The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1866-07-21

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MI hga taught Hhtsl aHi skinned
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IN a dnYgH
have spanked iwenly.sevsu In
aa honf, and Il wasn't 4 e,suI bo,,
fof spanking either
"Aud eclsl IIow many mIs ~ust
thou peel IN day. TEL me, thou
elIHalof N The wofId"
well nov, that |. q pretty rlrht
smart Of q question: I guess I kIn
skin az q minute. skin 'em and
sling en over my shoulder Into that
are Tub, and kin keep one IN ,Ise nIr
oil The time, like a COWS taII II A.
time, and ] amt much Of skIni.t
nuthcr.p
Does II hurt the cclsYe
Why Of course II kills The ccls |
Bot that Is his fault II he'd had
his skin on 'totbcr side ont 'iwoullnt
hurt EN- anyi 'Twould have slId
OF itselfl It's our doctrine IN Now
England to have things conform 10
our notions, even IL the cells don't
like i. You see this Is the hub
and the cells have no right which we.
the skinncrs, are bound TO respect =
and into the air she playiully tossed
another yard Of subducd, quivcring
agony
Says We
Do you skin 'em for fun or for
proft?"
Betsey said II was for both. There
was money in il, and il was fun "a
see them squirm, for they had nc
business to be cells, and to come Il
New England in the Spring and fal
for what they wanted. And thu,
Betscy taught me to love. Gentle
Christianized Betsey!
And | kissed her. And I hugpet
her there and then. And I told he,
she should be happy. And that sh,
should have eels to skin forever. Tha,
I'd have one made on purposel Then
she smiled and said she'd be mine
so-called, II I'd agree to find her in
eels to find young ones for her "a
spank, to let her come once year t,
sec the big organ and rock her bab,
in the cradle Of liberty; to let hcl
kiss every niggcr she saw; to let heI
spend half her time in peddljns
tracts and making flannel shirts fol
babies in Africa, and would do my
best to extend the blessed gospel ant
the likeness Of Ben. Butler in tn,
benighted region beyond hub.
| consented TO all she wanted o.
me except the niger. On that
was frrum. So was Betsey. Sh,
said "nigger or single blesscdncss.'
She said they were her pets. i tolt
her / was Democrat. Oh, gracious
She straighted up till her corset,
snapped like a pistol l thought sh,
had gone off! But she hadn't. Sh,
was there yet. Said she, as sh,
scrunched an eel in her hand and
waved her pceling machine over hel
head:
"You a Democrat? Get eout
Don't tech mel Oh, you great nasty
Western mani Take your arm from
around my intellectual breast Oh
you great, ugly Western he mani I'd
skin you like an eel! Oh, oil eout!
Rise your hoary locks from that ere
lap. III take my eels and fly from
your advances. Mary a Democrat
I'm no such womanl Ohl you grcai
big, red-whiskered, gray-headed, saw.
age unrefned, uncultivated, uneddi.
Gated, big, nasty, he mani How
dare you talk to me. I'd die first
and then / wouldn'tl" And she
done as Joseph did in the night and
went of into Egypt, leaving me in Q
bed of eel skins. And now I'm a
gone nutmeg, a busted what-do-you.
call il. I've lost my Betsy Jcrusha
and must live in the West beyond
the cells and schoolmarm charms o.
her / so adored, for us of the Wes'
are not Of the eel-ite.
Thine, unskinned,
"BRfcK PoMERoY.