St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-05-23

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in the greatest plenty, and the ground
tore up MS with bear fight for miles
around.
White people, there was trouble last
week, and the most loveliest strip OF
country ON the broad bosom OF the
earth went heels over appetite into the
most goneleyest confusionment yon
cvcr heard tell of or read about per-
haps. 1t would seem like everything
come crooked and went twistin-feet
foremost, catawompused and wrong
side up with care.
Tcrrors Of . Tight-Eye Thicket.
In the beginnin to start with, bright
and early Monday mornin old Misses
Hasseltinc took up fool notion all OF
Il student that it was Jest about her
time of year to 60 fishin. Consc-
Guentinlly she went out behind the gar
den and dug some earth worms and
caught q few crickets and put em in
her gourd and lit out for Caney Branch.
/ was out to the lot tendin to the stock
that mornin when the old lady come by
our house, with her fishin pole in one
hand and her bait gourd in the other.
burnin the wind and splittin the big
road wide open for Caney Branch. She
was in such tremendous big hurry to
give them fish chance to bite till she
didn't even slow up at the front gate.
1.-THE early worm fetches the fish.
Rufus" says she, in passin by. land
/ told the girls to have the grease hot
when return back home"
1t was then three days and nights
that never laid eyes on Misses Hassel-
tine, but in the main time before the sun
went down that day everybody in the
whole settlement had heard the news
in regards to her fishin trip down on
Cai.ey Branch, and the great gobs OF
soTrow and confusionment which filed
that poor old lady's cup to the brim.
pressed down and runnin over.
From general appearments and oil
the surroundin circumference of the
case. it would seem like the old lady
got n bite when she want l0okin for it
and caught somethin which she didn't
need in her regular business. In fishin
and foolin around she had finally at
last worked her way and wedged her
self into a tight-eye thicket In the most
lonesornest place on Caney Branch.
And now presently it come to pass that
she got her hook hung where as she set
back and pulled and pulled till she
pulled out n human skeleton. The thing
was as natural as death. and every bone
was there from skull to toes.
Well, to be certainly of course OLD
Misses Hasseltine didn't go way OIL
down tt ere on Carney Branch by her lone
self fis lin for the bones Of dead men,
and shn didn't need any human skele-
tons t. speak of on her string. Where
as. she throwed down her fishin pole
and dropped her bait gour1 on the spot
und tore out of there. And she didn't
fool off no time pickin her way out
neither She jest naturally hit the grit,
ard hit it movin. There was that
tight-eye thicket all around. a big cane
brake Oh one side of the branch and a
great mass of bamboo briars on the
other. But old Misses Hasseltine she
tore out of there.
A Plain Case Of Pushency.
About the next news we got from the
old lady Hasseltine she come up power.
full student and unexpected like ut the
Buckalew placc-the first settlement
on this side of Caney Branch. And from
what l can hear and pick up around
amongst the women folks, she had left
the mainest part of her clothes down
there ON the branch-hangin around
promiscuous in that terrible tight-eys
thicket, the canebrake and the bambos
briar patch.
OF course, that was nothin' to me end
none of my business. but mother told
me that Sallie Virgins told her thai
Rosebud Buckalew told her that tbs
poor old soul lad one shoe on when
she come up at the Buckalew place
And Bunk Weatherforl was in tho
crowd which went down there aftel
the skeleton. and Bunk says there wa.
enough calico hangin' around on ths
br;ars and cane and in that tight-eys
thicket to make a new bed quilt.
1t was the followin Thursday befor,
the old lady got well enough to return
back home, and me and mother went
over there the next day to comfort and
condole with her as best we could.
II had ketched three mud cats, foul
red pearches, seven hornyheads and ons
skeleton, Rufus, and it was then higl
time for me 10 take out and quit" !" say.
the old lady to me, and right then sh'
| went sweatin great drops of perxpira
tion N big N your fist. II had ketchea
everything in the waters of Cane.
branch, from speckled trout to I
blunt-tail moccasin, but up to that day
/ never had pulled on the line and cam'
forth with a human skeleton. and j
was jest simply one too many for me
OF course, knowed it wouldn't Bit
nor sting, but the looks and the thought
of the thing. Rufus, Was more than
could stand. Naturally. Of course.
tore out of that place. 1t was q plail
Ease of pushency, Rufus. Twas bleedgc'
to come out from there"
i don't make out like IL was righ'
you understand. to think funn.
thoughts in times Of SORROW and .
trouble, but old Misses Hasseltine pu
me in mind Of Sol Eddins and his do
that day.
The last time / wns ont in Texas
went down to Hood county to see III
Ef:dias folks. which Sol and me ha'
come mp AZ Toys and girls togethc
back here in the states. In them day
Sol had = tremendous fast'dog, and b
went ON to tell me of how that do
jump>d jack rabbit and made hin
take : sycamore tree.
The rabbit couldn't find no holIel
lnife, and he jest naturally elum tn
sycafnorc tire. )" says Sol 70 me.
Now. ~ everybody knows. rabbi
eouldz't climb . scr1bby black tacl