The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-04
FUN IN THE BACKwooDs.
A Sunday School Episode in Which a Few
Rats Create a Big Disturbance.

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| Rats Create Big Disturbance.
MINK HOLLOW, Ga. August 28.-I amt
never rote nothin' for the muse papers before,
and wouldn't rite this eff it warn't for jes'
the boys-they told me to rite it, thinlin'. as
| how / can push little better fist than they
! can, and KNOWN that you will print all the
| funny things you can git. We all take your
| paper down hear at Mountain Hill, and luy to
laff at the funny things you put: in it. The
| boys, they reads the Jokes in their and tell em
! to the fellows that lives way back on the river
and aiut got the advantegis for gittin' jokes
what we has. But thing happened hear the
luther Sundy that lade over emmy thing in the
funny bisness that you ever printed Lige
Tate sed SO at the time, and all the boys
agrede with him. Lige orto kno' cause he's
been to Atlanter and stade all mite and Amt no
green horn.
Las year the Sunday-skool what meets in
the school-house bort organ what had been
used, and got it nonstrods cheap. The teller
fust sold it to one or the nabers and he couldn't
pay for it and he used 1t two or three years
and had to give it back to the Teller. Then
the people all chunked in and pade it, cause
ef they is poor thay's proud and is 'termined
too keep up with the stie. Wal, the young
gals all sot in to learn how to play and kept the
thing busy as hen with one chicken till it
then they purity nj all drapped out but bash,
full little Nancy Hogan-she hung on like a
hound dog OH a cold trail, and she didn't do it
les 10 DC IeaED iluJnGEj sue uCUG III cause SUc
jes' nat'ally luved it, and couldn't help it. So
after they all got used to the organ, they
wouldn't none of 'eln play but little black
haired and black-eyed Nance-the ,pdrtiest gal
in the whole lot. l wisht you could see her,
but it wouldn't do you no good, as you're
married man, more'n to let you kno what sort
er gals our foxes puts on the market. More
over and besides, she's castin sheep's-eyes at
Bob Gantlin, and they amt nobody shorter'n
Bob gointer satisfy her That's sayin' good
deal, too, for Bob is err long un-six feet six
inches in his sock feet and not a whisker on
his face.
A good many of the boys is boastin' bout
Bob bein' a good fodder-puller on account of
his hite, but Lige Tate seq he's seen Bob DO all
sorts of work, but he amt at his best till you
get him to nailin' rafters on tall house. He
SEE whom it comes to that Bob lays over any
body he's ever seen, and Lige is seen a good
many, for he's travelled
Wal, the time what I'm tellin' you about
was the luther Sundy at Sundy skool, and the
organ that cost the foxes all that money was
the soul cause of that inherent little Name
cuttin sech figger. You see the foxes all
came to the Sundy sl1ool jes' like they al
ways does, not thinkin' bout nothin' goin' ter
happen, and they tuck their seats and waited
like they always does for the superintendent to
open the Sundy skool like he always does
Then the superintendent he got MP and told the
foxes to have order and they had it. Then he
turned to the seckerterry and said, John call
the roll, and everybody answered to their
name with a verse from the Biblo
Little Name she said a verse bout
the varmints and things havin' holes in the
groun' and mans son not havin no piller to
lay his head on
After the seckreterry got thru calm the roll
and the foxes got thru sayin' there verses the
superintendent looked over their at little Name
and said play peace Nancy" and got up
and tuck song book with her went TO
the organ, and Bob Gantlin went along
with her like he always do, to hol' the book
open at the place and help her sing not
thinkin' bout nothin' gointer happen nor
nothin' of the kiiIs2s They warn't long in
fndin' of piece that suited 'em, but l don't
know what the piece was for it was never plade,
and don't reckon they knode in two minits
after they picked it out Name s red her little
hans out all over the KEGS of that organ and
set in to peddl1n' with her feet and made the
thing squeel out all sorts of sounds. This was
too much for the rats what had bilt in there,
and they lit out, They made bee line to the
bottom of the superintendent britches legs and
he moved 'em. Then they cut towards Lige
Tate, and he made grab for the head leader,
but he missed him and the whole drove darted
right back to the organ. They had to go in
over the peddle where little Nances feet was,
and she was standin on the bench in half
second holdin her frock tite 'roun' her 'nees,
too skeered to think bouts the purity stripes
jes' above her shoe tops, and she was a
squeelin' for all she was worth. Bob Gantlin,
full sorry and kept a sayin': It's jes
ratsl That's all. Jes' little ole ratsl But
1t warn't no good, she kept a hoSerin' till she
broke down, and then she went over whore the
ole wimmin was, and cried till her eyes was
red, and sed she was disgraced, and amt
looked at nobody since. But she'll git over
that after while, cause they don't nobody
think she done wrong. considerin' how skeered
of rats she is. Bob, he's been lookin' nifty
sorry ever since, for the way he's aluvin' Name
is caution.
Eff anything else funny happens down this a
way l recken I'll let you kno', for 1 kno' the
boys won't let me rest now, done got started
'ritin' for the papers. Ole Miss Hogan, Names
nanny, has sent invite to all the youngsters
to come over to her house to bee-robbin' mex
Sat'dy mite, and I recken there'll be some fun,
cause bees is nifty wastefull Of there stingerS
sometimes when you gifts 'em mad. I'm purity
apt to be on ham, and eff any thing happens
I'll drap you line. LUM DEE
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