Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-05-26

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look at the tempter an she were
mighty lovin tu me, put one arm
around my neck and luther one
whar the circingle goes round a
hoss, tuck the inturn on me with
her lett fut an gin me kiss. Says
she: "Sutty, love, I've got some
thin fur ye, new sensation
| believed it, fur / begun to feel it
ALREADY. My toes felt like little
minners were a nibblin at em-a
cold streak runnin up and down
my back like a lizard with a hen
turkey arter him in setin time, my
heart felt hot and dissatisfied like,
and then I'd shot old Soul eff she
had limited a needsisity for such
an operashun.
"Then she poured ten or twelve
blue papers ov the sOdy inter a
big tumbler, and about the same
number of white ones inter luther
tumbler, an put nigh onto a
pint ov water on both ov them,
and stirred EN- up with a case
knife, lookin as solemn as an cid
jackass, in snow-storm, when
the fodder is all gin out. She hilt
one while she told me to drink
luther. / swallowed it at one
run--tasted salty like, / thot it
were part Of the sensashun. But l
wur mistaken, all Nv the cussed
sensashun wur tn come, and it
wornt long at it, boss; you'd bet
ter believe me. Then she gin me
luther tumbler, an / sent it arter
the last, race hosS fashion.
''In about one moment an q
half | thot ] had swallowed a
thrashin machine infull blast ur
couple of bull dogs, and they had
sot to fitin. l seen that l wur
cotched agin-same family dis
persition to make cussed fools of
themselves every chance--so l
broke for my hogs. I stole look
back, and thar lay Sicily On her
back in the porch screamin with
latin, her heels up the air a kick
in ov them together like she were
a tryiu to kick her slippers Off.
But | had no time tn look then,
and thar war a road of foam from
the house to the hoss two feet
wide and four inches deep-looked
like it had been asnowin--poppin,
an hissin, an bilin like a tub of
hot soap suds. | bad gathered q
cherry-tree limb as / ran, an lit
astraddle ov my boss, a whippin
an kickin like mad. This, with
the skeery noises l made 6or /
wur whislin, an a hissin, an
sputterin outer mouth, nose and
eyes, a like steam engine) sot him
rarin an cavortin like he was out
of his senses. Well, he went
The foam rolled and the old black
hoss flew. He jist mizzled-
skeered nj tn death, an so wur /.
So we agreed on the pint OF the
greatest distance in the smallest
time.
Il aimed fur Doctur Goodman's
at the Hiwassee Copper Mines, tu|
git somethin to stop the explo-I
sion in my inards. / met a SER
cult rider on his travis towards
a friendly chicken an hat full of
ball biskets. As | cum a tarinI
along he hilt up his hand like he
wanted to pray for me, but as l
preferred physic tn prayer, in my
pecooliar situwashun, at that time
/ jest rolled along. He tuck as
keer as I cum on tn him, his faith
gin out, and he lodged hoss, sad
dulbags and overcoat into a thick
ct, jest like you've seed a turkilI
take water often a log when tar
in big steam boat Gums along
AS he passed ole man Burnes, Sic
lily hailed him, an ax'd him eff
he'd met anybody gwine in a hur-
ry up the road. The poor man
thot perhaps he did and perhaps
he didn't, but he'd seed a site Nv a
ghost Nv ole Belzebub himself, ur
the comit, he didn't adzactly
know which, but taking all things
together. an the short time he'd