Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-12-21
SUIT LOVINGo0D'S DREAM.

I was orful dry tothcr day, George, an find.
III lot oy green whisky, ! jist sucked in
skiniul oy it strait along. The fust moutbtul
| swallowed | hcarn splosh in my heels. |
wur dry and empty both, by golly, SO dry that
artcr hit riz purity well up in me, hit soaked
through and stood all over me in draps, ma
| king nc look like big rctisuc kivcred with
beads, but I swclled tighter artcra while, then
filed up purity soon. AS soou as / Good
rctch hit by running spoon handle down nv
throto, shot off steam, and sot into rowing
roun Hit warn't long before found myself
tangled by the laigs in the dorg fcnne, and
fell in heap down hill, 50 thort the most
peaceful thing ] could do war to 60 to sleep,
Il thinkin ov a runnin win.mll
We'll, | dreamed me dream. thort
wur in hell, and had been sent thar for yotin
tho RadiGil ticket. felt tho jesticc ov the
sentence so much that didn't focl so oneasy
, and mad about hit rs I would bin of thoy
had sont me thar fur murdcrin blino ole
oman, or maxim . back log NV sum gals f,st
baby, arter soakiu hit in turpcntino, or sich
Ike common wickcdnoss. l thort hod bin
thar long cnuf to sortcr begin to git usod to
the tasto o. the whisky thoy stills down tnar,
and m,ss say | thinks hit a little bottor than
the truck what the kulkcrs out ov tho Coe
F., fedrit array billed for tho government, because
hit didn't create tho appetite to GUS, steal or
desart half as anon on me, in Tophet, as that.
Twas safer whisky, George, safer whisky
We'll, thort hell was perfeo roun hole > as
roun AZ bum shell, right in the sentcr oy the
yearth. Tho walls wur glazed IA slick as an
inyun pcelin, and wur but jest half full ov
melted dinner pots, dorg irons, an ole clock
wstes, with q scum Of smoking birthstone a
foot deep. Tie Devil staid aboard ov bote,
and had hissct rowcl roun Jest as he pleased,
by the jury what found the bill again JEFF
Davis. They looked like thadc like to lave
another pop at that job. think, by yolly,
tladc hunt long spell atore tina found hit
as'n.
tho't thar war |on>; lc'her aidgcl c'sats
lated to shc wall to clinc by Tha wur sluar
aidged w, 80 the cl'nln has all To be done on
one siac, an when ioiiows got tired ov swim-
min, thry Jest sol into cimin' the clcats. I
noticed that ncw co'ncrs wur powerful !ond
ov otinn Thad' sortcr slack oil sometimes,
oa''l tina sunk mt" the melted clock wats up
I" t''e pint oV their tals bone an'; BY the cost
oy aNeoFcd monkey, they'd come up oter-
hahaeu To 'he!r work as'n jest wrlglln an
a snortn. Tha worked like s1urils on trcd
mlll. burned CT tha d'dcnt keep the thing
rolilng stratc along, aud George, jest as sure
as you ar tut high, Mats a0hot hcc1,s the
yc"'M MrnH rom L found Int out ut Gast.
| We'll, one day the trap door opened and tho
Devil ordered old tornoy to steer undoi tho
ho'e. ne steers wlld' and after sw'mmln
nearly an over he'l' nc got thar, when down
pourou 'Ito inc oote tho "arndcst su1ec OF
mean looking cusscs you ever seed. Every
Dooy aireaay thar tnrncu thar heads to look at
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