Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-27

| l terbacker in.
 He gave a couple O chaws on to l It, and scowled some. He cooked his, ] head fust on one side and then on ! t'other. as if he was sort O considerin' l what mowt happen. Then he went to work on to the terbacker ag'in. He chawed it an chawed it, and by and 1 by he swallowed it.
 ."Solomon," says I, .'it don't ap- pear to me as hough I'd "a done that, '" says I.
 Solomon looked up and sort O, snitfed at me, but it want long afore he began to act as if he thought that mebbe l want fur from right. He looked at me mournful like, and then moved to'rd one corner of his tub, slow and sad, like funer'l. When he 1 got there he shivered quite some, and then rolled over on his side, turnin' his 1 eyes up and lookin' pale around the gills.
 He's a gonerl' says I. 'Terbacker ! has p'isined Solomon ded!' says I, and l was all broke up, tell you. A hand- l full O that loose chewin' O yourn, l Cap'n, while it hain't mamma in the l wilderness, so to speak, like black navy l plug or even the common everyday yaller would be, mowt lift Solomon out Q the-'
 ''I cut the man on the fence off 1 pretty sharp and would have whipped up my horse, but he held up his hand l and said:
 Terbacller has pisoned Solomon dead says I, and I went in the house awailin'. It was an hour afore I had the heart to go out to git Solomon l and take him off and bury him, and I ] jest about jumped out O my boots for I joy men 1 see that he had turned over onto his belly and was wrig- glin'.
 He skinned q pretty sick 1ookin' l eye up at me and shook -.is head i kinder as if he didn't care whether school kep' or not, but by and by he | started out and swam around some, l still in the arena, as it were, but q little off his feed. Next mornin' 1 though he was on hand as lively as cricket and eat a pound O liver and three flannel cakes for his break I fast.
 l l fair to middlin' after his first chaw of terbacker I cal'lated it wouldn't ] be bad idea for me to sort O ex- 1 pertinent on him. l sent and got o' plug Q black navy terbacker, cut off a toler'ble goodsized chaw, and hand l ed it over to him.
 lille came up and took it exactly l like it was jest the. thing he was l lookin' for. He sa 'ntered to one side l O the tub and chawed and chawed, 1 rollin' his cud from one cheek to l t'other and showin' as plain as the grin on his face could show it that he was enjoyin' himself more than a log-chopper at the circus with his gal and pint O peanuts!
 "'Solomon had larnt to chaw, and he begged all that plug O black navy away from me afore night. It was a sight that drawed people for miles l to see Solomon layin' back and chaw- in terbacker jest as juicy and jest as knowin' as if he was Squire Jagers settin' and chawin' and discussin' the state Of the country, down to tn Geeville tavern.
 But l didn't think that it was jest the proper thing for a catfish, that had right from it's surround in's to be brought up in the way it should go, to chanter-backer, and so l 1 set out to break Solomon of it, but great dog hopple. l hadn't counted on Solomon's idees about it.
 "'When I quit handin' him down his reg'lar chaw it upsot his nerves tremendous. He ripped and tore around in the tub like mad dog, and his eyes laid way out on his cheeks.
 "'When he stopped for minute he shook so that he stopped the water clean over the top Q the tub. Then he took to buttin' his head ag'in the sides O the tub, and see that un- less he got ease pretty ding quick he'd have that tub over-runnin' with | brains that he'd knocked out of him. self. So passed him down a chaw.
 Solomon grabbed it and begun to chaw away. In less than a minute, cap'n, he was calm as Sunday mornin', and as contented as a COW standin' up to her knees in the creek, in the shadder of big tree chawin' l her cud.
 '.'Ever sence then Solomon has had ! to have his chaw of black navy plug regular on the dot or die. We've run out O plug, cap'n, and can't lay in none this side O Geeville. Unless Sol- omon gifts chaw afore long he'll-
 q whipped up my horse and drove on.
 The man on the fence hollered aft CT me:
 Say, cap'n! If you kin give me couple of clutches O that three-cent long-cut blue paper smokin' O yourn, mebbe I mowt coax Solomon through on that!
 i 'sI didn't answer him. I half be- I lieved he was liar. When l looked back and saw him cutting himself off a big chew from plug of black navy l tobacco I was sure he was.'-N. Y. l Sun.
 Her Point of View.
 Mrs. Hiram Offen-How long were you in your last place?
 Applicant-Oi was there just @ 1 month, ma'am.
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