The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-26

learnt enough for one night and 1 toll
the boys IL maybe mought be best 70
them TO turn cut school, So they thrhc,
cut and quit, and If they have eve
opened school any more they didn'
come over into Cyclone Streak lookin,
for fresh scholars"
The Most ''F'reshest" News.
The very latest and most freshes
news that we have heard from thai
wild and stormy strip of country which
we cal Cyclone Streak, was in regards
to a scandlous rad fight which come tc
pass between Lnz Green and old man
Bunk Weatherfcrd.
Now as to I.oz Green, he is laid uu
for general repairs and the doctors
think he will recover. But old man
Bunk rid by one day last week with his
left arm in sling and his face lookin
like a fresh map of the United States,
and give me the mainest facts in the
case from his side of the fence.
III my good old Christian father
which as you remember, Rufe, he was
a power and pillar in the church
Il he was to rise from the dead and do
me as much dirt in one day as Lac
Green done, reckon l would have to
whip him. L don't see how could keep
from II, RUFF, cause at my best I am
noth;n but plain American human
flesh. blood aud bones.
The weather had been rainin in per-
feet sluices for more than a week. In
the main time the grass was CROWN.
cotton nc Il
slIkin and tasselin and carryin on pow
erful. and L was blame nigh crazy to
stir up some fresh dirt. The weather
hit was clear that mornin and I had
took my pillow and went down to my
ten-acre new ground to lay by the
mos; loveliest field If corn anywheres
around in Cyclone Streak.
Il may be a fool to some extent every
day in the year, Rufe, but, as You knew.
II there Is anything in this world that
will make me NIL sorts of fool at oncst.
it is pack of dogs in a wildcat race.
SO far as know it has been six months
since anybody jumped a cat in Cyclone |
Streak, but l hadn't been in the new
ground ten minutes before nv dogs
struck trail and went off over the hill |
in full cry. They made a haIf-miIc |
circle, swung back to the swamp and /
went down the creek maxim more music
than thousand evenin bells. Well. I |
Jest naturally couldn't stand it no long
er. throwed off the gear, went back
by the house, flung a saddle on my horse
and put out after the dogs. We run
that cat all day-up and down the
nd h.
'orrards acrost Caney Branch a hun
ired times IL oncst. Finally at last we
'un Ii out to the big road at Murder
'reek bridge-ten miles from home
1T were foot. And then what do YOU
eckon we found? BY gatlins we found
az Green settin there straddle OF
mustang horse, with pillow line in one
and and cat skintied to the other
nd of it, laughing like he had saw
omething rale funny.
The whole thing was then as clear as /
aylight to me. Lac Green, dadburr
i'm, is so internal trifin, and has !
tasted SO scandolous much precious time
illagir around the settlement preachin ]
rec silver at sixteen to one, till he had
, turn his crop loose and let it 60 to !
rass. So tndurin the over night, for t
ure pizen cussedness and the want of {
omethin else to do, he had come over :
ito the Streak unbeknowance to me I
raggin that blame cat skin-which
andy Stribblin had shot and kilt the :
lt-and put into the race at first day a
reak. He took about five miles the G.
art of me and my dogs so as to keep us u =
the race all day. n
And you must remember, Rufe, in a
10 main time the grass was a CROWN Z
I'd the cotton bloomin and the corn n
as silkin and tasselin and carryin on fl
'werful, whilst my pillow was standin Il
i'll in the field, and me ridin my q,
'rse and followin the dogs after p,
ad cat skin like fool fghtin fire all T
y long. To be certainly, of course, n
E and Lac Green had fight, and soon al
he gifts up and out oncst more he b.
ght TO hold a private prayer meetin h.
d thank the Lord that we didn't have &c
'econd-class funeral in Cyclone Streak CT
tn man by the name of Green ridin !.
his back at the head of the process OF
n" re
From what the doctors say reckon M
1t Lag Green will come ground on his o ~,
t time enough TO vote for free sill pa
at sixteen to one in the next gen co
Il election. The sympathy of the III,
ole entire settlement goes out to old eel
n Buck Weatherford in the day OF fol
great grief and fret. But in the 10
in time the grass is GROWN at the -
e of about sixteen to one, whilst the
ton is bloomin and the corn silkin
tasselin and carryin on powerful.
% much for Cyclone Streak. WI
RUFUS SANDERS. II
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