St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-06-27


git drownded they would float up
stream for pure cussedness-a general
nixtry of pizen human nature and
variegated meanness - and there you
are, as the man says in the play.
A Bad "FamiIy Rueus.'. :
About the most marvelsoIne thing
in this round created world to me is to
take notice of what tremendous big
mess some people can stir up out of
measly little troubles and tribulations.
For the good name and honor and
glory of Rocky Creek / do rally hate TO
tell it. But the truth is mighty and
bound to leak out, and here lately we
have had the dadblamdest ard most
gohelyest family rucus and confusion
ment goin on in the settlement that
ever went down into ancient history.
If somebody's dog had but only
sucked the egg that BRING forth the
chicken, which is now old Misses Clan
cy's speckled shen-orNif the railroad
train had but only run over the spotted
hound dog which broke up the speckled
hens nest down. by the COW pen gate
the Clancys and the Wigginses mought
be good friends to-day, and the whole
entire settlement would be better off.
But in them days it came to pass that
old Misses Clancy had set her speciled
hen on 16 eggs down there by the cow
pen gate. That very night old man
Billy Wiggins' fine spotted hound dog
which he could "run forever and then
turn to buckskin,' to hear Billy Wig
gins tell it--4he was perusin around in
;the still and solemn hours, and then
when the risin sun painted bobtail
flush acrost the eastern sky, as it were,
the old speckled hen she was still a set
tin down there by the cow pen gate
on hatful of shells but marry egg.
Consequentially old Misses Clancy
went down to the COW pen that mornin
singin+ some lively little snatches from
t.Amazin Grace" and "Abide with Me-
Tut on her return back to the house
she come weepin and wailin and smash
in her teeth. She was mad, white peo-
ple-ravin, bilin, foamin, furious mad
mad with everybody in general and
anybody in particlar that would own
Il suckegg dog. Yet still she didn't go
down there and tie any strings to the
specl1led hen to break her from her
nest. Instid of that, when the sun went
down and the gold of eyenin met the
dusk of night onct more, you under
stand, that speelSled hen was holdin
forth at the. same old s.stand-down
there by the coNN pen gate -7gettin on
one egg, sand hit eheck full of Rough
ON Rats"
's1t don't make a blessed bit of diff
ference with me who owns the dog,
/ willsput the mortal fxments ON him
tonight says old Misses Clancy that
evein in tellin mother about thesgen-
eraf circumference of the calamity.
Sixteen fresh eggs amt nowheres to
hongry dog, but when he makes it
sey enteen I'll lay he will have plenty
and some to spare, vss, Z. = rgsasss B9
Bright and early the next mornin old
Misses Clancy she lit out and vent down
to the cow pen1gate to see II it had
come to pass, Itshad. Thespeckled hem
was settin on marry egg. The dog was
dead ~ e
.sI lowed he would have plenty and 4
some to spare when he counted seven
teen" says the old lady in tallzin around
amongstth the neighbors. 'tHe didn't tote 1
the last egg more than 20 feet before he
was took down with a mighty hurtin.
I'll be blest if he didn't throw up every
thing but his tail, and made IL fit
tremendous loose"
Well, that spotted. hound dog be-
longed to the Wigginses, whilst the !
speclled hen belonged to the Clancys.
And between the two they brung on
thatbad family rucus
Their Double Breasted Compliments.
Then next time them two plain old fe-
male women met up together. it was at |
singin match over at Bark Log church.
Naturally, of course, they hrung up the |
question of speekled hens and spotted
dogs, which the more they discussed, |
the faster they talked, and the hotter |
they got.
In the general run of that furious |
confabulation Misses Virgins called
Misses Clancy everything she could lay |
her tongue to except q gentleman and |
a scholar, and the old lady Clancy she |
returned the fire with her douhle-
breasted compliments. ,-
About the. next news we heard was
10 the extent that two yearlin boys had
got UP the question. of speckled hens
and spotted dogs at school one day. III
would seem like Gus Wigginsl had final
1y at last jumped on Pate Clancy and |
give him one OF the most severest chas- |
tisements that white boy ever toted |
outsof these woods.
Whereas, when Gus Virgins come /
by the Clancy place that eyenins on his
return back from school the speckled
hen had omit her nest, but old Misses
Clancy she was settin down there by /
the cow pen gate----7settin, bless your
life, and settin for Gus.
I am sorry Ididn't ccme along there
in time to see the Justification between
the old lady Clancy and Gus Virgins.
But life as we live it in this vain and
eeetin world is full of sorrows and dis