tu preach me tu deth, an didn't
want her tn see me die"
"Who was the friend you speak Of, Sut2"
Nun o-v your b-i-s-n-i-s-durn your
little anxious picterl But I'll tell ye one
thing, George; that mite a neibor gall got
an orful confounded stroppin from her man
with the stirrup lether ov a saddle, and ole
Passon Bullin had ate supper thar that
mite; and what's wus nur all, she cooked It
fur i'm and begged him, a trimblin and cry
in not tn tell on her, the durned, Internal,
hiperkriNkal, pot-bellied, Whiskey-wastin
old ground hog; but / paid i'm fur It all, Of
haint will. mean tn keep payin oV
him all the time. Well, at next big meet
in at Ratil Snaik, wur on han, as solem as
q hat kerier at collecshun time, for had
promised the ole hog tu cum an be convert
ed, jist tu keep i'm frum KILN me. tuck
a seat on the steps oV the pulpit, 10 prove
wur in yearnest. Thar was a monstrous
crowd in that grove, an ole Bullin wur
preaehin to EN- at an orful rate-how the
Hell Sarpints wud sarye em IL theJ didn't
repont-bow they'd crawl over EN-, rap
thar tails round thar necks, poke thar tungs
inter thar eyes Nblow inter thar years;
and ef it wuF an oman, how they'd guile in
her bussum, an try tu crawl down under
her frock-striDg. An, he he'd EN- hot, hol-
lerin, an skeerd; the fact is, the thing wur
a workin powerful Now I'd k0tch Eve
big grey pot-bellied LIZARDS an had EN- 10
a little narrer bag, What made a purpos
thar tails all at the bottom, an packed
as tite as q bundil oV sticks.
So while be wur rarin onto bis tip-toes,
unbenowenst tu any body ontied my poke
an put the mouth up under his britehes leg,
and gin thar legs q squeese an a shake,
when they all tux up his bare leg, making
owe noise sOrier like squirrills climbin
shell bark hichory. He stopped preach
in an looked fur mint like be wur list
min fur sunlhin, sorteF like an ole SOW dus
when she hears you whistle fur the dogs
/ give big groan an hilt my he'd atWeen
my knees Then be commenced q slapin
ov bis self whar ye cut the steak outen a
tail sprouts, then he'd stomp, then run his
han atween his waisbun and bis shut, and
reach down an round mitily with it-then
he spred bis big legs and give bis back q
good shakin, sort oV rab agin the pulpit
sorter like q hog scratches agin a stump;
a leanin tn bis work powerful, and squirmin
ginerally zif he'd jist cum outen dog bed
or had sIep on a pisant trail. About this
time wan oV my lizards (skeered an hurt,
spose, by ell the rubin aud slappin, pok-
ed bis he'd out atween the passons shut
collar an bis ole brown'neck, tuck peep
at the circumstances, and lodged back
agin. f '.aii' afi '.a e-
Ole Bullin's speech now cum tn him; bis
eyes stickin out like two buckeyes hung
agn a mud wall, and his voice trimblin
Sez he, "Bretherin, take keer oV yerselfs,
the Hell Sarpiuts hav got mee Sum owe
the wimmin fotch painter yell, an a ram
rod-legged doctor what sot near me, allow
ed it wur clar case oV Delicious Tremend
jus, aud thot he wur rite, fur it loHr tire
mendjus afore it wus dun with. on went
the claw-hammer coat, an he flung it ahind
him like he wur a gwine inter iite, (he
he'd no jackit on Next he lotch bis shirt
over his he'd faster nur | got Outen my
|, pasted wun, an he flung hit up in the air
like be didn't keer a durn ef it kept up for
ever, but it lodged into black jack,