Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-12-05
To Correspondents.
SUIT LOVengoOd at BuII's Gap.

Sut LOVengOOd at BuIps Gap.
baint never gin you the account owe my travels
in the regin owe Bulls Gap, last winter l heV kep
hit back, case Wer feaEd while Wer mad | mous
do the cussed branch Of hell iojestis But new Iss
got over hit prepared bad hit is, to gin
| hit far play. 81 ever yearihquake Gums round en-
dus the ssme, you'd never Bulbs Gap agin that's
all.
means to tell jist what seed, hearn and felt an
don't spsck enyb0dy what haint been thar'n believe
/ word owe hit; but don't keer durn, Tor 1 ant
/ spected to act ur talk like human, no how
Wen, Bulls Gap bo;tomless mud hole ,tWen>
ty odd miles loDg. mixed with II cks, legs, brush
creeks, broken stages, dead hosses, mean whisky,
cold vittils cross dogs Sic about forty other
travellers wer making trip amongst all this mixtry
while hit would fust rain the best six 6uten elevng
then hit would sWh tn rest hiisef then sleet
ttil ist to show what hit could DO freeze awhile
an begin another rsiuin match, an doin Wun ur
luther all the time es hard es shoemaker Eorkin
by tbejob the devil splittin fat pine tn lite up
new conner, and him Congrisman ur suekit
rider.
When we got in sigh owe Whsr We wer tn eat sup
per, loped Ofen the stage Wsggin an put out at 3
peart lick towards the supper bell an hearn a
feller say, I'D gin hundred dollars fur them lsigs
(sPeakin mine, theyse the only par Whatll git
thru this piece Of saft country tu luther railroad
Gaze they kin touch bottom sometimes; an, darns-
tOn hos they reaches forward towards better things
-jist watch him measure the yeath with EN-. Why,
be looks like eussed ole Binder mop with two han
dis dam ef he don't. He's split from the yeath to
his haslet, an is stiIl splittin. Jist watch him
wade thru that pile rocks an cross ties" an
heap more sich talk about me what Pse forgot
Wonder what he'd said if he'd seed me a Workin EN-
onder a orful tarin big skeer? burned ef don't
speek he'd tuck one hissef, an turned luther way.
George never Wer proud these yere aigs afore
(d'ye see em), only when Outrun ole Burns hOuns
Use tuck tu lin every day with frog lie hit
helps em poWfnl, an they'se my only pendenes on
this yeath; an | thinks 1 Understands how to use
EN-. I'm gWine to be more keerful owe EN-, an
not run fur nuhin but ist tn save to use EN- Onder
Big sleers
an the balance owe rs intu another, Whar thar
stood httil meetin house lOokin stove what had
been tryin 70 git hot; as hit couldn't, hit tuck
the studs an Wer smokin like Ontu Moth CGlina
tar kill, an smelt like burnt har. The Warter an
slush stood in the the room more nor half way up
hits laiRs CHATS what comes owe haVin common
laigs,) but all Waded in stood round that tti
eussed cold sulky nigger-lookin cast-iron~smoke>
box, sum cassin hit, sum cussin tharsefs, sum
eussin Bulls Gap, sum a eussin Wun another, sum
eussin the lake they stood in sum cussin that are
shauty tavrin, sum cussin fur supper, sum a Gus
sin the rike nine snake whisky, all cussR thar
leVil best One monsous clever ittle feller frum
Nashville endorsed all the eassin, an then sot in an
eussed the world; sed hit all vanity an vexa,
shun eve spirit-a dam onmiiigsted humbug frum
the ceQLef All EOuuu u the 6ear-Au sueu tue
neck owe the botl up tn the bulge down tReen his
shoulders and ilt hit thar long es he he'd breih
ur hit he'd mixture; flung hit agn the stove, then
Gu ssd ihe bottle fur being The strongest ever he
wanted tn smash.
axed the tavrinkeeper how he liked that eussin
es a speeimint owe the gift in perfscshun. Oh, he
sed hit were ornsry not third rste in quality,
wan powerful ina quantity; hardly listened tn hit;
| in fac, hit didn't even warm him up; wouldn't do
/ as q sampil owe the art at alli an axed me ef l
hadn't been fetched up BY mOnsous Plus pussons nj
! uutu church. fur hit Wer elar Wer poor judge
owe cussin. Ssd he he'd crowd the mite sfOre what
| understood the business-sixty seven owe EN-; Rn
thew ver SO well trained that hit sounded like one
/ man only sixty-ssVen times louder. Sed they
cussed him pussoney till bis ackit buttons flew on
| an the sinds owe his har eotched fire; then they
| turned in ontu a stage agent an eussed him into
three weeks spell eve fits an diarrear but he hadn't
much owe a constitushun no how; an then finished
of BY cussin Wun we the stage Waggias ontil hit
run off inter the woods without eny hosses tu hit
In fac, mister laigs sez he, got the best mites
sleep arter they got thrOu, what I've had in six
| months; never felt the fusL burned bug, an would
gin duler eff your crowd could jist cuss half es
/ pufeetly Hits munsous holesum ouietin thing
fur man tu get tip top cussn jist afore he goes
tn bed perticulerly if the Wimmin owe the crowd
lines in with that ar "nasty hog" ''sint you
sbamed owe yersef, you stinkin brute you" chorus
owe theirn tell you, mister, hits all keeps tay-
rim fur" An / believed him; fur, bein nstrsl-
horn burned fool never onct thought owe the half
dulers he got arier the cussin Wer over They mout
KEEP him from feelin his bugs, moutent they7
Well, when that bottil smashed sgin the stove hit
sksred out from onder hit the All-fredest, biggest
spottedest, long sigedest bull frog ever seed. He
| he'd iron teaspoon crOssWise In his mOuf, sn be
struck out an swum to iDjuh rubber over shoe
what Wer hoatin about bOat-fsshuR losse- de
climbed aboard, sot in to paddlin hlssef with MI
spoon, injun way, fust one side owe the Keel anC
| then luther across that ar pond The eussin hec
stopped by this time an l never seed as menny bis
ewes afore; they were es round an big es ef then
leds he'd been stretched over maEhngh rings Al
durn the word were spoke. He 5 oered fur the blui
hank owe an old har trunk, an clOmb tn the top 0
hit with his spoon in his mouf agtn, an then tuel
hits bowl in his paws, stood up on his 4aigs, a
: ! scratched his back Over-handed with the handil
Arter he satisfied hssef at that deYarshun be tuo
aiIa al me- (he'd been Wstehin me afore,) an hFey
/ his burned ole rusty spoon at my he'd. hesrn hi
whiz apast my year. Then he Rqustted ontu ii
7 har trunk spread his fore lsigs wide ike Ontu
bench laiged fee, faein the crowd, an IN the mos
bumau-like JFay yu ever hearn IN allyeF born days
begun in orful hoarse voice q crOakins "Buf
Cap Bull Gap''--fBulrs Gsp"--an as the Ia
aind owe the word gap lef bis mouf he'd snap hi
lips tugether like shettin owe par owe Eohi iron
= in hurry, and his countenaRee looked like he We
powerfuly diseumfOrted about sumthin. In
thought got throu my har th Il hit the ghr ste
I owe some Frenehman what had got pizeues Wit
sumthln ne a eJ tnaF, uf got hisse1 uEOHhuea IA u
mud. The whole performances wer to human like
suit me; so a fust rate big skeer begin in the MID
dill owe my laigs, jist lOped Outen the door int
The sIush in the middil owe the road. The ballan'
owe the crowd seemed 20 be Waitin for Q hint o.
u that Sort fur durn my gizzsrd eff they didn't pcJ
in outen that ar door in solid suee into the dark 81
mud an every nov an then sum feller more skeers
- az active Wud cum cut Ayin over the heads OYe Il
balance; an thar Warn1 mOssel owe eussln don
nor single pussin lef in that 8arter tight rooE
rhefrog had hit all tn hssel durn his spotted sor
recon he Wer satisfied now .lsL
Well, don't you think, George, mex moFnin eve
eussed infuAel lyin raskil OT EN- didn't deny y
whole thing, and sWOre thar Warnt ara frog seed
all. an hit we're nathiR but the strike nine whisky
= he'd druuk, what he'd hstehed frog in my he'd B
:, Pm burned eff hit WRrnt just es tell hit fur, e
.e cum back week afterwards, seed his skin stree
nd ed up again the house, an hit wer es big es old
ed coonv an the taErinkeepeF yer Pubbin in ole b
ed ter inta the hsshy side axed him what he We
seWine tn du with hit he ssd he msnt tn max