Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-04-05
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sut Lovengood's Daddy Acting Horse.

Sut Lovengood's Daddy Acting Horse.
Hold that ere boss down to the yearth
Hes spreadin' his tail to fly
keep bin wbar he is
These aud like expressions were address,
ed to a queer looking, long legged, short,
bodied, white haired, hog eyed, funny sort
of genius, fresh from some second hand
clothing store, aDd mounted on 'Tarpole,
a mic rallied long, puor horse, developed all
o>,r III net work If br'dle reins, cruppers,
uarliugsles, straps, sirgsiugles and red fer.
retiug, who had reiaed up in front of Pat.
Nick's grocery among a crowd of wild
mountaineers foil of fight and bad whiskey.
Il say, you darued ash cats, jist keep
your shirts oD, will you? You never seed
a raal horse till 1 rid up Tarpole is next
to the best horse that ever shelled nubbins,
and he's dead as q still worm poor old
Tickey Tail
sWhat killed him, Sut ? said 40 anxious
inquirer.
sWhy, nothin', you tarnation fool J.; he
jiss died, standing up a: that. Warn't that
good pluck? Froze stiff; no, not adzactly,
but starved fust and then frozed afterwards;
so stiff that when dad and me pushed him
over be jist stuck out so, (spreadiDg his
arms and legs) like a carpenters bench, and
we waited seventeen days for him to thaw
afore we could skin him. Well, thar was
dad an me, Counting his 6ngers) dad an
me, Sal an Jake-fool Jake We used to
call him, for short-an' Phineas, an ST.
neon, an Jonas, an Charlotean, an Cal.
lima an Cashus Henry Clay, an Noah Dan
Webster, an Catherine second, an Cleo
patry Antony, au' Jane -Lindy, an Tom
Bullion, and the. baby, and the prospect,
an marin herself, all left without any horse
to crop with. That was a nice mess for a
spectacle family to be slusbed about in,
warn't it? 1 declare if l didn't feel like
stealin' horse sometimes. Well, We wait.
ed and rested, and waited until we'll onto
strawberry time, hoping some stray horse
mout come along but dog my cats eff euy
sich luck as that ever come whar dad is,
he's so drafted mean, an lazy, an savage,
an ugly, an tryin'.
Well, one mite dad he lay awake all mite,
a snorin', an rollin, an whisperin' a,
marm, an next morn.u' says be:
'Sut, I'll tell you what we'll do m be
hoss myself an pull the plow while you
drive me, and we'll break up corn ground,
and then the old guilt (tbat's marm) and
the brats kin plant or let it alone, jist as
they please
SO out he goes to the pawpaw thicket an
peeled right smart chance of bark, an
marin an me made gears for dad, an they
become him nightly; then he would have
bride, so gifts an old umbrella what |
fouDd-it's little piece of iron, sorter
like onto pitchfork, ye know-au' We bent
and twisted it sorter into bride bit, snail
shape, (dad wanted it kerbed, as he hadn't
worked for some time he was Altered be
muut feel his oats and 90 to cavortiu y
Well, when We got the bride all fixed on
dad, he chouped his bit jist like horse,
(he always was most complicated durned
old fool euyhow an marin always said sc
when he waru't about,) then put on the
gears an out dad an l goes into the field
lcadn' dad BY the bride an totiu' the
gopher pr"& 90 n. back
when We come to the fence, let down
a gap that made dad mad. he wanted tc
jump the fence on all fours, boss fashun
I hitched him to the gopher and away he
went, leanin' forard to his pulln' righ,
peart, and We made sharp plowin', dad 60.
ing right over the bushes an sprouts same
as raal horse, the only difference is be
went on two legs Presently we come tc
sassafras patch an dad, he to act up his
character as hoss. bulged squar inter it an
tore down a hornets nest as big as hoss
head, and all the tribe kivered him right
strate. He rared, kicked once or twice, an
fotcheda squeal Wus nor ary hess in the dis.
trict, an sot into runnin' away jist as natu.
raj as you ever seed.
Il let the plow 60 and hollored, woa, dad,
woa. but ye nout as well said woa to To-
comotive. Jewhilikius, how he run.
when he come to bush, he'd clear it
gopher and all he thot there mout be an
other settlement of bald hornets in it; and
that it was safer to 60 over than thro. an
quicker done. Every now and then, he'd
paw one side of his head with fust one fore
leg and then tother; then te'd gin himself
an open,handed slap, that sounded like a
wagon whip, and runnin' all the time and
carryin' that gopher jist about as fast and
high from the yearth as ever gopher was
carried, | swar When he cum to the fence,
be busted right thru it, tareu nigh unto sew
en- papels, scatterin' and breakin' the rails
nightly and here helefttbe gopher, gears,
gwingletree and 'klevis, all mixed, up not