The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-12-09
(Copyriehted by the Author)

70 our gang. so tina hen we start OUT
70 the exposition "a NV lows look
hke circus nara pan is the ring
master and Bin Amos 5 the clown. Bill
says TOOL funny thingt and we'uns all
iaush. Pap he tried ID kepp US together
ana make us all go his way-but our cara
van is as onruly and Wild as show animals
iet out cage: ever fellow wants to go
ms own way, and sometimes pap is most
distracted tryn' to keep up with us and
sometimes he gifts ahead and we'uns all
follow him hOldin on to one another
Ike observation-disclosures -crany-crow,"
SHOWN our way through the crowd Pap
can make any crowd move to let him pass
they move out of Bill Amoss way, too.
Bil ne jined us the fust day he come ana
mas stuck to us ever sence And what
Amos hant saw of the sights here, halnt
worth a-seein. lie don't dodge nothin'.
lie lowed: Il started out to cit the full
worth of my money" And he is a-gttn'
OF it. lie goes his part a-payiu for all
me SIDE shows-and its a good show it.
selr to watch Bill-he Is SIGH a monkey
IN a crowd. II don't low to skip nothin'. "
says he. land that thar thing they call
shoot the shoots, and the skeery sennick
railway | am bound to see fore / leave
here, but bin a-waitln' for some of YOU
'uns to go with me-some of YOU gals"
Mandy Rountree is I'm love with BIZ so she
ups IN minute, and says she'll 90. Gale
low Bin Amos bidn-foided to
tho ''jumpin' of place" Before
we got through we thought We
had all followed Eli Amos TO the 'jumpiu'
Off place" Cousin Pink lowed she was
skeered to Co-swine IN in that wheel
cured her w1ntin' to so IN any other
skeery dangcrsome place-so she backed
squar out--so did Mis- Gooden and them.
Cindy Robertson lowed she was skeered,
but she'd do whatever the crowd done.
Caledony haint the bacl,iu ont sort so she
lows: Come on, Betsy. Of these here boys
pay for it. less me and you go" l was
sorter skeered to try it-but Cap Dewberry
and buddy and others and them KEEP ON
a-beggin' OF US till we went. and [ wouldn't
a-missed it for nothin'-We LNon to a.
laughed our Eoo1y selves to death. You
see we didn't know no moro nOthin what
"shootin' the shots" was; we d.dl't keer
to ak nobody, Gaze We didn't want no
body TO think we didn't know so we
thought the best way to find out was 70
pay the money and Try IT, So we all went
in and seed for ourselves; and it was
q steep slidy-hill-steeper'n the hu back
Of our house whar we slide on pine straw
tother side of little pond of water-tncy
say the water haint but four foot deep.
but IL looks TO be forty. You go to the top
of that hill IN kyar and then
Won git I'm a little canoe: that is sot ON a
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tore down Simmons boI dogs gifts after It,
You so so fast tho v most takes your
lrcath-it knocks yol hat oT-aud JERKS
the hairpins outn YOU oad and your ham
ker-cher outn your L but laws, you arc
so skocrcd you aint Grin for nothn
but your life. on oUrsct a-@Wlne
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uothia' but vel
They tell you. in that boat
TO hold on tight ,ut laws. they
didn't have 20 t. our gang t.
holler-we yelled. all Inc bless
cd way down 20 .er so loud the
policeman had to ru 20 see what was
the matter. E1h Amo se told hm Il ne
Gidht kno" what inc hatler, anu
what we ythod TOT #iy lot MN jos y
git In that BOAT hlsSeh ma let EN- turn II
loose.
Nhen IL mt the Watef II went hefslo7h'
and we thought we was gone tich siio-
me water sloshed an up over us anu
lhat vas uie uine we Selieu 1ii1 iVuaest
NANNY hountFto iAiilt0d anu zen hat-s
lltht INTO blll Amos arms. one lhoh6ut
we was all GROUNDED. taIedoHy sunday
Tat ieil Gil IN tle water SIC SOt - "sail''
nut Nai sue io"eu sut u u u.uer i99e ~ eH-
I. hats as !" " A''99eu S"oo''" '"tul
hhoots.
after the boat MT inc water IL
bounced UP and down up and
down, ana skipped clean across
that pond-iIke you've seed a boy skeet q
rock across water-and we landed ON 'tother
side. IL sho was skeery. But it all went 50
quick il never give us no time To think.
Mandy Rountree was skeered so bad she
helt on TO Biu Amoss arm after We got
outn the boat and never turned MN loose
Ill We got 70 the 'skeery senuck rail-
way, as Bin calls it,
We jumped In a little kyar; We didn't
know no more'n a sperrt whar we was
a-swine-we hadn't hearn nobody tel moth
IN about it-all We knoWed was that We
was a-followin' Bin Amos Wherever he
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