The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-09-15
TTFFINa TRIBUNE.
=@. 751-79aI I've, Sept. 18th, fs5O.
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BYHAEK TWAIN.

Ihroez- bv the sympathetie gov
- ~, IA head-1 knew by the
tiN--1.sS.'i ~ ~ upon his face-I knew
80 fional flush upon the straw
- - ~ Tue end Of the old free liyer's
- f5at Simon Wbeeler's memory
- busy with the olden time. And
81 prepared 70 leave, beeause all
fhese were symptomsofa q reminiseence
signs that he was going TOO hedeliv-
cred Of another Of his tiresOme per-
sonal experiences-but am TO slow !:
he got the start Of me. As nearly as
I can recOIlect the iufiiction was
coUched In the following language:
we were al boys then, and didn't
care for nothing, and didn't have no
trouble, and didn't worry about moth
ing only to shirk school and keep up
q revfvini state Of deVilment all the
time This-yah Jim Wolf / was talk
ing about was the prentice, and the
best hearted feller, be was, and the
most forgivin' and Onselfish I ever
see-weil there couldn't be more
buiiier boy than he was, take him
how you would, and sorry enough
was when sce him for the last time.
BE aud Henry was always pesteE-
ing him and plRstering horse bills on
his back and putting humble bees in
his bed, and 50 on, and sometimes
we'd crowd In and bunk with him.
Notwithstanding his growing, and then
we'd let on 70 Cot mad and fight
across him, so Is 30 keep him stirred
up like he was nineteen, he was,
and long. and lank, and bashful, and
We was fifteen and sixteen, and toler-
ably lazy and wuthiess.
HSG, that night, you know, that my
sister Mary gave a candy-Dullin'f :
they started US Oft TO bed early 50 a.
the company could have fun swing
and run in on Jim to have some fun.
"0ar windcr looked out into the
roof Of the ell, and about ten O'clock
a couple Of old tom-cats got 10 rarin'
chargfn' around it and carryini on
Ike sin. There was four inches Of
snow on the roof, and Il was frozen
50 that there was q right smart crust
Of ice on IL, ard the moon was shin
ing bright, and we could see them
cats ike daylight. Fis they'd stand
on and OW-yow-yOw, just the same
as II they was q cussin' one smother,
you know, and bow up their backs
and push up their tails and swell
aAOAAA AAAA Li4EA AAl flL huuQEAA
the grey cat he'd snatch a handful Of
fur out Of the yeller cats ham, and
spin him round like the button on the
barn door. But the yailer cat was
game, and he'd come and clinch, and
the was they'd gOuge, and bite howl
and the way they'd make the fur fly,
was powerful.
well Jim be got disgusted with
the row, aud lowed he'd climb out
there and shake 'em of O'that roof
he hadn't really no notion Of doin'
It, likely, but we eYerlastin;ly dOgged
him, and bully-ragged him, and low
ed he always Dragged, he wouldn't
take dare, and so on, till finely he
highsted up the winder, and loand be
bold you, he went-Went exactlyas he
Was-nOthin but shirt, and Il was
short, but you ought to a seen him.
You ought TO q seen him cre-e-pini
over that ice, and diggin' his toe-nails
and hnger-nails into keep from slip
PIN and hove all, you ought to seen
that shirt tail hoppin' in the wind,
and them long ridiculous shanks OF
his giisteninl in the moonlight.
Then company folks was down
there. under the caves, the whole
squad Of 'em under that OTnery shed
0fold Washing Bower vines-aII set
tim round about two dozen sassers oi
hot candy, which they'd sot in the
snow to cool. And they IaughinJ and
talkin' lively; but bless you they
didn't know nothing about the panOr-
anna that was goin' on over their
heads. Well Jim, he went a snea-
kin up, unbeknOwns to them tom
csts-they was a swishin' their tails
and yow-yow-in' and threatenin' TO
elinch, you know, and not pAyin'
any attention--he went sneaken'
right up TO the comb the roof, till
he was in a foOt'n a hslf Of iem
and then al Of a sudden he made a
grab for the yalIer cati But by gosh
be missed fire and slipped his holt
and his heels flew up and ne fOpped
on his back, and shot Of5n that roof
like q dart!-went q slashini and a
erashin' down through them cid rus ty
vines and landed right in the dead
center Of them cOmp'ny people t-sot
down Ike yearth quake in them two
dozen sessers of red-lsOt candy, and
let of q howl that was bark I'm the
tombl Them gals-weIl. they looked,
you know. They see he WASN'T dress
ed for eompanY. and so they left. All
done y 9 aseecnd, it was just one little
war wh5Dp and a whish of their
dresses, and blame the ryFonch of 'em
was n slgh 3y5Ehere
Jim, lfe was q fright. He was
gormed with that bin hot molasses
candy ciaAn down e i.is heels, and
had more busted sassers hangin' to
him tasnif hewas al injun princess
and be comes q 7ranein' up stairs
Just fwhoopin' and cussin', and
every sqhirn he fetched he dropped
some aandy 90
And blispered Why, bless your
soul that pore cretuf could't RELY set
down Comfortable fof IS much as four
weeks"