American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-03-06
Sat Lovengood's Daddy acting Horse.

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thousand more
;at Lovengood's Daddy acting Horse.
Well, one mite, dad he lay awake
Ill mite, a snorin, an a rollin', an a
to nam, an next morniD'
SEES he:
"Sut, I'll tell you what we'll do
I'll be boss myself, an pull the
plow, while you drive me, an Well
brake up corn ground, an then the
old quilt CHATS mam) an the brats
kin plant it or let it alone, jist as
they d-n please"
So out we went to the paw-paw
thicket, and peeled right smart
chance of bark, an mann an me
made geers for dad, an they become
him nightly; then he would have
a bride, so | gifts an old umbrella
what l found-it's little torked
piece of iron, sorter like unto a
pitchfork, you know-an' we bent
an twisted it sOrter unto a bride
bit, small shape, dad wanted it
curb. as he sed he hadn't worked
for some time, an might sorter feel
his oats, and go to cavortin.) Well,
when we got the Oridle all fixed on
dad, he champed the bit jest like
rale boss, Che always was a most
complicated burned old fool, eny
how, an nam alters sed so, when he
wasn't about,) then l put on the
geers, an dad an me goes to the
field, l a leadin' dad by the bride,
an totin' the gopher pillow on my
back. When we come to the fepce,
1 let down gap an made dad mad;
he wanted to jump the fence on his
all tours, boss way. 1 hitched him
into the gopher, an away we went,
dad leanin forward to his pullin,',
right peart, and we made sharp
plOwin', dad right over the bushes
and sprouts, same as a rale boss,
the only difference he went on two
legs Presently we come to a sassa-
frac patch, an dad, to keep up his
karacter as a boss, bulged square
into it, an tore down a hornets nest
nigh unto as big as hoss's head,
an all the tribe kivered him right
strate.
He rared, kicked once or twice,
and fetched a squeel WIS nor ara
boss in the district, and sot in run
MIN away jest as natural as ever you
seed. let go the lines, an hOllered
Woa, dad, woa! but you mout as
well sed woa to locomotive. Gee
wilkins how he run. When he
come to a bush, he'd clear the top Of
it, gopher an all praps he thort
there mout be another settlement of
bald hornets in it, an that it war
safer to go over than thrue, an
quicker done. Every now an then
he'd paw one side of his head with
fust one fore leg an then t'other,
then he'd gin hisself an openhanded
slap, that sounded like wagon.
whip, an a runnin' all the time, an
karrien that gopher about as fast
an high from the yearth as ever a
gopher was carried, swar. When
he come to the fence, he busted rite
thrue it, taring nigh intel seven
panels, scatterin' an breakln' the
rails mitlly, and here he lift the
gopher, geers, singletree and klivis
all mixed up, not worth durn
, Most of his shirt stuck on the spin
tered end of broken rale, an nigt
,, unto a pint of hornets staid with the
shirt, a stingin' it all over; the bal
ance on 'em, about gallon and {
half, kept on With dad. He set ou
jist as fast as a hornet could fly, fol
it war the tightest race l ever die
+ see, down through the sedge gras.
they all went, the hornets maxim i
, look sOrter like a smoke all arOunt
l dads bald head, an he with nothin
| on but the bride, an nigh unto 4:
yard yard of pillow line sailing be
t hind him.
= l seed now that he was amin flu
e the swimmin' hole in the creek, wha
d the bluff is over twenty-five feet per
i pendicular to the water, and HIT
k nigh OH to twenty feet deep. II
keep up his karacter as boss. whel
- he got to the bluff, he jist leaped of
or rather he jist kept on runnin'
Kerslung into the creek he went;
= seed the water fly plum above thu
' bluff, from whar l was. Now, rit
thar, boys, he overdone the thing, i
that was what he was arter, TO
e there's nary boss ,er foaled foo
enough to leap over secll place
cussed mule mOut have done it, bu
dad warn't actin mule.
J. crept up to the edge an looked
, over; thar was ole baldhead, for al
the yearth like a peeled onion, bob
bin up an down, an the hornet
sailin' around, turkey buzzard fash
ion, and every once in a while one
e and sometimes ten, would make ;
" dip at dads head. He kept up ;
e rite peart dodgin' under; sumtime
: they'd hit him, and sumtimes arteT
+ an the water was kivered will
drowned hornets. What on yeartl
d are We doin' thar, dadP sez /. Dom
a (dip) you see these internal varmint
(dip) arter meP Why seq ], then
is boss flies thar -ye amt reall,
afeard of 'em, are YEP sHoss- flies
:, hip sez dad, they're rale idip
:, genuine bald hornets, You [dip] in
fernal cuss!' well, dad, you'll
have to stay thar till mite, and arte
they go to rOOst, you come home, an
8 I'll feed you. l sorter think We won
need any curryin' for week or so.
e wish may never see to morrow
=. dip] if don't ruinate you, when
n git OUT SEE dad. Better say yo,
wish you may never see anothe
; hald hornet, if you ever play hos
y agin,' SEE l. And KNOWN dads un
modified nature. | broke from then
parts and sorter come to the coppe
e mines. sad hid Gu IT'LL the mex
i afternoon, when seed Teller trav
e lin an SEE l, what was goin' on a
the kabin this side of the kreek wheI
you past itf why, nuthin' much
only man was setting in the door
with nara shirt OH, and a woman
was greasing his back and arms, an
his he'd was about as big as a tel