Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1858-01-08

legged doctor what 'sot near me; allowed it
wur a claf7Case owe Delicious Tremenius, :
an Ithotrhe wur rite, far it wur tremeniusi
afore it wur dun WITH Off went the
claw hammer coat, an he flung hit ahind
him like he wur guine inter a 'fte( he
had no jacket on. Nexthe fotch his shut
over his he'd faster nure T. got outcn my
pasted wunH and he flung hit up in the:
air like. he didn't care a. durnt if bit kept
on up forever; but hitlodged onto d black
jack seed one'ove my lizards a racin
about over, the big old dirty looking shut,
skared like the deviI!" Thenlhe gin a sor-
ter shake an aitwist. an he cum outen
his britches an he tuck en- by the bottom
Owe the leg an swung EN- round his he'd
few times an then Eotch EN- down cherwal-
lup over the front owe the pulpit. You
could NV hearn the smash a quarter owe
mile Nigh onto about fifteen shortened
biskit, bred chicken with hits legs
crossed. big dubl bladed nife, slab
owe terbacker, pipe, some copper ore
specimens. a heap owe broken glass,
cork, a sprinkil owe whisky. shut an three
owe my lizards flew peroiskusly oil over
that Ar meetin ground Outen the upper ind
owe them big flax britches. Wun of the
smartest owe my blue lizards lit he'd fust
inter the busum owe fat oman, as big
as a skin'd hoss, an nigh on to as ugly,
who sot thirty yards off fannin hersef
with a lucky tail. an smart tu the last;
hit commenced runnin down. ~. i
So she wur bound to faint, and did it
fust rate: jist flung her tuck tail up in the
ar, rolled down the hill, tangled her legs
an garters on the top of huckilbery
BUSH and war thar all safe, fair, and qui-
ct when left. ..t -s,i sw
Now old Bullin had nuthin left on him
but par of heavy low quartered shoes.
short wooIin sock, an eel skin garters, tn
keep off the cramp, and his skare wur
CROWN on him fast. He wur plum crazy,
for he jist spit in his hands and leaped
over the frunt owe the pulpit rite inter the
middle owe the Plus part of the kongrega-
ton heraF! an sot in III gettin away,
He run, or rather went lumberin gaIlop,
heavy, like an ole waggin hoss skared at
Il locomotive. When he jumped bench.
he shook the yearth an his sef tu.' The
hounets an fans cleared the way, and he
he'd purtectly far track tu de woods.-
He weighed nigh onto three hundred, he'd
black stripe down his back like cnto an
old bridil rein. an his belly looked about
the size and cutler owe a big beef paunch,
an hit a'shakin from to side side He lean.
ed back from it like little felEer totin
owe big drum at muster. an | hearn'I it
siosh plum tu wher | wur. Their .wer
cramp nots on his legs as big as warnuts,
an all over he minded me owe a CRAZY ole
elephant what wcr possessed by the devil.
with hits years, snout. an tushes sawed
off, and reared up an guine on hits hind
legs away frum emediate trubble an trib
uluIon. He did the loudest an scariest
an tussieSt runnin | ever seed since Dad
raced with the hornets, tn be no faster
then it wur. Well he disappeared in the
thlcket. and Of all the nlses ye ever hearn
it were thar in q crklG Of two hundred
feet or tharabOu:s-some wlmin screamin
they wus the skery wuns: sum lar6n-
they wus the wicked wnns; some cryin
they was the fool wuns, sorter Of the
LOvengood, stripe; )sum tryin 10 git away
ur hide thar faces-they wus the modest
wuns; sum looking arter ole Bu!lin-they
was the curious wuns; sum on thar knees
with their eyes shot. but thar faces turn
ed the waV old mudtukil was runnin-
they was the decletfult wuns; sum DUN
nOthIn-they was the waitin wuns; an
the most dan ferrous owe all owe EN- by a
burned long site. | took a big skeer N.Y.
sef, arter Il bibil about as big as brick, a
| dissip line, and a book called a kata-
plasn; few rocks, and sich like fruit
spattered onto the pulp nj onto my he'd;
an as the Lovengoods, durn them! know
| Nh HTVt tO lOon cl.
| [ just put out towards the swamp on the
krck. AS | starred black bottl owe
baldface smashed agin tree forninst me-
Sum burned fool professor dun this. who
he'd more zeal then sence; fur | say that
any man who'd vast quart of good
whiskey for the chance owe knocking q
poor devil like me down with it, if the
Ootil was worth nuthin. isn't as smart as
ole squire MacmuIln, a> he shot his sci,
with hoe handil, an hit warnt loaded at
that. Well. you know. George, orter
run fast-jiSt look at these Iegs-I used
EN- sum atween that meetin grown an the
swamp. an they haint ko, ch me yet.
Ole BarebeIly Bullin AS they call him
since his tribulaIiOn with the He'll Sar
pints, haint preched but wunst, an then
he hedn't an oman to hear i'm. His tex
wus " nakid l cum into 'hIs world an m
guine outen it the same way IF I'm spar
ed till then" I'm told twAr powerful
sarmint-it was heatn three miles. He
proved that nakidness warnt much arter
all, eff you take the rite view owe the thing
that hell sarpints owe all sizes was skee.
ry, cold, an troubilsum-that it warnt tn
be expected owe him, poor, weak, frail
wum of the dust to be sarpints ur lizard
proof either-that wun small sarpints Of
the tribe owe milkizidick rnniated a world