Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1869-02-12


place bout three miles of, on the pura-
Ira, whar thar wur a establishment KEEP
by an Englisbman, for the KILN o cat
tie. NV ole chum he'd some sort O. a
post unner this Britisher to which the
slaughterin' yurd belonged.
Il started off in sarch O the place, 60
in afut; for want rich enuff to purvide
me wi beest, tho l ked bought one
O. the best for a ten-dollar bill. Niver
mind bout thet. I rud upon shank's
mare, which I alters purfars, anyhow ;
'spiecially when huntin'. Hoses skeers
the game.
"It war bout twelve O the clock when
I reeched the cattle KILN establishment.
Thar want no house, nor the show O
anythin' like one-'ceptin sort O kiver-
ed shed, whar they slowed away the hides
O the cattle they killed; for it war them,
an not the meat. that the bizness war car
ried on for. All roun' the shed run a
fence made out O posts set on thar eends.
that I reck'n they must a hauled good
ways; for thar want stick O thinner to
be seed-anywhere within miles O the place.
In this fence spied gate, jest the same
as the rest of the incloseyur, only knew
it by pair O posts risin' leetle higher
up than the fence itself. ID.
"Torst this gate l deereckted my steps.
"Thar want human in sight, eyther
outside the fence or inside O. it. But ]
knew it war the slaughterin' place. I
ked tell that afore I'd got 'ithin helf a
mile o it. by the stink O the skins. -
Il foun' the gate upon the letch. II
war double one; so openin' one helf /
slept inside, an looked about me.
Il kedn't see critter O. any kind
Thar want the show O livin' thing ney-
ther about the yard. nor unner the shed,
which last war open all roun'. It war
clar that the incloseyur war desarted.
"'Zeb Stump saz I to myself, 'ye've
bed yur long walk for nuthin'. an unner
a burned sweaty sun too. It air clar
thar's nobody bout these diggins, neyther
man nor anymal. SO you may turn roun'
an track back to Hewston.'
"But jest as I'd made this reaexshun,
a sown reeched my ears thet tolt me war
unner a mistake; an, at the same time I
spied four ugly varmints. the like o which
I'd niver seed afore; tho from what I'd
heern Gem I knowed to be English bull
dogs.
"They 'peared comm right out O. the
shed, an war maxim strait torst me, thar
teeth stickin' outside thar lips, an thar
eyes glitterin' from four O as ugly faces
as ever war sot upon the head o a canyne.
''They didn't come on in anythin' O.
run but crouchin'. wi thar bellies fat
tened out along the groun'. jest like a
painter stealin' on turkey or deer
F'r all that thar war no mistakin' thar in
tenshun. 1t war plain enuf by the glipt
O thar eyos, an thar angry growlin'
Il tried coaxin'. same as you'd do wi
other dogs It want no use; they only
growled angrier; an thinkin' to skeer them
of, I grupped up some donicks an begun
fingin' 'em right iu thar teeth.
at war the foolichest thing ked "a
done; for the fust stone that fell among
'em, set 'em stark mad > an, 'afore / ked
throw q second, the hui four war aroun'
me, 'itbin bitin' reech o my shins. 3
Il hedn't a thing in my hands; for,
not expectin' to scare up any game. I'd
kim away from the town 'ithout fetchiD'
my rife along wi me. That war green
trick, an I war niver caught the same
way since. -
lin coorse I war helpless; an for q
spell kedn't think o what I shed do
I'd anger'd the dogs, past any hope O.
'peasin 'em; an from what I'd heerd O
the mater O them anymals, an what l
then seed for myself, | war sartin they In
tended tarin' me to pieces.
''klooked roun' to see eff thar war any
chance to git out O. thar way. + got
bout helf'crost the incloseyur. when they
fust kim rushin'' torst me. Thar want
nuthin' 10 sight. 'ceptin' pump that stud
right in the middle o. the yurd. But it
war one O the tallest, kind an I sed at a
glimp it war my only hope for salvashun.
"Gruppin holt O. the handle, spelled
up; an afore any o tho brntes ked git
ugly teeth on me, l war out O. thar reech.
Il want so far out OF, as to feel safe;
for the anymals KEEP springin' up an try
in to grup my legs; the which I bed to
draw up unner me, .arter the fashion Of a
tailyor. - - =:
when they he'd COED on wi thar jump
in an yowlin' for bout helf-an-hour they
begun to git tired themselves; an at last
seein' they kedn't reech me, they gin that
game up. = ! W
II he'd hopes they'd 60 bout thar biz
ness. an gle me a chance o'gittin' out O
the yurd. But I soon seed they he'd no
notion o. doin' so.. Thar bizness war to
purtect the place agin thieves an iuterlo-
pers, an they he'd TUX me for cyther one
or t'other. If any. O 3!em did stay away
for bit the others KEEP guard roun' the
pump;' an whenever I showed sign O.
slippin' down, they'd spring forrard an,
start up a fresh spell O barkin' grimm,
an growlin'. tg-ea3i 81
Il war in the wust O fixes, an l know,d
il. He'd it been 8 painter. or even bal,
thar mout "a been, some cbeDce O. escapin'
arter tussle; but Id heerd deal bout
them English bulldogs, an that whom