The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-25

B. 81 let the. plcw go and holiored,
woa, dad, woa, but ye mout as well
said woa to q locomotive. Jewhi
likins, how he run.
ssWhen he come to bush, he'd clear
it gopher and all; he thot there mont
be, another settlement of bald hor-1
nets in it; and that it was safer to go
over than thro, an quicker done.
Every now and then, he'd paw one
side Of his head with one fust one
fore leg and then 'tother; then he'd
gin himself an open-handed slap,
that sounded like wagon whip, and
runnin' all the time and q carryin'
that gopher |jist about as fast and
high from the yearth as ever q go
pherwas carried, I swar. When he
cum to the fence, he busted right
thru it, taren nigh into seven panels,
scatterin' and breakin' the rails
nightly; and here heleft the gopher,
gears, swingletree and klevis, and
mixed up, not wuth dern; most of
his shirt stuck to the broken end of
splintered rail, and nigh onto 8
pint O. hornets staid with the shirt, a
stingin' it MI over-the balance on
'em, about a gallon and half, kept
on with dad. He seemed to run ad-
sactly as fast as hornet could fly,
for it was the highest race ever did
see; down thru the grass they all
went, the hornets sorter maxim it
look like smoke all round dads head,
and he with nothin' on but the bride,
and nigh onto q yard O. plow line
sailin' behind him. [ seed he was
amin for the swimmin' hole in the
creek, whar the bluff is over twenty
feet perpendicular to the water, and
it's nigh onto ten feet deep. To keep
up his character as horse, when he
got to the bluff he jist leaped off, or
rather he jist kept on runnin'. Now,
right thar, boys, he over did the
thing; if that was what he was arter,
for thar's nary hoss ever foalded,
darned fool enough to leap over sich
a place; q mule mout have done it,
but dad warn't acting mule. I crept
up to the edge and looked over.
Thar was old dads bald head, for all
the world like a peeled ingun, bob.
bin up and down, and the hornets
sailin' and circlin round, turkey
buzzard fashion, and every once in a
while, one, and sometimes ten, 'ud
make dip at dads head. He kept
up peart dodgin' under, sometimes
they'd hit him and sometimes they'd
hit the water, and the water was XII
vered Nth drowned hornet
What on yearth are you doin'
thar, dad?' says [.
"'Don't (dip) you see these infer
nal varmints ldip) onto me?'
Z "'Whatr sed I. Them are hoss
flies thar; ye amt really afeared of
them, are yep
sssHoss Aiesn sed dad; they're
rale dip genewine bald hornets, you
(dip) internal cuss.''
"'Well, dad, you'll have to stay
thar till mite, and arter they go to
roost, you come home and I'll feed
you
"eAnd knowin' dads unmodified
natur, I broke from them parts, and
sorter cum to the copper mines. I
staid hid till about next AFTERNOON,
when I seed fellow travelling, and
sed I, What was goin' on at the
cabbin' this side of the creek when
you passed it?'
why, nothin' much, only a
man was sittin' In the door with nary
shirt on, AMI woman was greasin, {,
his back and arms, and his head was
about as big as ten gallon keg, and
he hadn't the first sign of an eye-all
smooth Gs u.
'''That mans my dad sed I.
".Been much ften in this neigh
borhood lately?' said the traveller,
dryly. 4E..5
'''Nun wuth speakin' of, person
| ally or Particularly sed I.
Now, boys, I haint seed dad
since, and would be afeared to meet
him in the next ten years. Let's
drink"
WESTERN ETIoUETTE.-A Yankee
traveller, who saw the live hoosicr,
wrote to his mother as follows: