The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1867-11-07


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NH WOLF ANpTHE TON. CATS.
ll0to is ons Of Mark Twains good
stories, Ha knows how to make the
r,sdsr lapgb, anil ifthe following does
not provoke SMILE, it ID bostp,o there
is 40 mira ia mankind duliq5 tho Lpl
weatheE Tea
K i1seShy the sfapnthetih glow upon
his hftd head X! kues by hs thought
'tal look up~nshisFace II knew by The
emotional flush upon The strawberry on
lheGnl Of tue old,irs Iivor's nose, that
Simon N'heerler'a memny was busy
with the olien fine. Aud so prepared
10 le3ve, b,cou,o all thsSe were Symp-
ioas Of r,m6iscenco --sicn' that he
yyas going 10 30 delivered Of another Of
his liyeso,ne p1r.ooal erpstiences-bu but
| was too STOW; he got the start Of me,
As nearIy as cln ,ec2ilec., the inAict
ion vas couchrd in the following lan-
guaae;
ave we're all boys, .Lpn, and l didn't
care Tor nothing. ml didn't have no
,uoub!eo, srl didnt'wSrry about moth.
lhg only how 10 shirli school ard keep
Itg rerivin' s'ate Of davilmont all the
t,me. This yar jim Wolf was talk
ling abon,, vas tho prentice, and he
wRs, and tho mos! Forgiyin' and oNsrlf-
ish | ever !ii eo--wel thera couldn't
be moIa butler boy than what he was,
take lin how you woldd; and sory enough
was Rlten see him for the last Inns.
Ms and Henry was always pesteriug
Tim pIastcriug hoss-biIs on lis back,
on1 putting humble bees in his bed
aud so on, aud sometimes we'd crowd 10
aoi bunk with him uotlhstiBdipg his
growing, aud then wo'd lot 90 10 got
mad and fight acrost him, 80 as TO keep
him Stirred up like, Re was aiosteoh,
>nl he was long, and lauk, and baSh(ul,
qnl we va. fifteen aud sixteen, aud lOl.
otabIy l22y aud worthless,
$50, that night, you know that my
sister Mary give the candy paIlin, they
| started us Of 10 bed early, SOFAS the com
plaY could hsvo fullswiug, aad we rung
in on jim to have Some fun, ''' '.."
"Our wiader looked out outo the roof
Of the eli, sad about len ocloct d coup.
10 Of old lom cuts got to rorin and char
GIN around on il and csrtyia' oa like
sin. Thora was four inches Of snow on
the roof aai it was frozen SO that lhero
was right sm1,I crust Of ice % It, and
the ;aooa wes aA;eipg bright, aud We
could sec them cats like Daylight First,
hey'd stand of Gnd e-yow vow, Just the
same as if they was cussin one aGolh.
or, you know, and bOW up, thcit backs
aud push up lhoir tails aud swall ground
and spit, aad then MI Of . sudden iho
gray cat he'd sna,ch a handGul Of fur
out Of the yal!er cats ham, aud spin him
around, like the button ON a bsrn.door
But the yAlar cat was game. and he'd
,coma and clinsA. and tho way they'd
| make the fur fly was powerful
"Woll, jim. he go, disguised with the
IrOw, and lowed bs'd climb out there
and shake him oif'nt that ,ooE Ho had
Mt reOly no intention Of doing it, Ike
ly, but We Oyo,laslinly doggod him and
bullyraggad him, end lowed how he'd
always brogssl how ho wouldn't take
dare, and 40 on, ill bimoby be highs
cd up the wjndsr, and 10 and behold
YOU, be went - wen, exactly as he wss -
nothln' on but shirt and ii wns short
Bot you ought to 800 hIml You oughl
to SEQ him crOoO~pln' over that loo, aod
alcgjn' his too mails aud Gnger-pails lr
lEnr 10 k1Gn from sIinpin'i and bOys ell