The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-01-31


fight the Jersey bull that came so
near finishing Mr.. Judkins. He saws
he can scare him to death with his
hat, and tells the following as one
OF his exploits; There was farmer
in his neighborhood who had an old
steer buckeyed and lying helpless
upon the ground. The farmer went
out one morning to feed Buck, and
while he was poking the shucks in
his mouth with a cob, Col. Doss
slipped up behind him and com
menced maneuvering his hat. He
soon got Bucks attention and the
PROSTATE brute pricked his ears and
rolled his eyes and quivered. The
farmer was surprised and said
"Whoa, now, you dang foolr
Col. Doss gave his hat another
frightening twist, and bumped him
self and shook his crest savagely,
and Buck, terrified and struck with
awe, paved the air an instant and
then raised a below that shook the
dandruff out Of the farmers head,
mounted to his feet, and with tail
erected into flag staff and roaring
like forty air brakes, plunged madly
down the meadow, leaping bitches
and tearing fences into kindling,
uprooting saplings, until he brought
up on the brow of a hill two miles
away, and then he turned, with eyes
protruding and quivering TANKS,
and gazed and groaned an instant,
and then took down the other slope
like a frightened hurricane, and his
roaring gradually died into wills
per and then went out as he strung
ont the miles between him and his
once happy homeland the dew
glistened upon the leaflets and the
zephyrs sang among the thistles,
and nature went about her bust
ness as if nothing transpired-while
the farmer, with hair on end and a
hideous fright sitting upon his face
like the grip of buzzard's claw on
a dead limb, staggered an instant
and then wound up his legs and
then turned them loose towards the
house, cleared the barn yard gate at
a bound, ran through the chicken
coop and set the fowls to screaming
as they saw their domicile whirling
in fragments through the air, over
turned the bee hives and let loose |
twenty swarms IN frenzy, which |
proceeded to trim their tails for |
business, and amidst the wild com
motion of bees and dogs and ducks |
and children screaming, the old wo
man rushed out with the broom |
and chased the demented granger
up in the kitchen loft, where he
thrust his head out through the
roof and raising his eyes to heaven,
exclaimed;
20, thou spiritless fossil of an
empty dream, help me To disentan
gle my transplcuous nonenty and To
gather up the Opaque shreds OF a
understanding, that /
may fathom the properties OF a
buckeye and diagnose the nature of
a DANCED old steer! Quell confu
sion and disembowel our fears, and
ct thy servant die ii he ever asso-
,iates more with that pertideous
monster that feigned sickness that
le might raise h-l!"
5 Col. Doss crept of in the bushes
md laid down and laughed two
lays ana nights, and then he arose
and departed into his own country,
and where he had lain and laughed
here were picked up twelve basket
'uls of buttons.
And that is not all that Col. Tom
Ooss can DO. lie went To Texas to
aunt buffalo and made him a huge
asso with numerous little ones tied
N to the large one. One day he
ound a herd. sDurrel his mustan,s
nto their midst and spiead out his
asso, and caught three buils with
he large moose aud the little ones
gathered in a cart-load of horas.