The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-04-14

Inter the street dn-the rust tnln8A SEED @ue Gun y
tarin down the street fifteen tiuss faster nor l thot he
cud run, list q bowiu owe hiaelf, his years sot Cat onto
his neck, IN his bristlss MI sot like . black pearch' top
in, his eyes shot up fast an tite, an he jhed on q sort
owe haaness maze outer strings, an he wur haulin owe
an old stage lantern IAN hit filed with wet powder IN
st s6re. Now tue sparks, and the scixlin, an the dust,
40 the ratlin, an the youlin, an growlin. an bsrkin, an
the eighty-nine or ninety dogs owe all kinds what wur
achssiu owe him. made sum sensashun Wsll-it-did.
Wtew.w.w.g When 1 seed him pass without nowin me,
I thot Owe Dads hornet circulation, and felt thar wur
such a thing us a retrihu,ion at last, aud then / got mad
an lockedroun for sun wun to vent rath on, an iced a
longleeged cuss, sorter Of the Loveugood stripe, with
his hat cooked before, sittin 3 strsdil ove . ~boss.rack, Z
swiugin his legs an . singing -
Track, back, Dsvy. rrin up behiue,
You show me your foot, and Ill show you niue
Thinks I yu,ll do, ef yu dids't start my dog on that
hsiward experdition Owe his'n, yu'll do IL put it on eny
how, 90 here gues. See |: Mister what had my dog
dun ~ 50, He pade no tentiou, but KEEP on 8 singin-
Rack, back, Davy, daddy shot . bar,
Shot bin in the eye, an never toch a har.'
seed i. wur no use fryin tn breed a quarrel, so that
] mout be able tn breed a fte, an ! jst lent him 3
sproutin from a,ween his eyes, with . ruff rock shout
the size Of a goose sig. Hit foch i'm! He drapped
ofen the boss rack, bu. hit . squirrel-holt onto the pole
With bis paws an hine feet, an hung back down. |
jumped he'd fust through a;ween his belly an the pole /;
my hefs broke his holt, and We cum tu the ground a
i,in-ne ondernost, 40 turned heads an tails. SO the
tus, thing | did, was to shut my jaws onto a mouthful
ove his steak, nj onto the place where yer foot itches to
so when yu ar in kickin distance Of a fop. tie fit
mitily fur the chance he had, but | soon seed he had .
cross oye bar in i'm, fur be cudent stand ticklin behind,
ef it mout be called ticklin at all; fur every time be-
got his hine legs onder him, be tried his durndest tn
Jump loose, but my hol. hilt, an We would take our fust
- L ~"o n koo oE AAatn -k~ 7 l. -
NV pocket, SO I foch the whole toxful a rake onto the
Crawl, an stuffed EN- all a blazin inter one owe TIE
pockets in his ~coattail Now, mind, be now'd nuthiu
owe these perseedins, fur his mind wur exercised power
full, about the hurtin l wur a helpin i'm tn behine. !
now'd he'd soon show strong signs Nv wantin tn 60.
SO the fust big rare be foch arter the Ere reached hi.
hide, | list let my mouth Fly open-so-an he sernt !.
yu sunthin | didn't no myself, ur durn me, eff | hedn',
let him beat me inter u poultis, afore Id a sot him a6rt
-Td seed him durn'd fust. The thot on it skeers m,
YET. He had two pounds owe gun power in tothel
pocket, a takin home tn a shootin match. Well, ht
aimed tn run past a tin peddln Vaughn, what was
standin in the street, with a fust rate set owe old liv'
boss bones atween the shafts, while the Yankee wus i,
the docgery, a firm up tn leave town Jist as be go
clost to the ~carryall, the powder cotch fire, Is SION at
forwards ,c,at If, an 50 Iii he, head fust, frog fashion
rite thru the top load owe tin war. He lit a runnin ter
foot luther side; his coat tails wur bowed of tn BIZ
shoulders, the hine end owe bis galuses wus raped roum
his neck, the tale owe his shut wus loose, an up in tn
air thirty feet, still a rizin aud blazin like a komit, hi
britches hung loose on the frunt side, like onto a forke.
aprun, while the sitt,n part owe em wus blowed tn king
dom cum, ami so wur everything else belongin to tha
regiu, while bis back wus as black as q side owe upp
letber. It rained tin buckets, an strainers, an tin cups
an pepper boxes, an pans, an stage horus, all over tina
street tor two minutes an a half.
Now that explosion, an the tin war a ratlin an a rain
- - -o,~< ~o,, .c~oc>sanr 49, :, .tll 1.u
in fac, enuf tn wake up the ole boss bones an gin bin
an idear that he best leave town quick so be laid h
years back IN straitened out his tail an shot. He mad
kiudlin wood outen the Vaughn agin q sine post, an b.
tuck hi-self tn the woods, stretched out about twrnt.
feet long, an not morn three feet high on the with, r.
with jist about enuf harness stickin tn him tn make
cullar for a bell COW. Thar WIS wun cussed nutmeg
maxim Yankee br ke plum up. an I'm durn'd glad ov.
it. Old Rack, Back Davy, the hoss.rack man, mad.
fur the ruver, an | follered tn the bank tn see eff b.
hedn't drowned hisself; but no sir !! Thar be wur,
about the middil owe the ruver, q. swimin fur tuthe,
bank, jst a spin the water wide open, an bis busted
tritches legs u foatin arter him. He looked over biz
shoulder every other lick like he spected tn see th.
devil his face wur as black as a pot, sept q white rim,
roun his eyes, an the smoke wus still risin frum amun,
the stumps owe his burnt bar. His he'd, boys, 10 tina,
ruver, was the | gliest, scuriest, an savidgest site / evel
seed or spec tn zee 10 THIS wurld, cny bow. / dream,
owe it yet o'nights, an it shares the swet outen me. J
seed a lot owe fellers a 6shin under the bank, SO | tho'
I'd help him On a lee,le faster, an | hollered. 'ketch
the murderer, five hundred dulars an a big boss reward.
He's killed an oman an uine children, All | speck a dog
an like tn whipped anuther plum tn deh.' They jump
ed inter shar ounces an tuck arter him, openin on hi.
trail like a pack owe houns.,c The last | ever seed ov.
him he wur a rackiu up the tother bank, on his ~all.four,
an looked mitily like an ole bar what he'd jist cum a
-~harrycane. He still kept up his lookin back, an speck
wus the wust scared man in tie wurld, ~ ct he sint
ded, he's runnin yet. The idear now begin to. soak
thru my hsr shat OWN to the fu.s Stuff Gut an me he'd
raised, that perhaps Id better scoos, lest they mout
want me. So left in = peart tros, an soon got on ole
Stuff trail. 1t wur like a Vaughn he'd been drug up
side down by a par of runaway mules, an the dry grass
an leaves, an in sum places the fences WIS sot afre. He
tuck to the mountains, an turn'd wolf, an tuck up the
trade owe sheep KILN fursa Twin, an the hole settle
uens is now out arter his skslpa That trip tn town,
like the cuttin,box, has changed his disposition agiu,
al shown the powerful changes that kin be made in
even a dog. | cum outen that scrape purity we'll, yet |
bed to chow the family disposition tn make id fools
owe thar SETS How, Sut ?''' Why ought to =
soted of a lode owe that p~ermiscus tin war. Oughtent
I? say 2, = .'.. Is ~',1 : 't'"