The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1858-03-06
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SUIT Lovengood's Dog
soys, never told eny on ye owe my dog
se1Ape did ~ NO, Sut not as we know on:
${gu,Fe mixed up dog so in all yrr doins that we
eaaa' 9 Tell adzaekly what dog serape you mean.
s 81, mean ole Stuff Gut = III eny on ye
Esysr s6e. imp No. We'll ,=ye Ssed a Site.
1tesN4r a. powerful dog, an Sometspe ye,a
kneak that he wnr two or three dog, ef ye'd
s. ntn eat; not countin owe his TAIL fur he
Eese,t1e9y: When he war Pr, Dad, dur,t
tick I'M tn a strawcntteny>4kmed his starn
2p ~ tbeframe Nv the er0Ased gulotine
81 down the nife, and thar lay the whole
sr-irttrrs
ssn1 PUP Foulin like hound, and his starn
Hooked like you'd tnstcd ripe tomatis onto it
Veil, it looks mite1y and his mater more Now
as toFhs looks, rite onto the spot whar his tail
| orto staid, there growed bunch ov stiff, ash
cullered bristlcs, what pinted every way like
onto a split broom with the rappin cut loose,
and rite into the middle owe all this fussv lookin
! patch ov hair, the pint ov his back bone, xiv
cred With gristil, stuck out like onto Il pid-
/ gins aig case he sOt onto hit much. Well
the afar looked nifty sassy and fte like, eny
how, purticulerlv when he were struttin up
tn big strange god to smell ov i'm. 1t made
his sturn look hier than his shoulders, purpen-
| dicular and soar; and he had way walkin
slow solemn like I'd seed young fcIers do
at camp meetin when approaching to gall at
the spring with thar stud-hoss clothes on,
pgwine sorter side ways and nifty keerful I've
seed little hogs go through the same motions,
wun in peach orchard and tother in the lane
iwhenNhey wanted to fte, and wud dun it but
fur the fence whae wur atween 'em [ never
found out that he wur good fur env thing but
to keep bred frum moulding and meat from
splllr- and when he wanted to show glad as
he had no tail to wag he wagged his whole
stern an his hind feet slipped upon the groun,
sorter ike fashionable gall walks when she
thinks some he seller is lookn at er. He was
culud adZactty like a mlldeWed saddl skirt
and he kerried his years on a nowin sort of
cock, like onto mules when he is skeereC.
He'd whiskers round his eyes, an on his hind
legs, an must had powerful active consnce,
fur he wur the meanest countinenced dog |
| ever seed in my life. Now as tn his natur, you
-cud never set 'im on to eny thing you wanted
tn, an couldn't call i'm ofen eny thing he got
arter on his own accord. He war skeered all
the time and stud redy to run or to steal as
he wur jist the rite sort ov dog to belong to
belong to me, not worth a durn an orter been
killed afore his eyes got open
k--.A.leil stsss G II, he followed ME to town
wun day jlst case didn't want him tn: and
while l gettin on head of steam at the
!
| expedition Nv his own, an like his cussed fool
owner got himself inter fust rate surape an
| scarce without half trylD, and in less nor nc
tlme:at that. l had gin myself u shake in the
doggery, Gan heered the whiskey in me slosh
l know'd had my load aboard, so I cum on
liter the street an the fust thing | seed, he Gun
tarn down the street fifteen times faster nor
| thot lie cud run, jist bowin ov himself, hi
years sot tiat into his neck an his brstls al
sot like a black pearch's top fin, his eyes she
up fast and tite, he'd Oh a sort ov harnes
made out oV strings sorter like the set DaC
| wore when lie acted husS, and he wuir hauin O,
an old stage lantern and hit filled with we
powder an sot on fire. Now the sparks ant
the seizn the dust, an the ratlin an th
youlin and the barkin an the eighty-nine O
ninety dogs ov all kinds what was chasin ov
him, made sensashun. Well-it-did Whey
When | seed him pass without nowin me,
thot ov Dads hornet tribnlaS Shun an felt tia
thar sich thing retrbusion at last: IL
then I got mad looked roun for sum one t
rath on, an seed long legged cuss, sorter o
the Lovegood stripe, with his hat cooked be
FORE settin a straddi ov hossrack, a swingi
his legs singin-
Crack, back Davy rarin' up behne,
You show me your foot an I'll show you mine.
+ Thinks you'll do; ef you didn't start m
dog on that hellward eXpedishun ov hise1
, You'll du to put it on eny how, SO here goe
. Sez I, Mister, what had my dog dun tn yu.
II e paid no 'tention, but kept sngin-
! Crack; back Davy daddy shot barr
Shot i'm in the eye an never toch ha'r.''
I seed it Was no use tryin to breed quarre
so that it mout be able to breed tite, and
list lent him a slatharin calamity, rite VIII;
I IFS snout commenced sproutin from his eye
with rough rock about size goose al
Hit fotcl i'm! He drapped ofen the boss rae
bat hiIt squirril holt onto the pole with h
paws and hine feet, an hung back down.
= jumped he'd fust through atween his belly {
the pole; my heft broke his holt and we Gu
ito the ground ftin-me ondermost, and tur
ed heads and tails So the fust thing | d
was shut my jaws onto a monthful of steak,
onto the place where yer foot itehes to 60 VIII
yu are i'll kickn distance of a fop. lie fit n
THY fur the chance he had but | soon seed
had cross bar in him. fur he cudent sta,
ne tickling behind, ef it mout be called tekiin
is all; for every time he got his legs onoer him.
IS. tried his durnedest tn jump loose but my h'
"a hilt, and he would take our fnst position ag
~ | | thot owe a box owe matches what lad in
be- pocket, so / fotch the whole bovful rake
en- O the gravel; and stuffed en- all bllzin OF
re one owe the pockets III his coat tail Nc
II mind, he moved nuthin these proceedi
ne fur his mind wur exercised powerful about
as hurtln | wnr help in him to behine. nov
st is'd soon show strong signs wantin to
s. SO the fust big he fotch arter the
y s, reached his hide, jst let my mouth fly ope
~ SO-and he WENT his hole tale in n lila