The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-03-24
SUIT Lovengood's Daddy
Acting Horse.
BY 8 l., or TENNESSEE.
Hold that ere hoss down to the yearth.
Hes spreading his sail fly now
Keep him whar he is.'

lhese and like expressions were ad
dressed TO queer looking, long
short'bodied, white haired, hog eyed, fun
ny sort of genius, fresh from some sec
ond hand clothing store, and mounted
on 'Tsrpole,' a nic.laie I, long, poor horse.
and envcloped all over in perfect net
work OF bride reins, suppers, marlingals,
straps, circingles, and red-ferretting, who
had ielned up in front Of Pa, Nack's gro
cery. among crowd OF wild mountain.
GERS full of fight and bad whiskey.
4 say, you da,ned ash eats, jst keep
your SHIRTS on, will you You never seed
raal horse I'll rid up. Tarpoe is mex,
to the bes: horse that ever sheled nub
bins, and he's ded as a still worm poor
old Tickey Tail
What killed him, SutF said an anxi.
Gus inquirer.
why, nothing, you tarnaton fool lie
JIst died, stand up a. that. Warn't that
good pluck Froze stiff no, not adzact.
~, but starved mst and then frozed af
terwards so stiff, that when dad and me
pushed him over, he jist stuck out so,
Spreading his arms and legs,) like car.
penter's bench, and we waited seventeen
days for him to thaw, afOre we could
skin him. Well, thar was-dad an me.
counting his tingers,) dad an me- Sal an
Jake,-fool Jake we used to call him for
sholt-an phineas, an Simeon, an Jo-
mas, An CharIotean, an Cuipa, an Cas-
hus Henry. Clay, an Noah Dan. an Cath
r'ne second, an Cleopa'ry Antony, an
Jane Lind, an Tom Bullion, the baby and
the prospect, an marin herself all Left
Without any horse to crop with. That
was nice mess for spectacle family TO
be siushed about in, WARMTH! declare
II | didn't feel like stealin' horse. some
times. Well, we waited and rested, and
waited until well onto strawberry time,
hoping some stray horse mout come along:
but dog my cats ef eny sich luck as that
ever comes whar dad is, he's 30 drotted
mean, an lazy, an savage, an ugly, an
tryin'.
We'll. one mite, dad he lay awake all
mite, snorln' an y roIlin, an, a w hisper.
III at marm, an next mornin' SAYS he
"'Sut, III tell you what well do; I'll
be hoss myself, an pull the pIow white
YOU drive me, and we'll break up coru
ground and then tie Old Quilt CHATS
marm) and the brals kin plant or le,
alone, JIst AS they please
80 out he goes 10 the pAwpaw, an
peeled right smart chance of bark, an
maTm an' the made gears COR dad, and
they become hnn mit,ly /: then he would
have brIdle-so gifts an old umbrella
what found-it's a little piece iron, sor
ter like onto pitchtord, We know-an'
we bent an twisted it sorter into bride
bit, snale shape, dad wanted it curb, Il,
he hadn't worked for some time, and
must sorter feel his oats and g. to cavor
tiny Well, when we got tho bride all
fixed on dad, lie chomped his bit jist like
a raaI horse, (he always was most com.
p'icated old fool, enyhow, an marin al.
ways said 80 when he warn't about. .)then
| put on the gears. an out dad an goes
INTO the field, | a leadin' dad by the brI-
die, and totin' the gopher p!ow on my
back.
when we come to the fence let down
a gap a; that made dad mad he wanted
to jump the fence on all fours, hoss way.
l hltched him into the gopher, and wav
he went, dad leanin' for'ard to bis pul!in'
right Pesrt, and we made sharp plowin'
dad goin right over the bushes AN sprouts
same as raal horse, the only difference
rs, he went on two legs. Presently we
come TO sassairas patch, and dad, 10
act up bis character as hoss, buged
squar inter 1t, AN tore down a hornets
nest AS big as hoss' h4ad and ALI the
tribe kivered him rite s,rate. lie rared
and kicked once or twice, an fo,cheI a
squesl wus nor ary hoss in the district,
an sot into runnin' away jist as natural
as ever you seed.
81 lie. go the plow and hollered woa,
dad, woa, but ye moUt as well said woa
to locomotive. Jewhilkens, how he
run When he come 10 bush he
clear 1t, gopher and all perhaps be thot
there mout bo another settlement Of bald
hornets in it; and that ii was safer to 90
over than thro, an quicker done. Every
now ana then he'd paw on one side of
his hea d with fust one fore leg and then
totneI; then bed gin himself an open
handed slap, that sounded like a wagon
whip, and runnin' all the time and carry
ing that gopher jist about as fast and
high from the yearlh ss ever a gopher
was carried, swar. When he cum to
the fence he busted rite thru il, taren nigh
inter seven panels, scat,ern' and breakin'
the rails mighty; and here he left tie
gopher, gears, swingletress and klevis, all
mixed up, not wulh durn most of his
shirt stuck to the broken end Of spin.
tered rail, and nigh onto pint o. hor
nets staid with the shirt, a stingin' il all
over-the balance on 'em, apout a gallon
an hail. kept on with dad. He seem
ed to run jist adsactly rs fast as hornet
could fly, for it Vas the tishtest race
ever did see down thrs the grass they
went, the hornets sorter maxim it look
like smoke all around dads head, and he
with nothin' on but the bride, and nigh
onto yard o. plow line sSilin' behind
him. seed he was aitnin' for the swim.
min hole in the creek, whar the bluff is
over twenty ieet perpendicular to the wa