The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-11-06
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~ eafly days oli NH Harrison
waa elected 10 iie Legislature froa
this county. said an oli fellow. as
We were all asaie,l nfpunl lbe stove.
N little hatel NJ Neialnshoru'.
Hamilton cuanty. Illinois.
Oli Nat was q REGULAR obi hrick
lie was elected just hccausc there
Was no zoe ~ fun against him.
Our country was ruther bad IN Tor
Intelligent people in those days.
A few days after old Nat had gone
to Springfield. to attend 10 the duties
Of his office. ! happened 20 be there
also. on some business IT private
character, aud thinking be would
be glad 10 hear from the folks ut
home ! concluded to call on him ut
the "Prairic House. and inquire
after bis health.
ave been well, Tom" said he,
but | got awfully scared the first
night staid in this ere darncd
place
"llow was thatt' ! inquired.
"Well," said Nat, "I'll tell you
all about it. You see that fellow
there behind the counter; the fel.
lows here call him the hard-well,
| told him / wanted TO see my bed,
so ia know whcrr to sleep when
f Fol come in after awhile. lie took
me up stairs to a little room, and
sal d | could sleep there, and then he
went down. | took good notice Of
, it---brown door, with yaller streake
0 here and there, aud u white yearther
lock handle. | started down, a,
p thinkin' about this, and | wouldn't
look at no other door, fear I'd get
!. 'em kinder mixed up in my head
o and then forget which was mine.
a "About twelve o'clock that nigh
|, | came in with a kind Of half growl
hummin' in my head, and the yer,
Q first thing / found at the top of th,
. stairs was my own identical door
: with the yaller strcaks and whit,
' lock-handle. Good" says /, an,
q in ! lumbers. ! walks up to tn
bed, and what do you think
h Why, | finds one of your long-leg
" ged, black-whiskered town feller
4 in it-fast asleep. | takes him b,
q the beard, rears him up on his end
- and gives him a short sarment--
IA tells him to leave as quick as doubl
IA triggers, or I'll be id if | wouldn
~ kick him down stairs--tells him
a don't want to do it nuther, for | al
. q member of the Legislature--th
Representative from Hamilton-br
ne if ! git to fighting he'd find me
ns be a full team. The fellow locke
n awfully scared, and without sayin
g a word he got up very humble lik'
I'll and started for his dry goods, whic
N hung on chair up in ono corne
at | sot down the light and begun
le undress; and says to him, 'drav
le en- them duds and toddle from her
Dc or I'll be cussed if T. turnin
" around at the same time to loo
g. fierce at him---I sees him a-comil
8; at me with one Of the drottc,le,
70 butcher knives in the world.
~ "Well, thought |, Nat, you've q
- yourself in close place, by JingC
~ and SO we begun to Timber aroun
~ the room like the very natio
Here went and here he come. A
y last l got between him and the doc
!" and out ] shot. .@a @
of @This beats all hell, said ], a Re
IL resentative to the Legislature treat,
bo in this way. | went down stat
and told the fellows behind Il
counter that some cuss was in h
1t, room.
~ "'No, guess not said he; pc
~ haps there is some mistake--yo
ae room is number eight
aThinks I, perhaps there may
~ some mistake; and 50 I goes bac
~ When / got up to the top Of t
stairs ! began to count at the fl
- door, and on till had counted eigl
/ found that they al looked ],
! exactly alike. | opened the cigt
- door and went in, feeling certi
- thatit was picked ont for ME.
candle was burning on the table,
Y the light Of which ! saw that sol
, person was in the bed. Not feeli
~ inclined to kick mp another fuss
'n' concluded to crawl in with him a
say nothing about it. In a Y,
short time / was in beda and ready