The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-08-16
PHILOSOPHER ARP.
Ito Has a. Controversy With an Angry Man
About Hogs and Dogs.

WAS sitting in my piazza peacefully
Illuminating when heard u voice lust
around the corner, aud it was n ripping
and cursiug ut IL little mig, who trots
round for me, and the dogs were barking
tremendous, and rushed out frantcally
to see what was the matter. The furious
individual stretched out his arm and says
TO me, did you tell this nigger To set
them Internal dogs on my hogs? lie
says you did"
Now, I've always found il good
plan when you find a sensible, reasona-
BILE man mad to keep cool yourself and
let him wear himself out which he is
sure to do before long, but when an
unreasonable fool gets furious and char.
ges around, the best plan is to &c; mad.
der than he is and charge round
yourself and whip him out that way
He was e. chap about eighteen years old
and felt his keeping, and WAS no rcspec-
ter of persons, and when | heard him
cursing and using language in my own
yard, right under the window where
Mrs. Arp WAS sewing, l hnd excuse
enough tor getting on high horse, and
SO mounted, and says Yes, sir, did
tell him to set the dogs on your confound
ed hogs, and Iii set 'em on myself
sick 'eln Fido-sick 'cm pup, and if you
don't get out of here I'll sick 'em on
you what right have you to come into
my yard cursing; your hogs nre Il mile
from home, and they have preyed on me
all winter. No fence or water.gap can
stop 'em. DO you expect me to run
after your hogs and say, 'shew hogs"
like woman running chickens out 0f
the garden? What's dogs for but to run
after hogs, and what are hogs for but to
be run after by dogs? Now, keep your
hogs away from here. No gentleman
will let his hogs use mile from home,
to annoy his neighbors. Now, do you
get away from here quick, or III do you
like did another fellow the other day"
l didn't tell him how l did the other
fellow, but was driving along in a
narrow road, and lie was coming and
holored to him, "Turn out, turn out, if
you don't turn out III do you like did
Il fellow yesterday" SO he turned out,
and after we had passed he says, What
did you do to that fellow" "Why,"
says /, Il holOred To him to turn out, and
he wouldn't 10 ii, and so turned out.
Well, squelchcd him, but he went
oil mu,tering something about q double
barreed shot gun, and was going to kill
every dog OH the premises, and then
gave him n parting salute: "If you
dare to shoot my dogs III shoot your
hogs As fast IA they come on my premises
The dogs from your naborhood killed ten
of my sheep in one night, and eigb,
young geese another night, and made
no big fuss about it, but ii my dogs run
your hogs out of my lot and raise flea
bite on there hind legs you come over
here ripping and cursing. You think
more of your hogs than you do Of your
nabors, and l had better buy every hog
YOU have got and pay double price
rather than he bedeviled by cm. Now,
you 60 away from here, and don't you
put your foot on my premises again un.
less you come like gentleman"
We'll, maybe didn't say all of the
foregoing, but ] said enough, and wha,
didn't say thought, and now will say
that pvc got mighty little respect for na
bnr who wont keep his hogs within mile
from home. There are several of 'em
round here who have no pasture but the
big road and their nabor's crops, and
whenever we take vote on the stock
law they run round among the niggers
and say its like tho war, ''its rich
mans law aud poor mans fight" and
SD ne have to surrender. I've lived
here for six years, and my stock has
never run out nor got in anybody's farm,
and l get no thanks for it. am poor
man myself, but nave got rich folks
ways and that's what these fellers don't
like. Cobe lived with me for two years,
and Cobe understands this hog business
better than do. One day he tolled
hog out of his field and caught him and
laid his tail npon rock and mashed it
good with another rock, and turned him
loose remarking, "Now, Major, that hog
will never come back anymore, for q
hogs feelings are in his tail" l don't
know whether that hog came back aay
more or not, but do know that Cobe
was maslling hog tails all summer.
BILL ARP.