Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-10-12
Sut LOvengO0d's Dream.
rARrARUs, AND WHAT Hs SAW THERE.

TARTARUs, AMI WHAT hB SAW THERE.
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was orful dry, fother day, George, an
hndin lot owe green whisky, jist sucked
In skin full owe hit strait along. The fust
mou fu | swalered | hearn splosh in my
heels. | was dry an empty both, by golly-
so dry that arter hit riz purity well up in my
paunch, hit soaked through and stood ali
over my belly in draps, maxim hit look like
big reticule kivered wifi beads, but
swelled tight arter while an then filled
up purity soon. As soon as could reach
hit, by runnin' n spoon handil down my
froat shot off steam, and sot in 10 rovin'
roun.' Hit warnt Ing afore found my
self tangled by the laigs in the dorg fennel,
an I'fell he'd down hill, so thought the
mos peaceful thing could do were to 90
to sleep thinkin' owe a runnin' wind mill.
Well, l dreamed me dream. l thought |
were in hell, aud had been sent there for vo-
tin the Radikal ticket. felt the jestice owe
the sentence so much that / didn't feel as
uneasy an mad about hit as / wud been,
If they had q sent me for murderin blne
old oman, or maxim back log of some gals
fust baby, arter soakin' hit in turpentine, or
sich like common wickedness. I thought
had been thar long enuff to sorter git used
to the whisky they stills down thar. an
must say that ] thinks hit little better
than the truck what the skulkers out owe
the Confederate army billed for the Govern
ment, because hit didn't create the appetite'
tn cuss, steal or desert half as soon, an me
in Tophet at that. Twas safer whisky,
George, safer whisky. Well ! | thought hell
wer perfeckly roun' hole-as roun as
bomb shell-right plumb in the center owe
the yearth. The walls were glazed as slick
as an ingyun peelin, an hit were list half
full i've melted dinner pots, dog irons, an
old clock weights, with q scum owe smokin'
birthstone foot deep. The devil stad
aboard owe boat an had hisself rowed
roun jis as he pleased, by the jury that foun
the bill agin jeff Davis. They looked sorter
like they'd like to have another pull ut that
job. ! think, by golly, they'd hunt long
spell afore they found hit agin if they list
had another chance. thought thar war
long, fether aiged cleats nailed onto the wal /
to climb by, They wer squar aidged up so
the climbin' all had to be done on one side.
and whenever felers got tired of swimmin'
they list sot into climin' the cleats. noticed
the new comers were powerful fond ofI
climbin' They'd sorter slack orf sometimes
until they sunk in the melted clock.weipbts
up to the pints of their tail homes an, then
by the ghost of a sacred monkey they'd
come up overhanded to their work acin' list
a wiepiin' an, n snortin Tbev wori1e5 I;l,o
SQUIRRELS in a tread mill bnrn'd If ,bsv
didn't keen the thing rollin' strait olonG
an George. les as snre as Won ;s n foot biaS
that's what keens the yeth tnrp;n, has
found hit ont at las, We'll. ono doy tho
tran door onened and the devil ordered
Fawkcs tn steer onder the hole Uo s,oerod
wild, but arter swimmin nearly tS,l over
hell he rot stbe boet under the hatch -ho,o
when dawn poured thc dnrnd,st Iootin, 60,
of cpsses Won ever sced Evorybody nIrooJv
thar turned thar beods 10 Iock n ,on, ~,
cIon,h faster skeerod q, ,on, h,- ,,oI,,,, ~ a
were radikais the las dnr,,J ono So
had rones oronn, thair no;ts vic r,un;r,
moose anime the year Some had hoias ~
Thar heads some had oils Ont ondon ,b.;r
cbins an, every ore Showed s;ons NJ hard
times an hurry Amono 'en, sood St.
yens Sumner Wade Rns,or o,rnau IL
WendelI pb;l,;ns W H., S
the devil What's wrono ahov. nss aSo,s.r s -
% Wus nor cbolervn saSs Summer a Tho
tOnStitntiOn npOnla has aaI1
here, NV cours-say yer Majesty. ia Pres.
ton Brooks here ?n 'mOh nc. sez the devil
II Well.r sez Sumner. sorter briphtenin' nm
an rubbin his hans, q I'm durn'5 Glad he
nin't-n
aston n min;tp sez tbe dev;, e unit ort;s
| sorts YOU all out" He tpk nm n needle al
long as a harpoon. on wiz n big onile owe
trace chains he threaded hit Tben he
picked out all the common cusses from among
em and strung 'em ON the chain. rnnnin
the needil in mt thar months or lettin b;t
come out thar. I forpetss which opd then
hung the whole bunch over the aldo of the
boat into tho brimstone Gehosvfot how
thew sizzled an slosbed, an dove an, snr;n.
,led hot iron about wifi their tails A sir;no
Nv sun pearch would abin inst No vbar
While the devil were siringin The small
fry. Butler. surnamed the Beast oidgea hack
to whar sot in the boat n kaan;ni ona .yo
;ot ON the devil. an tother on mo an Is
WHISPERED in nv year mWbor,s Svsynhns2n
Seq l. al don't know Whv 9r ,tS moth
M only wanted IN soc which t,o,yod Tho
most of his trade him or mo Than bo
ybispered. (that mortal eve owe his St;II sol
IN the devil,) "Say, does yer know wbar his
Majesty keeps his spoonsPI Soy I al docs
You see that chain hangin' over Tho starn ?
lie keeps EN- in n bic mot SINK ot t'otber
lind owe hit" He list Went over Tho storn
ned fust and cooned il down tho chain
,nten sight onder the brimstone Arter
,ein gone a SMELL he cnm hack Iool;n' dis
,ppinted like, but his UincraI looks were
powerfully improved nv his hath In re,tad
,rimstone, swow he locked ,oora ILL., a
,uman. Sez he mGone moi and a,,W
opened nv ewes. Sez he. Uant Fornev
rot 'em.n Saws e Nav ba so~ho,s hosn
umblin' roun the starn a GOOD while Darn
e no didn't search everv 800, rIo Eonaa,,