Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-01-08


kentuck, evidently little tight" witt
his after dinner potations, and ripe fo
fun, came and seated himself in thei
midst. Our smooth tongued frcnt
placed himself by his side, and made
remark rather disparaging to kentuck,
intelligence. kcntuck walked up i'll
stantly.
Look yere, stranger! if you let tire,
words ontn your tater trap agin Ole
kcntuck, you an I'll havea scrimmage
Immediately if not sooner | kin hug
like bar, an I'm 4 screamcr, no mis-
take! Fve live'l in Old kentuck, man
an boy, nigh forty years, an never got
nothiR thar but mighty good usage, am
| won't see her abused-cf | do, choke
me with my next dodger!"
Bradley backed down instanter.
Have you always lived in that State??'
asked one who was amused with his
carnestncss.
| No stree! an | reckon missed it a
heap when / went and squatted in Indi-
| amy. You see, lnevcr'd been anywhar
but down the Massissip, and the var
mints had got sorter scace. Ny old
woman had hankerin' to get home, and
she finally persuaded me to move. So
sold my clearin', packed mp my plu,der
and mizzled. But wasn't there more'n
q week fore ! seed the Jump Every
ID thing had the ague,. and some on
EN- the milk-sick. Why, the squatters
shuck so hard they had to nail the kiver
on the bedstead, at night, to keep it
from fallin' off an stake an ridered
fence wouldn't stand more'n . year. For
the matter Of fortnight I shuck to
pieces every night, an it tuck clear two
hours to find my arms and legs in the
mornin'. | just couldn't stand it; 80 |
tuck the back trail, bought my old place,
an' you better believe felt mighty pcert
to see my old friends again.
Your neighbors were no doubt equal
~ glad to see yoN?"
"Well, haint got right smart
chance of neiglbors, seein' the nearest
lives eight miles off. Imeant the boats:
lord bless We, know the cough of every
one Of en- on the Massissip, as well as
do the trail of a barr
Didn't yon find the soil as fertile as
you expected in lndiana?'
"Fertyle? Sile fertyle? No / pre-
ccive, stranger, you never lived in Old /
kentuek, or you wouldn't AK sich pow
erful silly question. Them cussed Hoo
siers can't crop more'n sixty Bushels to
the acre, nohow; an small as am, l
could reach every ear without box to
stand on. Fertile. Why, / crop ono
hundred bushels to the acre, an ride a
horse in the patch to pick it. tell you !
what it is, Old kentuck's rich; the men
N it is rich, but sile is heap richcr'n
both together. Yon have lacarn tell of !.
Porter, the Kentucky giant? We'll, lr
vas raised i'm our parts. He got thrown
rom his bay gclding into the Buffalo
,ayou; just back of my clcarin', and it
iurt the critter so bad he had to lay thar ,
II night; next morniH' he'd growed two
&c! Fact. / was knowin' to it.
ave heard that the soil was not only !,
Is rich, but that game, particularly wild !,
owl, were naore pteaty on the prairies
# Indiana and Illinois than in Ken.
ucky," remarked one Of the company. =
1t mought be, stranger" replied Ken
uck, doubtfully; i amt qualified but /,
hey be. But there they shake with the /, =
que 50 uncomfortable, and git 50 id !,
'oor, they ANT no account Thar was 4 5 :.
,igcon roost UP thar in the Hoosier
tate, an they all got the shakes an
migrated A right smart chance of a y
Iock few over my claim when the chill =
ras on, an the poor critters shuck so
ard that my. corn patch was kivcred I,
hree inches deep with feathers! / had !.
~ boys gatl,eriIi 'em up. used power
II 'em myself, and sent tie rest to Or y
,ans and got the rocks. made clear
NO hundred by it.v a
Il should have thought modestly J.
nggested Brady, q that they. would
ave found it difficult to fly without !
,athcrs." L
"I.ook yer, old feIier. don't tell me
c, for it amt wfclesome-so look out! !
nut then, that's what sortcr allowed
ut it was the beautifullest sight you r.
ver seed-tlle kindness OF them dumb
rittcrs! You see they only had the fits $
eery other day, and it was the wellday 4
Il half, and they tuek the uDfortunit ii
nes on their backs, Oh, 'twar a Chris Il
an sight" d
The evening getting advanced, the
asscngers retired to the saloon, when S
.entuck sang ont: 6 !,
f"Oh, barkeeper, show US yonr eye
pener. These yer mems throats are as y
~ as a smoke pipe i
The "wlitc-cye went round quite free +
/ several times, at kentucks expense, III
hen Bradley, thinking him ripe for the
xpcrimcnt, asked him if he wouldn't '