The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-03-25

wanted TO Jump the fence on all tours,
boss way. ! hitched him into the 60
pher, and away he went, dad leanin for
ward to his pullin' right peart; and we
made sharp plowin, dad goin' right over
the bushes an sprouts same as n raal
boss, the only difference is he went ON
two legs. Presently we come to sas-
safras patch, and dad, to act up his char
acter as boss, bulged square up to it,
and tore down a hornets nest nigh as
big as boss head, and all the tribe Xiv
cred him rite strate. He rared and kick
ed once or twice, and fetched squeal
worse nor airy horse in the deestrlct, an
sot into runnin' way iist as natural as
ever You seed.
81 let go the pillow and hollered woa,
dad, woa, but We might as well said woa
to locomotive. Jewhillikins how he
run. When he came to a bush he'd clear
it, gopher and all +; pr'aps he tho't there
mout be another settlement of bald hor-
nets in it, and that it was safer to go over
than thru an quicker dun. Every now
and then he'd paw one side of his head
with fust one fore leg and then tother !;
then he'd gin himself an open-handed
slap, that sounded like a wagon whip,
and runnin' all the time and carryin' that
gopher jist about as fast and high from
the yearth as ever gopher was carried,
| swar. When he cum to the fence he
busted rite thru it, taring nigh into seven
panels, scatterin' and breakin' the rails
nightly; and here he left the gopher,
gears, swingletrees and klivis, all mixed
up, not wuth durn; most of his shirt
stuck to the broken end of splintered
rail, and nigh unto pint O. hornets staid
with the shirt, stingin' it all over-the
balance on 'em about gallon and half,
kept on with dad. He seemed to run
jist adzactly as fast as hornet couldhy for
it wus the tightcst race ever did see
down thru the grass they all went, the
hornets sorter maxim it look like smoke
all around dads head, and he with no..
thin on but the bride, and nigh onto a
yard o. pillow line sailin behind him. |
seed he was amin for the swimin' hole
in the creek, whar the bluff is over TWEEN
ty feet perpendicular to the water, and
it's nigh onto ten feet deep. 10 keep up
his character as boss, when he got to
the bluff he iist leaped off Or rather he
jist kept on runnin'. Now right thar,
boys, he overdid the thing, if that wus
what he was arter, for thar's nary boss
ever foalded burned fool enough to leap
over sich place; a mule mout have !
done it, but dad warn't acting mule. |
crept up to the edge and looked over
Thar was old dads bald head, for all the
world like peeled ingm, a bobbin up
and down, and the hornets sailin' and |
,irclin' round, turkey buzzard fashion,
md every once in while, one, and some
lines ten 'ud make dip at dads head.
Tie kept up peart dodgin under some
lines they'd hit him and sometimes
hey'd hit the water, and the water was
livered with drowned hornets.
"'What on yearth are you dom thar,
lad 2 say 81.
"Don't (dip) you see these Internal
7armints dip onto me 2
"What, sed l. 'Them are boss flies
har; We amt really afeard of them, are
,eP
"' Hoss flies 2 sed dad; there rale
Dip ginewine bald hornets, you (dip) in
ernal cuss.'
"Well, dad, you'll have to stay thar
ill mite, and arter they go to roost, you
come home and I'll feed YOU
"And knowig' dads unmodifed natur,
| broke from them parts and sorter cum
70 the copper mines. staid hid about
ill next afternoon, when | seed fellow
and sed |: What was goin'
IN at the cabin this side of the creek,
when you cum passed it?'
" Why, nothin' much, only a man
was sittin' in the door with nary shirt on,
and woman was greasin' his back and |
arms, and his head wus about as big as
q ten gallon keg, and he hadn't the fuss
sign of an eye-all smooth
"That mans my dad, sed l.
"' Been much fiten in this neighbor-
hood lately ?" sed the traveller, dryly.
"'Nun with speakin' of personally
or particularly, sed l.
"Now, boys, | haint seed dad since,
and would be afeard to meet him in the
next ten years. Let's drink"
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