Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1866-12-13

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There IL one kind ov politeness I always
liked, and that IL, helping gal out ov a
carriage, or carryin one akross a mudhole;
1 like tn be polite when them ar kind ov
things ar tn be did du, by lingo
Their IL anotherkind fpoliteness don't
like, that is this: Supposin' Teller goes
to Gee gal, and jist az he gifts to torken
to her 10 comes the old woman, who hap
pens tn be polite enough tn du all the
torken further darter and herself too-fur
my part, I'd as leave tork to the darter
rs the old woman, if not little leaver-
and when Teller goes tu 60 home, the
old woman Gees him to the door; now, 1
call that little too dorg polite, and l
never kud like people tn be quite that
polite, when | 20 tn Gee gal, would you?
Theirs still another kind of politeness
that is wuss still !; it is az follows, viz: Fur
instance, Teller makes an apintment tn
meet a'gal at neighbours house, and
sum other feller'z polite enough to ask
her to Gee her home, aud she happens tn
be polite enough tn let him go. That IL
the wuss kind nv politeness | no ov. "
had experience in it, and don't care about
havin' any more tn du with it, The way
waz this: 3, ff lfltt4
wuz goin tn Gee Sal Snyder(I'm
death on Sals), and had been fur too
weeks, when old Snyder informed me
that he wished I'd stay at home, and that
lie had higher intentions fur Sal than
Shocks, Jr,. In fact he told me if 1
q KUN back any more he d kick me out ov
the house Not wishin' to have kick.
in, I concluded'tu slope, and l did So
Sal KUN out tn the gate with me when l
left, and told me notu think hard ov her,
&c. &c, and told me she waz goin' over tn
Jones's the next mite, and fur me tn meet
her az she kun home. (She didn't
want Joneses tn no Tkdm home with her,
fur they'd tell old Snyder) Jist after
dark the next eveuin' l made my way tn
the road leadin' frum Thomas Snyder tn
Peter Jones, Esqs and taken my seat on
the Tense, and htin' cigar, resigned
myself tn thots. After sittin' ther fur tu
hours, and smokin' dozen cigars, and
whistlin' "Dan Tucker" till mi mouth
looked like I'd bin eatin' green persim-
ms, herd Sal kumin'. "But who in
the dickens IL she torkin tn 2" thot l.
She was torkin tn sumbody, that wuz
,sirtinl Thinks 1 tn uiself, NI'll hide be-
hind the fence, and find out who it IT,"
so / dun it. On kun Sal, still torkin
till she KUN rite opposite tn where | waz
a sittin. | raised my head and looked ; |
the nune wuz shinin brite, and there l
saw Sal hitched on tn the arm ov that in
fernal Bill Smith / tell you what, l felt
like eatin him up, bones and all.
Soon as they got past begun to stud
dy, and all at once an idea struck me,
and that was to makea curkit thru the
field and hide under Snyder winder be-
, fore Sal and Bill kun, and listen to
what they had to say. Well, l started,
and after wadin thru two plowed fields
and creek, | arrived safe on the outside
oy Snyder's yard-fence. / got up on the
fence, jumped of, and went "slosh" into
the swill-barrel, klean up to my ears
jist then old Snyder KUN to the door, and
hearin me, run back inter the house, but
before kud git out, he appeared again
with his gun, and yelled, at the top ov
his voice:
b. "Pig in the swill. barrel Here Tow
ser here Bluno here Watch here tick
lerl here Sanchez here Rather sick EN-,
pup sick 'em, pup" then runin' toward
me, he continued, "Sooie sooiel here,
pup here, pup! take him~
Jist at that time | got out ov the bar
rel by up setin' it, and made tracks akross
that field with six dorgs at my heals. l
fortunately reached tree, and got up it
before the dorgs caught me. l had tu
stay up, the tree till daylight, fur the
dorgs all layed down under the tree, but
I got home next mornin, and I've always
hated ever since, tn Gee people tn dorg
polite.-JosH BILLINGS. .-.tr
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