The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-07-14
4. lass crossed. a big dubibladed nife, a

his legs crossed, a big dubibladed nife,
slab owe terbacker, apipe, sum copper ore
speciments, q heep owe brakln glass, q
sprinkil of whisky, a squt an three owe
nv Lizards, few permiskusly all over
that ar meetin ground, outen the upper
ind owe them big fax britches Wun owe
the smartest owe my blue Lizards lit he'd
fust inter the bussum owe a fat oman, as
big as a skinned boss, an nigh onto as
ugly. who sot thirty yards of fanmn
herself with a lucky tail, an, smart tn the
last, hit commenced runnin down.
$50 she wur bound to faint, and did 1t
fust rate Just flung her lucky tail up IN
the air, rolled down the hill, tangled her
legs and carriers in the top NV huckh-
berry bush, an war thar all safe, fair an
quiet when left
"Now old Bullin had nothin left on
him but par of hevy low-quartered
shoes, short woolin socks, an ell skin gar
tiers tn keep off the cramp, an his skare
wur a growing OH him fast. He wur
plump crazy, fur he jist spit in his hands
an leaned over the frunt nv the pulpit
rite inter the middle Nv the Plus part nv
the kongregation, kerdiff, an set in tn
qittin away. He run, or rether went IN
lumberin gallop, hevy, like an old wagon
boss shared at a locomotive When he
Jumped bench he sheok the yearth an
his SET to. Bonnets an fans cleared the
way, an he had purfectly fair track tn
the woods. He weighed nigh onto three
hundlel, he'd a black stripe down his
back like onto an old briddle rein, an his
belly looked about the size an cutler nv
a beef paunch, and hit a shaken from side
70 side. He leaned back from it like
little Teller totin Nv a big drum at mus
ter. an I bern it slosh plum to whar wur.
Thar wur cranp knots on his legs as big
as walnuts, an all over he minded me Nv
a crazy ole elephant what war possessed
by the devil, with hits vars, snout an
tushes Sawed of, and rared up an gwine
on hits hind legs away frum emedlute
trnbble and tribulation. He did the
Ioudest and scariest and fussiest runnln
ever seed since dad raced the hornets, to
be no faster thin iB wur.
We'll, be disappeared in the thicket,
an owe all the Misses ye ever hearn In wur
thar in a sirkle ov two hundred feet or
thar abouts; sum wimin screamln-they
wus the skery wuns; sum larhn-tney
WINS the wicked wuus; sum cryln-tney
WIS the fool ones, (sorter owe the Loven-
good stripe;) sum tryin tn yet away, III
hide their faces--they wus the modest
WINS; sum lookin arter ole Bullin--they
wns the curious wuns; sum hangiu ia
thar bows--they wus the sweet wllns
some on thar knees with their eyes shot,
bat thar faces turned the way the old
mndturkil was runnin- they WIS the
leceitfnl wuns; sum dom nothin they
was the vaitiu wuns and the most Dan
ferrous owe all owe EN- by burned long
site. I tuck big skeer myself artrr a
bibil about rs big rs brick, discipline
an book called katapiasm, few rocks
an SIGH like fruit spattered on to the pull
nit nj onto my he'd, an as the Loven-
,roois. durn em knows nothin but to
rnn when they git skard, just put to.
ward the swamp OH the krick, As !
started black bottle of baldtace smash.
ed arin tree forninst me. sum durnd
fool professor dun this, who he'd more
zeal then sence; fur say that any man
who'd vast quart ove good whisky tnr
tie chance oy knockin poor devil like
me down with it, if the bottil WIS worth
uothin, isn't as smart as old squire Mack
muIliu. an he shot higself with a hoe
handil, aud hit warnt loaded at that
Well, you know. George, orter rhn
fast--iist look at these legs-l used em
sum atween that meetin grown an the
swamp, and they haint kotch ME yet
"Oie Barbelly Bullin, Gas they call
him,) since his trihulation with hell sar'
paints. haint preached but wunst, and
then he hadn't an oman to hear i'm. His
text WIS. "Nakid cum into this wurld
an I'm agwiuc outen il in the same way eft
I'm spared till then I'm told 'twar a
powerful sarmint - it was hearn three
miles. He proved that nakidness warnt
much arter all, eff you take the rite view
owe the thing-that he'll sarpa:nts oHe all
sizes was skeery. cold and trnbilSum-
that il warnt tu be expected owe him, Il
moor. weak, frail wurm of the dust, to he
sarpint or lizard proof either-that wuh
snall sarpiut of the tribe of milchizidick
rufhated the wurld through an oman
while he wur beset with barril full
owe EN- An sixtcenthly an finally that
Sutty Lovengood is the biggest raskil,
fool, and scarecrow ever Matched in the
mountain range.
Now, George, that may all be So bur
I want YOU tn tell old GrownhoC THIS fur
ne-ef he'll let me alone III let him
alone: and eff he don't, eff don't lizard
him agin wish may be burned inter
a poultice. Let's go tn the spring and
mix a little owe it with this yere whisky
shaking his flask afore you start
Mind, tell old Barbelly what l sed about
another big skeer with--say peck. ur a
peck und a half owe lizzards-try an
skeer him efyou kin. Good bye"