The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1884-08-06

TO 60 round with . loyage stalk
under my jacket and my pocket
full Of dry peas, and shoot peas at
everything. One day as ! was
a.going by the buck pastur down
in the medder ] seed the old Iran
a gnawin grass and out come my
loyage stalk. / fred two or three
peas at him, but be was too fat Of,
so that / could't him, so l took OF
my hal, held II upin front Of my
face, wobbledit around and yelled
'boo.woo.wooF The old ramlooked
up and seed me, and started for the
rail fence with head down and full
steam on. / was all ready, and
when he was bout three feet away
Igiye him a pea plumb on his
nose. Golly! you oughter seed him
tear round and stamp, and smack
his head up agin the rails, and l
alltho time poppin' peas AZ his
.nosel Bimeby he goIslck ofis and
went off out into the middle Of The
pastur' and stood there stampin'
his fee. and lookin' ugly; but /
couldn't get him up to thefenc no
more,
S'Long in June, as ! was a-goin'
by the pastur' l seed some straw.
brys through the fence, and want.
ed 'em SO bad that they made my
mouth water. The old ram was
a;laying down in Che corner Of the
fence under a but'nut tree, and
looked as ii he was asleep, so |
slipped over the fence mighty still
and went to fllin' my jacket with
strawbrys, and keepin' one eye on
The old ram. He didn's stir, and
purity soon ! got so busy eatin' that
| forgot all about him. Them was
big strawbry, and l was a.stoopin'
down pickin' with both hands
when somethin' hit me from be.
hind. / guess it knocked me a rod,
and when | struck my nae plowed
a hole in the ground. OF course l
knowed it was the old ram, who
was a.gettin' even for the peas, and
l scrambled up and ran for the
fence, but l had't gone ten feet be.
fore he lifted me agin, and then he
backed off bout half a rod, and
everyLime Id move he'd smash me,
"Dad was a.hoein' corn on the
side.hill, and he seed what was
a.goin' on. Yer see, dad didn't|
know norhin' bout the peas, and
It made him pow'ful mad 10 see
the old ram a.beltin' me, and down
he come as tight as he could run.
The old ram was so busy a.takin'
care Of me that tho first thing he
knew, dad had him by the horns.
"Blame yerl seq dad, I'lllarn yer
better than to DO buttin' the breech.
es oGen boyI" and hecommenccd
poundin' the old rams nose with
his fist. Purity soon, jest as dad
was a astrikin' tho old ram bobbed
his head down and dad bit him on
The horns. Gollyl how the old man
did jump up and down, and snap
his fingers and how'll He felt in
his pocket for his jackknife, but I'd ]
lost that two or three days afore
when | was a.fshin'. Then dad
spied an old rotten stone, one Of
them as has all crumbled up into
rough gravel. He pulled the old
ram along up to that gravel, strad.
died across his neck, grabbed hold
of his horns up close to his head,
shouted: I'll larn yerI and com.
menced chugging his nose down
into that gravel, but the second
time ho Chugged, the ram turned
his nose back atween his fore legs,
dads hands slipped off and down
went his fists kerchug into the
gravel. Afore he could straighten
himself up the oldram pulled back,
trippod up dads legs and down he
went on his face in the grayel.-I
When he got up he looked for all
the world as though he had the
smallpox, or somebody had fred a
charge of bird shot into his faco.'
"Hold on, Bill! What's the
moralH"
Mover Gro peas ata RAMS nose,
or else don't go strawbryin' in the
pastur."-Dctroit Free Press.
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