The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-04-21
ON [ found a carefully rolled bun

newspaper. On opening the old news
paper l found what | expected to find
from tie first, to wit; land warrant for
| $50 acres Of Government land
1t is almost useless to attempt to de-
scribe the extravagant joy Of the Yankee.
The moment be saw the land warrant
was safe and sound, he gave perfect
howl of delight, and snatching it from
my fingers, ne pressed it TO his bosom
as he might have done Sarer Ann had
| she been present, and with tremendous
strides commenced pacing back and forth
across the room. 1t seemed impossible
| for him to be still for an instant.
"Glory to God" lie cried-"glory to
| the most highest Sarer Ann, all our
saving and scrimping is not in vain
| Go on with your talk plan and kalker-
! late! Take little Jed on yer knee and
sing In the evening when yer go out
| to look towards where the sun is going,
| and think, there | have happy home
| Yeour Pegleg's there; he'll have the
land, and we will be happy yet. The
steers is saved the shoats IS all right
the heifer amt gone in, and old Bar
ney's bound to count Fellers Oh, you
see in your midst a happy head Of q
famerly-you witness a jolly human
| 'If you will excuse my interrupting
you, SIT, and it is a fair question" said
], how did you come to get into this
sorry snap?'
Excuse the question? Sartingly, sir =!
I'll tell ye the hull particklers--a full
account-Jerewsalem what narrer es-
cape that quarter section of land did
hevi''
"Well, but let's have the story
"Yass, sarting, starting! Well, gents,
my name is Peleg Snodgrass, son Of
Deacon Snodgrass, from down in Maine
in the
Never mind that, tell US how you got
so wet?'
Pass, sarting! Well, you see, back
here, about mile beyant the Mock
yernoseoff creek, | wur walking along as
happy as a lark, lookin' about over the
praries and thinking how beautiful the
great All Seeing had made the world,
and what wonderful taters this sile would
raise, when [ seen a big drove of cattle
Just one side. [ wur admirlng heow fat
and sleek they wur, and looking at their
good pInts, when an almighty great brln-
die bull jumpt out of the tall grass, and
began to shake his alfred big curly
head, and heller, and switch his tail, and
paw the ground oyer his back. [ con
Guided it were best to let on Ike as L
wern't afraid. and so | began to whistle,
Rake her down, Sal, and other tunes,
thinking as heow | would slip past the
blarsted cuss; but jist as | got Upper
site, he gin snort and began to walk
towards me, stopping onct IN while
to fetch rake in the siie with his fore
feet. | put in few quick steps abeout
then, bat was afeared TO run, coz L
knowd if [ did he would feel encourag
ed.
Putty soon he began to come on a
trot, aud then | let out on canter.-
then he riz to lope, and seem twere
no use in watin' for him to quit. [ jest
loOs aned these ere legs of mine, and come
down TO my best time. | looked about
for somthin' to c!imb-but thar | was on
that cusSed prairie, and not a pea stick to
be seen higher a mile ahead. Heow
I dix want to stop right thar, and cuss
them blarsted perrarys. / gin glance
over my shoulders, and | seen TIE ever
lasting cuss, with his nose down and his
tail up, comm Jest on the dead lay
deown, and l let my legs count out an
other notch.
The chase went nip and tuck till I got
near the creek, when | saw that the
bull was only about hundred yards be-
hind me. Lord Jehossyfatl but l felt
gueerish when | wos sartin he was gain
ing; it gave me such skeer that my
heart seemed to dissolve into dish water,
and my legs kinder lost their feeling so
that | couldn't run. But [ could see a
hull lot of trees ahead little ways, and
if | could hold On five minutes would
be to them. [ looked back, and by the
suffering Nose eff the bull warn t with
in twenty feet Of me, his eyes AL green
and his n0strils looked ike [ mite put
my head in them, and as red as bolt OF
new flannel! | got almost to the creek,
when [ found the timber wur on the op-
posite side of the creek from me, and the
| bull so clost | could almost feel his breath
on my cheek. [ thought of my tarmerly
| In that orful time SEE [. Farewell. lit
tie Jed, and you, Sarer Ann, my gentle
companion - Just at this instant | saw
stump right on the bank Of the creek,
and made a spring for it, expecting to
get on the top Of it, but it happened to
be holler, and [ landed inside. jist had
room to squeeze deown in it and git
my head below the top, and not darn
bit to soon wur | IN, for as my top-knot
went deown, Mr. Bull head cum up
whack agin the stump, till everything
fairly iingled.
You better believe I felt thankful I
wur housed at last; and the old cuss Of
bull, wasn't he disappointed? Lord,
heow be did rave round that old stump,
switch his tail, paw the sile, and heller !!
| pceped up at him jist to sec how he
was getting on, but | kalkerlate peeped
down acin orfUl STUDENT for | hadn' t
more than got up my head till his horns
come straddle or it, and his skull hit the
stump like maui. This little incident
convinced me that the best thing could
do was, in the langwidge of Squire
Wheeler, to lay low, watch the ducks,
and chaw poker-root. just as L made
up my mind not to put up my head again,
| felt the otfulest pain take me In the leg
| ever seen, and at the sane time some
thing commenced to whiz, whiz, down IN
the bottom OF the stump. | tried to look
down to see what on airth it could be,
but the holler was so narrer couldn't get
a chance to look, and ell at once 1t pop
ped into my head that there was rattle
snake in the stump. When [ thought
of that made an orful plunge to get out
of the horrid den; but the cussed bull
warnt more than six feet off, and the
minute he seed my head he cum at me
full tilt. The fust | knowed | had dodg
cd back into the stump agiu and had not
more than touched atore | felt another
orlul keen bite in my leg. Imade rush
to get out agin, but the cussed, Internal
bull drove at me, and [ was obleeged to
pop back again, As Isqueezed down in
ter that old stump agin, would have bet
barrel of rum that Sarer Ann would be
a widder in less than ten hours.
Il tried to cipher out which would be
the most becoming for christian, to be