Litchfield enquirer., 1864-12-29
.- 1IroHFIEID CONN, rIIURsDAY DECEMBER ae se4.-

menced to whiz, I tried to. look down to see what on earth it could be, but the holler was SC
 narrow I couldnt git achance to look, and al at onct it popped into my head that there Wal
 rattlesnake ia the stump. bsE When thet O that Imade a offel plunge to git out of the confounded den but the
 cussed bull warnt morn six feet of. an the
 mint he seed my head he came at me full
 chisel The first knowed l had lodged back
 inter the stump aginsand hadn't morn touch l ed bottom fore felt another offel keen bite 1 in my leg. I made rush to git out agin, but
 the cussed internal bull drove at me, an was
 bleegsd to pop back agin. AsI squeezed down inter my stump agin. would er bet a gallon of rum that Sarah Ann would be wid
 der in less'n tew hours. l tried to cypher out which would be the most becomin' for chris tian, to be pizened to death by an ofsf treat snaik, or have my inards slung to the four winds by ascussed brindle bull l thot of the martrrs- of Amos piled in ile. Elizer smeereo
 with honey, and Joseph tempted by Pottifer's wife, and concluded that I ort to profit by their example. and grin and bear it, no matter how much it went agin the grin. But I got jist then offel bite or tew, and to save my soul, couldn't help stickin' out my head, and the bull bein' on hand. let drive ard filled my eyes chuck full of barks and dirt; so down hob
 bled again for snaiks. now began to git bites offel frequently, and in bad places; the whzzin' got louder, 1 squirmed and twisted and screeched at @ fast rate, and in grabbin round ketched something. and got bite in the hand.
 I held my holt on to it. and behold it proved to be no,hin' but a yaller jacket! When l found wasn't snaik bit, felt suthin' lift off my stumck like bag O shot, Glory to God r ses l, may live to purtect the widder and fatherless yit /! felt for minnit as if didn't keer fur all the yaller jackets between Mississippi and Missour-but the blessed Je rusha l hadn't seen one there to where See thousand in another mint The whole holler O that stump got yaller with 'em. 1 couldn't stand it long that way. I tried to think of some kind O prayer suitable to the 'casion, and commenced Now lay me dowa 70 sleep, but by Jewdas, couldn't pray for cussin.' jist swore. bull or no bull, was gwine to emigrate from that particular spot but every time put my head above the stump, the bull pitched at me and hit the stump jist like maul--he looked offel fero- cious, with his eyes as green and blazin' as fire, and the foam droppin' from his mouth. was bobbin' up and down so continnerally. that was abeout half the time in the stump and half eout, and at last felt the stump be- ginnin' to give wax under the thumps the in fernal old brindle was givin it, and swear my hair rig straight on eend. made up my mind to git eout O that somehow. purity quick, but jist at the mint raised up my head to jump out and run, the old cuss came at ne, with his head deoun and tail up. at locomo tive speed, aud as lodged d eown, he struck the stump. and tore ii up at the roots. aud shot ,ne euut like was a bumshelI, clean over the bank into the creek. and arter me come stump. bull and all. The fore feet or oae on lem, of the bull, struck me rite on t!.e back-aud ] reckon that's what tore the carpet bag knockin' ne clean deoun to the mu idy bottom of the creek. When TIE, the fust thing l seed wur the old feller $ tail, and as couldn't swim a lick. na,'e a grab for it= and ma,l.. him tow mo ash.re. When got thsre let gn and rur >ne way, while the bull ruu the other, and that is the hull long and shor. on .