The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-04-13

he shook the yearth sn hisself too.
Bonnets and fans cleared the way, an
be ned q purfectly fair track ia the
woods. He weighed nigh unto three
/ hundred, he'd black stripe down his
Z back ike unto an old bride rein, and
his belly looked about the size and cul-
Ter Nv big beef paunch, and it shak
/ in from side to side. He leaned back
/ frum it like a little Teller a totin Nv
/ big drum at muster, and hearn it
slOsh plum u WheT ] Wur Thur Eur
cramp knots on his legs as big as wa
nuts, an ell over he minded me nv q
1 crazy cid elefant what Eur possessed
/ by the devil, with its yers, snout an
tushvs sawed of, an rared up-and q
I gwine on its hind legs away from enc
date trouble an tribulation. He did
/ the loudest, and scariest an busiest
runnin' I ever seed since dad raced
/ with the hornets, to be no faster than
| it Wur.
"Well, he disappeared in the thicket,
and ov all the muses. ye ever hern it
Wur thar in q cirkle Nv two hundred
| feet or tharabouts-sum Wimeu scream.
in'-thsy was the skerry Wuns; sum
l larfn'-thay was the wicked Wuns
som cryin-th8y Wus the fool Runs,
/ (sorter Of the Lovengood STRIPED some
tryin' to git away or hid thar faces
thay Wu5 the modest wuns sum look
in after old Bullin-thay was the Gu.
RUS wuns; sum hangin' to thar bows
they war the sweet Wuns sum on thar
knees with thar eyes shot, but thar
face turned the way old mudtirkil was
runnin'-they Wus the deceitful wuns;
sum dom nothin'-they Wus the wstin
wUns, and the most danierous Nv all
Nv them by a darned long site. | took
a big skeer myself, after a bibil about
as big as 3 brick, disciplin and book
called . katsplasm, q few rocks, and
SIGH ike fruit, spsttered on the pulpit
nigh unto my he'd, and as the Loven-
goods, durn EN-, knows nothin' but TO
run when they git skeeFed, I list put
towards the swamp on the kTick. As
started black bottil of baldfsce smash
ed against a tree forn nst me. Sum
darned fool professor dun this, who had
more zeal than sense; for say that aay
man who d waist quart Nv good whisky
fur the chance ov knockin' a poor devil
like me down with it, il the bottil 1gas
wuth nothing, isn't as smart as old
squire Macknuliin, when he shot him.
self with a hoe handil, and it want
loaded st that Well you know,
George, / orter run faEt--iust look at
these legs-I used EN- sum atWeen that
meetin grown and the swamp, and
they amt kotch me yet.
"Old BaEbelly Bullin las they call
him since his tribulation with the hell
saTpints, haint preached cut Wunst; and
then he hadn't an oman to hear i'm.
His tex WIS nakid | kane into this
Wurld, an I'm agwine out on it the same
way eff I'm spared till then. I'm told
tWar a powerful ssrmiut-it was hearn
three miles. lie proved that nakidniss
warn't much arter all, of you take the
rite view oY the thing-that hell sar-
pints Of sizes wuz skeeIy, cold and
troublesum--that it Warn't to be ex-
pected of him, q poor, weak, frail wun
ov the dust, to be sarpinI or lizard
proof either-that Wun small sarpint
Of the tribe ov milcizidick ruinated q
wuTld through q woman, while he Wur
beset with a baTTil full OF them. And
sizteenthly, but finally, that Sat Log-
engood is the biggest raskil, fool and
skere-croW ever hatched in the noun
tain range
Now George that may all be so, but
! want you to tell old GroWnhog this
for me--ef he'll let me alone, III let
him sloue; and eff be don't, ef l don't
lizard him again, wish may be turn
ed inter a poIstice Lets 90 tn the
spring and mix little ov it with this
yere whisky, (shsking his flask, afore
you start Mind, tell old Barbelly what
| said about auuther big skeer, with
say g peok-Ur peck and q half oY
lizzlrds-tyy and skss. him j goa kin
good by