The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1894-01-20
BIG BEN WAS NO COUNT.
HE MADE HIS OLD MASTER A
HEAP OF TROUBLE.
Hhtch Brought Sorrow OH More Than
one Person Beside Himscif-Iow Old
Master Finally Secured Him When the
Winter and Frost Came.

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polishing the bowl of the silver spoon
he was cleaning until his own visage.
black. scanned and wrinkled, was re-
! Elected therein. He done mex oil
mars mighty heap er trouble in he
time. OF mars he wurn't what we
all call "nigger driver" kase he
never druv he niggers, but he gwine
mex 'em work if Gawd spars i'm.
Dat Ben he was trilin' sho nufT,
an when oil mars brung i'm frum dc
swamp in cotton pickin' time an sot
him a-w orkin in de field, Ben he low
he not gwine sweat hcsef fer no
white buckra' 'ceptin' he slip up.
"Or mars he kept he eye on i'm,
but he ant say nothin yit When
Ben he got ter de kitchen he sec
jimmy, de diuin' room gal, and he
sorter come roun' jimmy an low he
gwine marry her. an jimmy tote him
vittles frum de kitchen twel one day
misses she kotch dat CONAN.
ode cook she bile a ham like oil
misses tolo her an sot hit out ter
cool an jimmy see dat ham, an low
she gwine tote hit ter Ben sho she
bawn.
when jimmy was a-gwine thoo de
passage wild de ham she hear oil
miss a-comin', an she hid de ham
underneath her coat. but OIL miss
done seed 'cr an give her fifty lashcs.
'Den jimmy she got no mo- use
for Ben an wouldn't fool long wild
him any mo-, an Ben he done toted
all he could find he slipped off ter de
| swamp, an oil mars never did know
when he went
When mars find out Ben done
gone he AK jimmy whar abouts he
gone, but jimmy low she don't know
nothin' tall bout de niger Mars
he whop 'er, but she low she don't
know whar he done gone, 'cep,in' he
war wild de rations he hid in de
swamp. Den jimmy she tell bout
Ben an de rations dat he steal an
tote off ter de swamp.
Nobody done tole Ben dat jimmy
tell on him, but he hear hit sartin.
kase he come an steal Jinny's boy
what she done had fore she come ter
de plantation. lie was n purity little
yaller boy bout so high. an young
miss she mex i'm fotch an tote fer
her, an he lay round de big house
twell he git as fat and sassy as
coon in 'simmon time.
when Jinnv miss her bov sbo
tool, ter ramnin, 'round 'raocouslv
an Young miss she took on most as
bad a jimmy sheself.
but Ben he lay low twel de crap
was LAID by an de millyons was done
Brer Ben warn't far. kase the hands
done seed his tracks in de patch. but
none err dem nippers told ole mars.
after while when de fodder was
done pulled an de cone shucked. an
all the millyons done eat up oil mars
done turn out dc horgs in de fer.
Dat ar wuz zactly what Brcr Ben was
n countin' on. kasc in de night he
slip inter de cone patch an kotch
him Il fat shoat and eat barbecue
twel he didn't want no mo-,
.Bimeby oil mars took ter countin
he horgs am find EN- missing. and
oil mars he low. he did. Hts dat
rascal Ron. dome seed b;s tracks
in de field, an gwine kotch i'm eff
1t takes every hound in dis sher
cOunIyi
"Oli mars he sent down ter Clumbv
county. and he sent ter Lincoln
county fer dc hounds. an, dev was
bruno down ter dc plantation. an,
such n ki-viun nv hounds Won never
heered in vour bawn davs
But Land bless vo' soul. twant no
manner er use. All de buclxra men
an nil de hounds never did kotch
Rrer Rem. He less Law low an saw
notbin,
CATER while OF mars brunp in de
borps and die de taters. an fix all
| dom tings whom hit less sot in an
freeze an, freeze. an, weuns had de
| bipqest horo KILN, dat over was in
dat county or de state err Georgy.
"Ol, mars he couldn't kotch Brer
| BEN. an, de hounds warn't no manner
er use. but. people, de frost an de
| snow hit took him.
| ..One mawnin fore dav oil Jocko.
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