The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-11-02
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Mr. Edi,s,,ns

Deer Sur-lme ttl1ty sorry NAtilstly
went and took aud f0oked Your Roy
and made him think that old To,a
Cat was--was, well, baby In that
box but sou no Mr.. Editure as ort tu
no that wiui,nen enjoy feolen greeu
chsps iuore thai efy thing you can
put esn at Yer Gee | happened 10
iiientioA the tact that 1ill kogus ir
appeared 10 me III that drafted big
drccIn (yet ~o he exists ouly In NV
dreetns) 90 he teok II fur 20 that lee
cud be- found 1T my stoase, so when
he was raLgin round Ia Hemburgin
hc slopt ~ my house and jist up aud
axcd Malindv to show him lhc boy.
80 that's the way she cum tu show
him In that box wher old Toui Cat
was asleep with Mslindyssun bonnet
lhrowd over him ~ It wer. She told
Roy hc was asleep so yer see what q
audacious trick she played on him
But shc Is as mad as fire at him iur
pntiin II In the paper, She says II
ever he Gums here agin shes goin tu
scald him shure aud she'll du Il tu
s0a bet, tnr you see bese been riien
sumthfn boat me Two or three times
called ue aalf brother ia sum kind of
q snimule or uil,er aud then scd I
was a hedge hog and not cjukated
aud sicli like So fur as my ejuka-
shin IL construed yer readers can
see irum my riten that aint 90. Ma
Indy Gays orient tu say nutlien bout
her goia ~ sca,d him fur 0 will hive
warnin now and woat cum rouhd any
more 50 she can get chance nj him.
(Ijui ser see Mr.. E,liture don't want
her gu git her hand la at scaldin fu.
l don't no where she mite stop. you
see she has bccu sorier sDiicful nj mc
fur the last ! or 4 months fur sum
rezin or uihrr.) II Roy hadent got
my dandcr up I wouldent NV told yu
wi,at an andacious scrapc us Iium-
durginites got him In ia. But he cum
out winer NJ last by keepen the ciozc
hc bsiroSsd from uzin Dick en-
that nitc. The way Il was Is this.
Wheu he was iuragin in our beet he
got kinder masllcd on Miss May
Jones W. ate s,ayin at Square Blues
40 he a al ,hrr nil mite and nrter
'su,,per the Docture propose a possnm
hunt. lie dident want 10 20 much
bu, they got him started and cum By
a t,r inc sni niy dorgs. Well VIC
ko,cl,cd one NV Inc fatcst possums
you ever saw aad was maxim fur
home when we lurd old watch open
~ u, suntI,Ins track like he me,,t
business. Artcr runin TWO or three
hundred wards he treed him IN ihe
he'd NV tie big Lollcr over cio.c d,
,i,e SOU ares. We'll sur we ali started
"a him, Roy m the lead and me At the
hind cad (ycr see Mr.. Edi,urc allers
ve, behind 40 I car u,x,6t by' others
Roy said was afradc
II mite be /, wild ,nt or sumlhin but
1 yuc..ed wLni II was frnm Inc way
ulj watch barked fur yer see bai
herd ti,al old 6orv tree before. Well
VIXEN we 90, n, Sre,ty closc / softcr
s,opped bu, Row and the Doc,ure and
Mulla,,an went rite In wher he was
n barkin up little doewood. CLINE
mn Dick and shak. him out scx /.
Hold ,n sez Roy let me 20 up and
krtch him It's n Young one / car, see
n and i,s mos, white Il will be eicI, a
nice ne, seq he 60 no soouer said than
done and up he went. Isout this
time l smell a mice as Il wer or sum-
thin stronger so 1 backed on in the
woods a piece. When 1 herd a thun.
,ierin ,hrashiu and sum,hin hit the
ground like Il was big as a steer.
The Doc,ure aud Jo Mulhattan hol.
lerin bcaon 10 the tlorps fur lite and
il was al they cud ,lu tu keep them
dorys irum chawin Roy for Il was
hin, had got up III the buah when he
got Il rite and left aud list let go and
icli out (s.yes Il was 4 pole cat,'') aud
tho dorgs thot Il was sum kind NV an
anininlc but when they get sent NV
him they took out fur homo a whine
In. Mr.. Ediiure IL you cud oy herd
lioy use Bible words then you mite
Nv took him for a preacher. But the
Docture told him ia pull of his closc
IN once before Il went through but
scx lie these are all I've got aud this
coat is hiram's but he shed EN- IN
once and ihrowed them Ia q sink
hole and we all started fur tho
Squarcs. 10 Mulha,tan kept akin
bout caves and .ich like but we told
him we would show him Hll The sink
holes In this beet next day. So when
we got tu the Squares house the dorgs
herd us aud here they cum aud thol
they wood take us any how fyou see