Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-11-20

didn't feel as if I would Hketo be seen in
that ar predieament
So, says I, you old sarpent, do your
cussedest % Aud so he did; for be drug me
+ over every briar aud STUN Ia the field, until
! war sweatin and bIeedin ike fat bear
With a pack o hounds at his heals. And
my name aine Nike Fink, if the old eritter' s
tail and didut blow sometimes at dead
level with the yaFmint' back.
SO you may kalkelate we made good
time. Bimeby be slakened little, and
then l had i'm for a spell, for jist drapped
behind a stump and thar snubbed the crit
ter Now, says YOU u pull up this ere
white oak or break yer tall or just hold on
a bit til blow r.
Wei, while was sittin thar, an idea
struck me that / had bstter be a geten out
o. ofthis in some way. But how, adzadkIy,
was the pint If let 90 and run he'd be
foul O. me sure
SO looking at the matter in all its bear
iugs, cum to the conclusion that I'D better
let somebody know war | was So I gin al
yell louder than locomotive whistle, and
it wash long afore l seed the Deacon $ two
dogs a comm down ike as if they war seein
which could gev here fust.
knowed who they were arter-they d
jine the bull again ne, war sartain, for
they war orfpI Tenem0us and had spite
agin me,
So, says I, old brindle, as riden is as
cheap rs walkeu on this route if you have
no objections, In jist take a deck passage
90 that ar back o yourn So wasn't long
in gettin astride Of him, ard then if you'd
bin thar you d ave sworn thar warn moth
ing human in that ar mizl the sile few so
orfly as the critter and | rolled round the
6eld-one dog on one-side and one on the
t'oher tryin' to eliuch my fest.
i prayed and euss 4 and cuss and pray
ed, until couldn tell which did last
and neither warn t Of any use, they wore so
orfuily mixed up.
"Well, | reckon rid about an hour this
way, when old brindle thought It time to
stop and take in a supplyo wind and cool
off little, Sowhen we got around to tree
that stood thar, be naturally halted
Now, says l. old boy, you Il lose one
passenger sartsin! So iist clnm upon
branch, kalkela,n' to roost till started,
atore ia round in that ar way any longer.
I war maxim tracks for the top of the
tree, when / heard snmthin maxim an or
ful bussiu' over head kinder looked up
and if there warn 't--well there's no use
swearin" now, it war the biggest hornets
nest ever build
You'll gin IN now, reckon, Mike, kase
thar no help for you? But an idea struck
me then, that I'd stand heap better chance
a rideu the old bull than where I war
Says /, 'old feller, if you'll hold on III
ride to the next station, anyhow, le; that be
where it wiIll
SO list drapped aboard agin, and look
ed aloft to see what I'd gain in cbangin
quarters; and gentlemen, I'm a liar if thar
warp't uigba ba!f bushel Of o,iosis var.
miuts ready to pitch into me when the word
''go ives givenl
well, l reckon they got it; for all hands
started for our company! Some on em BIT
rhe dogs-about a qpart struck me, and the
rest charged on old brindle.
This time he dogs led OF fust, dead
beat for the old deacon and as soon as old
blindle and / could get under the way. we
fo'lowedl And as I war only deck passen-
ger, and had uothin to do with steerin the
craft, / >wow if had we shouldn't have run
that channel, anyhow!
But, as I said afore, the dogs took the
lead-brindle and I next and he hornets
dre kIy arter. The dogs yallin -brindle
belIeriu and the hornets buzzin' and
stingin' Ididut say nothin for 1t worn [
{ no use.
/ well, we d got about two hundred yards
f from the house when the old deacon heard
US and come out | seed him hold up his
hand and turn white I reckon he was
prayin then, for be didn't expect to be
called for so soon, aud it wasn't long, afore
the hull congregation, men, women and
children, cum out and then all hands went
TO yelEu!
None Of EN- had the fast notion that brin.
de and ] beorged to this world. / just
turned MY head and passed the hull con
gregatiou! l seed the run would be up
soon, for hrindle eoujdn' turn an inch from
a fence that stood dead ahead
Well, we reached that fence aud W mt
ashore, over the old critters head, landin'
on tother side and lay their stunned It
warn long af3re some Of EN- as war not 50
scared. cum round to see what war! For
all bands kalkelated that the bull and | be-
lonred together But when brindle walked
of By himself, they seed how It war, and
one Of EN- said Mike Fink has got the
must Of the scrimmage once in bis life''
Gentlemen, from that day l drapped the
courtin buzziuess and never spoke to a ga
since! And when my hunt is up on thi.
yearth, thar won't be any more Fiuksl ant
its all OWN to deacon Smiths Brndl.
BALI
KISSING.