Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-06-16

was 50 mad I pitched him clean over my
head into the roover bottom, and I quit in
disgust. allowed I stopped then an thar,
an did. Jest then I hearn Bill Chafins
sing out he was thar.
"Irun down stream, and I meets Bill on
the jump, his eyes as big as sassers, and his
tongue gwine like hutter wheel. looks
over into the hole, an I tell you, the roover
jest filled! Sich sloshin you nuvver seed a.
fore. The old pike was hookt, and he was
a scrowger! He wuz the antickest Teller you
uvver seed. Fust he'd dive down, and could
not see mite of the pole; and then he'd
come up, and the top Nv the pole'd jump
outen water more'n hundred feet.
"Chafinses kunno was fastened to birch
root hard by, so I makes her loose, and Bill
an I gifts in her, and I poles her out. But
we couldn't raise the dshinpole no how
Uvry time the pike d see us, he'd dodge and
shoot, and keep the pole down. At last l
takes the set pole, and puts it onderthe line !;
but jest as I git it up to the top, the pike
he'd querld hisself, and off the lined
slanuch.
9I fooled my time thar for over six hours,
as nigh as I could jedge, an got tired
Bill sed he'd dive down and rise the pole
So he barked hisself and in he goes. He
swum round spell, and div down, but he
wasn't strong enough to raise again the fish,
SO he give that up. Hooks down agin, and
I could see nothing more Nv the fish, and |
know'd be had pulled the anchor loose, and
kerried off the pole, so I says to Bill, who
was sittin in the starn eend, with his knees
to his chin, an his fingers tohis toes, doubled
up like bull frog, "we'll 60 down to your
house and get something to make a drag"
Will that I gives the kunnoo a couple Nv
hard shoves an lands her, and I sez to Bill
Sonny, you go in an ak nanny for the
pot hooks and the BEDFORD, or close line.
Il didn't hear him answer, and [ turned
roun, and 10, and behole! Bill wasn't thar.
Il thought first he'd got out, though l
didn't see how; but I sees his old straw hat
a Aoatin down the roover, and then Iknow'd
he fell overheard, and I spected he wuz
drownded. I felt awful bad about the leetle
cuss, and stood there en- considered a spell.
Dreckly Miss Chafdns, she sees me, and she
sez-
"Whar's Bill ?"
why I sez, Il reckin he's up the bank
some-whar. He wuz with me little while
back I sez, for I didn't rightly know what
to say.
sSez she, sHe's gone up the Dry branch, I
reckin, to look arter that stray cow of ourn.'
sYes ma'am,' I sez, Il heern him say
something about cow
sWell, Miss Chafins she sed dinner wuz
ready, and I wuz welcome, would set up?
and I sot down; but I didn't eat more'n
poun Nv middlin, an a couple Nv pones Nv
bread, for my heart wuz heavy. Eff I'd a
he'd some red eye I thing could hev drunk
a quart, wuz in such low sperrets. But [
hedn't marry drap.
sArter dinner I went out and tuck to fish
in again, for I wuz so distracted I didn't
know what to do. flung me line in agin
at the deep hole, an suddenly got leetle
the fercest bite that uvver wuz. 1t tuck
hard strugglin to keep my feet, an was du-
bertating whether the lined break, or I'd
git dragged inter the drink, when I sees
Bills daddy, that he'd bin over to Warfeld,
crossin at the shoal, and he seed wuz in
trouble and rid up. I'splained things, and
he lights, an purposes at wunst gwine in,
whootch de did. He swum out and div
down, and when he riz he sez-
Il got holt Nv a pole an line, an he's on it,
1T wus the old identical pike, as he'd
hookt hisself agin. 1t wus tolerable peert
match-the fish kickin an plungin, and
Chafins he swarrin an ravin, an I a cavort-
in an snortin-an I jumps in too, close an
all, an tuck holt. Between US both we got
him out. He wuz crowder, though, and
fit desput, and we wuz ALLEGED to stunt him
with rocks, and then we dragged him to
Chafinses house.
when we got thar, he looked so large a.
roun the middle that I was curious to SEQ
what wuz in him, so I takes butcher knife,
and jobs it inter him, rippin him clean up,
an out jumps Bill
What !" we exclaimed, simultaneously.
BILL Chafins,' continued Turkey, 'what
had fell overheard, an bin swallered hole.
Oh, that amt primin to what's comm. Fact
is, Bill wuzn't hurta mite Though he sed
it wuz mighty warm in thar. But the mys-
terry about the goslins come to light. We
foun two levil bushil Nv goose aigs inside of
the pike-an the thing was clear enough
You see the geese they'd lay their aigs in
the water, and this grand raskil he'd swaller
EN- whole. The heat Nv the animiPd hatch
ed 'em an he'd feel kline Nv misserbul with
them crawlin in thar an he'd make 'em
leave. In about weeks time he'd git over
the skeer, and gobble 'em up in the aater,
one by one, as they swum. He's done with
that business now, reckin, an fethers III be
a heap plentier next year on Sandy, that's
certing.'-Southern Literary Messenger.
PATRICK AND THE PRIEST.
the Widow Malony tells me that you have
stolen one of her finest pigs. Is that SOP
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