West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-04-10
OLD zen WHITES STORY.
He Tells How the Coons Turned into a
Lively Pack OF Wild Cats.

hreplace, "but some of us arc aud IL make
things unpleasant sometimes. Take my oil,
woman fur instance. She'll 60 along fu
six months mebbe, as pleasant as 20 pleas,
and then all 10 once she'll git sot over sun
thin and be as obstinate as mewl That
the way with me too, though when I'm so
and she's sot at the same time Providene,
generally helps her to git the best of IL.
lone Sunday six or eight years ago sh,
wanted me to 60 10 .preaehin with her
wanted TO loaf around aud see IL the coon,
was comm down into the CON field,
yit aud neither one of us would give in
TO the other. She went away mad and
she was mad when she come back aud il
was late in the eveuin before she got down
the Bible aud said
'Leb White the preacher was preachiu
to US today about Dan'l in the lions den
aud want TO ask yo some questions. Was
them reg'lar lions with teeth and rosrp'
'CSn't say says still feelin sot.
"'Do YOU know why them lions didn',
eat DAMP
'Noap.
"'And yo don't keer do yop'
Not Bit.
" 'WaSl yo keep right on being mean aud
see how yoll come out A man may be sot
sg'in his wife and not suffer too much but
when he's sot ag'in the Bible that's differ
ent thing. wish yo'd find the place about
Joncr and the whale and read II to me-
" Il amt carin to read this evenin says l.
but Yo believe that the whale swal-
Tered him don't yoe'
4" Il ain't sayin as do or don't. What
I'm thinkin about is whether them coons
will come down in the con field tonight.
"'And Sunday night tool she says.
'Zeb White thar's suahly rod Of punish
ment laid up fur 70. Yo was sol ag'in
Danl and now yo are sot ag'in Toner and
don't 20 reckon yoll git on, Of it without
trouble. Will yo read To me about the chill.
drcn who was deyou'ed by the ba,sp
" Not skassly' says I 'bein I'm walin to
hear the old dawg bari, to tell me ihs coons
81 around
"'Ilow m.uy children de- yn reckon thar
wasp
Z" Can't say
4" How many barsP
Can't say.
&" Then yo are sot ag'in them too /
woudn'i be in yo'r shoes fur this hull Cum.
berland mounting. ] don't reckon go be-
lieve about the ehildren of Israel passin
across the Red sea dry shod2'
e" Il ain't sayin as ! do.
" WAL shan't struggle with yo no mo-
she says as she closes the Bible a man
who is sct ng'in his wife, Dan'I, Joncr, the
bars aud the Red sea is bound to meet up
with calamity and 20 jest go right ahead
'Jesl then said Deb "my old dawg out
side begun 10 bark and rush around and
took uP my gan and went out. I heard
great rusllin aud scauenn around and
reekoned that mo than a hundred coons was
inovin down upon the con
IL called to the dawg TO sick cn but the
criter dropped his tail and sneaked into The
house Feared like funny thing Tor him
TO do but went down among the con
alone. II wasn't two minits bcfo heard
sunthin movin about and fred at It and that
was ihc foolisbest thing / ever did. The
powder smoke had sksssly blown away
when half dozen wildcats was climbin over
me. was taken by surprise as | was lookin
fur coons but reckon it didn't make much
difference.
81 want to tell 20 about wildcats. One
Of EN- will give most any man all the biz.
ness he wants fur 10 or IS minits hut when
five or six pile on TO him a once he might
as well Try to fight buzzsaws and redhot
pokers. I went down and rolled over and
got up and my yelIs was heard fur a mile.
The only thing ! could do was to start fur
the house and though the old woman met
me a, the doah with a light them cats never
left me till was clean inside.
"Befo The i.awd sub but yo orer 10 have
bin thar TO take my photograph. was
clawed and biz and scratched from head to
heel and ! hadn't 'nua clothes on me to
cover a silver dollar. was Jest that scared
and done up that tainted away and fell
down in heap aud when come 10 was
on the bed and the old woman was dressiu
my hurts. She had TO begin at my scalp
and work down to my heels and Il took her
oil the rest Of The night. felt bad 'nua !
kin tell 20 but she made me feel wuss. She
didn't say one single word TO me all that
time When she had about finished 6xin
me up says:
Linda how do 90 reckon them coons
turned into wildcats all 10 once2'
"She soricr smiled as she looked at me
bu, shc dido'I Say anything. q, was lest
three weeks befo she tackled me about
Providence. had got out Of bed and was
siitin tefo The hah and thinkin that as soon
as I could move about ld whop the lif. out
Of my dawg for bis cowafdice when the old
woman got down The Bible and says.
Ieb do SO reckon them was regIar
lions iu the cage With DAMP
With al my heart ! do SAYS +.
" Was Danl plump and good catn2
" fife suahly was.
Hons2'
" lie did and Iu lick any cHttcr what
says 10 ihe contrary
and how about ihe whale and 1oncrY'
" The whale swaliered him as mah's
yo'r BON
" 'Aud Them bars and children
" The bars eat EN- up Co.. thc very last
one and 30 served en- right
" Add the children of israel and Red
seaf she goes an
q believe every last word Of be- says T.
" 'And is Che dawg o. bc Whopped fur
not maxim as big fule of hisscif as so did2'
i reck5ued ON whoppin him but Ili lcl
% 60 This time. Anything mop
ta fH
ovcI aud kisses me ccpt that 80 hadn't |
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