The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-11-23
What Smiths Boy Said.

~ moved t0 6ermanInwns ana Mr..
Browns boy, on Saturday, leaned
Uver the feuRe aud gave to onr re-
porter his impressions nf Mr.. Smith g
bog, lad about fourteen years oi
age: .
+AYss. me and him are right ac-
qusinted now; he knows more'n do.
and he's had more experience. Bill
saws his father used to be rnbbcr,
(Smith, by the way, is deacon in
the Presbyterian church, and n very
excellent lswyear.) and he has $lO,-
100000 in gold buried in his cellar,
along with a whole lot OF human
bones, people he's killed. And he
says his father is c"njnrer and that
he makes all the earthquakes that
happen anywhere in the world. The
old Enau'll come home st night, after
GhoreS been an earthquake, all COW
cred wi,h sweat, and 80 tired he kin
hardly stand; Bill says it's such hard
work.
."And Bill tole ne that once when
q man came around there trying to
sell lightning rods, lis father got MAD
and eat him right up, and he takes
hites ont Of everybody he comes
acroet.
"Thet's what Bill tells NE. That's
all / know about it. And he t"le me
that once he used To have 81 dog, one
Of these little kind IF dogs, and he
WAS flying his kite, aud :jnst for tun
lie tied the kite strirg on Co his dogs
tail. And the wind struck her and
the dog went hoomin' down the street
with hiS hind legs in the air FIR a.
b"nt a mile, when The kite all ot q
Hudden began togo up, and in about
TT ecn minutes the dog was fifteen
miles high, and commanding a view
Of California, ard Egvp', and OSh-
k"nh. l think Bill enid. lie came
down anyhow, | know, in Brazil, and
Bill said he swum home all the WAY
in the Aesn'ic ocean, and when lie
landed La lrgn wci nil nibbled off
by Gharks.
Il wish tather'd bny me dog 500
l could send hi'n up that way. But
| never have no luck. Bill said that
where they used to live he went ont
on the roof one day to fly hia kite,
and he sat on the top Of the chi,pb!y
TO give her plenty OF room, and while
he Was citing there thinking abuu,
nothing, the old man put a keg of
powder down below in the fire. lace
to cloan the Son' out of the chimblv.
And when he t"uched her off Bill
~as blowed over again the Baptist
church Steeple, and he landed on the
weather cock with his pants torn and
they coUldn't got him down for three
days. 80 he hung, there going round
and round with the wind, and he
lived by eating the crows that came
and eat on hisn. because they thought
hO was made of street iron and nut
HP there on purpose.
"He's had more fun than enough
He was telling me the other day a
bout q sausage stuffer his brother
invented. Il was kinder machine
that wo' ked with a treadIe. and Bill
said the way they did in the fall was
to fix it on the h"g's back, and then
the h"g'd work the Ireadle and keep
on running it up and down until the
machine cut the h"g all up fine and
showed the meat into the skins. Bill
Said his brother called it EVERY
Hog His Own Suffer-" and it worked
splendid But don't know. sPeurs
to NEE IL there conldn't be no ma
chine like that. But any way Bill
said go
"And he told me about an uncle
Of biS in Australia who was ct by a
big oysler once, and when he got in
side he s,sid there until he ct the
Oy ster. Then he split the shell oman