The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1895-02-23
To be continued.
Another Letter from Bunk Dodson
WOOD KAMp. Feb IS, 1896.

WOOD KAMP, Feb 49, 1896
DEER DEKUN, When rote you 81
week l told you bout the old boss 20
borryed of John Conyers, but 1 forgot
to tell you that durin the scrimmage be
got away and l couldn't find him that
night. Well, last Friday / got word
that he was down to Bailey H f1ey's, so
concluded Sat'day mornin' I'd 90 down
and get him. Well you know its a
right smart ways down to Bailey's and
it was the riddle of the afternoon afore
got there. His foxes is powful nice
people and they fixed me up a snack
and then set toe 10 persuade me to STAY
all night, and next day bein' Sunday, |
concluded to do it. | was pow'ful tired
and went to bed real airly. I WASN'T
usen to sleep in SIGH warm room and
saft bed and pulled off everythin, but
my shirt drapped right off to sleep |
and by-m-by woke up dretful thirsty. |
| new where the water bucket wur,
clean az tother eend of the hall from
my room and arter listenin' a minute
gesst as every thin, was SO quiet, every
body had gone to bed, so didn't think
it was wuth while to put on any close.
Jest as | got to the water bucket the
door of another room opened and one
ofthe gals comes out into the hall. Well i
| was in perdickerment and to make
1t wus, she was comm after drink too.
slips outn the back door onto the
porch, a-hopin' mebbe she wouldn't
see me, but she did and hollers '.Who's
there2" and come on and opened the
same door | made run for it and ,
SEEM another door, opened it and
jumped into the room thout knoin, any |
one was there, but I'll be shot if it
wasn't the settin, room and there sot
Bailey and his wife, and their son Tom ,
and dartar Susan. They'd never seed !
me dres jest as | was then and didn't =
reckergnlze me. The Wimen sets up /
'creech that a. most took the shingles !
FIN the roof and Tom and the ole man +
made break for me and | made a r
break for the tother door, Tom grabs v
ne by one laig and the ole man by n
he tother and comes down on the ii
ioor kerhnmix. By this time the ole d
oman had the fire shovel and Susan A
lad the broom and they commenced il
-pepperlu' me wherever they got fr
hanst and that mas putty near all over ri
Or II Susan would miss a place with re
he broom the ole CONAN was shore to tn
nd II with the shovel the next hack. h,
rectly broke loose from 'em and II
Iade for the door leadin' into the hall, er
nd jest as got to IL tother gal, Maggy, hi
ops into II and in course there wur nj
illusion and Maggy went mighty nigh no
can to tother eend of the hall screech- an
wuser'n any of 'em, and l didn't co
'p to pick her up nuther but jest went vi
r the front door, jerks it open and We
cared the front porch with one til,
mp. The old dog Tige, was a.layin, do,
ar the front door and jest as cleared vii
3 front porch took arter me. It's are
out fifty steps from the porch to the this
mt gate and, Dekun, / done more can
I'd, downright prayin' ia them fifty teri
pa than | ever did in my hull life pro
re. | could feel the ole dog a-iump- sha
for me and his hot hreth on the fore
es Of my laigs. l dasent stop to #
n the gate but made jump for it, has
jest as did the ole dog cotch holt min
he hind eend Of NY SHIRT and took tnn,
bout half yard oft, bat cleared of le
gate all right. 1t didn't make me prod
any eemfortabler to loose SO much wate