Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-23

the street, With fuSt rate Set NV old
/ live hoss bones atween the shafts, while
the Yankee wus in the doggery, firin
up tu leave town. Jist as he got clost
tu the carryall, the powder coch fire, an
soon afterwards a0ent off, an so did lie,
head first, frog fashun, rite thru
the top load of tin war. He lit run
ming ten foot luther side; his coat tails
wur blowed off to his shoulders, the
hine aind owe his galluses wus raped
aroun his neck, the tale owe his shurt
wus loose, an up in the air thirty feet,
still a risin an blazin like komit; his
britches hung loose on the frunt side,
like unto a forked aprun, while the set
tin part owe EN- wus blowed to kingdum
cum, an so wur ever, thing else belong
ing tn that regin, while his back wus as
black as side of upper leather. 1t
rained tin buckets an tin pans, an stage
horns, all over that street, for two min
its an a alf. ---.. a.....,
"Now that exploshun, and the tin
war rattin an rainin, made rite
peart noise, specially ov still day, in
fac, enurf tn wake up the ole hoss bones
an gin him the idear that he'd best leave
town quick; so he laid his ears back an
straitened out his tail an shot. He made
kindlinwood outen the Vaughn agin a
a sine post, and betuck hisself tu the
woods, stretched out about twenty feet
long, an not N or'n three feet high on the
withers, with jis about enurf harness
stickin tn him tu make a cullur for
bell cow.
"Thar was wun cussed netmeg maxim
Yankee broke plum up, an Pm durn'd
glad ov it. Ole Rack Back Davy, the
hoss rack man, made fur the river, and
l follered tu the bank tu see eff he
hedn't drownded hisself; but no SIR =
Thar he wur, about the middle owe the
river, a swimmin fur the tother bank,
jist splitin the warter wide open, and
his busted britches legs a foatin arter
him. He looked over his shoulder every
uther lick like he spected tu see the
devil; his face wur as black as pot,
sept white ring round his eyes, an the
smoke wur still risin frum amung the
sumps owe his burnt har. His he'd,
boys, in that river, was the ugliest.
scuriest, and savidgest site l ever
seed or spec to see in this world,
eny how. dreams owe it yet O. nights,
an it skares the swet outen me. l seed
lot owe fellers a fshin onder the bank,
so thot I'd help him on little faster,
and hollered, ketch the murderer five
hundred dollars and a big boss reward.
He's killed an oman and nine childred,
and spec dog, and like to whipped
anuther plum to deth.' They jumped
intur thar canues and tuck arter him,
openin on his trail like a pack owe
houns. The last ever seed owe him,
he wur a rakin up the luther bank, on
his all fours, an looked like an old bar
what he'd just cum outen harry cane.
"He still kept up his lookin back, and
l speck was the Wust scarf man in the
wurld, and ef he amt ded he's runnin yet.
The idear now begins tu soak thru mi
har that OWN to the fuss Stuff gut and
me had raised, that perhaps I'd better
scoot lest tina mount want me. So left
in a peart trot, and soon got on ole Stuff's
trail, 1t wur like waggin he'd been
drug upside down by a par owe runaway
musls, and the dry grass an leaves. and
~ shIi piaceS tne Iences Wer sou anre.-
He took to the mountains, and turned
wolf, and took up the trade owe
sheep KILN fur livin, and the hole set
tlement is now arter his skalp. That
trip tu town, like the cnttin-box, hes
changed his dispersition agin, all shown
the powerful changes that kin be made
even in a dog. l cum outen that scrpe
purity well, yet 1 he'd tu show the
family dispersition tu made ID fools
owe tharselfs."
"How Sut p 81 ..r..-
"Why, ought to toted off lode
owe that permis tin war. Oughtent IL
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