Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-02-05
Sut Lovengood's Daddy Acting Hos
" Hold that ere hoss down to the yearth.''
" He's spreading his sail-fy now

he S spreading MS Sall-ty now.
Keep him whar he is
These and like expressions were addressed to queer
locking, long legged, shortboded whitehared hogeyed
funny sort OF genius fresh from some secondhand
clothing store, and mounted on "Tarpole' ne-taed
long, poor horse, and enyeloped all perfect net
work OF birdie rens scuppers, martingaes, straps cir
cnges and red erretng who had rened up in front of
Pat Nacks grocery, among crowd of wild mountain
GERS, full of fight and bad whiskey
say, you darned ash eats st keep your shirts on
will you I ou never seed raal horse till rid up
Tarpoe is next to the best horse that ever sheed nub
bins, and he's dead as still worm poor old Tickey
Tail"
What killed him. Sut ?" said an anxious inquirer
Why, nothin, you tarnation FOOL he jst died. stand
ing up at that Warnt that good pluck? Froze stiff
not adzacy, but starved fust and then frozed a
tcrwars, 50 stiff that when dad and me pushed him
over, he lst stuck out spreading his and egs
like carpenters bench, and waited seventeen days
for him to thaw, afore could skin him. Well thar
was-dad and me, counting his fngers) dad an me-
Sal an Jake-fOol Jake We used to call him for short
an Phineas an Simeon, an Jonas an Charlotean an
Culna an Cashus Henry Clay, an Noah Dan, an
Cathrine second an Cleopatry Antany an Jane Lind
an Tom Bullion, the baby an the prospect, an marin
herself, all left without any hoss to crop with. That
nice mess for spectacle family to be sashed a.
bout i'll, want it? l declare if didn't feel like steal
in horse, sometimes Well waited and rested, and
waited until well onto strawberry time, hoping some
stray horse mout come along, but dog my cats ef any
slch luck as that Whar dad s he's dCtted
mean, an lazy an savage an ugly, an tryin.
Well, one nite dad he lay awake all mite, snOrin
an rolln, an whispern' at marm; an next mornin
says he:
q Sut I'll tell you what we'll do I'll be boss myself
an pull the pOw while you drive me- and we'll break
up corn ground, and then the old quilt that's marm)
and the brats kin plant let alone st they please
So out goes to the papaw, an peeled right smart
chance OF bark and marin and made gears for dad and
they become him nightly, then he would have Bride
gifts old umbrella what found-its little piece
iron, sorter like onto pitchfork ye know-an' we bent
all twisted it sorer into bride Bit snail shape dad
wanted it curb he hadn't worked for time, and
must sorer feel his oats and 90 to cavortin) Well,
when got the bride all fixed on dad he chomped his
bit st like raal hoss (he always wus most compli-
Gated old fool enyhow, and marin alters said SO when
he warnt about) then put the gears, an out dad
an goes to the field a leadin dad by the bride,
and totn the gopher pillow on my back.
g When we come to the fence, let down gap that
made dad mad he wanted to Jump the fence all ours,
hoss way hitched him into the gopher, and way he
went, dad eanin orard to his pun right peart; and
We made sharp plOwin dad goin right the bushes
an sprouts n raal hoss the only difference is he
went on two legs Presently we come to a sassafras
patch and dad to act up his character hoss buged
squar inter it, and tore down hornets nest nigh big
hOss head and all the tribe kivered him rite strate
He rared and kicked once twice. and fotched squel
ary horse in the deestrict an sot into runnn
way iist as natural as ever you seed,
Il let go the plow and hollered woa, dad, woa but
ye mout as well said woa to locomotive. Jewhill
kns how he When he to bush he'd clear
it. gopher and ALL praps he hot there mou be another
settlement Of bald hornets in it, and that it safer tc
go over than thru, an quicker dun. Every and
then he'd paw side of his head with ust fore leg
and then tother; then he'd gin himself open-handet
slap that sounded like wagon whip, and runnn' all thu
time and carryin that gopher jist about fast an(
high from the yearth gopher carried
sWar When he to the fence he busted rite thru it
tarin nigh into panels scatern' and breakn tn
rails nightly and here he left the gopher gears swim
gletrees and klevis, all mixed up, not wuth durn
of his shirt stuck to the broken end of spintered rail
and nigh unto pint O hornets staid with the shirt
stngin it all oyer-the balance em, about gallon
half kept on with dad He seemed to run list adsact
ly as fast hornet could fly, for it the tightes
race did down thru the grass they all went
the hornets sorter maxim it look like smoke all
dads head, and he with nothn but the bride,
nigh onto yard O plow line sain behind him. l sex
he amin for the swimmin hole in the creek, wha
the bluff is twenty feet perpendicular to the water
and it's nigh onto ten feet deep. To keep up his char
acter as hoss when he got to the bluff he jist eapet
off, rather, he jst kept runnin Now right thar
boys, he overdd the thing if that what be ar
ter for there's nary hoss aded burned fool enough
to leap sch place. mule mout have done it, blr
dad warnt acting mule crept up to the edge and look
ed over. Thar was old dads bald head, for all tn
s world like peeled ingun, bobbn up and down, ano
the hornets sain' and crclin round turkey buzzaet
ten 'ud make dip at dads head He kept up pear
dodgin under sometimes they'd hit him and sometime
they'd hit the water, and the water kivered wit
drowned hornets.
"'What on yearth are We doin' thar dad?' saysI.
GO Don't (dip you see these Internal varmints dip
o onto me p
u "What' sed I. Them are hoss flies thar; ye ain
really afeard of them, are ye?'
*" Hoss flies? sed dad they're rae (dp) ginewne ball
hornets, you (dip) Internal cuss. ,.
We'll dad, you'll have to stay thar till mite, and al
ter they go to roos you home and I'll feed you
And KNOWN dads unmodifei natur, I brok
from them parts and sorter cum to the copper mines
stad hid about till next AFTERNOON, when seed felON
travelling, and sed |: What goin at the cabi
: this side Of the creek when you passed it?'
!, Why, nuthn' much, only a sittin in tn
5 door with nary shirt on, and greasin' hi
back and arms and his head wus about as bi te
gallon keg, aud he hadn't the fuss sign of eye-a
t smooth.
"' That mans my dad. Sed l.
Been much fiten in this neighborhood lately? Sc
the traveller, dryly.
Nun wuth speakin' of, personally OR particularly
;, sed l.
d Now, boys, haint seen dad since, and would
aearcd TO meet him in he next ten years. Let. drink
MIRACULOUS ANSWER TO oPRAYER.-BeDajah Prathe
an orderly member of the Baptist Church of Christ
Rehoboth Wilkes CO., Ga, eight years ago, take
SICK and although very SICK yet there was nothing e.
J. traOrdinary in his case cOnvalescence but befo
he got entirely well he deprived of speech entire
notwithstanding his mental and corporal functions
youchsafed to him in their usual perfection has
b uttered word since until Monday night last, abo,
70 eleven o'clock while repOsng his bed, metatiDg
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