Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-04-06

i'm! He dropped afen the boss rack, but
cit squirl-holt onto the pole with his
paws an hine feet, an hung back down. II
jumped he'd fus through atween his belly
an the poles my heft broke his holt an we
cum to the ground a fittin-me ondermosti
an turned heds and tails. So I shut my
jaws onto a mouthful owe steak He fit
nightly for the chance he had, but ] soon
seed he had cross owe bar in i'm, for he
cuden't stand ticklin behind, of it mout be
called ticklin at all; fur every time he got
his hind legs onder him, he tried his
durndest to jump loose. butmy holt ct,
an we would take a.6rst position again i
thot owe box of metchs what he'd in my
pocket, so fotch the whole boxful rake
onto the gravel, an stuffed em all a blazin
inter one owe the pockets in his coat-tail.
Now, mind, he knowd nuthin owe :hese
precedings, fur bis mind were exercised
powerful about the hurtin wur a helpin
i'm tu bchine. ! know'd he'd soon show
signs owe wanton to 90. So the fust big
rare he fotch arter,the fire reached his hide,
l jist let my mouth fly open-so-an he
went! his whole tale in a blazei Rite,
here, boys, must tell you sumthin l
didn't no myself, ur durn me eff hedn't
let him beat me inter poultis,, afore I'D sot
him aiire--l'd 4 seen him burned ftlst. He
had two pounds of gun powder in tother
pocket, takin hum tu a shootin match.
Well, he aimed tn run past tin peddlin
waggin what was standin in the street,
with fust rate set of old. live hoss bones
atween the shafts, while the Yankee was in
the -doggery, firing up to leave town.
Jnst'as he got into the calryall, the pow
der cotch fire, an soou afterwards went off,
an so did he, head fust, frog fashion, rite
thru the top load of tin war. He lit run
min, ten foot .other side; his coat-tails wur
blowed Of tu his shoulders, the hine end
of Ills galluses wus raped round his neck,
the tail of his shurt WAS loose, an up in
the air thirty feet, still rizen and bla-
zin like a komit, his britches hung loose
on the frunt side, like onto forked aprun,
while the sittin part owe em was blown 10
kingdom come, and so wur everything
else belongin to that regin, while his back
was as black as side of upper lether.
1t rained tin buckets, and paper boxes, an
pans an stage horns, all over that street
"Now that explosion and the tin war
rattlin an ranin, made right peart noise,
specially owe still day; in fac, enuf to
wake up the whole boss bones aud give him
the idear that he'd best leave town quick,
80 he laid his years back and Strengthened
out his tail an shot. He made kindlin
wood outen the waggin against a sine-post.
and betuk hissef tu the woods, and
stretched out about ten foot long, and not
morn three feet hi sh on the withers, with
jist about enuf harness stickin tn him tn
make collar for a cow-bell. Thar was
wun cussed nutmeg maxim Yankee broke
plum up, an I'm burned glad owe it. Ole
Rack Back Davy, the hoss rack man, made
fur the ruyer, an / follered tu SO he hedn't
drowned hissclf but no sur! Thar he
wur about the middle owe the ruver, a
swimmin for luther bank, jist splittin the
water wide open and his busted britches
egs foatin arter him. He looked over
his shoulder every other lick like he spec
ed tn see the devil his face wur as black
ss pot, sept ring roun his eyes, an the
smoke was still risin from among the
'tumps over his burnt har. His he'd,
Boys, in that ruver, was the. ugliest, scarf
,st, an savigest site l ever seed or spect
u see in this world, eny how. 1 dreams
we it yet o'nights, and it skares the SWEET
,uter me. l seed lot owe fellers fishin
'nder the bank SO l thot I'd help him on
title faster, all l hollered, "ketch the MUIR
lsrer, FIVE hundred dollars an big hoss
eward. He's KILLED an oman an nine
children, an I spect dog, an like tu
whipped another plum tu deth." They
umped into the canoes an tuck arter him,
'penin on his trail like pack owe houns.
The last ever see owe him he wur maxim
Ip tother bank, on his all four, and looked
nitily like an old bat what he'd list cum
uten hurrycane. He still kept up his
ookin back, an l spect he wus the wust
cared man in the wurld, IN eff he amt
ed, he's runnin yet. The idear now be-
in to soak throu my hat that OWN to the
uss Stuff Gut and he he'd raised, that per-
cps I'd better scoot lest they mout want
le. So left in peart trot, an soon got
n ole Stuff's trail--it wur like waggin
ad been drug upside down by pair of
unaway mules, an dry grass an leaves, an
l sum places the fences was sot fire. |
[e tuck to the mountains, an turned wolf,
n tuck up trade of sheep KILN fura hvin,
n the hole settlement is now out arter his |
kalp. That trip to town, like the cuttin
OK, hes changed hes disposition agin, all
howing the powerful changes that can be
lade in even dog. l cum outen that
Grape perty well, yet he'd tu show the
Lmily dispersition tu make fools over thar
efs." I -
"How, Sut?'
"Why. l ought TO toted off lode owe
lat permiscus tin war. Oughten I? say?"