The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-03-16
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The folI0ging story appeared in Tx
'rlnIr mai years ago, and thinking It /
90 good 70 be lost I reproduce It faf'
in Jour I columns Yours
ruly, ss3i0 ~ BaIckror, Jk 2 \
= L lssa ssiiie 10 i-iHs go 10 r,pl ,as sa
The first one met {after. crossing |
ne Hiaasse Riyef) was Sui. weaving
long in bis usual rambling and unccr-
ain gait His appeafanee at'once sutis-
led me itliat something was twrongs aHaiI
lad been sicir, whipped ina fiee q sht,orl
vas jnstgoutgsowing one 81 his big |
trunks But ppon this point Is, was a soon soon
s'i9 - 'i''l'a 4
dWhy, sSut, what's wrong now a'sef .
!. .:Hears wrong .dirn lmyi.skiul Of l !
lninJ ~ deds.s Vi bises Oft <ef. taataere
loss,, George, an take a horn while !
AXE two, (shaking that everlasting flask
1T me, an plant yerself On that ere log.
In I'll tell We 7ef I kin: but it'samost be-i
yond teilin'. '.an Iirecken Pm the darnedest
fool outen Utaw cept my dad ,for he act
ed hoss, an hain't dun that yet-allers
in sum trap that cudent ketch q sheep
III drown myself same Of these days,
see ef i don't, jnst to stop q family dis
persition to. make fools Of themselves
+, siHow isit Sut2e Have you, been hest
playing cards Or drinking, which is it |"
MARA one; that can't be did in these
parts. But seein' it's you, George, Flli
tell We if kiny butiI swearf'm shamed
siek+sorry anomadi j am You know
boards with Bill Care at bis cabin, on
the mountains, pays for sich as | gifts
4wheuiI IheHrmong,an when heyent any
why fhe takes one third of it outen me in
icussin', AM she, that's bis wife Belts,
takes out the other 9twert thirds with, the
battlin' stick AM the interest with, her
tung, an, the ninterest MINORS, than the
|principal,i heap more. She is the cussed-
est womanaL ever seed,eany how, for jaw,
breedin an pride q She can scold Q fhelisif ilsFif
ter onto 8 bulls faceI ritz on the, curl in
! two lminits she outhreedssyerythingI on
the river, AN patterns after every fashion
she hears tell on, from bassels to fbritch-
es. O., she's one of them, and some
times she's two orthree,9 Well, you, see
I'd got some homemade cotton tspek to
make new shutcouten an coaxed Belts
to make it; an about the time it was
dun, here comes Lawyer j Johnson along
an axed for breakfast / wish it had pi:
zehed him, durn his hide, anSvIt wonder
lit didn't, kazeoshe cooks some offal7mix;
ems when she tries. I'm pizen proof my
self, or.l'd beer ded long ago. Well
whihe he wes, eaten she spied opt that hat bis
shutIwas stiff an nifty slick 80 she never
rested ftin she wermed, ,itro roptep, him tha,
Appropriation of flour did ii, an she go'
few more sparticlers onten him By wo'
mans art, !, doH't know how, she ldid \
perhaps he does. AFTER he was gone
shelsot to work an billed 9 big pot .ot
pastes nigh onto .. peck Of il + an seussf
Ia nf kntJo fct It -soke awtiile = tfiei
fshe tuck it out an sironed il out fat
I8dry, an sot ii up on its aige agin th.
cabin in the sun. Thar it stood as stiff
as dry hoss hide an rattled like ashee
| of tin, it did; it wur pasted together al
over. When l cum home to dime
nuthin' wud do but ! must put it on. =
Well, Belts and me got the thing oper
arter sum hard work, she pullin' at on,
of the tails an me .at ,tother, an I Ilg6
liinto it. Durn the eveflasiir' new 'fanglet
shut, I say. l felt like I'd crawledl ftftt
sn old bee-gum fit, full Of pisants. Bp
| it wnr like LAWYER Johnson's.A ana
stood it like man an went to work tt
bid Belts an ash hopper. worked
powerful hard an swet like q boss, an
when the thing got'wet 1T outfits hurtin.
After I!got dun j tuck about foatfnger
of red-hed an crauled up in the cabiI
| loft to take snuse. When Iwakediul
L thot Irwas dedior bad the cholery,1fo
all the jints Lead panse we're my ankela
knees an rists .caaent even 1muye M
he'd an skaselyn wink my eyes. si Jh
cussed shut was pasted fast to me a
over from the tip Of the tails to the pin
of the broad ak collar over ImyyG Geears.c
squirmed an strained til ! gel, get,tt,ss it sogte ogt
broke loose at the shoulders an, eiboWi
an then dun ,wun Of the dnrhdsst fot
things ever did in these odntlins.
sbufied my britches off an toris foos
from my hide abopt otwg9S inches Of OFT th
tail, ell lleronnd, 10 IpuchI pain and tribnl,
tion. Oh! but It aid hurt. Then I tue
up plank, optsp the loft an hung m
t legs down thru the hole, an hailed til
; aige of the front tail to the plank befol
, me an the hind tall nailed to- the plan
what sot on. unbuttohed the coll!
and ristbands, raissshmy hands awsyu
above my he'd, sed grace, an jumpt thl
to the groun' fonr. DIE lsni '9Illomo9e
+ Here sut remained sileiisa. saiilo-isoq
"George, I'm a darneder fool thf
ever dad was, boss, hornets an IN. I
drowd myself sum day, see ef 7 don't
OFF," s''i ,s,9i', h.st, Iels,. = = asI 5ezio 30 :
: noise sorter like the tearin' q shing
off of house all at onst an felt as th
nv CUTS and bones we're aE tha AZ feachs
: the fore. l staggered to my feet a
tuck, a look up at the shut the nails hs
all hilt their holt, an thar il was, ,hangil
arms down, inside OUT, @an' stiff as eve
ItlDoked like atnap of Mexico just art
wun Of the haroest Battles,ors hng VII
had carried a load iof fresh beef from
shootin' match A patch of my iiliil
shout the size Of d dollar an haff b
here, a hnnchoe my har ab5ut the Ssf
ofa birds nest thar then sum more tski
then sum paste, then leetle mores hs
I then q heap of skin, then more bar, tn,
p lskin,, an SO on, all over that darn, me-
!, tangled. eyerlastin', Internal cpss Of
{ shut. Il wur picter to lock at, and
+ Bur I, The hide, har an paste We
D about eka'ly divided between me an d
n Wonder what Belts thot, durn, her VII,
? she cum hone an found nc lipissip 7 R
! ISpecks she thinks !, craYled into il
S Ithieket an died Of my wounds, II mu
. have scared her good, fur | tell Ye
n looked like the skin, Of. sum wild hes
that had been torn off awe. M
George, ef ever | ke,chs that Lawy
johnson out I'll shoot him, ga ,ef ever
y woman tocks about Il hittenin' shut
/ me agin, darn my, everlaStin pcter ef
it don't flatten her. It's. a retribulion
e regular retrihulion. Do you. mind
V me driyin' dad thro' that hornets ne