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

inter turtner tumpieS, put nj onto pint OF
water on both of them, and stirred um up
with case knife, lcookin as solemn us an
ole jackass, in snow storm, whom thetod-
der = in out. She hilt one while she told me
drink tother. swallowed it ut one run
-,usted salty like, thought it wur part
OF the scnsashun But l wur mistakeu,
all of the cussed sensation wur tu cum,
aud it warn't long at it, boss, yu'd better
believe me. Then she gin me further
tumbler, an l sent it artsr the last, race
hoss fashion.
ain about one moment and half thot
had swallowed thrashin machine in full
blast ur couple of bull dogs, aud they
had sot tn 6tin. seed that wur cotch
ed "gin-same family dispersition to make
cussed fools of themselves every chance
so ! bro;e for my hoss. stole look
back, and thar lay Sicily on her back in
the porch a screamin with latin, her heels
up in the air kickin ov them together
Ike she were tryin to kick her slippers
off But had not tmo tn look then, and
thar war 4 road of foam from the house to
the hoss two feet wide aud four inches
deep-looked like it had been snowin-
popp,n aud hissin aud bilin like tub of
hot soap suds. had gathered q cherry
tree limb as run, aud lit straddle ov my
hpss, whippin and kickin like mad.
This, vi h the skccry noises l made (fur
l wur whislin, an hissin, an sputier.
in, outer nose mouth and eyes, k a steam
engine sot him rarin and covortin like
he wur out of his senses. Well, he went.
1 he foam rolled and the old black hoss
flew. He j,st mizzled- skcered nj tu
death, al d so wur |. So we agreed on
the pint of the greatest distance in the
smallest time
81 aimed for Doctor Goodman's at the
Hiwa,see Copper Mines, tn git sumthin
to stop the explosion in my inards. met
Il sercuit rider on his travis towards a
friendly chicken an u hat full of bal! b,s-
kits. AS cum a tarin II long he hilt up
his hands like they wanted to pray for me
but as preferred physic tu prayer, in my
| pecooiar situation. ut that time, l jest
rooled along. He tuck askear as | cum
On lu him, his faith gin out, and he dodg.
ed boss, saddlebags and overcoat into the
thlckct, jist like you've seen terkil take
water often log when a tearin big steam
boat Gums along. AS he passed ole man
Burus, Sicily hailed him, an ax'd eff he d
met anboy gwine in a hurry up the road
The poor man thot perhaps he did Nh per
/ hnTs he didn't, but he d seed site, Wv O
| ghost of ole Belzebub himself, ur the cum
1t, he didn't adzackly know which, but
lukin all things tusethcr an the short time
he hal Tor preparation, he thot he met a
long legged quaker 1eein from the ratl
tn KUN, and black and white spotted
hoss whippin ov him with II big brush
an he hat white beard which cum nigh
on tu his eyes III the pummel NV the sad
Ill, aud then forked an welt tn his neese
an the beard sometime drupped tu the
ground in bushes as big as crows nest
an he hern SCUM Ike the rushin ov nifty
waters, an he wur mitIly exercised about
it anyhow. Well, | guess he wur and sc
wur his fat hoss, an old blackcy, wust cx
ercised Nv all Nv them wur |, myself
Now, George, all this beard an spots on
he hoss, an steam an fire, an snow, and
ire tails, was odacious humbug. 1t al
kun outer my inards droopin out Nv my
mouth without any vomitin ur effort; and
eli l hadd't Id busted inter more pieces
than there is aigs in big cat fish. The
Lovengood's is all confounded fools an dad
amt the wust o. en-"