Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-02-01

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sPictures and writing don't learn you
much srbout Or battlefield said old
man PlNnkeA
sits mighty nice;S continued tho old
man. To look u or picture ID or book
md see the horses or raring and the
nags u floating and the brave men er
dashing. but ID haint 70 nice to DO thar.
Thar's danger and death Ground that
dag, and the air il Hlled with the zip,
zip, zip Of the minnie ball thxt is worse
than er nest er hornets darling arter
you. and the boom and zoon and the
whiz Of the shell-like thar waz er
shuck tied to 'em-haint no pleasant
thing and ! haint seed many folks but
what it would take peart.
"You . march er man and perish er
man till he'd as o die ~ live, but
whenever you begin to throw bomb
shells erround he's AZ fresh as II he'd
just got onten bed and eat er hearty
breakfast, at leastthat's my experience,
and I've herd men that / know was as
brave % could be say the same thing.
/ seed or long gaunt North Carolinian
once get so tired that he Just thought
he couldn't live any longer without er
little rest, and SO he Just put his cart
ridge box under his head and turned
over on his back and was ersleep in
four seconds. One OF the fellows took
his knife and dug up the ground right
between his legs, and then hoped of to
n side and gathered or great long
shell and took it and put it down on the
fresh loosened dirt and then shook the
fellow and walked him, and when he
opened his eyes and seed the shell be-
tween his legs he give or spring and Ell
whirl the same as er circus actor and
got of or piece and turned Ground the
same as you've seed horses run off and
turn Ground and snort, and then axed;
"Did that shell fall thar? 1"
"They told him it did, and tried to
get him to take ernother nap; but no,
he warn't sleepy nor tired either any
more.
"You never seed the like or dogs that
. was through these woods arter old
Sherman felt. The people refugeed
and the niggers run away and the dogs
went wild and took to the woods and er
fellow had to be mighty careful how he
moved Ground or they'd get AFTER him.
I've seed as many as $50 dogs in n
gang twixed here and Atlanta and it
warn't no great ways twixt gangs either.
! can't say for certain, but / think thar
vas ct least As, 900 dogs left in Atlanta
and they took up old Sherman's way OF
foraging on the country.
"And cats! You've heerd of cats
being drawn to catnip patches, but that
amt nothing to what the broiling of er
piece Of meat anywhere erround At
lanta would do AFTER Sherman left.
"Me and Brown went up to Atlanta
AFTER old Sherman left, and Brown he
had got er hold OF or good size piece of
meat skin and carried it erlong, and
when we got hungry We just stepped
owe ermong some brick and rubbish On
Alabama streets and went to briling it
on the Goals, and it hadn't morn struck
the fire till we begin to hear the cats
squall erround, and it warnt morn er
mint till here thcy come from every
direction, and Brown he jerked the
meat up off the Goals and lowed if any
cats gets this meat skin he'd have to be
err better man than 1 is; and we both
took to or middle wall that wa er little
to one side and got upon it and thar we
stood and eat for or mint, but it warn't
long, for the cats begin to make for us
and we seed we'd have to fight, SO we
put our eating in coat pockets and
let in with hickory sticks what we had,
and if You ever seed dead cats it was
thar.
"We were up on er piece of the mid
die wall what was left standing, and the
cats couldn't crowd more'n forty or fifty
at q time, and we'd let 'em have it with
our sticks, and Brown, he never failed
to kill one, and sometimes two at every
lick, and / warn't er sleeping. and I'd
just hate to tell you how many cats we
killed. for / know you'd think it looked
out Of all reason, but I'll say 10000
anyhow, and Brown would be willing
to swear right now that wouldn't er
made er hole in EN-"
"Whatever Plunket tells you will do
to depend on," said old man Brown.
people these days think these things
out of reason, and that's why you don't
hear more erbout these wild dogs and
cats than you do-er fellow can mighty
easy get up er reputation as a first-class
liar by telling the truth erbout things
that happened GROUND here in Co.
atlanta Constitution.