Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-03-07
Whipped By a Woman.


along with him when he went the
rounds of his woodchuck traps, and as
we were coming home he told me this
story
Il worked 50 hard fur three or 70
Vars arter the wah" he began, that
got all run down and couldn t
skeercely git about. Thar war days
when | Jest sot around and hadn't
strength 'nufl to move outdoahs. That
same var a critter named Pike moved
into the nayburh0o1 He was from
Alabamy, ! believe, and he let ii he
known powerful soon that he was Il
he;ty man i'll a scrimmage. He talked
50 loud and blowed so high that ever
body was skeart o him, and he lest
went around steppin high and bossin
the roost. Reckon ye hev met up
with sich chaps in the moth ,"
Yes, I've seen several Of them"
That perky critter used to cum
down To my cabin and brag and blow
and tell how many men he'd licked,
and one day | gin him plain to under
stan that didn't believe in his stories.
That made him mad, and he went
away sayin rs how he'd wollop me fur
his next victim. He knowed | was in
pore health and couldn't fight hv,
but every two or three days he'd cum
down and stand in front OF the cabin
aud veil
Nov, then, Zeb White, cum cut
yere and gi; the awfullest wallopin a
human critter ever received I'm no
hand to brag, but kin tie both hands
behind me and then chaw We up in two
minits I've licked II different men
and never even got my nose skinned.
Either own NJ that We darn't fight u
man or cum out and he waIlopcd.'
That's the way he'd talk 10 me. :"
continued Zeb, and I'd git - mad
that | cried like child. Bimebv
begun to git Il leetle better. and one
day when he was callin on me Ia cum
forth and be walloped told him that
il he'd show up week from that day
I'd tackle him. He went away crackin
his heels and whoopin and reioicn,
and the old woman sez To me. sez she j:
"Xeb White. if We was Il well man
ye could wollop that crittter beio'
could make II hoe cake, but we've bin
down the banks all summer. and ye'
cant git well in week. I'm sorry
We passed yer word, but bein it's passed
we'll hev to abide by it, I'll git
whisky and roots tomorrer and brace
We up.
And did you get bettery' asked.
No. | got wuss. Whisky and roots
didn't do me no good. When the
week was up. was in bed and too
feeble to walk across the room. That
pesky critter l;nowed Jest how il was
with me, and vii he cum and stood in
front of the cabin aud shouts to the ole
woman:
AR this the dwellin place Of a
varmint named Zeb White.'
. She be-
Calls hisseIi the Possum Hunter
OF Tennessee, don't he ?
"'les, he do
Has wrassled with bars and wild.
cats and painters, and thinks hlsself
powerful on the iight?'
That's my Zeb'
Then | hain't made no mistake.
Would We do me the everlastin kind
ness TO tell him to step out yere while
chaw his ears off to stay my hunger =
Hes sick abed Jest now, but if
yell cum back arter dark he'll make
We eat grass and heller like calf
"'I'll do it, ma'am, Thar won't
be no mo delay,
"'No, sab :
"'He'l cum right out and be pull
verized, will he .
He will 7
Then We kin be lookin fur me,
Widler White I'll be kinder sorry
to see death take him from We, but
must hey him iur my forty eighth
victim, Good AFTERNOON, Widder
White good AFTERNOON
That's how they talked" said Zeb
rs he heaved rock ut snake summing
himself on rock, ''and of co'se heard
every word Of it. jest couldn't help
weepin with my madness. How was
| TO 20 ont and fight him when |
couldn't git outer bed That's what
| asked the ole woman, and she sorter
winked anti smiled and sez to me, seq
she:
"'Zeb, doan' ye worry no mo bout
this wollopin biEness, but leave it all
10 me. II That varmint shows up we're
tonight, hell be the worst licked man
III all Tennessee befo' he gifts away =
but who's gwine to lick him?
"'Never We mind
She wouldn't say no mo-" CON
tinued Zeb 'and | was too feeble 10
figger il out. cried myself To sleep,
and il was arter dark when | woke up.
That thar varmint had cum back,
cordin to promise, and was in front
OF the cabin a->houtin
! ~Z a From rs. Journal ~ weiiria.
Prof. w. II. Peeke who
makes speciality OF
III An Epilepsy, hass without
M doubt treated and cur