Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-09-15
Bill Rogus Breaks out In a Fresh
Place and makes Amdavit to
a lot Of Tnprobabilities.
IIUMDERGIN.

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IUMDERGIN.
Mn. EDITOR;
Dedr Sir Il jist rite yu this to LET
yu no line still alive and spcct III
remain III home the balance NV this
seen and Try IN lake care NV my
crap what I've toiled Oh spun tn razc
by the swet NY my brow, 50 tn speak
While wer rustikating tu uDawsing
old Square Blues drafted old razer
back SOW wcr rustikating in my corn
patch. And don't yu think she lernd
III chaw turbackcr and squirt the juse
thru her teeth same as any loater.
Yu may not blcve whal I'm gyen tli
tell yu bout tins drafted old SOW, but
that don't make any dillerencr, rs
I've got livin witnesses. Shc'de
brake oil The leevcs Of the terbackcI
with her foot and levc them tn cure
u few days and then cllaw it. But
that wernt her snartest trick yit. The
way she got in the field was the most
surpriseiI thing yOu ever lern tell on,
Aud | aint gyen tu axyu tn blcve il il
l. yu don't want III, fur | wOuldeht
bleve II my self i'll hadent see,l il
with my own izc. When / got back
from outen them wi,lders' webs III
Dawsing, the sow had bin In every
mite. Malihdy aud The dorgs sed
they had put her Ous every Inornin.
Malindy scy III me scz she "Bil
sunbody's lurnin those old SOW iil
here NV mites | no fur I've searched
fur the place she got in AZ fore III
live times aud cant llnd it.' Well
tuck look but ,lident find no place
50 desided to lay for thUsc SOW. 5,
| went back NV the field whur lh'
branch is yu no aud hid in the cuck
81 burs III watch. (rhe bufs has cum
up unity thick since lade by III,
cOrn) hademt waited lnOrne luI
our aforc | heard those old SOW
gruntin long on the hill, side NV the
fence. She werut rutin nllr nnthh
Tor she node whore llur supper wa
comin frnm aud Nernt concerned n
biz. Jist M she got cfen with M
she stopped an,l seelneL III be llshii
fur about minit. Then herd th,
levcs kinder sllakin IN The top NV y
tall saplin. She had tuck the end u,
n grapevine in her mouth that she
had nawed oifand was backin up th,
hill side from The fence. When sll'
yut MS fur back as the vine wood lcl
her 90 she stopped II mint and pcer'
III be nifty uneasy. Then all III once
here she cum down the hill like
lrale trane behind time ana swung
as aras ihe vino wood let her and jis
let 20 aud drappcd in the field
kctchen Il yer NV kOrn in hur mOutl
us she drapped. Well sur it beet
| my time 50 bad l dident no what Il
du. But pat her out and cut th'
vine of up as hi AS | cud reach. Bu
Muther scd il wcrnt no tellin wha
she wood du next III get in and
had better watch the critter. 81
next evenin ! went down at the sam
place and hid. In about ten min
nits l herd the old critter comm
Well SUR don't va think she trid
ulimin II hickry bush this lime an
bendin il over. But the bush wa
tu fur frum the fence. 50 she grunte'
round few ninilsiand lift audi han
seed her since.
Mr.. Eliturc ant there sum kind u
All ism that the spirit NV man enter
sum anamil when the man disc
, Well sur lmc one NV EN- frum th'
out. And those sow is sum laz
! fellcr that never wood work fur
liyin and when he died his gost wei
intu those sow. This is the rein
dident shute the horablc old critic
. But hoo noze but what IL mite be IN
cuzin Sol Rogus luck on him III
form NV those sow, same as he du
the form uvan echo sometimes? An
| woodemt hurt him fur all the cor
: lin lIumdergin. The way she chawe
. turbacker is one thing Kinder MAKE
: me think that way.
: Mr.. Editurc dus look like straDg
i things happens in pairs, And thins
. hard TO bleve septen yu see en- wit
: yer own ize. Now I've no idea yud
0 blcve what line gyen III tell yu
) il wer anybody else but me tellin
: Well list last Friday that Del llendc
Q son ali Dick Everett wer down hel
1 tn see old man Juner's gals agin, al
4 cum tn my house I'll stay all nit
They went tu bed in the shed run
4 va no. Well yu 10 Mulher ale
n wood have thufty or forty ka
d round and Tiers one tliunderhl b
y old tom kat that's bossed fur yers.
II that mite bout leven urclock the hO
s possy NV EN- got ina regler row al
|. / recken VII never herd sich noise
t YER born days. The boys got I
: and shot at Old Tom fore
o five times. Dell scd he node he j
A lhim twice fur he cud see the mil
II shin thru the holes the muno wer
! shinen that nitc]I But dOntyu thii
l. that kat wer here next mornin,,
n well and harty us he ever was I'm d
{. life? Next day / told the boys
d they wood git him out unbenoln
r, mnlher wcde cut his drafted hedc
.e with the AK, furhe was sich boz
q There was no livin in pece with hi
,r by the uther kats. Shore nuff tn
Y got him out and We tuck him ba
NV the lot. Both NV en- lowd tn
Ie alcrs herd kats had nine lives, so u
|. ther NV chi wood cut his he'd of,
e got EN- tn hold him on stump al
whacked his he'd clere of, and '
left him by an old log kivered ov
with lcvcs. But now comes the kur
GUS part NV the fax. That mite DO
nc twelve we herd the kats squallll
!. mud running fur life and the dor