The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1892-12-15
i'm Ainassx has q ,,rofesslonnl Cali.

Evidently the tris we're from the
head ua4srs Of SPossum Trot, and con-
sisted Of naIi, woman and dog. The
latter appeared ie he confused cross DC
tween a wslt, Has brake and monkey
wr0nch, and SO 80 soon as he struck The
town, he started OF on n thieviug exredi-
ton of his own, and later on was driving
thriving business UP Main street, pull
( ing train Of eystcr cans, connected in
sona way to his pear guard.
|. The rsan was mounted on narrow
guago roam nale, with blaze face, and
exposed nose OF bright bay color.
The lady Had aboard Of her off hip n
bundle of sinsans and sundried pumpkin;
she fienrishcd luxuriant growth of Au-
rors Berealls hair, which, being tied in
the middle. With coon skin ligature,
| hung suspended from hof skull-bonc like
the Mississippi long mosA articulated on
! 4 pecan tpso; her superior toe had calico
choke rag aponnd IL, and her eyes looked
az # they had boon taken ent md rciitted
and Tor the benefit OF fire insurance COM
| paniea;~I will hero remark that she owned
! 4 full set Of freckels rs large as veal cut
| lets, and wore them displayed in careless
! simplicity. ana childish innocence, over
her otherwise harmless face, which re-
sembled the osver of an Illuminated chro-
Eup Of Mexican slaughter house.
| They headed eff toward my tent and
Eam!liarly addressed me:
s'I'vo fetched ny man, John Hennerv,
over" remarked the woman with the sore
toe, "te have him doctored up little, and
| like as not, may hare some doctorin'
done on mp sore leg; hit come from hip
| finite pain had more ner year ago last
grape time. John Henuory sold his steers
Inst Sunday to Leck Parker for sixty dol
lars and sold my sorrei hotter to Nancy
Janc Larkin for ron dollars, and We fotch
the money along to pay the doctor, and
here's mess o. dried pumpkin jis hung
hit on my arm and fotch alonS, thought
your woman might want pie when she
had company, ard wo intended to stay all
night with yea anyway, and We always pay
our way as We go, and -."
passed tho Lady O foundered chair, or
dered the Remaa nosed mule to tine livery
stable, and prepared to freat my guests
right royalty. Aad add nay bill Of hospital
! ity in together With my medical services,
SO as to incIudc az much Of that steer and
heifcr as my conscience would convenient
/ Nv atretch oeep Y X ::
ssThere aint mach che matter with John
Hsnnory," continued my guest, "Peto
Murphy's old gray marc kicked him in the
stomach last Monday and knocked one of
| his ribs through his liver and his rations
IS runnin' out at the spine of his back
INbono, and he fell ever q ash hopper last
night and slipped his hip outen jinte. /
Hist want his hfp waltzed back into the
socket and che liver rib pulled, and the
spine Of hfs back bone patched and If he
| don't petcr out while it's bein' fixed then
intend to have my soro leg fixed
"Madam," veAtured to remark. s'It is
evidont from your statement that John
Hennery must have experienced, sllillful
treatment If he rscorers, am satisfied
the gymnastis exercise over the ash hop
per bursted ths lefs ventriele of his stom-
ache and perhaps drove his neplus ultra
through che asssphaguso of his spinal ver-
batum involving the gasstratum and the
simplest mistake on the part Of an mex
perienced surgeon would prove fatal md
scoot John Hennory up the fiume where
tho wicked cease from troubling and the
weary are forever monkeying round like
a blue bottle buzz saw
Next merning tay wife's husband felt
awkward
1t seems from The finest braided infor-
nation could gathec that che parties had
decided to stop oror night with me, simply
because / was 3 mountain man, and no
doubt the innceent people thought was
the village chaplain, for they parted With
me next morning in friendly sort Of way,
gave full instructions about s'par" boiling
the pumpkin and monkeyed off up town to
hunt doctor, leaving me to invent q new
line OF uncorkcd brocaded profanity.
FRANK LINDSEY.