Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-03-13

1t did. w heWW-W w hen i seed hlm pass
without nowin me, thought owe dads hornet
tribilatiou, aud felt there wur such thing as
retrlbutan at last and then got mad, aud
looked for sum one to vent my raih on, and
seed loug-legged euss, serter of the Lovegood
stripe, with his hat cooked afore, sitting
straddel owe hoss rack, swinging bis legs
and a SiDging- '' -. $3.50
" Rack back Davy, daddy shot a bar
Shot i'm in the eye and never tech lar.'
" seed it wur my best chance to breed
fte, SO jest lent him slatnera7 calamity
right whar his snout began Q sproutin from
atween his eyes. with ruff rock abolt the
siso owe goose aig. 1t folched him? He
dropped ofen the boss rack, bat hit squirrel
holt on the pole with bis paws and hiae feet
and huag back doun. l jumped head fust
through atween his belly and the poe ny
LEFT broke bis holt, and we cum TO the ground
q ftiO, me ondermost and turned heads aud
tails. So shut my jaws onto moutbfu
owe steak. He fit mite!y for the cbauces be
he'd, but | soon seed he he'd cross owe bar in
him, for he couldn't stan ticsliu behine, if be
called tickiiu at all ; for every time he got his
hine legs onder him, ne tried his durndest tn
Jump loose but my holt hilt, and we would
q q
oge matches what | bed in my pocket, so |
totch the ball hoxful rake en- the gravel, an
stuff en- all biazin inter one owe the pockets
10 bis coat tail New mind he knowed nuthin
owe these percee edBgs, fur bis mind wor exer,
cised powerful about the hurtin wur a heIpin
lin to brhine | kuowed he'd soon show
strong signs Oye wQutin Q so So the fust
biz rare he fotch arter the FIRE reach his side,
I Lot IA A. ha uaD
his hole tale in an awful blaze.
Rite here, boys, / must tell you somethin
didn't kaow myself. or duFl me if hadn't
let him beat me inter poultis afore Id sot him
aire-Td seen him darnrd fust. He had two
pom dS of gunpUwder in tother pocket a takin
home to a shooting match.
Well, be ared to run past a tin peddlin
wagon, whot was Standin in the street with
fust rate set owe old live Ooues atween the
shafts, while the Yankee was in the doLgery
iirin up 70 leave toua. Just as he got to
the carryaH, the powder cotch FIRE, aud soon
arter went of : and so did be- head fust, frog
fashion, rite throO the top lode owe tin war -
lie liz a running, ten foot totner side. His
coat tails wur bowed off tn his shoulders the
blue eend owe his galiu>ters was raped roam
his neck the tail Of bis shuTt wuS up in the
air about thirty one feet, and still rizjn, blaz
in ke q kOmit his bTtcbeS hung loose on the
front side, like onto 70. ked apurn, while the
sit tin part owe them wgs blown to kingdom
cum, aud so war every thing else be!ongin tn
that region while his back wur as black as
o side owe upper lether. 1t rained tin buckets,
aud pepper boxes and pans, and stage horns,
all over that street for more q two minutes and
q half
Now that explosion, aud toe tin war
ratEu and raiuin, made rite smart nOis,
specially owe a still day in fack, enough to
wake up the old boss bones, and gin him the
idear that he'd best To leave town quick so be
laid his ears back, and straitened out his tail,
aud shot He made kindlin wood outeu the
wagon aga sine post, aud then betuck his
self 10 tie woods, stretched out about twenty
feet long, aud not morn three feet high on
the withers, with about enuff harness stickin
tn him to make collar for a bell COW. Thar
wus wun cuSsed nutmeg maxim Yankee broke
pium up aud I'm daTRed glad owe it. Old
Rack Back DaFy, the hOss rack man made for
the river, aud l .Ollered tu see Fl he had'At
drownded hiSself but 10 stree Thar he
wur about the middil ove the river swnmn
for tother side, jst splitting the water wide
open, and has busted britches legs a coating
arter him. He looked over bis shoulder every
other lick, as if he spected Ia see the divil his
face wur as black as a pot sept white ring
roun his ewes, and the Smoke wur still EiSin
from among the stumps owe bis burnt bar
His he'd, boys, in that rayer, was the ugliest,
scraiest, aud savidgest site / ever seed or spec
IN see 10 this world, eny how. / dreams owe it
vet oTe nights. and it skares the sweat outer
me- seed a lot owe felers 6shin onder the
bank so | thot Id help him on q little faster,
so boiiered, ketch Uae murderer, Eve hun
dred dollars and pig boss reward He's
killed 4 Eumaa al nine children, and l spec
dog, aud lSe tn wuip another plum to deth.'
They Jumped inter thar canoes an tnck arter
him. opening on his trail Ike psck oye houHs.
The last / eve" See-eVe him he wur a rackin
Cd to the tother bank, on his all four, and
looked miteiy Ike an Old bar that had cum out
owe a hurrykaDe He still kept up bis lookin
back, aud | spect wus the vast Skeered man in
the wutld. and if he aint ded, he's running yet.
The idear now begin 10 soke throu my har
that OWN to the fuss Staif-Gut and he had
rsized, that perhaps Id better scout lest they
mont want me- SO left 10 q smart trot, aud
got on old Stuffs trail Ii was like a wagon
had been drug upside down by par Of rnua-
way mules, and drygrass, and leaves, and in
sum places the fences, was Sot on ire He
tuck to the mouataiGs, aud tuFDed wolf, and
tuck 10 the trade oEe sheep KILN for Twin, and
the hole settlement is ucw out erter his SGulp.
That trip tu toun, ike the cuttin box hes
changed bis tispersition agin, al shown the
pow erfnl changes that kin be made even in
deg. cum outen that scrape perry we'll, yet
| bed tu show the family disposition ia make
id fools owe thar SETS" ..
"How, Sutf"
why. l ought to have toted of slode owe
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