The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-04-05
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Mr. Editure aEo
Deer Sur-I most no you have bin
.spectin letter from me fur ever SO
long. But the fact is I've bin .watel
fur sulnthin tn happen wurth ritep
bout fust. You sec / ant nopc NV
yore Mulhattans, what rites up sum-
thin fur so whether ii ever ciims tu
pass lur not.ri Don't yer think the
,docturea had the. ordaslty ,tu tell me
that sum NY yer readers had hinted il
round, that bout haf the fax given in
my letters was made up YARNS ovi
very thigh colors put in jist) TO git
Isumthin tu rite about. olBut be wood
ent gin me any Of there names SO |
dou't think he has herd any sich talk.
But You no Mr.. Editure wliatpeo-
pie think or say don't alter the fax in !
the case cny, SO L shait'make eny at
tempt tupruyo.that wha, Ilri,e is SO
but my duty 10 tu report fax ia YOU
without fear, or favor. Sum miteyi
smart man has sed that fax are slranrg
lgerthan fixion and / bleveI he was
boutrite since whats happened tl me
in the last lew days and mites Yer
see Mr.. Editure that drafted. show
fclIer what was here q few weeks ago
got all the old Wonderland sum Nv the
men 10 bleve In Sperits and ghosts
and hobgoblins and SIGH like. Wy
sur Malindy has been afradc Itu open
the door arter dark, and Mother, well
4 wont tell you how skeered She has
been cos I don't spectsyou'wood bleye
4 was tellin tue truth. Odd black
Silvy what lives 10 Square Blue sez
she. seen two white gosis last week at
The old grave yard close to, the skule.
house, and, wbeil Dad red bout that
gost in that old house over to Bolin-
creme in yer paper it Kinder made me
feel shaky on iie subject. Yft4
Well tu make short matters long
last Toosdy mite there was u debate tll,
the skule house aDd'suin NV the boys
was here aioor and we walked over
to hear m.akavorl. Malindy snd
Mother and Dad dident go. SO whenS
this speekin was over there was no.
body goin up rode but me. Yer see
| bad ~ pass the grave yard SO | got
tn thinkin bout costs aud sicll Ike
and when got purity close npI coin-s
menced singing rs loud rs i cud D
5llark frum the tune, &c.," trgena ~
keep up my spcrits you no, but du
bleye ] bad.6 ur s tunes tu 1t so | gin
il up and thot wood try sumthin
more cherfiii SO l struck up ''Old
|rosin the bows niitely cot OF tune.
By this time was passin the grave
yard and the har was standin on eend
| had got me CRATE big stick teudin
tu interview the gost If one did hapen
TO show itself. Shucks sez | out loud
Hoos afraid, when Ised that ii sound
ed out SO loud that my voice skeerd
me aud Istoped tu listen FUR thot !
herd spmthin, groan oyer behind "a
bunch ov bushes tu my left. l reckipi
had Din standint there about Il ininit
when sumthin let out d groan. | du
,bleye you cud Nv herdit tu Jo Clark's
II you had bin listincn. Bout this.
time suinlhin that m alters bleye was
the old Scratch riz rite up outen the
ground about 10 feet hi. Its aize was
about as big as rock and looked
like fire. Hoo the name iuy thunder
are you ?sez I,and what auyou want?
But it dident say nuthin but cum
menced rauin chanes and kinder
muvein round like III git In The rode
in frunt Nv me. Thinks | whatli is III
be dun. liz moren mile home and /
cant out run II, sol jet thot Ide make
friends with his Majesty i'll cud.
Sez | Mr.. DevilI speet you are artcr
tberong man, for Tine yer best friend
in these parts.o SEE !, | never tell
fact II can help II, aud when go
tn church spend most NV the time
seein hoos got new cloze or begun
hats. But sez the gost in the most
terabe, voice | ever heard, :" You ar
tn onest Bill, you don't tend like you
ihkeia q pheller jist tul GIT tIhe advan-
tage Nv him and that's trate Ildont
like in YOU so 4 reckin mad better
take you in trainin." Hold on sez |,
wood you have me to leve Malindy a
widder? When scdi that her.l
sumthin sniggerin in the bushes, but
i reckip it was sum NV his imps. But
he Kept glitch closer all the time, aid
by this time cud smell birthstone as
plain as cud be. and seed argyin
with him wasent no go. We'll sur, if
You cud a seen me flyen down that
rode you mite Nv took me fur male
angel Lii ther is any angels of that
sex], reckin | had run bout hum
derd yards when balls ov fire as big
as my he'd went oulen the ground up
In the air as hi US the trees. Old Mr.
Satin wasent moro than 20 yards be-
hind a ratlin NV his chains and groan-
en- the arfulest you ever herd, but |
was galnin on him fast and was soon
outen site.
Well when got home | jist rushed
lite In Moiher's room psrtin like a
dorg. What upon yerth Is the mat
ter NV you Bill sez she. Costs sez |,
costs, lookin over my shoulder, and
Dad jumped up aud propped the
dore. Then ups and tol em oil
about it. Mother sed she node Old
Silvy had seen costs at that grave
yard. Well Malindy has been the
wust skeerd gal ever since you ever
seed. sA2t- rs
Square Blue says he spects ii was
sum body jist dun II tn gin me q
skecr. He says Roy and the Docture
left his house that mite To go tu the
skule house, but they wasent there,
and L don't bleve they cud got up
sich smell, so ] don't bleve II was
any body but Old Nick as the roarin
lion, fur he roared shure nuff that
mite, but he dident devour me. No
more frum your frend Ill deth. ii's
b va! faf bi6G BILL RoGUs.
p. S. Malindy sez she spected my
har tu turn gray from the skeer, but il
diden' But tell you what Pm aw-
full so. frum tallin down 2 or 8 times
and most all the hide is off my rite
leg and patch off my nose bout the
size Nv dollar. If Il du find out 1t
was trick Nv that Roy's, Wo be untu
his carcus. Amen, 2.'H sis b. R..
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