Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-11-19

Hn the house an gin her some WHISKY an
she TUX it like milk. Torecly she sorter
Icum to herself, and seq my wife to her
SEE she to Misses lie May, Misses lie May
what hurts pou2
Snake bitl' sez she.
'whar bouts !? seq I.
Never mind, sez she--'snake bit
But Misses lie May sez I, tell me
whar he bit you, so as we may put some
thin to it.
Sea she, lookin' kinder glum, and turn
in red in the face-sez she to me, 1T
don't want nothin' to it; I'm snake bit,
an faint none of your buizziness whar !
With that / smelt er mice, and COM
mence larfn. You orter hearn me hollerl
If didn't think I'd or bust my biler, I
wish may never see Christmas! l amt
lorfed SO much since the time John Potter
got on the bars back without no knife,
an rode him round, like er hoss, and was
skeerd to git off / give you my word, 1
/ fairly rolled
Soon as the ole oman gin to open her
eyes, an l see thar warnt nuthin' much
the matter with ber my wife she grabbed
up the tongs and went out to kill the
snake, an foller'd When see the rep
tile. seq 1 to my wife, Jest wait er mint,
sez I, 'taint no use KILN him-he's past
prayin' for = | pledge you my word he
was as dead as Billy be id
What made him die p sez my wife to
me-. ...r.
Don't know, sez l. 'spose he couldn't
stand it.
/ Torectly Mat Reed he cum up, and
when he hearn what had been goin on, he
was so full er larf his face turned wrc pg
side out'ards, and sez he-'pizened, by
golly +
That ole oman aint bein skeer'd NV er
snake sense, and goes out huntin' en-
reg'lnr. told her one day, sez I, Misses
lie May, seq !, IN give you the bunch of
hogs bristlos I've got to brush your teeth
with, eff you'll tell me how not to be
skeer'd Nv er snake She didn't say mare
word but she turned round and took
me kerJim right 'twene the eyes / aint
sed snake to her since.
However, that amt tellin' you how the
sarpint. kinder chawed up ny darter Sal.
I'll tell you how twas You see thar was
gwne to be er mighty big camp mectin'
down at Hickory Grove, and we all fixed
up to go down and stay er week, and my
wife, she cooked up everything about the
house, and made all sorts er good things
bacon and greens, and possum fat, and
ash cake, and great big sausenger, bout
as big as your arm and long enuff to eat
er week-'cause she said Parson Dilly
loved sausenger the best in the world
Well, when we got thar, I went to the
basket what had the vittals in it, to get
somethin' to eat, but the sausenger wasn't
thar, and sez to my dater, SEE 1.
Sally, gal, what's 'cQno er that ar saus-
senger2'
Then she turned red in the face an sez
she, never mind--it's all right
/ smelt thar was somethin' gwine on
wrong-for you see the wimmin folks
bout whar I lives, is h-ll for new
fashions, and one day one NV them ar all
fred Yankee pedlars cum erlong with er
outlandish kind NV er jigamaree to make
the wimmins' coats sorter stick out in the
tother eends and the she's, they all put
one on, case they 'sposed the he's would
love to see it, Well, my Sal, she got
monsos stuck up bout it, and axed me to
give her one but told her she had no
more use for one nor er scttin' hen had
for mid wife, and I wouldn't do no sich
er thing, cause how she was big er nufI
thar at fust.
Well, as | was sayin' camp -meetin' day
it come, an we was all thar, an the she
folks they was fixed up in er inch NV ther
lives, an my Sal she was dressed fit to kill,
and thar she was er 6jiitin and er whirlin'
about with her new calico coat on, all
} stuck up at'thc hind eend, and as proud
as er he lizard with two tails Tell you
wbat-she made more fuss nor er suekin
hen with one chicken / was stonished
what to make Nv that whOppiu' big hump
on her behind, However, it was 'simmon
: time, aud she'd bin eatin' err powerful
= sight NV EN-, aud | 'sposed she was gittin
fat, so l shut up my hy-trap, aud lay an
KEEP dark ! TOrecly the preachin' it begin
and ParsOn Jav.es, he was up on er log er
preachin', and er goin' it hark from the
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