The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-08

sich, it war ginerally not leetle and
stop, but q powerful site and go on;
SO they cluded they'd send Big Eph.
(they alters called me Big Eph., to
extinguish me from dad, who war
known as Leetle Eph J as I war
sayin, they cluded they'd send me
ater Parson Hinson, so nanny could
gin him her spearunce, afore she
handed in her checks. Now dad had
most nifty peart sort Nv white, clay
bank bull yearlin we alters called Je-
rico, what he traded fur with old Bob
Skies. who war whipped fur hoss
stealin in Georgy, and war married
by Squire Jones to JEFF. Higgins big
ugly gal Betsey, and dad sot more
store by Jerico than NANNY; so it
war only on speshul oklzashuns | war
lowed to try the creeturs verlocity. Il
war NIFTY hot when l struck fur the
Parson, so L cluded I'd call by and
see Bob Skies; Yer see Bob KEEP Il
store jest this side Nv Turkey Creek
Now when [ say Bob KEEP store, [
mean he KEEP fish hooks and whiskey,
for all tother fetches wimmin folks
bout, and this amt thar place no
how. Now Yer see, [ war raised pom
Il blackberry plantation, and sucked
persimmon beer, and chawed polk
root ever sense ] war big cnuf to fol-
low NANNY long the ta5er rows, so |
cluded Ia try Bob Skies Jimnlaker,
bein as my jaws were eny most stuck
tergether fur want Nv lin, and as Ia
hearn the truck would do one good.
SO it war not long afore L drunk the
weight Of Q good size coon dog in
Jimmaker. Bob Skies said thar war
gwine to be Dustin big aig pickin
over at old Miss Callinc Carriers, and
[ knowed Amelia Jane Carter (she It's
my wife) would be few thar; so l
cluded I'd ride over, whether nanny
gin her spearunce ur not.
$50, ater tightening Bob Skies
truck another gourd full, 1 put down
the lane. The erik wur not more
nur a quarter off, and seein as how
Jerico finder felt his shuclzs, and
Big Eph. his Jimmaker, I cludcd
ia try Jerico's verlocity, and sorter
git my hand in fur tAc next gander
pullin at the mills SO, ater gwine
through the liminaries of raal pull
lin, and wrappin my feet tergether
under the varmint's belly, off put
like a pack Nv skilpin Iniuns war ater
me, Jerico knockin fire outen the
rocks at uvry jump; so the way I
dung the fence ahint me was not
Ieetle and stop, but a powerful site
and so on. I tarmined to cross the
erik at the bridge, but thar war a
Dustin big pile NV water Jest this
side, and l knowed it war diffykilt
Steermanship ter make sich teristif-
cation, and still grab for q swingin
limb which [ lowed for the gander.
ses to myself, sez I, if come outen
safe, I'll hug Amelia Jane Carter per-
simmerns yit; if I don't cum outer
safe, the gals Bill Rice's. The
stakes war powerful high, and [
kinder felt like backin out, but 1 KEEP
dade ahead till I reached the pile NV
water, when Jerico stopt under the
shade tree, for yer know that kind Nv
horse flesh am pretickler fond Nv
shade trees in hot wether, and ..iore
[ could say Sister Pheb., Jerico got
relarned at old BIZ Rice, who war
standin on the banks Nv the erik, 6.
tishin for red horse, in his shut tail,
eny most as nakid as the leetle koo-
pids in the yollerntines. Jerico war
not usen to sich sites, so he made
turn, and I soon found I war
flynn rite over the erik, and kinder
lummin agin the water with sich
with a sort Nv splutter-
ment like two greasy buckwheat
cakes, it war dif,yJilt to tell. stran-
gers, which got the hardest lick, Big
Eph. III that erik; but 1 sloshed uvry
drap NV water outen the erik till it
war nigh onto as dry as a powder
horn, If L did loose Amelia Jane Car
ter. l gin to think, strangers, that
the kairds war runnin ginst me, but
1 cluded ia go to the aig pickin,
spearunce or no spearunce; so off l
put afoot, fur knowed it war no use
ter hunt jerico, fur nuthin short NV
speshul ressurrekshuu could Git him
and Big Eph. together; fur Old Bill
Rice sed the last he seed Nv him he
war smokin like tar kiln, and the
way he war maxim for the swamp war
not leetle and stop but a powerful
site and go on. 1t was nigh onto
dark when I throwed my shadow
across Miss Calline's door sill, and as
soon as she seed me, she set up and
sez: why, bless me, Ephriam, I'm
nifty glad fur to see yer; why, site
Nv YOU am GOOD fur sore ICES Well