Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1863-06-04

wasn't he disappointed Lord, how hs did
rave round that stump switch his tail, paw
the sile an beller? peepcd up at him Jlst
to see how he we're gettin' on, but kalkei late
peeped down again offel suddent! for l
hadn't morn got my head up till his horns
came stladdle of it, and his skull hit the
stump like maui. The little INGREDIENT con-
viuced me that the best thing could do was
in the larwidge of Squire Wheeler, "to lay
low. watch black ducks, and chaw pokeroot.'
Just as I'd made up my mind not to put up
my head agin, felt the offelest pain take me
in the leo | ever see. an at the same time
sumthin commenced to whlz, tired to look
down to see what on airth it could be, out
the hotter was so narrow, | couldn't get a
| chance to look, aud all at once it popped into
| nv head that there was rattlcsnake in the
stump.
When thot O that made a offel plunge
| to cit out of the confoundcd den; but the
cusscd bull warnt morn six feet off, an the
mint he seed my head he came at me full
chisel. The first knowed l had lodged
back inter the stump agn and hadn't morn
touched bottom fore felt another offel keen
bite in my leg. made rush to get out
again, but the cussed, Internal bull drove at
me, an | was bleeged to pop back agin. AS
| squeezed down inter my stump asin,
would er bet gallon of rum that Sarer Ann
would be widow in less than tew hours
tried to cypher it out which would be the
most becomin for christian, to be pizened to
death by an ofiel great snaik, or have my
inards slung to the four winds by a cussed
| hrindle bull. | thot of the martyrs-oi
Amos billed in lie, Elizee smeercd with honey
and Joseph tempted by Po'tifer's wife. and
concluded that ort to profit by their exam
pie. and grin and bear it, no natter no"
much it went agin the grain. But got j's'
then oifel bite or tew, and to save my soul,
couldn't help stickin out my head, and the
bull bein on hand, let drive und filled my
eyes chuck full of bark and dirt; SO down |
hobbled again for spaiks. | now begin to
get bites oficl frequently, and in bad places,
the whizzen got louder, l squirmed and
twisted, and screechen at FAST rate, aud in
grabbn round ketched something and got
| a bite in the hand
held my hold on to it, and behold, it
! proved to be nothin but a yaller-jacket!
When found | wasn't snaik bit, felt suth-
in lift off my stumick like bag of shot,
~ n I Al 81 lttnt tn arm
tect the widder and fatherles vitP | felt
for mint as if didn care for all the yal-
ler-iackets between Mississippi and Missouri
| but the blessed Jcrnsha! | hadn seen
one then to where see thousand in anoth-
or mini,l The whole holler of that stump
| got waller with them. ] couldn't stand it
Ions in that way. tried to think of some
| kind O. prayer suitable to the 'casion, and
commenced: Now lay me down to sleep
but by Jcwdas, | couldn't pray for cussin.
| list swore, bull or no bull, was gwine to
| EN- CRATE from that particular spot; but every
time put my head above the stump, the
pull pitched right at me and hit the stump
ist like a maui-he looked ierocious, with
| his ewes as green and blazin' AS fire, and the
foam droppin' from his mouth. | was bob
| bin up and down so contnneraly. that |
was aOeOut nan Inc tllhe III Jne otuinp ""'
half eout, and at last felt the stump begin
min to give way under the thumps the infer
nal old brndle was givin it, and my hair viz
straight on eend. | made up my mind to
get out o that somehow, purity quick, but
list at the mint raised up my head to jump
out and run, the old cuss came at me, with
| his head down and tail up, at locomotive
speed, and as lodged deown he struck the
stump, tore it up at the roots and shot me
eout like a bumshell, clean over the bank in
to the creek, and arter me come stump, bull
aud all, The fore feet, er one on EN- OF the
bull, struck me rite on the back-and reck-
on that's what tore the carpet bas-knockin
ME clean down to the muddy bottom of the
creek. When | riz, the FIRST thing | seed
was the old feer tail, and as | couldn
swim lick, made him tow me ashore
When we got there, | lot go and run one
way while the bull run the other. and that
is the hull long and short on t.