The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-02-15

hirsaslf - Il rock, "and Of co'se l heard
ever wo..t Of it. / jest couldn't help
veepn with my madness. How was
To 20 cat and fight him when | couldn't
ct on er bed? That's what | asked the
olc woman, and she surtef wiDked and
sml!ed and seq to me. SEE she:
"'Zeb, doan' ye worry no mo- bout
this wollopin bizness. but leave it all to
me. II that varmint shows up yere to-
night, he'll be the wurst licked man in
all Tennessee befo' he gifts awayP
but who's gwine to lick himT
Never ye mindr
"She wouldn't say nc mo- continued
Zeb. land l was too feeble to figger it
out. l cried myself to sleep, and it was
arter dark when l woke up. That thar
varmint had cum back. 'cordin to prom
Use, and was in front of the cabin
a-shout;n:
"'Zeb White, the time has cum fur
ye TO be pulverized. Mebbe l won't do
no mo- than chaw yer ears off and Grip
pie ye fur life. but I'll do that much fur
shore. Cum outer yer hole and stand up
to me like a man.
jest about the time he begun TO hol-
Ter my ole woman begun to git outer her
clothes and inter mine.
What ye gwine to dor SEE l.
"-Gwine out to wollop that critter or
die. seq she.
"'But ye ar a woman and he's a
powerful fighter
"'Zeb White, ye snuggle down and
keep quiet. He's cum fur a fout. He's
bin promised one and has to hev it. AS
We cant fight him l shall, and I'm
a-feelin that the Lord will put a jaw
bone inter my band to slather him.
cit wasn't no use to talk to her.
When she got dressed up, she looked like
a man. and as she stood i'll the door that
varmint cracked his heels together and
crowed like IA rooster. l jest had the
strength to git to the winder, and ]
saw all that took place. When the Teller
had crowed aud cracked. he yells out:
MY forty eighth victim ar NJ
befo' me TO be chawed Speak up, Eel
White. and tell me which ear ye'd ray
Their I'd begin On to git up my apper.
tite Whoopl Whoopee!'
And about the fght?" asked as
Zeb was silent for several minutes.
ut was full Of surprises, be answer
cd. THAT varmint was only u blow.
hard arter ali. The old woman walked
around him two or three times and then
sailed in. He hollered at the fust jump
and tried to git away, but she wouldn't
let him. She scratched, kicked and
pulled hair. and when she finally let up
ON him he wouldn't hev looked wuss if
half a dozen BARS had played with him.
I've seen a heap of men wolloped, but
he was the wollopedest man of the hull
lot.
''And didn't he know it was a wom-
.anf'sI asked.
Never knowed it till he got home
and his. W wife examined the claw
marks and the bites. The story got
around purtY soon. and he had to jest
pull mp aud move away. He had bin
licked by a woman, and it was the wuss
liokin he ever got
"And how did Mrs. White come nj
of it?"
"She didn't git a scratch, but I've
allus bin sorry about it."
For what %reason?'
"Waal." said Zeb as he turned his
face away from me, "befo' that font
she was a mighty humble woman and
left all the bossin to me. Sence then
shefs-she s.
"She's not so hunble?:'
jest so. Jest got the idea that she
kin wollop me same rs she did him, and
thar ar days when she's all ready to
make a try at it. Spiles u woman to git
such noshuns into her head-of oc'se it
does"
And an hour after we got home that
evening / overheard her saying to him:
Now. Zeb White, ye git me up a
heap O. firewood by the back door TO
morrer or take the consequences, and
I'm tellin We that them same conse-
quences will make yer back ache fur a
hull month to cum. IN. Quad in De-
troit Free Press.