The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-03-05


whoopin and rejoicin, and the old wom-
an seq to me, seq she:
"'Zeb White, if ye was well man
ye could wollop that critter befo'
could make a hoe cake, but ye've bin
down the banks all summer, and ye'
can't git we'll 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 better?" l asked.
"No, l 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
knowed jest how it was with me, and
yit he cum and stood in front of the
cabin and shouts to the ole woman:
"'Ar' this the dwellin place of a
varmint named zeb White?'
She be.
Calls hisself the Postum Hunter
of Tennessee, don't hep
Yes, he do.
Has wrassled with bars and wild
cats and painters, and thinks hisself
powerful on the fight?
"'That's my Zeb.
"'Then hain't made no mist
Would ye do me the everlastin kindness
to tell him to step out yere while chaw
mis- ears off to stay my hungerp
Hes sick abed jest now, but if
ye II cum back arter dark he'll make We
sat grass and heller like calfr
"I'll do it, ma am Thar won't be
10 mo- delay?'
mo, sab
Hell cum right out and be pulver-
zed, will he?'
"'He willr
"'Then We kin be lookin fur me,
Widder White! I'll be kinder sorry to
see death take him from ye, but must
aev him fur my forty eighth victim
Good AFTERNOON, Wilder White--good
afternoon
THAT'S how they talked" said Zeb
rs he heaved rock at a snake summing
| himself on rock, land of co'se heard
svery word of it, jest couldn't help
yeepin with my madness. How was
| 20 go out and fight him when l couldn't
git outer bedY That's what / asked the
ole woman, and she sorter winked and
smiled and SEE to me, SEE she:
'Zeb, doan' ye worry no mo- bout
his wollopin bizness. but leave it all to
me. If that varmint shows up yere to-
| night, he'll be the wurst licked man in
al Tennessee befo' he gifts away'
"'But who's gwine to lick him?'
"'Never ye mindH
"She wouldn I say no mo-" continued
| Zeb, land l was too feeble to figger 1t
out. cried myself to sleep, and it was
AFTER dark when woke up That thar
varmint had cum back, 'cordin to prom.
Use, and was in front Of the cabin
l-shoutin
"'Zeb White, the time has cum full
ye to be pulverized. Mebbe I won't dc
40 mo- than chaw yer ears off and Grip
pie ye fur life, but I'll do that much full
shore. Cum outer yer hole and stand nj
20 me like man.
Jest about the time he begun to hol
Ter my ole woman begun to git outer hel
clothes and inter mine.
What We gwine to do? SEE /.
"'Gwine out to wollop that critter OF
die, seq she.
"'But ye ar woman and he's
powerful fighter
Zeb White, ye snuggle down ant
keep quiet. He's cum fur fout. He
bin promised one and has to hev it. A
ye can't fight him shall, and In
a.feelin that the Lord will put jaw
bone inter my hand to slather him..
1T wasn't no use to talk to her
When she got dressed up, she looked lik
man, and as she stood in the door tina
varmint cracked his heels together an
crowed like rooster. Jest had tn
strength to git TO the winder, and
saw all that took place. When the felle
had croweG and cracked. be yells ont:
My forty eighth victim ar noy
5efo' me to be chawed Speak up. Ze
White, and tell me which ear ye'd ray
her I'd begin ON to git up my apper
lite. Whoop! Whoopeer"
"And about the fight?" asked o
Ieb was silent for several minutes.
at was full of surprises, he answer
ID. THAT varmint was only blow
lard arter all. The old woman wake
Iround him two or three times and the
allied in. He hollered ut the fust jun
and tried to git away. but she wouldn
let him. She scratched, kicked an
pulled ha'r, and when she finally let u
IN him he wouldn't hev looked wuss
ialf dozen bars had played with hin
I've seen heap of men wolloped. bu
he was the wollopedest man of the hu
lot"
"And didn't he know it was won
an?" ] asked.
Never knowed it till he got HON
md his own wife examined the cla'
marks and the bites, The story 70
lround purity soon, and he hal to je.
QUILL up and move away. he bad bi
licked by woman, and it was the wul
iickin he ever got. "
"And how did Mrs. White come on
If it?"
"She didn't git a scratch, but "
illus bin sorry about it. "
| For what reason"
! "Waal," said Zeb as no turned h
lace away from me, "befo' that fol
she was a mighty humble woman m
, left all the bossin to me. Sence the
she's-she's"
"Shes not SO humber
"Jest so. Jest got the idea that sh
kin wollop me same as she did him, an
thar ar days when she's all ready
( make try at it. Spiles a woman to x
such noshuns into her head-of oc'se
does. 4"
And an hour after we got home TIL
2 evening | overheard her saying to him
Now. Zeb White, ye git me mp
heap o firewood by the back door T.
morrer or take the consequences, IN
! I'm tellin ye that them same cons