The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1858-06-30

din. She married Capshaw the surkit
rider. Now I'll tell you two things no.
body ever seed; wun is dead mule-I
means mule jest died without any help;
and tother is sirkit riders grave Gaze
why. the he mules all turn inter old field
school masters, and the she wuns inter
strong minded wimmen, aud then they
dies like eny other human. And the
serkit riders, them what marries fur money,
turns inter store keepers; and them what
marries fur it, but gifts bit turns inter
politicians, and then they dies sorterl.ke
humans too. I'll tell yu an uther thing
about the varmints; they eat chickens
round the sirkit till they scares up rich
gall, an if ever one of EN- lowers his sites
on gal, why she is gall no longer, no
more nor he stays q sirkit rider. They
ijst bitches hosses. and gooe-by gall, good
iby ole sedge field, pine thicket, sirkit, aud
look out fur team of shuttail children,
u pale oman. sharp hoss tradin, and stayin
at home on kolection Sundays. Now ole
Burns had Zig black and white bull,
with ring in his nose and rope tied up
round his horns. They ride him tn mill
aud such like with saddil made outen
dog wood forks and clap boards, and xiv.
cred with ole carpit, rope girth and stirup
feathers. with loop fur the foot.
Ole Sock, as they called him, had jist
got back frum mill, and wur turned inter
the yard sadil and oil, tn pick grass.
wur slnrgin round too, out side the house,
Fur they heden't axed me in Us tha sot
down tn eat Socknosed round till he
found big baskit what hilt a little shat
tered corn, and he put in his tn git hit.
/ slipped up and jirked the handil over
his horns Now, George du yu know the
Inatur Of COW brute? Theyr the durndest
fool owe oil the beasts, callers steppin over
the Lovegoods,) fur when they gifts inter
tribulashun they nos nothing but tn shut
Their eyes, beller, and back an keep a
backin. Well, when ole Sock found his
sef in darkness when he raised his head,
he made one lunge agin the house that
shook the dobin out, al then he fotch a
beller that might been heerd 8 mile, and
sot in tn an ondesistin sistim Nv backin.
A big craw fish wur no whar. Fust sgin
one thing then over another, among which
wur the bee bench, an duzen stands NV
bees. This knockin down thar bench fotch
out all the bees, fitin mad, the are wur full
of EN-, redy to pitch inter anything what
moved The hous sot onto slopin groune,
an the yard dore war even with hit; so
Sock jist backed in nnder fall head OF
steme, BLOWN aud bawlu, an the leder
owe the biggest army Of bees ever seed
out at wun time; they filed tho bassit,
they lodged onto his tail till it wns es thick
as wagon ting. all stuck up in the are at
that, lookin sorter like q pine kivered with
ivy. The war in fac, all over i'm. an a,
work with all ther mites, maxim him fee
good an hot an improvin his temper
mitily.
Owe all the burned times ye ever herd
tail fust agin the ole two story Dutct
clock an fotch hit, Dustin the insides outer
Int: the leetle wheels war all over the fore
Next pas he fotch up agin the foot owe q
big double engine bedstead, an reared hi
onto eaEd. pnnchin one nv the posts thrr
q glass winder. The next tall-fast expe
dition wur agin katakornered kubard
what soon kotch darnation. He smash
ed the glass doors in, upsetin hit. and
then stompn every thing inter the shelveI
Il oil 10 rib IN hoo c,rf hor -
that direckshun. Pickil krocks preserv,
jars, vinegar jugs. seed bags, yard bunche'
paragorick bottles. aig baskits, an deli
we're all Linked permiskusly, an not wutl
q sortin by about a dollar and a, ,alf
! Next he got fare back across the rum,
agin the board partishun; he went thrt
like hit had bin paper, and tuck abou
six feet square owe hit in spinters witt
him inter the rune whar they wur a. eatin
an now the itin owe bees. an dancin, ar
dodgiu begun.
i Clapshaw's man wer deaf es nail; 81
sot at the eand of the table next tn wha
Il Sock busted thru the wall; tail fust on b
cum agin her cheer, histin her and bit ontt
the tabls Now the squawkin, an cussin
an the smashin of things, an mixin o
! Of vittils commenced. They had so
several tabils tugether to make hit lonf
enuf, SO he jest rolled EN- up top ov'
one another, and thar sot ole Miss Clap
shaw straddle nv the top nv the pile
fitin bees like onto q mad wind milt9 will
her calicker Gap ia one hanG for wepun
an cruet frame in luther; an kickil
like she wur ridiu lazy hoss arter 1
doctor. Tsters cabidge, meat, supe, sop
, dumplins and the truck ye waller EN- in
! milk, plates, pies and every burned 6xi
lyu could think owe in week, wer thar
mixed and smashed like hit had been rul
thru a threshing machine.
4 OleSock still kept a hackin. and back
ed the whole pile, ole 'oman an all, Wit
! Eve or six other bee aters an few chairs
Z outen the big dore an down seven step
inter the lane; and then he turneda 6ftee
) hundred pound summerset hself arter 'en