The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-06-14

whisperin' at nam, and next morn
in sez he-'Sut, III tell you what
we'll do; Tll be hoss myself, and
pull the plough, while you drive
me, and we'll break up corn ground
and then the old quilt CHATS many
and the brats kin plant it or let 1t
alone, jist as they d-n please.'-
So out we goes to the pawpaw
thicket, and peeled right smart
chance of bark, and man and made
gears for dad, and they become
him nightly; then he would have
a bride, so | gifts an old umbrella
what / found-it's a little fork
piece of iron, sorter like unto pitch
fork, ye know-an' we bent an
twisted it sorter untu a bride bit,
small shape dad wanted it kurb, as
ne. saidhe hadn't worked for some
time, an might sorter feel his oats
an go to cavortin.) Well, when
we got the bride all fixed on dad,
he chomped the bit jist like a rale
hoss Che always was a most com
plicated burned old fool, eny how,
and man always said so, when he
warn't about,) then | put on. the
gears, an out dad an me goes to
the field, / a leadin' dad by the
bride, and totin the gopher plough
on my back. When we come to
the fence, ! let down a gap an
made dad mad, he wanted to jump
the fence on all fours, hoss way. |
hitch him on to the gopher, and
away we went, dad leanin forward
to his pullin right peart, and we
made sharp plowin' dad goin' rite
over the bushes and sprouts, same
as a rale hoss, the only difference
Is, he went on two legs.
"Presently we cum to a sasafrac
patch, and dad, to keep up his kar
acter as a hoss, bulged square into
it, and tore down a hornets nest
nigh onto as big as hoss's head,
and all the tribe kivered him right
strate. He rared and kicked once
or twice, and fotched a squeal wos
nor ary hoss in the district, and sot
into runnin' away jist as natural as
ever you seed. l let go the lines,
and hollered woa, dad, woa but
you mout as well of said woa to a
locomotive. Gewhilikins, how he
run! When he cum to bush, he'd
clear the top of it,. gopher and all;
p'raps he thort there mout be an
other settlement of bald hornets in
it, and that it was safer to go over
than thrue, and quicker dun, every
now and then he'd paw one side of
his head with fust one fore leg and
then t'other, and then he'd gin him
self an open-handed slap, that
sounded like a wagon whip, and
running all the time, and karrien
that gopher just about as fast and
high from the yearth as ever a
gopher was carried, l swar. When
he cum to the fence he busted
right thrue it, taring down nigh on
to seven pannels, scatterih and
breakin the rales nightly, and
here he left the gopher, geers,
single-tree and klevis, all mixed up,
net worth durn. Most ov his
shirt stuck on to the splintered enc
ov a broken rale, and nigh unto a
pint oy hornets staid with the shirt,
stinging it all over, the balance
on EN-, about a gallon an a half,
kept On with dad. He seemed to
run jist adzactly as fast as a horn
ct could fly, for it war, the tightest
race l ever did see. Down thrue
the grass they all went, the hornets
making it look sorter like smoke
all around dads bald head, and he
with nuthin on but the bride and
nigh onto yard Of plow line a
sailin' behind him. o..
81 seed now that he was aimin'
fur swimmin' hole, in the kreek,
whar the bluff is over twenty-five
feet perpendicular to the water,
and it's nigh onto ten feet deep
To keep up his karacter as a hoss,
when he got to the bluff he jist
leaped off, or rather jist kept on
runnin. Kersplunge into the creek
he went; | seed the water fly plum
above the bluff from whar / was
Now, rite thar, boys, he overdid the
thing--if that war what he was ar
ter-for there's nary hoss ever fold
ed burned fool enough to leap over
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