Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-05-03

ces, and dodge back again
cold Bullin's speech now cum tn him
his eyes stickin out like two buckeyes flung
agin a mud wall, and his voice tremblin
Sez he, 'Brethrin, take keer owe yerselfs,
the He'll Sarpints hev got mel Sum owe
4 the wimmin fotch a painter yell, an a ram
rod legged doctor what sot near me allowed
it war clar case owe Delicious Tremenjus
an thot he wur rite, fur it wur tremcnjus,
afore it was done with OFF went the claw
hammer coat, and he flung it ahind him like
he wur gwine inter fte, Che had no
.jackit on,) Mex he fotch his shut over his
he'd faster nur [ got outen my pasted wun,
an he flung hit up in the air like he didn't
care durn if hit kept up forever, but hit
lodged onto black jack. | seed wun owe
my Lizards a racn about over the big old
dirty looking shut. skared like the devil
Then he G in sorter shake an twist, and he
cum cuten his britches, and he tux EN- by
the bottom of the legs an swung EN- round
his he'd a few times and then fotch EN- down
cherallup over the front owe the pulpit
You cud We hearn the smash quarter owe
mile Nigh onto about fifteen shortened
blsklt, briled chicken with his legs cross
ed, big dubil bladed nife, slab Owe ter
hacker, pipe, some copper ore speciments,
heep of brakin' glass, cork, sprinkil
owe whisky, squt an three owe my Lizards,
flew permiskusly all over that ar meetin
ground, outen the upper ind owe them big
flax britches. Wun owe the smartest owe
my blue Lizards lit he'd fust inter the bus
sum owe fat oman, as big as skinn'd boss,
an nigh onto as ugly, who sot thirty yards
off a fannin herself with lucky tail, an,
smart tn the last, hit commenced runnin
down.
$50 she wur bound to faint, an did it fust
rate; jist flung her lucky tail up in the ar,
rolled down the hill, tangled her legs an
garters in the top Nv huckillberry bush,
an war thar all safe, fair an quiet when l
left.
"Now old Bullin had nuthin left on him
but par of hevy low-quartered shoes. short
woolin socks, an eel skin garters tu keep
off the cramp, and his skare wur CROWN
on him fast. He wur plumpscrazy, fur he
jist spit in his hands an leaped over the
frunt Nv the pulpit rite inter the middle Nv
the plus part Nv the kongregation, keydif,
an sot in tu gitin away. He run, or rether
old wagon boss skared at a locomotive
When he jumped bench he shook the
yearth an his self to. Bonnets an fans
cleared the way, an he'd purfectly far
track tn the woods He weighed nigh onto
three hundred, he'd black stripe down his
back like onto an old bride rein, and his
belly looked about the size an cullur Nv a
beef paunch, and hit shaken from side to
side. He leaned back from it like a little
Teller totin Nv big drum at muster an |
hern it slosh plum to whar I Wur. Thar
wur cramp knots on his legs as big as war
nuts, an all over he minded me Nv crazy
ole elephant what wur possessed by the
devil, with hits years, snout, an tushes saw
ed off, and rared up an gwine on hits hind
legs away frum mediate trubble an tribula-
ton He did the loudest and scariest and
fussiest runnin [ ever seed since dad raced
with the hornets, to be no faster than it wur.
"Well, he disappeared in the thicket, an
owe all the nises ye ever hearn it wur thar
in sirkle ov two hundred feet or thar
abouts: sum wimen screamin--they wus the
skery wuns; sum lar6n-they wus the wick
+ ed ones; sum cryin-they wus the fool ones,
(sorter owe the Lovengood stripe y sum try
in tn get away ur hide thar faces-they wus
the modest ones; some lookin arter ole Bull
lin-they wus the curious wuns; some hang
in tn thar bows-they wus the sweet wuns
some on thar knees with thar eyes shot, but
thar faces turned the way the old mudturkil
was runin--they wus the deceitful wuns :;
sum doin nuthin-they wus the waitn
wuns; and the most danjerous owe all owe
EN- by durnd long sites. tuck big
skeer myself, arter bibil about as big as a
brick, discipline, an book called kata-
plasln, few rocks, an sich like fruit spat-
tered on to the pulpit nj onto my he'd, an as
the Lovengoods, durn EN- knows nothin
but tu run when they git skard. jist put
towards the swamp on the krick. AS
started black bottle of baldface smashed
agin a tree forninst me. Sum durnd fool
perfessor dun this, who he'd more zeal than
sence fur l sag that any man who'd vast
quart owe good whisky fur the chance of
knockin poor devil like me down with it,
if the bottil aous wuth nothin, isn't as smart
as old squire Mackmullin. an he shot hisself
with hoe handil, and hit warnt loaded at
that. Well, you know. George, orter run
fast-jist look at these legs-I used EN- sum
atween that meetin grown an the swamp,
and they haint kotch me yet
sole Barbelly Bullin, Gas they call him,
since his tribulation with the hell sarpints,
haint preached but wunst: and then he
hadn't an oman to hear im His text wus,
'Nakid cum into this wurld an I'm agwine
outen it the same way ef I'm spared till
then I'm told 'twar powerful sarmint-
it was hern three miles. He proved that
nakidness warnt much arter all, eff you take
the rite view owe the thing-that hell sar-
pints owe all sizes was skeery, cold, and
trubilsum-tha it warnt tu be expected owe
him, poor, weak, frail wurm of the dust,
to be sarpint or lizard proof either-that
wun small sarpint of the tribe owe milcizi-
dick ruinated the wurld through an oman
while he wur beset with barril full owe
EN-. An sixteenthlv an finally that Sutty