Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-03-01

gun 4 sproutin from atween eyes
with ruff rock ah ,ut the the size ov.
goose aig. It fetched him! III
drapped often the ho<srack, but hit
squirril hol, on the pole with hi- paw
and his hine feet and hung back down
| jumped head fust through atweri
his belly and the pole; my let, hrnk.
his holt, and We cun to the grounl a
titin, me ondermast, AMI turned head
and tails. S, shut nv Jaws onto
mouthful owe steak. IL. fit nitelv f.
the chances he he'd, bat soon ser.
he he'd cross owe bar In him. for h
couldn't stan ticklin hehinc, it it m III
be called tickin 1T all for every time
he got his hine LEGS uni Ter him he tricf
his durndest to jump loose, but my hoi
hilt, and he weulI take fu>t position
agin. | tho: ov = box ov matches what
| he'd in my pocket, so I fotch the hHll
boxful rake on the gravel, and stuff
FL em all a blazn inter wun owe tn
pockets owe his coat tail NV mimi
he moved nuthin ov these perSe'ling~
for his mind wur exercised powerful
about the hurtin / wur h"lpin him t:
behine | noweI.Ee'd soon Shn stron.
sines ov wantin to go. SO the fl>t hi"
rare he fotch arter the fire reached h'>
hide, jest let my mouth hv opcn-So
-ln he went! his hole tale in an aN :
ful blaze
Rite here, boys, I must tell YOU
somethin | didn't know my self, or durn
me if ha,ln't let him beat m, inter n
pouitis at;prc FL sot him atire-I'd seen
him durnel first. H. had two pounds
ov gunpowler in tothcr pocket takin
home ;u shootin match.
"Well, he aimed to run past i tin
prddlin wagon, what wur 4 stan.lm in
the street with first rate set owe old
live bones atwcen the shafts, while the
Yankee wui' in doggery tirin up t"
leave toum. Jest Is he got t. the ear
| :'yaIl. the powder cotch- fire, AMI soon
arter went of. IN s., did ha, hen flst.
frog tashin, rite throo the top loi. nv
tin war II lit a running, ten foot
tother 81 le HIS coat tails war bloweI
off tn his shoulders the hine eenl ov
his gallusters was raped round his
neck !: the tail ov his shirt was up in
the air about thirty-one feet, AMI still
\ rizin, b'azin like a komit; his hritch-
cS hung loose on the front side like on
to a forked apurn, while the sittin part
ov them wus blown to king lon cum,
and go wur everything else belonging
to THAI region; while his back wur rs
black ~ a side nv upper leather. 1t
raincI tin -nckets and pepper boxes,
an.l pans, and stage horns, all over
that street for IN ,re'n two minutes and
h ii.
Now that exploshun, AMI the tin
war 4 ratllin anl 4 rainn, mai rite
smart nols, especially ov u still day
in tick, enutf to wake tip old hoSs-
bones, AMI gin hin the i!'ar that h.
had best I'll leave town qnlck, SO he
laid back his ears, ana Strengthened
ont his tail, ana shot. IL. male kin l.
lin wood outen the wagon a-in sine
post, and then bctuck himself to the
woods, stretched out about twenty feet
long, an not mpre'n three feet hi "a on
| the witherS, with ahnrt cnu!f h lrniSS
stickin til him tn make collar for a
COW bell. Thar WIS wun cu~sed nut
meg maxim Yankee broke plum uD,
and I'm burned glad ov it. O.d Rick
Back Dlvy, the hos>rack man, made
for the river, AMI | folIcrei tn see ..
he hadn't drowned his>elI'; bat No. sir
ee, Thar h. vl', n, 1T tn. NIL Ill
CIV the river, swimmii for tother side,
Jest Il Spllttln the water wide opan, al
his busted briteheS leyS f,atin arter
him. lIs looked over his siloalier ev-
cry other lick, as if he expected io see
the divil; his face wur as black AS 4
pot, sept white ring round his eyes,
and the smoke wur still risin from the
stumpS ov his burnt har. IIls bead,
| boys, i'll that river, was the urieSt,
scarleSt, anu savidyest site ever seed
or spec tn see in this world, ens how,
| dreams owe it yet owe nights, atl it
scares the sweat outer me. [ seed y
lot owe fellers a fi>hin on.ler the bank,
SO l thot I'd help him on little faster,
SO | hollered. 'ketch the murderer
five hundred lnllars AMI big h,<s re.
ward. HIS killed wom,n a1i n,ae
children, and spec 3 dog. an like Il,
whip another plum tn death. They
Jumped inter their canoes an tuck ar.
ter him, openin on his trail like pack
ov houndS. The last | ever see ov
him he wnr rackin up tother bank,
on his all f,rrs, and looked liitelv like
an old bar that hal cum ont ny hur.
rykane. He still kept up his inokip
back, and | spect wrs the wursi skeea,
ed man in the wurld, and if he sin;
dead hes runnin yet.
'fha idear now begun to soak throo
my har that OWN to the fuss StYrsat
AMI he had raized, that perhaps RI
better scoot lest they mont want me.