The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-06-22

down the hill she rolled, with oIc
Gunderman tOsshn about inside o
it, an a thinkin th't his eend were
nigh, and The mule clatterin' lon!
ahind il, jist moren maxim the hill
ring with the way he beehaw'd an
an squeaied, he were so oncom
mon tlckI+d with the Joke. The
bar'l hep in the road Ill it go
to the bridge at tie bottom o. The
hill, an then it sqeejeed to the
right an dropped karpIunk in The
creek, tee feet below. The mule''-
esquire p the Old Settler ex.
claimed, with red IN his face and
snap In his eye, 81 cont know nulh.
in bout Cobsack's mule, an don't
know nuthin' bout ole Gunder.
mans cider. If yer friend O mine.
b'goSh, y'Orter member we'll wat
happened the time Pm a-hintin'
aL.'
'Were l thar ?" asked the Squire,
innocently.
"Yes, y was thar" said the Old
Settler, Can Cronky McSIy, and
Pete Crimmins, an Blinky Mudfat,
an heap more O the OF time
boys was thar, an you know it !"
"Oh-h-h, yes !" said the Squire
with a malicious wink to the boys.
81 member how. That were the
night O the apple cut at Rocky
Bottom, when Bill Totten fetched
his gal am got jealous o. her. You
member her, major, Betsy Jane
Swank Y Want she a sumner
Betsy Jane were the high stopper
o. Sugar Swamp. She were put
together to stay, Betsy were, an
could take in an apple cut or hush
in bee SIX nights outen week, til
sun up and never miss set, an
then go hum and eat salt pork an
lasses an apple pie fer breakfast,
an turn in an do the washin fer
forty men that worked in the tan.
ry, jlst ez easy ez most gals nova
days kin thump a poky or a camp
meetin tune Outen the pianny.
Betsy were way up in s'ciety. and
were gltlin SO month an her feed.
She could ha' had any bark peeler
tn were in the clearin, and yitn-
"An' Ylt yer memry is scatterin'
like shGt loaded fer pigeon" inter-
rupted the Old Settler, getting hot
Ter and hotter. "It's consarned
'unny," said he, "lh't you kin sci
lere and think O. folks an things
ez | never heerd on, and yit We
,an't git yer mind onter sumpin'
hit act'ally happened fifty year
lgo, and sumpin th't were durn
l'uc'ler, too"
"Were th' any fun long with it !"
Isked the squire.
II lhort tn were at the time"
eplieG the Old Settler. "W'at |
hink bout it now haint got nuthin
o do with it. Not a consarned |
1T ~
"I'll bet all the taterS I'll raise
his year th't We mean Phil Byer's
eefin bee ~ exclaimed the squire.
Boys, | mus tell We bout thai, fer
4 want never nuthin like 1t ever
afore or sence. We had
eerd that Phil Byer were gointer
eef a steer o. hIs'n th't had got
etle too rantankerOus to be han
ed fer work. Ez none on us
ldn't never heerd o. setch thing
2 beefn bee we ruther calc'lated |
'twere bout time to Git one up, l
? we started to give Phil a q
Prise. I
"Fer a mile or so fore we got to t
nl's we heerd fearful yellin an Y
win, but we thort 'twere only i
singln over in the t
amp, and we hadn't time to think n
ut a leetle thing like that. The n
BON were bigger'n washtub, an G
, could see Jist bout ez well ez u
the sun were shinin. 1t were "
Ider'n Greenlan. The howlin an o.
llerin crowd louder ez we got a
yher TO Pills, an'a when we e.
uck his clearin and come up 10 Il
, house, thar we see Phil on the ii
If o. the cabin, straddle o. the
yellin. Help! help
if someun were butcherin of N
n. A procin and bellerin round .,
cabin, fust on one side an then U, u
tOther, were the steer, a PAWN l
snow wus nor if 'twere havin "
rem bar'l o. fun, an 'twant a ~
tin of him a cent. 1t were a u
my sight, an we jest had 10 m
)p. ~
What aye doin up thar, Phil r. ~
hollered. San how'd yc git u
thar 2" e
/ clim up the chimbly, o. u
IrseI" said he, madeira wild %
S. alt were 50 durn hot in the II
lin that | clumb up here 10 cool !" NJ
Come down, Phil,' we says;
eve Kim to give We a s'prise.
1T We goin ter beef yer steer r. ~ y
Dye see or hear anythin o. that -
er, consarn yerw says he. "An' !, y
Z ye see it's only a question ~ ~
Iher Pm agOin ter beet that q q
sr or wuther It'll beef met The y
,rnal critter boosted me Onter Il
Iidgepole at 10 o'clock this ~ ~
min and I've been here freezin =: -
yellin' fer help ever senee. ~
OF woman and the young uns - -
)cked in the cabin an I've see =.
try twicet 10 git out 10 the ~ ~
ID pile, but that Steer has took -
n good care that they didn't, an
haint heerd nothin on EN-
ce, l reckon they've either friz 70
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