The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-03-09

fO liahu &c, or / wi ] break your back
and losrit on hi" hsnbs aud brought
the barrsll 9 ave down on my beat
{ ants. We'll yon'd . died IL you had
heard III, explo.i,o. Il alnos. knock
ed me- o., the trnnk. II = 'unded liko
firing q firGcracker away down cellar
in barrsll. and p, looked scared. l
put some floor on my face 10 mako
mo look pale. aud then ] k;, der kio-
k.d my legs like isllsr who is d, ink
on tho stage, alter being STABBED with
q piece Of l,tb, AMI groansd ald said
pa yyu have kil.ei NE. but I forgive
you, anl than I roll.d arouad and
| iro,hsd at the mouth. Well ps was
al broke up. He ssid: Great Cad.
what hHvs done? l have broke biz
spinal colamn. g my poor boy. d."
no. die! I kept chewing the soap aud
ivaning At the mouth, and l drew
my logs up and kicked them out and
Gu .chsd my hair. and rolled my cye'.
then kicked pa 10 the s:ummick ss hs
bent over m, and K, rocked the breath
oul ,f him, and then my limbs began
10 got rigid, AMI said. Too late, pa
| die y, the hands Of an assassin. Go
for q doctor. Pa throwsd his cosi
over me, aud started down stairs on
. run. saying. I tavo murdered my
br.vs boy, an he told ina to go up
stairs and stay with Ts, cause had
fallen of hutk AID ruptu cd .
Llood vessel, AMI ho went after the
doctor.
When he went out OF the front
door. | ct up aud lit q cigarette, and
ma came up AMI ! oil bsr oil about
how had TO lod pa. and If she won u
take on a,d cry, wLcn pa got back L
woull CT :::i.n to g"to church sgsiu
and sws,r of drinking, and she Ian.
gLrd aud Said sbo would, and -
when pa and tho doctIr got back.
ma vas si,ting On = velscip.de 1use't
to ride, and slio bal her apron ov.r
Lor face, anl.h' moro than beloved.
Pa hs Was pale a,d be told tho doc
tor thai ne was just playing with
me With u little pieos of beard. ahd
he heard somsth;nS crack. and no
guessed my spine go broke roll. <
OF The trunk. The dos.or wanted lr'
feel who're my spine wss broken, bus
I opened ny eyes unl had . vao.ns
sort OF q sta re, lie woman who
leads y dog BY strinr, aud l tod
the doctor there was IL a'o setting
my spiuc, &, II Was broken in ssvern'
places, nnd''i wou'd'ut 10, him fosl OF
tho dried b.a der.
ItoM M th., was going to die
aud wanted him to promise me two
thing, IN my dying BID. He cried
and said lie would. an l told him -
promise mo no would quit drinkin:
and ,tIOnd church regularly, and he
would never drink another drop and
would 60 to church every Sunday. 1
nisdo b M ge. down on his Lneos be-
.i.ls mo and swear 1t, and the doctor
Witnessed i, aud ma said. sc was so
g'ad,snd ma called tho doctor one
into ths h.ll and told him the joke.
aid lhs i ,etor came in the aud told
pa that 10 was ai.sid pas presence
would sxcit. tho patiert, srd Tor pi
to put on his coat and 30 AMI walk
srounl a block or 10 or 60 to ca ureb,
and ma aad hs would remove me u
npo her room and 10 oil that wai
possible to mako my last hours plea
ssn'. p. he cried, aud said be would
pu. on bis plug hat anl 20 10 church.
md he kissed ina aud CT flour o.
his nos, and I sans near l.ugsing
righ, out t. s,e the white -four on
lis rcd noe, whsa l thousht how
hs p, op.s 10 church would laugh at
ps. But he went ont feeling mighty
sad and tAon ! got out Of bed and
pulled tho bur1ted bl.lder out Of my
pants, and ma AMI Ito doctor laugh.
ed awful. When pa ct hack and
asked for me, ma said I had gone
down town. She and the doctor
founi my spine. was only uncouplsd
and be coupled it together npl waS
all rig't. Pa said l Was almighty
strange csuss he heard the spite
break when I hit him With the barrel
stave. Pa was nervous all the altar
no1a, and ma thinks fe suspects We
played it on him. Say, you don't
think ,hero is any harm in playing IL
Oh aa iold man little. do you. for .
good cause, do jour
Tures husdrei tnp holt of oats for
sale by DR. l. g Bud. Apily at
oncr. 90 u Fl
"ANss's celebrated n'vo" f,r
burns, old sores, 'tsb. ril;s &e Ut
w. b C,,ks.