The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1866-09-26
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and stirred EN- up with case knife. look.
IN ms solemn rs an ole jackass. in a snow
storm, when the fodder is all gin out
She hilt one while she told ne TO drink
tn'her. swallowed it at one run-tasted
oahy like, | 'hos it wur part Of the seusa.
Shnn. But ] wur mistaken, all ov the
cuSsed seusashuns wur tn cum. and it
"ornt long att, boss, you'd better believe
me. Then she gin me tuthe- tu,nbler. an
sent 1t arter the other, race hoss fash.
ion.
In about one moment an haf tbot
| had swallowed tbrashin machine IN
'uii blast VI couple ov bull dogs, and
they had sot tu fghtin. seed that I
wnr coLched agin-same family dispersis
ton to make cuSsed fools ov themselves
every chance-so | broke for nv boss.-
stole a.Iook back, an thar Law Sicily on
her back in The porch a screanin with
Iaiiin, her heels Up in the air kickn ov
them together like she were irwin to-
kick her slippers Of. But had ne time
IN look then, and thar war load of foam
from the house to the boss two feet wide
and four inches deep looked like it had
been tub of hot soap suIs. I had
gathered cherrvtree lin ss T run an IL
"sir"ddle ov my hoss, whippp an q
kicking like mad This, with the skeery
n"'S's | made (ur | wIr a wh,s,lin. An 81
Spni'erin, outer mouth, nose an eyes, like
" steam engine) sot him rarnr and
covorun like he wur out ov his sonses.-
We'll, he went. The fome rolled and the
ole black hoss flew. He jest mizzled-.
Skeered nj Ia death, and so wurI. So
we agreed on the pint ov the greatest
distance ii the smallest time.
Il aimed fur Doctor Goodman's at the
iiiwassce Copper Mines, 'u get sometLiu
tu stop the explosion in my inards.
met scrcujt rider on his travis. toward
hed chicken an kat full ov ball bis
KITS. As cum tarin along he hilt up
his hands like he wanted to pray for me,
but as preferred .physic lu prayer, in nv
'pccooI1ar siluwashun, ut that time, lest
ro1'cd along. lie t0cl u s!iear AZ | cum
nj on m him, his fti,h gin out, an hs
lodged hoss, sadIU.bags an overcostin,er
thicket, jst Ike you've seed ,erkil
take water oftn log when tarin bio
steamboat Gums along. As he passed ole
man Burns, Sicily hailed him, an axed if
he'd met any body gwine in hurry up
The road. The poor man tho, perhaps he
did AMI perhaps he didn', bu, led seed q
ste, ~ sPooE, Nv a ghost nv ole Belize,
bub himself, ur Tue comit, he didn't adj,
zac:iy know which, but takin all THINGS
Ing1ther and the short time he'd had for
preparation, he thot lie met long legged
shak'n quaker tleen from the wrath to
kun, on black and white spotted hoss
whippin ov him with big brush, an he
had a white beard what cum from nj on
tn his eyes tn the pummil NV tie saddn
and then forked an went to kneese, and
then sometimes drapped tn the ground in
lunches as big as crows nest, ard he
hern q sound like the rushin ov mity
waters, An he wur miry exercised about
it enyhow. Well, I guess he wur and 50
wur his fat hoss, an ole backey, wust
exercised Nv all Nv them wur /, myself-
Now, George, all thi. beard an spots on
the hose, an steam, an fire, an snow All
wire tails, is ouddacious humbug. It all
cum outen my insrds droppin out ov my
mouth without any vomlin ur effort, an
Of it hadn't I'd busted iuto more pieces
thar thar is aigs il big catfish. The
Lovengoods is all confounded fools an
| dad amt the wust ov EN-"