Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-11-05
Anlmuruns department.
HOW MIKE RODE THE BULL.

Aatutai StaLe, Ou DedCOn omltn Taurus.
We defy cynic, in fashionable trowsers,
to read it and not bursta button or two off the
places to which suspenders are hitched. 1t is
simply enormous"
Mike took notion to 90 in swimming,
and he had just got his clothes of, when he
saw Deacon Smiths bull making at him.
The bull was a 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 Westinghouse,
which was at the time filled with worshippers,
among whom was the "gal Mike was paying
devotion to- So he lodged the bull as the
animal came at him, and managed to catch
him by the tail.
He was dragged around till 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.
$50 looking at the matter in all of its bear
ings, I cum to the conclusion that I'd bet
ter let some one know whar I was. So gin
yell louder than a locomotive whistle, and
it want long before I seed the Deacon's two
which could get ther fust.
81 knowed who they war arter-they'd jim
the bull agin' me- &c. sez I, old brindle, as
ridin' is as cheap as wakin' on this route, if
you have no objections, I'll just take deck
passage on that ar back O yourn.' So I
warn't very long getting astride of him.
"Then, if you'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 6eld-one dog on one side,
and one on the other, trying to clinch my feet
II prayed and cussed, until couldn't tell
which did at last-and neither warn't of no
use, they were so orfully mixed up
"Well, recon ! rid about half an hour
this way, when old brindle thought it war
time to stop to take in a supply of wind and
cool off little. So when we got round to a
tree that stood thar, he mutually halted, so sez
/, boy, you'll loose one passenger sartin. So
jist clum up branch kalkalating to roost
till | starved, afore I'd be rid round that ar
way any longer.
81 war making tracks for the top of the
tree, when heard suthin' a maxim all orful
buzzin' overhead. l kinder looked, and if
thar wasn't-well, thar's no use in swearin-
but it 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 me then that stood
heap better chance a ridin' the bull than
whar was. Sez I, old feller, If you'll hold
on, I'll ride to the next station, anyhow, let
that be whar it will.
$50 jist dropped about him agin, and
looked aloft to see what l had gained by
changin' quarters, and, gentlemen, I am
liar, if thar warn't nigh half bushel of the
stingin' varmints ready to pitch into me when
the word go was gin.
"Well, recon they got it, for all hands
started for our company. Some of 'em hit the
dogs-about quart struck me, and the rest
charged on brindle.
"This time the dogs led off fust, dead bent
for the old Deacon's, and as soon as old
brndle and could get under way, we fol-
lowed, and as was only deck passenger, |
had nothin to do with steern' the craft if had,
we shouldn't have run that channel anyhow.
"But, as said before, the dogs took the
lead-brindle and next, and the hornets
Directly arter. The dogs yellin'- brindle hol
lerin', and hornets buzzn' and stingin'.
"Well, we had got about two hundred yards
from the house, and the Deacon heard US and
come out. l seed him hold up his hand and
turn white. l reckon he was prayin' then,
for he didn't expect to be called for so soon,
and it warn't long neither afore the whole
congregation-men, women and children
cum out, and then all hands went to yellin'.
"None of them had the fust notion that
brindle and belonged to this world. I jist
turned my head and passed the whole congre-
CATION. seed the run would be up soon, for
brindle couldn't turn an inch from fence
that stood dead ahead.
"Well we reached that fence, and I went
ashore, over the critters head, landing on
the other side, and lay thar stunned.
ut warn't long afore some Of them as was
not scared, cum runnin' to see whar
war; forall hands kalkerlated that the bull
and l belonged together But when brindle
walked off by himself, they seed how it war,
and one of 'em said
"Mike Finck has got the scummage once
in his lifen"
"Gentlemen, from that day I dropped the
counting bizness, and never spoke to a gal
SINCE and when my hunt is up upon this
yearth, thar won't be any Fincks, and it is all
ownin' to Deacon Smiths brindle bull.'
MIsTooK THE ARrIcLE.-A young lady
stepped into one of the street cars the other
day, and dropped her handkerchief upon a
vacant seat, as much as to say, eta ken" while
she advanced to the other end of the car to
deposit her fare Meantime nicely dressed
young man jumped in and sat down on the
handkerchief without observingit.
The young lady, after paying her fare,
turned back, discovered to her chagrin her
seat was occupied, and sat down opposite, the
ladies making room for her. But she did not
desire to lose her handkerchief, so she look
ed intently toward the place where she had
left it, hesitating whether to ask for it or not.
Discovering the direction of her looks, all eyes
on the opposite side of the car were soon bent
upon the young man. Finding himselfthe OBJ
iect of so much attention, he himself looked
and discovered to his horror something white
on which he sat, the end peeping out. He
mstook its character. To cover it with his
hand, and to tuck it nicely away was the
work of q few moments.
None in the car but the young lady knew
that the something white" was a handker-
chief and hesitating still more to ask him, she
lost it.
An ADRoIr ANswER-A we'll known
clergyman made visit to we'll known bank
er and asked to see him in a private room.
Il have come to YOU he said, with mes
sage from dear Jesus. l am in financial trou-
BILE, and I have been looking round for some
body to help me out. went to dear Jesus
,ho