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

half irwin, an 10 less nor no time It that. he'd gin
myself q shake in the doggery, M hear the whisky IN
me slosh, / knovd | he'd my load aboard, so | cum out
inter the street an-the fust thing seed be cum q
tarin down the street fifteen times faster nor l thot he
cud run, jst a bowin owe hisself, his years sot fat onto
his neck, an his bristles all sot like a black pcarch's top
in, his eyes shot up fast an tite, an he jhed on 3 sort
owe haaness maze outer strings. an he wur hautn owe
an old stage lantern an hit filled with wet powder an
sot sire. Now the sparks, and the scizlin, an the dust,
ap the ratlin, an the youlin, an growlin. an bsrkin, an
the eishty-nine or ninety dogs owe all kinds what wur
achssiu owe him. made sum sensashun WsIl-lt-dld.
Wtew.w.w. When [ seed him pass without nowin me,
/ thos ove Dads hornet tribu!aticn, and felt thar wur
such a thing as a resrihutior at last, and then | got mad
su locked roun for sum wup TO vent rath on, an seed q
lorg.legged cuss. sorter Of the L~ovengood stripe, with
hi. hat cooked before, sittin 3 strsdil owe a hoss.rack, .
swingin his legs an a singing
Rack, back, Dsvy, rariu up behine,
You show me your foot, and I'll show you mine
Thinks I yu'l do, eff gu dian't start my dog on that
hellward experdition owe his'c, yu'l do tn put it on eny
how, so here goes. See |: Mister what had my dog
Rack. back, Davy, daddy sho: \ bar,
Shot him in the eye, IN never toch a har.'
I seed i. wur no use tryin III breed a quarrel, 80 that
] r,out be able III breed a fte, an | j,t lent him .
slatherin calamity, rite whar his snoue commenced
sproutiu from, asween his eyes, with . ruH rock shout
the size Of q goose sig. Hit foch i'm He drapped
ofen the hess rack, bur hiie . squirrel-hols onto the pole
1irh his paws IN hine feet, an hung back down. |
Jumped he'd fuse through s;ween his belly an the pole ;
NY hetG broke his holt, and We cum III the ground a
1,in-ne ondernost, 80 turned heads 40 tails. SO the
sust thing | did, was IL shut Ry jaws onto a nouthtul
oye his steak, nj onto the place where yer foot isches t.
90 when VI ar in kiekiu distance Of q fop. lie it
nitily fur the chance he had, but | soon seed be had 3
cross oye bar in i'm, fur be cudent stand tickiin behind,
sf it mout be called ticklin at ali fur every time be-
gor bis hine legs onder him, be tried his durndest tn
Jump loose, bus my holt hi!., an we would take our fust
p%ersisioB. | thot owe q box Of matches what | he'd il
nv pocket. so | foch the whole toxful a rake onto the
Crawl, an stuffed EN- all a blarin inter one owe tLe
pockets in his ~coattaii Now, mind, be now'd nuthin
owe these rerseedins, fur bis mind wur exercised power
ful, about the hnrtin | wur a helpin in tn behine. J
now'd he'd soon show strong signs Nv wantin tn 90
go the fust big rare be foch after the fire reached hi.
hide, | iist let my mouth Hy open-so-an he .oent !
his hole tail in 8 blaze! Rite here, boys, I must tel
w sunthin | didn't no myself, ur durn me, eff | hedn''
let him beat me inter = poultis, afore Id q sot him afr.
Pa seed him durn'd fust. The thot on it ekeers N,
GET. He had two pounds owe gun power in to,he'
pocket, : takin home tu q shoo,in match. Well, ht
aimed III run past 2 tin peddln Vaughn, wha; wss
s.andin in the street, with q tass rate set owe old liv'
boss bones atween the shafts, while the Yankee wus j,
she docsery, a firm up tn leave town Jist as be go
clost tu the c~arryall, the powder cotcb fire, as s,'on at
forwards et nj II, an so di9 he, head fust, frog fashion
gite thru the top load owe tin war. Tie lit q runnin tel
foot luther side his coat tails wur bowed of IL hi
shoulders, the hine end owe his galluses wus raped roun'
bis neck, the tale owe his shut wus loose, an up in th
air thirty feet, still a rizin aud blazin like a komit, h.
britches hung loose on the frunt side, like onto q forke'
aprun, while the sitt,n part owe EN- wus blowed t. king
dom cum, sni so wur everything else b%elongin to tia
reg;n, while bis back WIS as black az a side owe upP
lether. Il rained tin buckets, an strainers, an tin cups
80 pepper boxes, an pans, an stage hoTns, al! over tina
sheet ir two minutes au a halt.
Nov that explosion, an the tin war a ratlin an a rain
10, made . rite peart no Sc. specially owe 2 still! day
in fac, enuf tn wake up the ole boss bones an gin hin
an idear that he best leave town quick so be laid h
years back nm straitened out his tail an shot. He mad
kiad!in wood outen the Vaughn agin a sine post, AL bt
suck bi-self III the woods, stretched out about twrnt,
feet long, an not MORN three feet high on the with r.
with list about enuf harness. stickin tn him tn make
cullar for a bell COW. Thar wus wun cussed nutmeg
maxim Yankee br Ike plum up, an Pm durn'd glad ov.
it. Old Rack, Back Davy, the hoss.rack man, mad.
fur the ruyer, an [ follered tn the bank tn see eff b.
hedn't drowned hisself; but no sir Thar he wur,
about the middil owe the ruver, 3 swioin fur tuthe,
bank, list a rpin the water wide open, an bis busted
hritches legs y foatin arter him. lie looked over hi.
shoulder every other lick like he spected tn see th.
devil uS lace WuE as DlacK as q poi, Sept = WING flu
soun his eyes, an the smoke WIS still risin frum amun,
the ssumps owe his burnt har. His he'd, boys, in tina,
ruver, was The gliest, scuriest, an ~savidgest site l eveI
seed or spec tn see in THIS wurld, cny how. l dream,
owe it y. o'nights, an it shares the swet outen me. ]
seed a lot owe fellers a 6shin under the bank, 80 | tho'
I'd help him ON a lee,le faster, an | hollered, 'ketch
the murderer, five hundred dullars 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 thar ounces an tuck arter him, openin on hi.
srail like a pack owe houns. The last | ever seed ov.
him he wur a rackin up the tother bank, on his ~all-four,
an looked m;tily like an ole bar what he'd jist cum a
~harrycane. lie still kept up his lookin back, an | speck
WIS the wust scared man in tie wurld, an ct he amt
ded, he's runnin yet. The idear now begin to soak
shru my har shat OWN to the fu-s STUFF Gut an me he'd
raised, that perhaps III better scoo:, lest they mout
want me. So | left in \ peart trot, an soon got on ole
Stuff trail. 1t wur like q Vaughn he'd been drug up
side down by q par of runaway mules, an the dry grass
an leaves, an in sum places the fences wus sot a6re. He
suck to the mountains, an turn'd wolf, an tuck up the
:rade ova sheep KILN fur a Twin, an the hole settle
1aens Is now out arter his skslPg That trip tn town,
like the cutIin- box, has changed his disposition agin,
ell shown the powerful changes that kin be made in
even a dog, | Gun, outen that scrape purity we'll, yet |
he'd to show the family di>persition tn make id fools
ove thar SETS How, Sut?' why, I ought to a
<osed of q lode owe that permiscus tin war. Oughtent
!? say?
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