The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1869-06-03
How sut Lovcngood Exploded


Sut related tie storp thus: "George
did you ever see Sicily Burmese Her dad
lives at the Ratall Snaik Spring, nigh to
the Gregory line"
ayes, a handsome girl"
"llandsome tha. word does not kiver
the case it sounds like calling w"iskey
water, when ye are ut Big Spring aud the
still house ten miles off, and hit ra,l-
in in yer fask onty halt iull. She shows
among " men like u suufuwer as COM ar
ed tu dog tennull aud smart weed to jim
stin. But thar aint no use tryin' to de-
scribe her. Couldn't crawl thru wbiskey
barrel with both helds stove out, if ,hit
wur hilt sturdy for her, aud good foot holt
at that She ways just two hundred and
twcnty-six pounds, and tands sixteen
hands high. She never got into an arm
chair in her life, and you can lock the top
of u churn UT a big dog collar round her
waist. I've seed her jump over the top
of split bottom chair and never show her
ankle or kctch her dress onto it. She
kerrled devil enuff atuul her to fill four
horse waggin bed, with skin as white US
the inside OF trogstool, checks and lips
as read as peaches gills in doswood blo-
SON time; an sich Il smile Oh, III he
dr. tied ct its eny use tukin'. That gal
cud make me murder old Bishop Soul hit
self, or kill man, not to speak Nv dad, et
she jiSt hinteI she wontcd such thing
dun.
"Well, tcw tell all at once, she war
gal all over, from the pin, NV her toe nails
to the longest har on her highest knob NV
her head-gal all the time everywherc-
and that OF the cxcitinest kind Ov course
lleuned up to her as close as | dar tu, and
in spite OF long legs, appetite for whskey,
my shurt scrape and dads actin hoss, she
softer leaned up tn me and was u begin
ing 10 think | war the greatest aud COM
frrtablist man on yeth not exccptin Old
Buck or Brigham Young with all his sadil
cullered, wrInkled wlmmin, crades full of
babies, and Liz Salt Lake thrown in.
Well, wun day u cusscd deccivin, paIav
erin, Yankee pedar, all jack knife and
jaw, cum tn old Burnes, with load IF
apple parins, callkcr, rlbbins, jewsharps
aud s-o-dy p-o-wd er-s. Now mind Id
never heru tell ov that truck atore, an |
be daned eff don't want it to be the last
wus no rifle powder-wus no pcicu. sion-
three times us smart and hurts wus, heap
wus. Durn him. Durn ali Yankee ! ed
lers, aud durn their principles aud pr.cti.
sis. say. L wish he had all the sody
powders they ever made in his cusseu
paunch, and slow match fixed 10 him.
and | had Il chunk OF fire, the teller what
found piece OF him big enuf to f. ed a
oockroach, ou-ht tn be king of The Sui
tan harcm thousand years for his luck
They alnt hu nan no how. The mint ut
Filade'tla is thar heaven they think their
god eats half dimes for b. ca last, hashes
the leavlns Tor dinner, aud swallows u cent
On u dried apple Tor supper, sets on a
stamping machIue for a throne, slceps on
crio full OF hat dollars, anl Measures
men like money, by count. They haint
one OF them got soul but whas ceuld
dance 's IN cabbage seed, aud leave
room Ter the fiddler.
"Nell, Sicily bought tin box ov the
sody from ID III, aud hid it away from tb.
folks a sav.n u + r lie. | hap ..cncd To
pass next day, aud OF course [ stopped to
ENJOY look at the tempter, and she wur
mighty lovin tu me, put one arm around
my heck and further one whar the circln
gle goes round hoss, tuck tho lnturn on
me with her left foot an gin me kiss
Says she:
"suty, love, I've got somctbin fur ye,
. new sensation believed it, fur
l begun tn feel 1t already. My toes i.lt
Ike little mlnners weIe nibhIln at 'em-
cold streak runnIn upand down my back
like lizz 'rd with IL hen turkey arter him
In setln tulc, my heart lelt hot and onsat. |
ished like, and TIM Id shot old Soul el
she had hin'ed pecdcesslty for slch AL
oPer 'shun Then = h e poured ten or !
Twelve blue papers Of sody inter big tun-
bier, and about same number ofwhitcs ones