Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-05-01

; MN SQulfc, sa'u 3 d0Wn Easter.
giving 4 mob and q wink to Lyman
& Io"-le, as those gentleman stood
III their store one morning, cup and
| drosscd'' for business.
" How are You, sir:'' said the
merchants.
"Pooty well, considering the
state Of. things in gineral. | say,
yeou sell skins here, don't yeon?"
i " We do, occasionally" was the
response. >.-
" Wal, SO I caIlzelated buy fox
skins tew, reckon g,
"Sometimcs, Why, have you
got some for sale o.
"Somo. Yes, I guess I have
one; its some tew, | taIl you.'
Let's look at it, said one Of
the merchants.
The owner Of the skin tugged at
the capacious packet in his yellow
overcoat q few minutes, and out
came 8 pretty good sized bangup
Of i venerable reynard.
"There it is, g perfect bewty it
is taw. Aia't it?
''Seen finer .ones,'' said Tovle.
/" Praps yeou have, and praps
you haint; but I dew think its a
rale bewty, slick and shinny as 8
bran new hat"
-" " hen did you get this skin 2''
said the merchant.
When did [ cit it? Why, when
! killed the darn'd critter, Of
course"
50 1es, we know, but was it in
the fall Or SIMMER, CT when ~
Oh ! yes; well I reckon 'twant
far from the Forth of July, any,
way, for I'd just cleaned up my
old shootin' piece for p'rade on the
glonously anniversary, and along
comes the old critter, and I Just |
gave him q rip III the gizzald that
bis hash mighty sudden, I
tell yeou.''
Fox SKINS" said the mer-
chant, care not very good when|
taken in hot weather: the fur and
hair is very thin, aud not fit for
mnch in the summer
" Wal, meow, I reckon, since T
come 20 think it over, 'twarnt hot|
Weathar when | shot the critter
no, III be darned If it was a; made
q tIlundel,in mistake bout that. for
twas nigh on to Christmas, was.
by gol]y, for I and Seth Peurkins
wur goin' to a frolic. | remember
it like q book, cold as sixty, snowin'
awfnl--was by ginger.' /
" " ell, p saysthe merchant, twas
he fox very fat ~
Il Fat? Oh! Molly, warnt it tat
Never did see such fat teller in
ii my born days. Why, yeou, the
at came clean through the feller,s
ude, run down his legs, till the ;
7ery airth was greasy where the 8
larn'd varmint crawled along.
Did, by Peurkins.'' ..*s e..
"Too fat, then, we guess to be )
GOOD" said Towle. S'Fat skins, E
il, are not SO good as those taken
rom an animal not more than or :
[inarily fat. ...s :
Is Wal, guess it waln't so darn'd
at, nuther; come to think about q
t, twas another fox our Siah shot i,
astfall; this critter want SO darn'd Eft
1t, net overly fat, fact. I guess it
7as rather lean !; kind o lean, tree c
sen jous lean; poor old varmint ii
ras about to die OF pure starvation =; A
ever did see such 2 darn'd eternal, Il
=arved, lean, lank taznished eritter, -t
II the Lords airth before2'' p Lei
every poor, eh =" says Lyman.
Very poor? I guess it was SO R
mighty poor that the old critters fo
ones stuck clean eout, almost tt
1routb his skin; hadn't killed it q
1st when 7 did, 'twould hev died |.'no
fore it got ten rods further along. .
act, BY gollyo o'
"Ah! well,'' sad the mer- &C &C
lants, <swe see that the skin is
oor; the fur is thin and loose, and 81 81
onld not suit u.s." .~es =
j" Wunt suit yew2 Now, look f,
nere yeou." says the Yankee, hs
Iding up his versatile skin, - I ":
on't kind O like such dcalin, as
nj 10 -heaW and I'll be darn,d tnl :,