Wilmington journal., 1875-08-20

I | outfit and nave little flirting, that
her little love scenes with him Were
in Jest, and thanking him very much
} for his work for her at the office. HC
IS past consalation, and his formcl
Intended had TO be taken away. beinp
attacked with brain fever. Sho the
cause of it all, is on her wav to the
Crescent City to marry this rich mer-
chant. who, during the late war, lost
an arm an eye, which is to be Grieyed
at for it will require a man with argus
eyes to watch this woman. He des5r-
| we'd all he received.
Sus LOvcngOOd's Daddy Acting
Horse.
"Hold that ere boss down to the
yearth. he's spreading his tail to fly
now. Keep him whar he is. We, wO,
Shavetail. He's dancing jig,
These, and like expressions, were
addressed to queer looking, long
legged, short-bodied, r,hite-haired.
dog eyed, funny sort of genius, fresh
from some bench-.agged jews clothing
store, mounted on ''Tearpokc, n
nicked-tailed, bow-neckcd, long, Door
horse, half dandy, half devil, aud en-
veloped all over in perfect network Of
bride reins, cruppers, martingales
straps. circingles, and ferrettiug, vino
had reined up i'll front of Pat Nash 5
grocery, among crowd of mountain
GERS, full of fight and mean whisky.
81 say, you darned ash cat, Just keep
your shirt Oh, Will you? You have
| never seen a raIe horse till ! ride az;
Tearpolk is jist next to the best ho7s
that ever shelIed mubbins, al, lie
dead as a still worm, poor old Ilcily
tail
"What killed him, Sut?" says an
| anxious inquirer.
"Why, nothing, you 'arpal fool; he
Just diedso, died stan.timg2ip a l'iat.
! Warnt that good luck? F'roze sti.I; 10.
| not that adzactly, but starved fuE5, a.d
| then froze afterwards, SO stiff tha5
( when dad and me pushed hiu over, he
| jist stuck out SO (spreadjuG ms arms
! and legs,) like Il carpenters b2uuA.
| and we waited seventeen days foT .lin
| to tlaw afore we could skin 'erU. Wei,
| there he was; dad an me, counting
| on his fingers) dad, an me an Sab an
| Jake, (Fool Jake, as we call him Ior
| short) an Jannass an phineas an me,
| an Calline Jane, an SharIOtie Ana,
| an Simeon, Sam an Noah Dan Web
ser, an me, an the twin gals, an
| Catharine Second, an C,eapatry An
| tony, an Jane Lin, and Tom Bullion,
! an the baby, and the prospect au
| mann herself, all LETT without ara hoss
| to crap with. There was a nice me s
| for spectacle white family to be
| o slashing about in, warn't It? ! be
| darned if l did not feel ike eor}cr
| stealing hoss sometimes. Well, we
waited and rested, ontiI nearly straw
berry time, hoping that some stray
hoss mout come along, but dog my ca
| eff eny sIlcn luck as that ever Gums
| whar dad is, he's SO drafted mean and
| lazy, an ugly an savage.
"Well, one mite, dad lie awake "N
| mite q snorting' an rollin all =
| scratchin, an blOwin' and Il whisper
| ing to mann, an next morning, seq ne,
Sut, I'll tell you what well do; III
be boss myself and pull the plow,
| while you drive me an then the old
quilt CHATS mann an the brats kl1
plant, or let it alone, jist as they please
So ont We went to the pawpaw thIcket
and pealed q rite smart chance of bark,
an mann and me made gears for DAD,
an they becum him mitiiy; then he
would have bridal, SO ] TUX an old
umbreller what [ had found, an i lit
| tie forked piece of iron, soIier like
onto a pitchfork, ye know, and We
| bent and twisted it sOrter INTO q brl-
dal bit, snail shape, dad wanted q
curb, SIS he said he hadn't worked for
some time, and mite sorter feel his
oats, and go to cavoTtin). Wen, when
we got the bridal fixed on dad, he
ctlomped and bit iist ike q hoss, iLe
alters was komplicated darned iool
eny now, an man alters said SO whom
he wasn't about then I put on tic
geers, an out me an dad goes to the
field, leading dad by the bridal. an
toatin' the gopher plow on my Dac1.
When we got to the fence ! let down
the gap an it made dad mad; Ie w.-..--
ed to leap the fence on all f0GEs, hosS
WAYS. I hitched him to the gopher
and away we went, Cad leaning t0r-
ward to his pulling rite pe1rt, and We
made sharp plowln', dad goin' over
!.the sprouts and bushes same As rala
hoss, the only difference vas hc
went on two legs. Present. )
we cum to a sassafraSs bush, ard {
keep up his character as ahOss, bUi8et
square intu it, and thru it, and tort
down hornet nest nigh as big as {
hoss's head, an all the tribe kiveEcl
him rite strait. He reared and klcllcI
once or twice andfotched squeaI VIZ
nor ara hoss in the district, au' sOt i
runnin' away jist rs natural as eve
YOU seed. l let go The lines an hOller
ed, woa, dad, woa But you mOugh
as well said woa tc a locomotive
i Oewiiillican! how he run! When n
. come to the bushes he cleared the tOl
of them, gopher all;-perhaps he tho
there mout be another settlement o
, | bold hornets in it. an that 1t YVES safe
to 90 over than thru, and Quicke
done. Every now and then Lo q pay
the sides of his head with fust on
< foreleg then tother; then he i g.
: himself an overhanded slap. that soun
ded like wagon whip, runnIn' al
e the time, and q kerrin that gopher Jl-
: about as fast an as high from III
4 yearth, as tho gopher was ever carried
:. T swear. When be cum to the fence h
:, but rite thru it, tarrin down seven pan
:, uals and scatterin' an breahin' Il
4 rails mitiIy-and here he left the e
|. pher. geers, singietree aad klcy.s 1t
: mixed up. and not worth a darn. No
= of his shirt on the end Of "a rale, al
, nigh a pint of hornets staid with tn
i shirt a stingir it all over, the batanc
r on 'em, about a gallon and EdIl
:, kept with dad. He seemed to III
Y adzactly fast as the hornets could fl
= it was the titest race [ ever see,
q Down thru the sage way they ali wen
e the hornets making it look sortersmok
! all round dads head. and he wit
4 nothin' on yoareh but the brida' ar
is nigh unto a yard of plough lines sal
t. behind.
d s'I seed that he was aimin' for I'll
.e swimin' hole in the creek, whar IL
IT bluff is over % feet perpendicular
\ the water, an hits nj ten feet deel
g. Well. to keep up his karacter rs 10:
k he got to the bluff aud just leaped OF
,r or rather he just kept on ruDnin.
Id | Kersslunge into the creek he went;
D. seed the water fly plum above the blu
a. from whar [ was. Now rite there boz
ar he over did the thing, if that was VIII
le he was arter, fur Tiers nary ho
er ever folded darned fool enough to lol
is over such a place, a cussed mule mo
I'd a doneit, but dad warn't acting mul