The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1874-12-23
HOW MIKE RODE THE BULL.

ride IN the natural .stste 'sen Deacon
Smiths Taurus. tF
We defy cynic, In fashionable trow.
sers, to read 1t aud not burst button OF
two off the place TO which his suspenders
are hitcbed. 1t is simply enormous
Mike took a rsetion 10 20 In swimming
and he had just got his clothes off, when
lie saw Deacon Smiths bull making al
him. The bull was vicious animal, and
had come very near killing two or three
persons, consequently Mike felt rather
'jubus' -.@
He didn't want to call for help, for he
was naked, and the nearest place from
whence assistance could arrive, was the
meeting house, which was at the time
filled with worshipers, among whom was
the gal Mike was paying devotion to. :
So be lodged the bull as the animal came
at him By the tail. w.**....
He was dragged around I'LL he was
nearly dead, and when he thought he
could hold no longer, he made UP his
mind that he had better holler.' And
now we will let him tell his own story.
:" So looking at the matter IN all of its
bearings. / cum TO the conclusion that
I'd better let some one know whar was.
So l gin yell louder than locomotive
whistle, and it wasn't long before seed
the Deacon's two Digs coming down
like as as II they was seeing which could
get thar fust.
i knowed who they war rarter-they'd
jii,e the bull ngin' me. So, sez /, 'old
brindle, as ridin' is as cheap as walkin'
on this route, IL you have no objections,
I'll just take deck passage on that ar
back o. yourll.' So / warn't very long
getting aslri,le of him.
Then, ify1u'd been thar, you'd have
sworn thar war nothing human in that
ar mix, the sile flew SO orfully, as the
critter and / rolled round the field-one
dog on ons side and one on the other,
trying to clinch my feet.
Iprayed aud cusscd, until I couldn't
tell which did last-and neither warn't
Of no use, they were 50 or.ully mixedup'
Well, reckon rid about half an
hour this way, when old brindIe thought
1t war time TO stop and take in fresh
supply of wind and cool ofra little. 20
when wegot roundt to tree that stood
thar. he naturally halted, so seq I, boy,
you'll loose one passenger certain. SO /
Just clum up abranch, kalkalating to
roost till I starved, afore I'd be rid round
that ar way any longer .-..
l war making tracks 70. the top Of the
tree, when heard suthin'a maxim an
orfnl buzzin' overhead. kinder looked,
and II thar wasn't-well, thar's nu use IN
swearn'-but il war the biggest hornets
nest ever bilt. You'll gin in now /
recon. Mike, cause thar's no help for you.
But an idea struck lie then that Istood
a heap better chance ri,iin' the bull than
wharf was. Sec I, old feller, II you'll
hold on, Tllride TO the next station, any
how, LET That be wharit will.
So lust dropped aboard him sgin,
and looked aloft tosee what had gained
by ehangin' quarters, and, gentlemen, if
ain't liar, ifthar warn't night halfa
bushel Of the stingin, varmints ready to
pitch into me when the word go was
gin. ~**
Well, recon they got II, for all
hands started for our company. Some Of
'e;n bit the dogs-atout quart struck me,
and the rest charged on brindle.
This time the dogs led ofrfust, dead
bent for the old Deacon's and as soon rs
old brindle and Icould gee under way,
we followed, and as was only deck
passenger, l had nuthin' TO do with
steerin' the craft; IL had. we shouldn't
have run that channel anyhow.
But, as said before, the dogs took
the lead-bFindle aud next, and the
hornets directly arter. The dogs yeiliI'--
brindle holler.n, and hornets buzzin' and
stingin.'
Well, we had got about two hundred
yards from the house and the Deacon
heard Us aud come out. seed him hold
up his hands aud turn white. recon he
was prayin' then, for he didn't expect TO
be called for 80 soon, aud IL wanit long
neither aforo the whole congregation
men, women and children--cum out, and
then all hands went 70 yellln.'
None pf them had the fust notion that
brindle aud I belonged TO this world I
jist turned my head aud passed the whole
congregation. Iseed the run would be up
soon, for brindie couldn't turn an inch
from fence that stood dead ahead.
Well, We reached that fence. and 1
went ashore, over the critters head, land
lug on tho other side, and lay thar stun
ned.
1t warn't long afore some OF them as
was not scared, cum runnln' 10 see what
war; cor oil hands kalkarlated that the
bnlI and | belonged together. but when
brindlc walked or BY himself. they seed
how u war, ard one Of 'em sail--.