The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-05-18

when sumbuddy says LET take suth-
in"
mounted her, however, and struck
out at the he'd Nv the company. | he'd
on Confederit saber, and notwith-
standin the fact that [ he'd to hold on
to the name of the warlike steed with
one hand, to keep on, L managed to
rid out with a tollable marshel air
pride goeth before a fall" We he'd
ridden four miles when I observed a
restlessnes on the part of my steed wlch
I didn't like. She wuz a histin up her
hind legs and snortin as though she was
possessed. At this mint Isaker Ga7itt
suggested the propriety of halt for re-
freshments.
"Certin," seq I, ''ef [ kin ever git
this cussed mare to stand still long enuf
Whoa, you broot y
he'd list got my bottle out and he'd
got it uncorked, when that Infatuated
animal commenst series Nv gyrashuns
sech as the world never witnessed afore.
She would elevate her hind legs, then
paw the air with her fore legs-then try
to lay down, and all this with runnin
accompaniment Nv the most feendish
snortin. [ wuz compelled to relinguish
my holt on the bridal, and seeze her
name to hold myself on, but she kicked
more than ever.
Here wuz a dilemma'l I coodent
hold on by gripping the name with one
hand any longer and my spare hand
wuz employed in holdin the bottle! |
coodent cork the bottle and put it in my
pocket, for in the melee | he'd lost the
cork, and to put in my pocket uncorked
wuz to loose all its preshus contents.
Eff I held to the bottle [ should be
throwd-ef staid on the infooriated an
imaPs back, I'd loose my Gkker. The
boss decided the matter for me. Takin
the bit in her mouth she startid down
the road on the keenest kind Nv run.
She made mile in about minutes,
leavin my command far in the rear.
Another mile-yet another, sped that
frantic animal, | holdin onto her name
with one hand, and the bottle with the
other. She wuz already in the enemy S
country. Rite ahead Nv me wuz Gar
retstown. and [ Good see the niggers al
reddy in the streets a watchin the strang
apparition that wux commin. Into the
village Irode, when the vishus b~oot turned
a corner suddenly, singing me from his
back ez boy throws stun. Over and
over [ went, landin finally in a ditch
aside Of the road, where lay clutchin
my bottle but unconscious.
There wuz about thirty or forty mig
gers about me, and | wuz lyin in front
Nv the town pump, and immejitly under
the spout thereof. One gray headed
niger, VINO breaches to the rest Nv EN-
remarkt:
''Bredrin, dis yer misguided man is
one OBJ dem disturbin Klu-Kluxes. Wat
shell we do wild him ?
Hang him hang him. SHOUTED they
all in korus.
mercy mercy - I shrcekt in agony
[ amt no Ku-klux u
Don go fur to add lies to yoor odder
sins" sed the old man; ''ef 700 amt no
Ku-klux, wat does 700 wear dat yooni-
form fur? Why dis sword and pistols p
There wuz brief consultashen NV the
elder ones while the young niggers wuz
riggin rope to tree, Laying the while.
shiverin with an ague ct NY fear.
''Hang him !" shouted one,
BURN him - shouted another
''Bredrin, sed the old man, ''dem
punishments is too lite. I'll sarve him
out. Put him under the spout" sed
the hory-headed wretch, and-pump Wig
gerous -
How long that cussid stream wuz
poured onto me [ know not, for [ waz in
state Nv semi-unconshusnis all the time.
When they had amoozed themselves suf
fishently in that way, the white headed
old villain Che ought to hev been cheei
torturer in Spanish Inquisishen) took z
quart cup, and film it with water, sed,
without relaxin a single mussle up his
stern face, Drink it p
MAN mani | shrieked in agony,
hev 700 no mercy Hev 700 no bowels
Nv compashin !! Do 700 know wat you
require Nv me? Take me and hang me
and be done with it. 1 never did
cannot"
But wild with laughter those GRIMM
feends seezed me, and holdin open my
jaws pored full quart Nv that food
down me, and, peltin me for fifteen minits
with mud and SIGH things, left me.
don't know how [ got home-I only
know that [ wuz picked up at the door
Nv Bascom S delirious that | wuz put
to bed with infamamashen Nv the bow
els, and that my life was dispaired w for
two weeks. [ did not lack for attendance.
l owe every man in the Corners. and
they watched me with tender solissitood.
The only gratifcashen [ he'd wuz to know
that after my horse run away with me,
the rest Nv the party made it lively for
the niggers and carpet baggers on the
other road. They whipped twelve Nv
them, shot two who resisted, and burnt
three houses and four barns.
l have written out statement Nv the
outrages inflicted onto me and sent it to
Washington. But hev no idee it will
effect anything. I don't suppose that
when that butcher Grant reads it that he
will admit that we hey to deal with dan