Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-12-18
For the Sngar i'lan,er. !
4 Rat Story.
i FRAGMENT.

NOW nIug, whom do yeu think will Be"
| leve that outrageous yarn. Why its worse
| than your - Warm Weather story. You've
been dreaming OF rats''
40 s;ch thing, Squire,--1 seed the rata
do it many time. Ask soapnose if it amt
fact. I'll ter yer wot I've Enowed rats ter
do
well. Plug give us d good one, il you
will keep up your rat stories"
well, now, Squire, that's talkin' some
thu' like Yer see, some wears ago, wus live
10 ou, o,.trr the Baysr Marigoon lNarangc.
u,n) in all ole house berIongin tv Gine-ul-
name don't make any d'Frunce, SQUIRE
which ~us full Nv rats-ras al! about the
house-mo,'n n half the time yer coudn git
a wink of sleep fur EN-. They'd come on
ter yer bed. play hide and seek in the bed~
clothes, run all over yer, sometimes bite yer
nose and cut up all sots o dldoes And yer
could Mt kech 'en nuther-no use tryn' traps
aud pizon. Lord, Squire, them rats knowed
jist as we'll as yer did yese'f wot yer wus
try,u' to do EN-. They wus the smar,ess
and c'ttessest rats ever seed. Ketched
whole lot on 'eni wun night totin' away my
hut and bocts, jlst like they knowd wot they
wus made fur. shed a char at 'em and
away they scsmpered like mad.
Well, one nj sht when wus nifty tired and
wus i'st goit.' ter bed, forgot ter hang my
wuch up on nail. as oilers used ter do, and
lett it layin' Oh ther ulantel- piece: and went
ter bed NOT thinkin' anything more about The
durne,I wsch. Mex Inornin' when got up my
woch wus gone, and at one. | 'speeted some
O. the ntsyers Nv >'eellu' it. hunted oil
round al1i sa cbed the nj ygers and the cab
bIus--but It wa1nt 10 use Then wel,t
Uack ter my room aud huut'd everywhars
about sposiu mty!e had ut put it OH ther
rnautel-plece at all While WIS a standn'
still IN the middle Nv room woi,der!n whar
that wnrl. could gone ter, turd son,ethiu'
tickin' iist like a woch near the FIRE place.
i,,leret The sound up and wos satisfied my
wocI. wus behind the wood wo1 ov the fire.
pIare. But hrw did it gst thar :! Thar ii
ys, an! no3ol iy but them rats carrie! 1t of.
pulled out one Nv thu panks, and right,
kinder through chnkr ! saw q rats nest and
my woch Iayin' iu it, Now WIZ puzzled.
B.mehy as ! wos standn' and respin' through
the cink, seed an ole rat with whole lot
% young ones cum tear!n' inter the nest }'se
as if they WIS yuunir' race. Fust the ole
wun tux up The woch atween her paws: and
belt it mp to hss year n'innit, pst to hear 1t
tick. and then she',' hold it up to the years of
the little wins, and the way they would
squee a.d wiygle about was a caut'on--t
srr ned 10 do en1 SO much COOL. Fust the
ole nanny wuuld hold it up I" her year, and
she'd make the little wuns rake turn about.
Sometimes when one ur the little iellels wan
ted to hear 1t outer his turn, the Old 'un list
like human folks, would smack him over the
chops-list like NY NANNY uster smack me
when got imperent. Bt;neb1 the ole rat
got the wnch chain wropp"d al! round her
neck and then she stood up on her hind legs,
and wolkt al! about am! the little 'uns foller~
in after. s>reechin' like oil creation, lst as
ii they WIS latin; at their ole mamtn> fur
maxim fool NV herself with my ws"h.
commenced to kinder git mad. 'sposiT they
l.night hurt the woch, and wis about tarrn'
ont mother plank to git at 'e'n, when right
inter the nest. pops the ole be ras.-the pappy
Nv the iu.eres,n' family. Hs lookt nifty
! consequential iist as If he wos sayln'. IN
| boss here.' He cochs hol1 OF his wife, Mrs
! Rat, AMI turk' the woch way frnIn her and
put the gard 'goun! ais neck al played oil
| SORTS o. monkey trirks with it. The NANNY
lat and the little rats oil krepln' clear sayin'
anil toiu n,lthr,'. " oil the antics ever
seed. hat ole .at cut up! F,st he b't-tl.s
/ eci.tch+. it--hunx it aore him, then berh!Hd
! him snt it outer his head and totes it round
/ i t as ole Aise-r wuumtu totr baskets OF
tlut he ais and so OIL. wus oH.the time
! ,,ost spit,in' u,y sides |afin' at seeI,.' that
dusued ole rat carry on SO with my woeh,
" hen oil Ter onct--SqnIrr. burned il this
amt tact--the wocn stoIIt rulnin', and "ot
do yD. -spose the ole fatd'd May never
tech .,sar w bust head ay.n if he didn't
pick up the key and "ind it al'!"
Plug. by virtue Of the aut. .or'ty IN me
vested. | unhesia'i"sly pronounce yon the
most ,umityate liar alou: tie Store. Let's
20 over to the grocery an.' ia Ike drink
I'm tOtL1LR.
LobjeIis Store. Dee l1'h 1868.