The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1858-03-20

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thot u 1t skeers me yit. He nav
pounds Of. gunpower in t'other pcsasAssa
home to shootin match. He aimedtl
a peddlin Vaughn, what wur d standib ssS
street, with q fast rate set Of ole live ii
atween the shafts, while the Yapkeet AzE|
doggery, a firin up tn AYE towtss
got clost to the capr-i, the
am. -oon as' aent of 4uSS Saa
head ms tx mshun, rite thru tie
~ ware. He lit d runnin ten foote
side ; his coat tails wnr blown a.
shoulders, the hine end of bis calIdx
raped round his heck. the tale ofhiss
loose, ard up in the air thirty feel, sfllxY
and blazin like a komit. His britches
1loose on the front side, like unto 4
aprnn, while the sittin part uf EN- wss
ia kingdom aud so wur evefythtyTN
belonging to that reign, while bis back
black az q side of upper letter. 1t raipe
buckets. and strainers. an tin chpa, d. i
boxes and pans, and stage horns, al bid
street for two minits and a half a
Now that explosion, and the tin war I'M n f
aura rainin made d rite pearte nnie sps6
owe a still lay !; in fac, enuf to wake uptllSa
boss bopes, and gin him the idear ikatj
best leave town quick 90 he laid Agl
back and straitened OUT, bis tale an shot
made kindlin-wood outen the wa9giins vi
%sine-post, and betnck hisself to tie Nd
stretched out about twenty feet long, saaNii
MORN three feet high on the withera, viii
about enuf harness sticnin tu i'm To- md
culler. for a bell COW Thar was WIN eaS
nutmeg maxim Yankee broke Mum up. +
I'm burned glad owe it. Old Rack Q1f
Davy, the hoss-rnck man, made furlhe$3H
and ! follered tn the bank 10 see ef
drownded hisself but no snf!! THAR @2NN88
about the midi owe the rfvur. asHiniifMH II
luther bank. ,jist a splittin the water wideSsAE$$
an his busted britches legs a ioatin \ fasSS@|
He looked over his shoulder u ss%|
like he spected tn see the des.s,ms NJ
as black as q pot, cept a white ring
eyes, an the smoke wus still risin frts Il =
the stumps owe his burnt har. His
in that ruver, wur the ugliest, Sc -
~sayidgest site / ever seed or spe sMuAl
world, eny how.
| dream owe it yet o nigl md it i'm
the SWEET outen me. | seed a lot owe kIanj
fshin under the bank. so ! thot la helptil
on a lcetle faster, an | hollered, AkeiAs5l
murderer, FIVE hundred dullars an a big h0sM
ward. He killed an oman an nine Children 4
/ spec a dog, an like. tn whipped anuiher Fm
tn deth." They jumped inter thar sauCa /
tuck arter i'm, openin on bis trail likea m
owe houns. The last l ever seed oye sM
wura rackin mp the tother bank on biz alHbsfA
an looked mitily like an ole bar what M
cum outen a hurrycane. lie still kept aph
lookin back, and | speck was the wast sc,s
man in the world, and eff he ded, bel rAnsl
yet, The idear now begin to soak through!
har that OWN to the fuss Stuff Gut an nesN
raised, that perhaps I'd better scoot lHttA
mont want me. So ] left in a peart trot =
soon got on ole Stuff's trail. 1t wur be-
Vaughn had been drug upside down BY j.
owe runaway mules, an the dry grass on ~
au in sum places, the fences war sot oiiIes y
TUX tn the mountains, an turned vol, = y
up the trade owe sheep killing for . llllnss
the hole settlement is now out arter by sk9
That trip tu town, like The cuttin-bcx, h
changed his dispersition agin, all shown \
powerful changes that kin be made ~ esel,
dog. | cum outen that scrape purify
yet ! he'd to show the family dispersitloas
maked-d fools owe tharselies." How In
" Why | ought to a toted off 9 lode oSeA
permiscus tin war. Oughtent SAY