The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1867-04-03
NUMBER 8.

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! T.-As I'm not likely to get TO any
other house to night, can't you let me
sleep in yours, and I'll tic my horse to a
tree, and do without anything to eat or
dfipki
S.-My. house leaks; thar's only one
dry spot in it, and Sal sleeps on it. And
that thar tree is the ole woman's .persim'
mon; you can't tie to it, 'cose she dom:
want um shuk off. She lows TO make
beer out'n um.
T-Why don't you fnsh covering
your house and stop the leaksi
Sits been raining all day.
T.-WeIl, why don't you do i, in dry
weatber7
SIT don't leak then.
T.-As there seems TO be nothing alive
about your place but children, how do YOU
do here any how2
S.-Putty well, thank you, how do
! you do yoursefi
Ts-I mean what DO you do for liv-
ing here.
S.-Keep tavern and sell whisky.
T.-WelI, told you l wanted somo
whisky.
S.-Sranger, bought tar'l morn
a week ago. You see me and Sail went
shars. AFTER we got it here we only had
| q r,pH hatu Il O.
want to use hern fust, nor me mine. You
see, | bad spiggn in one eend, and she
in tother. SO she takes drink out'n nv
eend, and pays me the bit for it; then I'd
take un outn bern, and give her the biz.
We'll, ws's Citing along fust rate, till
Dick, id skuIking skunk, he bourn a
hole on the bottom to suck at, and tho
next .timeI went 10 buy a drink, they
wurnt none thar.
Tim sorry your whisky's all gone
Dat, my friend, why don't you play tho
balance Of that tune,
Sits got no balance TO il.
TT mean you dom, play the whole
OF it.
S.-stranger, can you play the ttduls
T.-Yes, n little sometimes.
S.-fou don't look like fiddur, but
ef you think YOU can play anymore onto
that thar chune,. you kin JUS. git down
. ard try.
(The traveller gifts down and play, the
whole ofit)
S.-S'rang ger, take half dozen cheers
and sot down. Sail, stir yourself rourd
like six horse team in mud hole. Go
round in the boiler, where I Killed that
buck this mornin,' Gu; of some Of the
best pieces, and foteh il and cook it for
me and this gentleman, directly. Raise
up the board under the bead Of the bed,
and st the ole black jug hid from Dick,
and give us some whisky Lknow thar's
tsum left yit. Til, drive ole Bose out'n
the bread tray, then cline up in the loft ,
and git the rag that's got the sugar tied
in it. Dick, carry the gentleman's hoss
round under the shed, give him some
fodder and corn, much as be kin eat.
Ti.-Dad, they amt knive, enouf 10
sot the table.
S.-Whar's big butch, little butch, ole
case, cobhande, granny's knife and the
one | handled yes,erdayl That's enuF
osetany gentleman's table, without you've
t lost um., D-n me, stranger, Of you
cant stay as long As you please, and I'll
} give you plenty to eat and drink. Will
you have coffee for support
8 T.-Yes, sir.
9 S.--I'l be hanged efyou do tho We
don't have nothin' that way here, but
I Grub Hyson, and I reckon it's mighty
] good with swee,nin.' Play away, stranger,
. you can sleep on the dry spot tonight.
T.--(After about two hoar's Gldlingi
8 My friend, csn'tyou tell me about the
road I'm to travel to morrowi
, $50 morrow! Stranger, you WON'T
: git out'n these diggIns for six weeks
Blu. when it gifts so you Kin start, you
J.. see that big slco over thari Well, you
] have to gil crost Of that, then you take
the road up the bank, and in about
E mile you'll come to two acre and a half
cornpatch, tire corn's mi,ely in the weeds.
bu, you needn't mind that is, ri1e on.
About mile and hall, or two miles,
", fom thar you'll ~coms Ito the d--dest
swamp you ever struck in all your travels,
its Loggy enrff TO mire a saddle blanket.
IS Thars first rate road about six feet un.
der thar.
'T--How am I to get at in
S.--You can't git at II nary time, till
u the wether suffens down sum. Well,
about mile boyant, you come 10 place