Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1858-02-26

Wur loose; an up in the air thirty feet.
sill & risin aud biastn like konit. his |
bri;chis hung loose ON the front, like Gus |
to iorked uprun, while the situn parlos
em was BLOWN to kingdom cum, and so
wur everything else belongin tuE thsI res
gin; while his back wus as black as side
ov upper lether. Ii rained tin buckets,
an strainers, an tin cups, an pepper boxes
an. pans au-stage hornssalt over tina tstreet
fortwo minutes an ahalf. III GSI
Now that explosion. an the tin war
rattlin. made q rite peart noise especially
ov still day: in fact, enuf tn wake up
the old boss bones an gin him the idear
thst he'e best leave town quick. so he
laid his ears back an straitened out his
tail an shot. He made kindr- wood out
en- the Vaughn aYin ain post. an betuck
himself ~ the woods stretched out about
twenty feet long, an not morn three feet
high on the withers. with list about euuf
harness hess stickin. tn make a cutler for
bell COW. Their was wun cussed nut.
meg Yankee broke plum up. an I'm
darned glad ov it. Ola Rack Back Dayy
the boss rack man made fur the river. an
/ follered tn the bank tn see ef he hedn't
drowned hisself; but no siri Thar he
wur. about the middle ov' the river. q
swimmin fur luther bank, jist a splitin
the water wide open, an his busted
britches legs a hoatin arter him. He
looked over his shoulder every other lick
like he spected tn see the devil; his face
wur as black as spot, sept white ring
roun his eyes, an the smoke was still ris-
in frum amuug the stumps ov his burnt
b4ir. His he'd. boys. in the river. was
the ugliest. scuriest, an savidgeest site l
ever seen or spect tn see in this wurld.
eny how. dreams ov it yet o'nights.
an It shares the sweat outen me. seed
q lot Of fellers a fishin onder the bank so
thot I'd help him on little faster, and
I hollered 'ketch the murderer, Eve hun
dred dollars and a big boss reward. He's
killed an oman an nine children, an !
speck a dog. an like tn whip anuther
plum tn deth.' They jumped inter thar
ounces and tuck arter him. openin on his
trail like pack ov hounds. The last l
seed ov him he wur a rackin up the tuth-
er bank. on his all fours, an looked mitily
like an old bar what had jist cum auten
hurrican. He still kept up his lookin
back an speck wus the warst scared man
IN the "uFIQS an 81 he amt Oeaup ne Is
runnin yet. The idear now begin to soak
thru ma har that owing to the fuss Stuff
Gut an me he'd raised; that perhaps I'D
better scoot. lest they mout want me-
So left in a peart trot, and soon got on
ole Stuh's trail. 1t wur like a Vaughn
had been drug upside down by par OV
runaway mules. an the dry grass an
leaves. an in sum pieces the fence was
sot ARE. He tuck to the mountains an
turned wolf. an tuck up the trade ov
sheep, killin fur liven. an the hole set
Element is now srter his scalp. The trip
tn town. like the cutie box. has changed
his dispersiti'n agin. al! showing the
powerful changes that kin be made even
in q dog. cum outen tibet scrape pur.
~ well, yet he'd tn show the family dis
persition tn make id fools ov thai
selves
How, SUIT p
why. ought to q toted OF a lode o,
that premiscus tin war. oughtent L
Say?'