White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-12-29

l lookt round for the fragments. Hetty
was lynn on her back, with near half the
back side of my trowsers in her clutch,
that she griped and never let go on when
the smash cum The old MAR was gone
with the fore wheels. and the rest of the
wagon was bottom up in the ditch. Pru-
dence wasent hurt m1ch-she fell a.
did, on the storks: but as fur pore jim;
/ thort it was all up with him. He lay
deep in the fodder, and kicked mastery.
I hollered tn him, and axed him If he
was hurt, but he gruntei and kicked wus-
ser. At last / got hold of his legs,
and pulled him out and SIGH lookin'
site / CESS never was heerd on in these
parts. Thare he lay with his he'd druv
clean up tn his sholders in one of Deacon
Dimond's hard shell punkins! and tn git
ont agin he coodent no how, but kept
f1ounderin' about like everything broke
luse. I'll ., .
"Hold still, Jim," SEE I, "and I'll
fix it." so when he got ezy. / tux stun.
and Standin' rite over him, yew no,
let her drive. / smashed the punkin,
emmy how. and cum plagy nj drivin'
Jim's smellsr doun his throte, in the bar
gin. But purity sumo he got up, and be-
gun to spisand chaw, and sputter, and
then he begun to cuss-snd SIGH orfal
wicked words
Darnashun to golly erasmus !" SEE
he, "if this amt Jest the last spree l ever
did see! Whoop! Chsw me intu shew
strings if dident think was clean
intu next week, when / was only in that
infarnal punkin Whew ! if this amt
the last punkin sass | ever did eat, for
sartin. Jemima Prudence, but yewr
bunnis is nocked intu cooked up hat !"
With that he wiped the curry of from
his face, and pulled the punkin seeds out
Of his hare @.
"But. jed" SEE he, "whar's the rest
of yeWr trowsis 7"
"Say nothin' about the trowsis," SEE
I; "whar's the DeacOn's mair :"
ashore enuffl" SEE Jim, and we star
ted for her.
We found her on her side, in the barn
yard, and if she wasent as near ded as
emmy of US, then boss flesh don't kick
over ezy-for as shore as aigs, the bits
was broke in the swivel, and we'd pulled
the head stall eenamost up tn the old sar
pint's sholders, tryin' tn hold her inl If
she warent choked for onct, then I'm
mistaken. But howsumever, we put her
up and tux the harness of, and put the
wagin together, and when that was dun.
the way the old mair went intu the pas
ter was nnthin' to nobody. FL.
Thare is sum things connected with
this Parin' Bee, that will never tell tn
nobody-and that is whether the Deacon
ever got his luther shillin' and anuther.
what mother sed about my trowsis next
mornin'; and anuthar, how l got my
boots off-tho tn be fare, l shood say
thay was both found split up the insteP
the next day. -l
But thare is sum uther things that I'd
as lieves folks weod no as not-and one
of them is, that my shin was scraped
from the nee half way doun tn the ankle,
on the wagin railin', when we went over;
anuther is. that Hetty Gawkins got a cut
on the uther side Of her face, which makes
her mouth draw DOM on both sides alike.
and now she is moar humblier and cross
er than ever. Whether ever used emmy
moar soft sope in my boots, is nobody's
bizness.
Respectfully yewrs.
JEDEDIAH PARSLEY.
Jsnnewary L, lS45. 1880