The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-05-09
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Agril 2lsh. 1914 !


NFAA Hs"f efH
Ma. EpffEas
bid you ever gis lost To
the swamps ofaraay day7 " yon ID
ent you can't have emmy idee Of what
bad Gr II puts feIicr, In. You no
wceve had oue Of the bizess freshcs
| ever made in aii these parts before.
Tho Oldest maa In the settlement
never seed emmy thing that was o
prir n TO It, nm to dan a powerful
sight Of damage a washin away fences
an a drownin of stock an the like, an
blame my buttons If ] dident think
the gig wus up with this fellersi'iaen
once.
You see. Luke Jinks hces the picter
of bad luck emmy how. an he always
makes me think Of mutherlis caf IN
the spring of the year; heo cum over
to my house fur me to go with him IN
the swamps to git out our stock, seem
thar wus gwine to be an overflow an
he lowd the deer an turkeys wood DC
hunain the hi RIGGS TO get out OF the
water an weed have fun, so we took
our guns.
Well we started after dinner an got
way down in the swamp an 1t bein
clowdy an ranin an the swamps bein
putty thick we got lost an after walk
in round fur long tilneI ses to Luke
amt You lost? lost ses he, why l no
every part of this swamp well ses |
YOU take the lead an strike out fur
hi land fur Ime fur gettin out OF this
place.
Well Luke he struck out, but ! no.
ticed gum tree an a big rosin log, SO
after begin about fur sumtime we cum
back to the same tree an log, an
blamed if we dident cum back to that
: tree five times, so | ses to Luke, lne
gwine to take command of this squad
now, an you may take good look at
, that tree an log fur its the last time
youl ever see if, fur Ime gwine out OF
this swamp now.
Now seed the reason that Luke
cum back to the tree every time, he
wus trying to keep out Of the thlcket,
SO | struck out, an after travlin sum
time in the worst thicket that ever |
seed, blame my buttons if we dident
cum back to the same tree, well sir, 1
started frum that tree three times In
n different direction every time, an
, totch up at the tree every time, an the
. last time it wus a gitin dark SO we
con cluded to stop thar till mornin SO
we sot down at the root OF the tree
an of all the ranes that ever | seed,
that was the drowndinest an thar
: haint never bin as dark nite sence
the mite that the Hebrew children run
, away frum Potaiers plantation, an we
sot thar q long time an then we could
feel the water cumin up under us an
n we seed weed either have to cline q {
D tree or take water, so up the tree wt
went, an the water Kept risin, an VIZ
I could hear the varments q splashir
7 round in the water an a climin W
a our tree, an when the water begun tt
!: git pretty deep we heard o graf
a splashin in the water an once or twls
Q We could see by the litenin a biz
It black anemil of sum sort, an Luke see
o it was a bare an lowed heed tackle U
n before mornin.
% Well after weed sot thar iu tina
!, tree. it seemed to me about a week
a we seed day cumin. an when it 60
lite enough foi US to see, the tree a
If the log wus kiyered with varmcnts {
= all kinds, panthers, wild cats, coon
.. possums, minks and squirrils, an the
h wus all maxim a nois but the POI
be sums, an they wus lookin wise lii
a a fellsr at political meetin that d
,;r ent no what to say. Think they W
a hcldin of convention Of some So
of an the thing We thought wus a ba
a wus one Of Lukes work steers o
Q Brandy.
nd We sot thar a long time talkin ov
r. our chances to get ont of the soap
nd an first thing We node, big mccas
ng snake cum crawlin down the lin,