Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26

ployed in holdin' the bottle coodent
cork the bottle, and to put it in my pock
ct uncorked wuz to loose all its preshus
contents. Never wuz | in sich a strate
afore. Eff held to the bottle | shood
be throwed-ef ! stayed on the infoori-
ated animals back I'd loose my likker.
The hoss decided the matter for me.
Takin' the bit in her mouth she started
down the road ON the keenest kind NV a
run. She made mile in about five
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 enc
mics country. Rite ahead of me wuz
Garrettstown, and / Good see the niggers
already in the streets watchin' the strange
apparition that wuz comm Into the
village | rode, when the visbus broot
turned a corner suddenly, slingin' me
from his back ez boy throws stun.
Over and over | went, landin' finally in
ditch aside NV the road, where | lay
clutchin' my bottle, but unconscious.
There wuz about thirty or forty mig
gers about me, and | wuz lyin' in front
of the town pump, and immejtly under
the spout thereof. One gray headed mig
ger who breaches to the rest NV ,em re-
| markt:
Bredrin, dis yer misguided man is
oneob de dsturbin kukluxez. Watsball
we do wild him ~
Hang him hang him" shouted they
all in korus.
Mercy Mercy" sheekt in agony.
90 aint no kuklux. l."
Don't go fur to add lies to your od-
der sins, sed the old man, "ef you amt
no kuklux wat does you wear dat yooni-
form fur? Why dis sword and pistols?"
} There wuz brief consultashun Nv the
elder ones while the young niggers wuz
riggin rope to tree. | layin the while
shiverin with an ague fit NV fear.
Hang him - shouted one
Burn him !" shouted another.
"Bredrin,' said the old man de pun
ishments is too lite I'll starve him out.
Put him under the spout" said the
hoary-headed wretch, "and pump Wig
gerous Y
How long that cussed stream wuz
poured onto me know not, for | wuz in
state of semi-unconchusnis all the time.
When they had amoozed themselves suf-
fishently in that way, the white headed
old villain Che ought to hev been cheef
torturer in Spanish inquisition) took
quart cup and fillin it with water, sed,
without relaxin a single mdssle Nv his
stern face, "Drink it p
Man man !" | shreked in agony,
hev 700 no mercy! Hev yoo no bowels
Nv compashin Do yoo know wot 700
require NV me? Take aud hang me and
be done with it. | will not drink 1t. |
never did 4 cannot"
But wild with laughter those GRIMM
feends seezed me and holden open my
jaws pored full quart nv that fooid
down me, an peltin me for fifteen mnits
with mud and sich things, left me.
don't know how | got home j only
know that was picked up at the door
NV Bascoms S, delirious, that | wuz put to
bed with inflammation NV my bowels, and
that my life wuz despaired NV for two
weeks. Ibid not lack for attendance |
owe every man in the Corners, and they
watched me with tender solissitood. The
only qualification | he'd wuz to know that
after my horse run away with me, the
rest Nv my party made it lively for the
niggers and carpet-baggers on the other
road. They whipped twelve NV EN-, shot
two who resisted, and burnt three houses
and four barns.
| ] hev written out a statement of the
outrage inflicted onto me and sent it to
Washington. But hev no idee that it
will effect anything. Idon't suppose that
when that butcher Grant reads it that he
will admit that we hev to deal with dam
gerous classes, or will take any steps for
protection Nv us, cr givin' me redress.
1t will be jest like him to send a squad of
federal cavalry down here to arrest and
imprison us.
PETROLEUM V. Nasty,
(wich wuz Postmaster.)
p 81 have just learned that that
villin Bigler, aided and abetted by that
other villin Pollock. put a plaster of
Spanish flies under the saddle of the hoss
they give me, which article will make
blister in about twenty minnits! That
akounts for her cavortin-that akounts
for her kickin, snortin and Internal run
min away Bigler called on me and
confessed it. He said, with grin on