The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-11-27

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ctioa ia lbe world. The ohly |
drawback il thc Arklnaaw 'arth.
qaakos fever and agur, 90 some
.oll.a call 'cm, which is orlul lnl
idct, | have known the shakes SO
bad IN that State. that the simmons
were oil shuck oll o. the trccs, and
the glass oil shattcre'tou the win.
dcr. Besides the trayelin' aint
nothing to bmg on | remember
( in up The Aakinsaw river oncet,
aud every mile or so the passengers
had 70 Ill oat aud shove the boat
| over the sand bars; and one mornin'
the log was 80 thick, that we had to
use our bowie-kniyes to cut our way
out.
"Arkinsaw beats the world for
black bars, purity wimmin, aud big
ber,--Stranger, Eve seen trees
there SO high that the fust limbs
were outer sight, aud SO big that it
would take week to walk around
'em. A teller started oncet to walk
thro' one that washoller, He didn't
take any vittles with him, and he
starved on the way.
Il was goin' up the Mississippi
onct in one ofthem little up-country
boats, when we met big Arkinsaw
cypress floating down. | tell you
) stranger, it was a whopper. The
Cap'n run his boat long side, anc
fastened the ropes to it. OF sh'
started, snortin' and putin but i
: didn't bulge peg. The Cap'l
, ripped and hollered out, fire al
! down below there you luberly ras
}. GALS The wheels clattered away
4 and the blaze rolled from the chimb
}, ley, but that log was actually car
y ryin' lis down stream.
= 'Dircctly up comes u iellcr in
" red shirt and says he, ''Cap'n, 70
/" arc strainin' the ingine mitily.' 'Ct
= loose, and let her 60, then Gays I'll
: capt. When they cut the rope
. dod drot me, stranger, if the litt'
y boat didn't jump clean outer I'll
" water.-Wc ran little ways, bt
y the ingine was rally so cxhaustc'
y that we just had to stop. Next da.
:, there come along fine big stcame
~ we hailed her, got aboard, aud thei
:, was thatsamc log hitched along sid
'' We wooded off o that cypress Q
:. :. the way to Memphis.
"Black bars are bigger, plcntie
: and moro cunnin' in Arkinsaw thu
~ anywhere else. The old he's have
- way O standin' on their hind lee
- and maxim mark with their pay
- on the bark OF some certain trt
generally sassafras. It's a kind
= record they keep, and ! Is'pose its
y great satisfaction TO an old he bar
: have the highest mark on the trt
= | was layin' hid one day clost tc
~ tree whar the bar were in the hal
" of maxim their mark, waitin' I
= = one of 'em to como along, for | t
:, you, / was nifty hungry for bar me
y, ~ Directly | hears a noise clost II
- and lookin' around dad burn n
" stranger, ii thar wasn't small !
y, walkin' strait on his hind legs, vi
- :, a big chunk in hisarms ] could
=. 49, shot him easy, but | was nifty Gu
" :. ous to know what he was goin'
~ do with that chunk. He carried
'',' rite to the tree whar the marks we
~, stood it on cend against it, and th
- Citing on top oft, reached way
80 the tree, and made big mark abb
a foot above the highest. Heth
IAN got down, moved the chunk "
for off from the tree, and you never st
ar such a capcrin' as he cut up.
ed, would look up at hismark, and Il
he he would lay down and roll over
md the leaves, laughin' outright J
like a person; no doubt tickled
J. the way. somebody would be fool
There was somethin' 60 hun
in It, that ! actily hadn't the hear
ler- shoot him.
lew aJust to show you how cum
hey bars are, I'll tell you q circumstal
,eie that happened to me up in Ark
saw. You see, one fall befor'