The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-09-04
The Arkansas Traveller.

Traveler--'Iallo. stranger?
Squatter-Hello yourself.
T-Can get to stay all night with you?
S-You kin git to go to Ill
T,-Have you any spirits here?
S-Lots Of 'em. Sal saw one last night
BY that ,har boiler gum and I. nearly skeei"
ed her RI death.
T-You mistake my meaning, have you
auy liquor?
S-HaA some Yesterday, but Ole Bose he
got in and laopel all nv it our'n the pot.
T-You don't understand, don't mean
pot liquor. I'm wet and cold. and want so.ne
whisky. Have Won got any?
S.-Oh, yes-I drank the last, this morn
ing.
TIM hungry, havn't Fad thirs this
morning; can't you give me something to
eat?
S-Hain't ID thing in the house
Not mouthfuI of meat, a dust OF meal
T.-WeIl, can't you give my horse some
thing?
S.-Got nothin' to feed him on.
T.-How far is it to the next house?
S.-Stranger, don't know.-I've never
been thar.
T-well, do you know who lives here?
S-Ido.
T.-AsI'm so bold then, what might your
name he2
Sit might be Dick, and it might be
Tom; but it lacks a ID sight of it.
T.-Sir! will you tell me where this road
goes to?
SITS never been anywhar since I've
lived here; its always thar when l git up in
the morning.
T.-WeII. how far IS it to whore it forks?
SIT don't fork at all, but it is split UP
like the d..
T-As Pm not likely to get to any other
house Tonight. can't You let me sleep in
yours. AMI I'll tie my horse TO tree, and do
without anything to eat or drink?
S-My house leaks; thar's only one dry
spot in it. and Sal sleeps on it. And that
thar tree is the old womar's persimmon; you
can't tic to it, case she don't want UNI shuk
off. she lows to make beer ou'n UNI.
T.-Why don't you finish covering your
house and stop the leaks?
SITS been raining all day.
T.-Well, why don't you do it in dry
weather?
SIT don't leak then.
T-As there seems to be nothing alive
about your place, but children, how do you /
do here any how?
s-Puttv well. thank you; how do yOu
do yourself?
TT mean what DO you do for living
here?
S.-Keep tavern and sell whisky.
T-Wcl, 1 told you 1 wanted some
whisky.
S-Stranger, 1 bought bar'l morn
week ago. You see me and Sal went shars.
AFTER we got il here. we only had a drink
betweenst us. and Sal, she didn't want to use
her'n fust, nor me mine. You see, had a
spiggin in one eend, and she in rother. So
she takes drink out'n eend and pays
me the bit for it; then Id take out'u
her'n and give her the bit. Well, Yves get
ting along fust-rate. till Dick. ID skuik-
ing skunk, he bonrn a hOle on the bottom to
suck at, and the next time l went to buy
drink, they wurnt more thar.
Tim sorry your whiskev's all gone; Z
but, my friend, why don't you piay the BAL
ance of that tune?
SITS got no balance to It.
Tt mean you don't play the whole Of it. I
S.-Stranger can you plav the ttfdle? :
T.-Yes, a little sometimes.
S.-You don't look like a fiddlur, but If I
you thinI; you can play any more onto that ;
thar chune, you kin just git down and try. 1
CThe Traveller gifts down and plays the
whole OF it.)
S-Stranger, take half dozen cheers a.,
and sot down. Sal. sir yourself round like
a six horse team in a mud hole. Go round
in the boiler, where killed that buck this :
mornin', cut off some of the bfst pieces. ard
fatch it and cook it for ne and this gentle =,
man. directly. Raise up the board under
the head of the bel and GIT the ole black
Jug ] hid from Dick. aud give us some !,
whiskey: know thar'5 sum left yit. I'll, :
drive ole Bose out'n the bread-tray, then I.
cline up in the loft and git the rag that's d
got the sugar tied il it. Dick, carry the .
gentleman's boss round under the shed, give .
him some fodder aud corn, much as he kin -
eat. 3
Til.-Dad, they amt knives enouff to sot II
the table. b
S.-Whar's big butch, little butch, ole u
case, cob handle, granuy's knife and the one y
/ handled Yesterday? That's enuff to set
anv centlernan's table, without you've lost g
nm. On me, stranger. ef you can't stay u
as lorg as you please and I'll give you plenty a.
to eat and drink. Will you have coffee for L
T.-Yes. sir. -
S-I'lI be hanged if you do tho, we don't r.
have uothia' that way here, but Grub llysoB,
and reckon it's mighty good with sweet y
MIN. Play away stranger, you can sleep on m
the dry spot TO night. W
T.-(After about two hours iidling.) G
Ny friend, can't you tell me about the road p
IN 10 travel Tomorrow?
S-To-morrow, Stranger, you won't GIT de
,urn these diggins for six weeks. But 10
when it gifts so you kin start, you sec that oi
big sIon over thar? Well. you have to git sl'
-rost OF that then YOU take the road up the co
bank, and in about a mile you'll come 10 n OF
Two acres aud a half corn patch, the corn's an
mitely in the weeds. but you needn't mind pc
hat, Jst ride on. About mile and half be
Dr. two miles from thar, you'll come to the vi
i-dest swamp Won ever struck in all vour we
ravels, its bOggy enufT to mire saddle on
blanket Thar'S first rata roa1 about six