Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-01-20
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For the Yorkville ENQUIRER.
JOHN EASTMAN AND THE DUMB
BULL.

Mtstur Edttar I've bin long tlme
lowin tu tel you what happind up on Big
Sugar Greek between John Eastman and
the Dumb Bull, and how I gut intu hit tu.
As hits bin long time ago, and John and
me haint bin so mitey FRIENDLY nuthur, is
the reason I haint said nothin about hit a.
fore now. But as I've mooved up over the
North Carolina line, and people says and
talks purity much as they pleas eny how up
here, 1 reckon John won't think hard uvme
eff wus tn tel hit on him.
Wei, you sees John and when we
wur young, we wur considerable sparks a.
mongst the gals in the diggins roun Big
Suggar Greek, but we both gut to hankerin
arter old widder jenkins gall Sail, who wus
as spruce and buxom little piece as ever
trodin shue letherors wore pinck ribbin.=-
An Sail and I had almost gut tu be sworn
freends, til John got to nsuchItn horns with
me, andas he was little better lookin fed
man than 1 wur, John was rather crammln
hit on tn me; fur the last mite We met at the
widder Jinkin's, I wur, badly cha~ed, fuI
Sail and the old ONION both talked a peskey
heap tn John at the supper-table-they al
most choked him with 'tention and kept
sistin fur him tu heve his cup filled agin and
tu take out sum more of the collards; while
they never sed wun time, "Bill Perkins
make out your supper or hey anuthur cup OF
butter.milk." And when I furst sot down l
didn't have much Nv an appertite, but CESS
I ct it with cummin stumake Jes fur
spite.
And arter supper wur over, and the table
red up, the old omon and Sail both got on
ech side Nv John jes to cut my fethers wus,
and talked and cracked jokes tu him all the
time, while I sot in luther corner with wun
fat on top Nv luther pickiu dobbin outen the
cracks and eyin John mitey jubiously all the
time, feelin like wus sent fur tu quilt
in and cudent cum. The old omon was IN
a crate gale a talkin tu him and akin him
about his nue. house, and eff he wus gwine
tn hev portfolio tn hit like squire Gllkin's
nue. house, aud eff he had a guide crop Nv
yung pigs q cummin on, and eft his hens
wur fechiu upmeny yung chickens; and then
Sail primped bur face lookln as pleasin as
basket W chips and a2ed John Ell he wud
take sctteu Nv MANS don'tn'ck1r hen egs
home with him in the morniu. And he sed
he wud and thank hur fur EN- tu, and teelln
a little romanceful went and sed he wud set
them under his yaller legged luvly-cacklin-
speckly hen on the highest pinnacle Nv tod-
der Nv his barn loft, and when they hatched
out he wud take all the care in the world Nv
EN- fur hur luyely sake tu rcmembur hur !;
and the old ONION sorter mizled her counten-
ence and Sail kinder blushed and thanked
him-and then John rolled his eyes round
on me in kind Nv hytQltin way, and look
ed as proud as yuug ruster with his tust
spurs, and they looked mitely consequential
Nv Mr.. Eastman, and cud see them turn
thur noses up at me like they smelt wet
pups, and sot and wished wur sum whar
else. But 1 thought to myself, as Deacon
Brinley uster say-"every dog has his own
day." But thot Sail wur treatin me
mitely unscruplusly as she uster stick tu me
like sick kitten tu hot brick. But since
Johns grand-mamy had dide and left him
the Pea-Ridge place and the Punkin bot
toms, and couple of sows and litters, thur
wus no body but Mr.. Eastman livin, and
Bill Perkins wus nowhare.
Well things kept goin on tn Johns glo-
~ and salvation, and he wur taken on and
o rantin about with Sail heap wus en- ever
I dun. And John heres Nv big show up
in sharlot, and so he gifts his daddy's old
gig and tuck Sail up to see hit, and the old
omon wur powerful uneasy all the time they
wur gone, for fear them ugly animals mout
git out Nv thur boxes and hurt sum body
Well they cum home safe, and then sich
talkin about the show and Sharlot-as wur
at the old onions when they cum. Sail sed
they put up at great big brick house whar
they had niggur at your heels every time
yu turned round, and every man and omon
had a different room tn sleep in, and that the
men and wimmen didn't see wun anuthcr
only when they cum down inter big room
full Nv fine things, and that nobody didn't
sleep in this room, and they called hit the
parley! Widder Jinkins sed her dateI
Sail wos mitey 'complished tu recommembeE
and notise all things; and she sed she must
git me tu ,iire hur sum clab-boards and run
q partition in hur house, so she wud have
wun end fur the wimmen tu sleep in, and
the luther fur the men folks, and so rite thar
she imployed me tu du the job, like as el
wernt fit fur nuthin else. Well so you see
loved Sall,, and wud du eny thing tu be
about whar she wus, fur luved hur so
wud stand and look at hur and then Wud
look at the place I seed her stand last And
50 you may guessT felt squamish about the
eizzard when thing, wur agon on this way
And TO make me ;eti wuss. Johu wus u rantin
and cavOrtu anu tehn hit all over Fiddle
burg, that be had now cnt' zee mt, aud that
the old widder had hired nc IL "t0e ctab
boards and sed | warn't fit fur uuthn else
and that he wus agoiu tu pa, portfolio tu
his uue house, and jist at that particular
time, Pea-Ridge and Puukin Bottoms wuc
hardly hold him.
Arter the show in Sharlot, wurd cum that
the lion had broken outen his den up thar
and wus on his way down Big Shugga'
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