Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-02-26

twice the Governors gave expression to more liberal
and progressive ideas than had expected to hear
When, at the close OF half hour thereabouts we
to CO. the Governors also from the singular po
stion in which they had been squatng with their legs
bent under them and bowed out informing that
what remained of refreshments would be sent after
us on board the ship, according to Japanese custom
custom which | was disposed decidedly to applaud,
because had found the confectionery exceedingly tooth
Sure enough that same evening" although it was
blowing half gale of wind in the harbor, off came
twosworded officer, bringing, in box the remnants of
our rejection, which he delivered to with much So
lemnity and amiabilty of character. G. B. B.
sut Luvengood's Dog.
BY 81, OF TENNESSEE.
Boys, told eny on yc owe my dog scrape did
!" No. SUIT, not as we know on you've mixed up
dog so IN all yer dons that can't tell adzacy what
dog scrape We mean" "WelI mean ole Stuff Gut
Did eny on ye see i'm? No." Well ye missed
site. He wur powerful dog, sometimes ye'd
think that he two three dogs, ef ycd seed him
eat not counting owe his tail, fur he hednt eny-
When he wur pup Dad durn him, tuck 'em tu a
strawcutter amed his starn cost up to the frame
the cussed guotine, and foch down the ne and thar
lay the whole tail in the tro like letter S, and there
run the pup yOulin like hound and his starn looked
like you'd busted ripe tomatis onto it. Well it looks
mltey, and his mater Now to his looks, rite
onto the spot whar his tail orter staid there crowd
bunch st ash cuered bristles what pinted every
way like onto split broom with the rappn cut loose,
and rite in the mdd all this fussy lookn patch
har the pint his back bone kivered with gristil
stuck out like onto pdgins ag, case he sot onto hit
much. Well the afar looked nifty sassy and e like,
eny how, purticulerly when he struttin up til
big strange dog to smell owe i'm. 1t made his sturn
look her than his shoulders, purpendculer and squar
an he he'd way wakin slow solemn like I'd seed
young eers do at camp meetn when approaching to a
gall at the spring with thar sudhOsS clothes on, agwne
sorter side ways and nifty keerul I've seed little hogs
60 through the same motions, wun in peach orchard
and tother in the lane, when they ot they wanted to
fte and wud dun it but for the fence what wur atween
EN-. never found out that he good fur eny thing
but to keep bred frum moulding and meat from spin
an when he wanted to show glad, he he'd no tail to
wag, he wagged his hole stern his hind feet slipped
about the groun sorter like fashunabil gall walks
when she thinks he feller is lookn at er. He
cuud adzacty like mdewed sadd skirt, and he ker-
red his years nowin sort of cock like onto mules
when he is skeered He'd whiskers round his eyes,
on his hind legs, must had powerful active cOnsnce
fur he wur the meanest cOuntnenced dog ever seed in
my life. Now tn his mater, you cud never set i'm
to eny thing you wanted tu cudnt call em oen eny
thing he got arter on his accord. He skeered
all the me and stud redy to or to steal the chan
ces mought be- takn i'm altogether he jist the
rite sort owe dog to belong to me, not worth durn
an orter been killed afore his eyes got open.
"Wel, StufLGut, he folered me to town wun day
jist case didn't want him tu an while wur gettin
on he'd Nv steam at the doggery he started arounC
town on a steain' expedition his own an like hi
cussed fool got hisse inter ust rate scrape
scare without half tryn and IN less nor no time at that
he'd gin meself shake in the doggery, heered tn
whiskey in me slosh knowd he'd my load aboard, 81
out inter the street an-the fust thing seed, h
cum tarin' down the street fifteen times faster nor
thOt he cud rum lust abOWn owe hissef his years so
fiat onto his neck, an his brstles all sot like bacl
pearchs top fin his eyes shet up fast and tte and he
on sort harness made out strings sorter lik
the set Dad when he acted hosS he wur hauin
owe ole stage lantern and hit filled with wet powde
onc cOtn Tho rlyo coI1Hp FL
DUST an the ratin, an the youlin an barkin an th
eghtynine ur ninety dogs owe all kinds what chasn
oveS him, made sum sensashun Well-it-did.-
Whew-w-w. When [ seed him pass without nowin' me
thot owe Dads hornet tribulatOn an felt that tha
war sich thing as retribution at last an then / go
mad an looked roun for to vent rath on, ant
seed longegged cuss sorer owe the Lovengood stripe
with his hat cooked before, stin stradd hoss
rack, swingin' his legs an singin-
{" Rack, back Davy rarin up behine,
| You show me your foot an I'll show you mine.''
| Thinks you'll do; eff you didn't start my dog or
that heward eXpedishun hisn, yu du to put it
eny how so here goes Sez l. Mister what-hed-my
dog duntu-yu." He paid no 'tention, but kept on
singin'-
g Rack, back Davy, daddy shot bar,
! Shot i'm in the eye, an never totch ha'r."
seed it wur no use tryin tn breed quarrel so tha
l mout be able tu breed fte, jst lent him ala
tharn calamity rite whar his snout commenced sprout
in from atween his eyes, with rough rock about th
size over goose aig Hit fotch i'm He drapped ofer
the hoss rack but ht squirrel holt onto the pole will
his paws and hine feet, hung back down. jumped
he'd ust through atween his belly the pole my hef
broke his holt and we cum to the ground ftn-me on
demos and turned heads and tails. So the fust thing
did shut my jaws onto mOuthful of steak, nj
to the place where yer foot itches to go when yu
kckin distance of fop. He fit mtiy fur the chanc
he had but seed he had owe bar in 'im fu
he cudent stand tckn behind eff it mout be called tick
lin at all for every time he got his legs onder him, b.
tried his durndest tu jump loose, but my holt ht
we would take our fust position agin. thot DO!
owe matches what [ had in my pocket, SO fotch TIN
whole boxful rake on O. the gravel and stuffed en- al
bazin onto the pockets in his coat tail. Now
mnd he moved nuthn these proccedns, fur his mlnC
wur exercised powerful about the hurtin | a help
in i'm tn behne now'd he'd show strong sign
owe wanin tu go. So the fust big rare he otch are
the fire reached his hide s let my mouth fly opens
ian lie Went his hole tale in blaze Rite here boys
| must tell yu sumthin didn't myself ur dum
hednt let him beat inter poultis, alore I'd sot hin
are-I'd seed him durn'd us The thot Oh it steers m
} yet. He had two pounds gun powder in tothe
pocket, taking home tn shooting match. Well, h
aimed to past peddling Vaughn, what was stand
in in the street, with f1st rate set old live hos
bones atween the shafts while the Yankee in tn
doggery, rn up tu leave town. Jist he got clos
the carrya the powder cotch fire. and soon arterward
re off did he, he'd fust frog iashun, rite thru tn
top load of tin He lit running ten foot tuth
er side his coat tails blown off tn his shoulders TIN
hne end of his guses raped round his neck the tall
owe his shurt wus loose and up the air thirty eet still
rzng and blazing like komit, his britcheS hung Oos
the front sde like unto forked aprun, while the sit
tin part was blowd to kingdom cum and SO VII
everything else belonging to that regin while his back
was black a side upper ether. 1t raned til
buckets and straners, and tin cups and pepper boxes
an pans an stage horns all over the street for two min
uteS and hail.
Now that exploshun, an the tin war; rattln' an