The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-02-27

= a.
mouth, and I've one of the cussedest
law suits with them you ever heard
of in your life, and its all about
SANDER, and there's Tom p Ray, the
clerk of the court in Morgantown,a and
Edgar C. Wilson, the best lawyer in
Virginny, both say I'll beat them
out as slick as mole. ami it's all
about Islander, though never sland-
cred anybody myself. If l know
anything against anybody / gener-
ally keep it to myself. You'll cross
over a pint there and fall over on
another run, by turning to the right
you'll come down to old Bill Mes
ser's. He married a Mitz and her
name is Peg, and she's the cussedest
woman to swear you ever heard in
all your life, sir. Her hair sticks
out like scrub broom. She don't
comb it from one weeks end to an
other, and it's Peg Messer here and
Peg Messer there, and Peg Messer
is in everybody's mouth, and she
can out swear Matte Baldwin.
You'll there turn to the left and that
will take you up to pint and you
will fall over onto Jake's run-it
used to be called Straddler's run
named after old Jake Straddler,
in Indian times, and it's settled
with Tenants from head to mouth
and it's Tenants here and Ten
nants there and it is Tenants in
everybody's mouth, and they are the
cussedest set of men to fight you ever
saw in all your born days; whenever
they have log rollin' or any com
ing together of the people, their
jackets are off and the blood and snot
a flyin' and all hollerin' "fair play"
The father will fight with the son, and
the son with the father, and brothers
will fight one another. But there is old
Enoch Tenant, stepping around with
his head a sticking to one side. l be-
lieve he's the finest Tenant among
'em-but there's Black Ben, Pete Ten
nant's niger, I'd like to forgot him
he is the only white man amongst
all of 'em. You'll turn up that Run
by turning to the right--no road to
turn you off till you fall on the head
of Little Pawpaw to my sonin-law's,
Ben Shuman $, one of the ugliest men
you ever saw in your lifetime, and
it's Ben Shuman here, and Ben Shu-
mans in everybody's talk-keeps the
whole neighborhood in an uproar-with
his lies, / must say that Ben Shuman
has the best breed of dogs in the coun
try, and he's going to have lot of
young pups soon. My Joe spoke a
pup, and Bill spoke pup, and Bob
spoke pup, and Henry spoke another
pup, but l low to go over day after
tomorrow myself and buy the old
mother and sell her to my brother
in-law, Joe Koon, for a gallon of
whisky or bushel of corn. John
Hoods got the best store in Blacks
vile, There's goin' to be famine
ON this creek, for Shep. Lemasters
and Joe Parks are selling their corn
out at twenty-five cents bushel,
and they'll have to give fifty cents
for the same corn back agin between
this and harvest, and Bill Lantz and
Bill Thomas have got a barrel of
whisky apiece, and are retailin' it
out at bushel of wheat to the gal
lon, and they'll get all the wheat in
this neighborhood, and that wheat
will go from here to Wanesburg, and
from there to Pittsburg, and I'm
DRAWN a pension at this time, and
the devil and more right have l to
it than you have, but there was old
Andy Cooley and Jack Brookover
got me afore the Squire, and didn't
care what l swore, SO they got part
of the money. All the exploit l ever
done in my life was to kill my
mother, and then the gun went off by
accident -
Stranger-Good day, sir.
Mrs. Darrah--Robin, the gentle
man don't know no more about the
road now than if you hadn't said a
word.
Darrah--Hold your tongue, old
woman; by the grace of God he can
miss the way, and l know he recol-
lects it, for he said good morning
and / said good morning, and SC we
parted.