The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-02-05
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Tim Wolf and the Tom Cats.

jim Wolf and the Tom Cats.
Lknew by the sympathetic glow=upo!n,
his bald head knew by the: thousnItiul Il.
look upon his :flce-I knew sbls- the elIo
tional flash upoi, the strawberry o., the
end of the old free liver $ nose, that SIMON
Wheeler's nemor, sw;is busy wltii5o dell
time And so Iprepared leave, because
afIe these W eressymptomS of renlhSceice
signs: that was going. to be deliver
of..anorher Of his tircsssne percunal. expe-
tIencess:;7 but Is,eas to5slow; he got the
start of me. As nearly as can rccullect
the i1liiction was scouched the following
Language
W. Was all;bhvs them and didn't care
for nothing only. how to shirk school and
keepsup Il reyivin state Of teyiment all
the time. This yal, Jim Wolf that was
talking about, was the prentice, and he
was,tlie best hearted fellow,- he was and
the most torgivin' and oiselfsh | e. er see;
we'll, there couldn't be<a more ullier by
titan he was, lake hln how YOU would,
and sorry enough Iw;is when SAW HIM
! ferethe fast time.
Mezand Henry was always pesterins
him and ;pia>tering hpss bilsson his back,
and putting humble becs-in his bed, and so
ons and sometimes we wo'd crowd in and
bunk kswith.llim,, notwithstanding Ills growl-
inr, and then we d let on To get mad and
-fghtl across him, so,asI1 keep hlm stirred
upiike. He-:wass iiileteen, he was, aud
long and lank and baslltnl, and We was
; fifteen or sixteen, and tolersble lazy and
-
wolSh!esa.a .'-~-'--
So. that night yonsknow that my sister
Mary.gave the candy. pullin,. They start
ed us Oft to bed early, so.that the company
could have full swing, and iung i'll on jim
TO have some fun
Our winder looked out on the root OF
the.ell, and about ten. o'clock-a- couple ot
tom cats got a rarin'. and charSin' round
omit and carryin' on like sin.
There was four inches OF snow or the
roof, and 1t %as froze SO that there Was a
right smart crust of ice on it, and the
raoois. vas :shinii,ii, bright, andwe co'lla,see
chem cats like daylight. First they stand
of, and e VOW: yow:v6w just the same as
ifthev were clls>in' one another, you know,
and, bpwzup their backs and bush up their
tails, anu. swell around and spit, and then
ALI of a sudden the grey cat he'd snatch a
handful of t,rr off the.yaller cat ham; and
spin arsuul like a button'om ;r bar barn door
but the Waller cat was game, an! he'd
come. and clincl,, and the way t"ev d
eouSe and bite, and howl, a.d the way
they'd snlakeEthe fur tly. was powerful.
Wei, Jim, he got ,lisgustrd with the
row and. lowed. ne d climb out there and
sbakescemoffrn that roof. lie. had really
no notion of doin' it, likely, but ne ever
) LasfinulvT doured him and bully ragged
hoWyhe wouldn't .take.a dare, and 80 i,,l,
till bimcbv he histcd the wimler, ar,l low
and behold, he went; went exactly ;.s he
was. nothin on but a shirt and it was
short. Y.n, ought tn have seen hi.n creep
.inssover. the ice. and digging his toe-naiis
and tinrer:nails in for to keep him from
slipping aud. aiovessl you ought to seen
that shirt a fappiil' ii. .theewind, and them
lon@. r:dicklous s!,anks of his'u glisten-
in, In the mooniiuht..
Thern comp'iry folks was down. there
-,fncer.1 he eaves..the whole squad of EN-
Under that or,ery shed of Was!,'ton Bow
or vines: all settin' round about two
dozen sauccrs Of hot candy which they d
goeintozthesnow to c,nl. And they WAS
lalfglla, and talkin littely; but bless yon;
they didn t know nothing bout the pano
rama that was going ON over their heads.
We'll. Jim htc, Il went. i. .sneakin, and sneak
in right mp to the-conb~of the roof, it'll
he WAS in a foot and; half OF en-, and
the yal;er cat But, ~ sasl' ne 1 nllsse. g. !.