Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-01-21

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aisaer rooster; ef Marse Sam kstch Won
a~chunkin' him he'll lay his buggy whiu
oJer You 10 YOU know way you stan
Ihe two now drove the bird into the lock
OF the fence, where, armed with their hats
lhey made rush at him The angry cock
new at the runner, who ran, but Titus
made grab at the coveted treasure and
the bird new away, leaving his tail behind
| him. The two now returned la triumph
10 the gold seekers.
OLD Juba seized the feathers. ..Sow =
cried he, W. lie bun desc yer fesider you
all Kin TEX 1t by tun to pray. Each man
pray 20 long as fedder bun, wen IL bun
ou. dat pusson mus cen Many prayers
l. great discounsgement tuh ebiI sperits,
an No Is bu INT fetlders."
Silas Chief Grand Lambkin WAS first
called ON, and in some trepidati0n he lie.
gan TO pray and his feather TO burn. ''Ob,
Laud, we beseeeh thee tuh pertect us frum
desc yer ebii sperits. we dats found diSher
great treasure, so dat II we ain't sole all
we had To buy IT, lesAseways ives Ief all
Marse Sam Rodgers' cotton wastin in de
fel' tell we fine''--
stop. sub" said old Juba: "yo' feddpr
dun out Mex o2e.
Israel, one of the Chosen Sons OF l,ien.
help agn desc ehil sperits; let us not waste
| our time liker we waste Marse Sans cot
ton dat a-sheddin' ober de Rroun' lieker
ontimely snow
''Yo' fedder dun bum said old Juba.
''annuder one try
BY the time the ROSTERS tall had been
consumed some fifteen or twenty most
fiourishing prayers had been nipprd Ia the
bud. Some of the feat hers being longer
than others OF course affected the length Of
the prayers which all were anxious To
make; so il fell To the lot of Eli, the last
man, to speak only while the last and
shortest feather burned la great excite.
ment he began "Oh, l.atdyl I.audy." he
cried, a. bis feather began to liz, "I44u-II.
dy,"
"Dey, II dun bun broke in old ,Juha
''Chuhr' muttcred Eli. cl-.sttallen; II
nebher hnd no showin' ,,at teetle tail
fedder wunt wuth tslkin bout Taint
muffin but pen fedder nohow.
"lt smell, sail Jnbi, AN mex spcrits
swinkr
In case these fragmrutary petitions were
not successful oil Jubd supplemented
them by muttering divers ncantatiuus
against evil spirits. uttered in words OF his
own invention.
The evening ceremonies being now over,
the negroes commenced digging. and male
the dirt fly. No sooner was one man ex-
hausted than another took his place from
the ranks Of the anxious bystauiers As
they got deeper they rugged up bucket
aud sweep and lifted the earth with great
speed While they dug Did Juba continued
the fight against evil spirits by borrowing
a Bible from Slas, which hn set on pile
Of old har~eshoes, after opening il and
laying IS iite stone across u page. and he
pretended u read ia muttrring voice as
they dug
Silas led the ,liggers lie had been seiNrd
with a Thirst for gold. and every time he
threw out shovelfnl II dirt he looked
anxiously for The coveted treasure Iftirr
his lead the Chosen sons Of Identity did
mighty deeds OF salnr A. he worked his
imagination took lire, anal d-
'inny goule yit. Sila-sa asked an out
slider, anxinusiy.
Not yit, said Silas, but terrectly hii'Il
begin tub shine. lows at least tub git a
busheI, an when iues, de cotton fieT II
know me no mo. | gwinter buy Marse
Sam fns' hoss an buggy an dribe roun'
same llker | wnz w'ite. I'll draw de reins
ober FLYNN Bess an SAY Tit ilp, suh!n
AT the mere idea Of this grandeur SilAs
burst into joyous laughter. aud without
thinking he spat, for he WAS great tor
baeeo cheMer Old Juin looked up from
the Bible he WAS pretending To read
"Dey now. you gone an spit Nha' you
spit faht Spttin' is great encourage
nent 10 ebll sperits-lat outer dat hole,
sub. an git WAY frtIm hnh'
siias sorf0wiulls arose aud retired crest.
fallen, aud another man, with an empty
mouth. took his place
As Silas retired from the scene he made
"A vague effort to establish his present NO
cial status. u wuL a nan who 'peared tub
be himself, an not Rnsdder pusson ," lie
shook his head, he failed To recognize hun
self and he went over that statement. II
wmz man who 'pesaed tub he himself.
an not anadder pussoH. dat | knows fur
fac. Here he met his wife, who had been
the witness OF his disgrace
You used tuh he de lam kin. hut new
you's kin oh nnttin.
Overwhelmed by tAts cutting remark,
Silas skunk away
Old Juba now formulated new set of
rules and regulations untler which they
were TO act They wen not 10 speak while
at work. not within certain distance of
the excavation, neither should they chew
day, nor could they stop work during the
time allotted them, lest 1t cause the evil
spirits To oserpower tie good spirits under
whose guidance he acud These evil spir.
its had IL in their power to remove The
gold at any time they might gain the as
cendancy
Ali Of this information the negroes i'm
plieitly believed. and day after tIay the
work went ON. After digging some ten
feet the gold seekers stuck he'd OF rock.
and now their progresswss slow, bur they
stuck 10 IL. nor could any one persuade
them that il was impossible for buried
gold TO be hid in solid rock.
DE sperits tell ms dir SAID they, and
dig they would, while he fast opening cot
ton shesl ami wasted II seemed to he ex.
asperated planters more than they could
stand.
The weather was hot and sultry, storms
had been frequent In I he vicinity, and they
lived in constant dread that their time
would come next and their crops be ruin
ed. A cyclone also had visited the adi Join
ing county and blown Troplc and houses
about IN a lively manner. The terrible re
ports OF its havoc had sei the negroes wild.
Those who were not interested in the gold
digging were full Of terror Of the cyclone,
aud wished 10 siop work and go 10 digging
cyclone pits--that +, the wicked ones were;
the more pious insisted that IL would hs
resisting the will Of the Lord
Chief among these WINS Aunt Bina. Mrs
Rodgers nurse. This rodiy woman main.
tanned the extreme sinfalne~s OF taking
any precautions against the convulsion~
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