The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1882-07-18

lcve the king and sum times the Jack.
think the jack wood be the rite kind
fur yu tn leve, sez she. And don't
yn think her and cuzin Nan per.
suaded me to by a dozen jacks NY
climbs and harts. She sed when !
went tn kali on lady tn send In the
jack uy harts, but If went tu collect
All account the jack NV clubs was the
kprd tn send IN. l hant tride the
trick yet, but will sune aid let yu no
how II works.
But like tu furgot I'd tell yu what
low down audacious trick that Char
ly Lacy and lot Nv EN- got me ihtn
one mite while | was up there round
tn Bob Auderson's grocery store. |
went In with EN- tu drink sum truck
the kalld logger, the biiterest Nasty
est tasten truck ! ever seed, and ]
think they must Nv put sumthin In IL
tfur 1t set me crazy terrectly, and the
fust thing node was as jolly as a
big sun flower. And l nu didcnt
take but two glasses and yer never
seed fcller that did. Specially If his
old woman got arter him bout It..
Terrectly that drafted rascal Nv Dan
Merit cum in withonenv the prin-
tcrs and no It must Nv bin the devil,
fur nobody else wood done the
meme trick he did. Whine was
lenin my he'd on the table tryen tn
git 40 cud see better, they pasted a
kard on my back with this perscrip
shun printed OIL il; "This side cloted
fur repairs 90 round tu the utler"
| reckon if had found itout that
mite sunbody wood hav got lickd.
| stsde all mite with Lacy aud IL was
late next mornin when we went up
tn breakfast aud the cornvenshnn was
goin oil and heep nv folks was on
street and evry body was tilrnih
round loollln at us. asked Lacy
what they dun that way fur anu he
scd they had bern Nv me and fist
wanted tn look at me-. | woodeut
cared so much, but 1t was AL Clark's
kote whar he had loned me, fur it
was so hot had warked tu town
with out any, but Mslindy washed
the paste off guide, SO A sed II didcnt
make no difference much hardly.
But that mite at Anderson's sum nv
EN- set up the segars and they axed
me tn take one. But told em ]
dideni never smoke, bat they scd It
was the siilc and | must take ono.
Anderson sed he had sum made pur-
pus fur nu beginners so he handed me
one Ms big agin as common and told
me tn try that. So tride tu bite off
the en- but cutlent 80 that Dan Merit
tuck il and cut off tho end with a
hatchet aud | pnt il in my mouth.
Sum NV EN- liz match and helt IL tu
the end but 1t woodeut bite worth a
clint. but only lride and rmelt like
dog hare and unions and cudent git
no wind tu cum thru it neither.
Then Lacy run piec Nv wire thru il
aud iride il agin. They all was
gothered round nifty entercsted.
But this time I diskiyerf 1t was a
yung mallory sawsenger and the way
made EN- scatter round was stonish-
in. Yer see they had got my Hum
durgin blud up. Tive or three Nv
EN- tuck Inc III Lacy's rune and put
me tu bed then, but tend tn clean
out that Dan Merit and Anderson
and sum more NV em yet If they ever
cross mo, yu here me. Fur il makes
me mad yet tn think what fool |
made Nv them that mite. No more
fruin yer frend til deth.
| BILL RoGUs.
| P.S l furgot tu tell yu that was
pinted delicate tu that cornven.
shnn and distruckted to Vote fur 10
Clark, hut the drafted tools didcnl
call the county Nv Humdurgin at all,
Mr.. Editure du yuno what made eln
leave os out fur?
d. r.