The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-03-13
BENTON LOUISIANA, THURSDAY MARCH 13, 1902.

II cut the man on the fence Of
pretty sharp and would have whipped
up my horse, but he held up his hand
and said:
I" 'Terbacker has p'isoned Solomon
dead says I, and 1 went in the house
a-wailin'. 1t was an hour afore l had
the heart to go out to git Solomon
and take him off and bury him, and
jest about jumped out O. my boots fol
JOY men l see that he had turned
over onto his belly and was wrig
glin'.
:" He skinned pretty sick lookin
eye up at me and shook his head
kinder as if he didn't care whether
school KEEP or not, but by and by he
started out and swan around soma,
still in the arena, as it were, but a
little off his feed. Next mornin'
though he was on hand as lively as
a cricket and eat pound O. liver and
three flannel cakes for his breakfast.
Seem that So1omon's health was
fair to middlin' after his first chaw
of terbacker I caFlated it wouldn't
be bad idea for me to sort O. ex.
pertinent on him. I sent and get O.
plug O. black navy terbacker, cut of
a toler'ble good-sized chaw, and hand.
ed it over to him.
He came up and took it exactly
like it was jest the thing he was
lookin' for. He sa'ntered to one side
o. the tub and chawed and chawed.
rollin' his cud from one cheek tc
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 'arnt to chaw, and
he begged all that plug O. black navy
away from me afore night. 1t was
a sight that drawed people for miles
to see Solomon layin' back and chaw.
in terbacker jest as juicy and jest as
KNOWN as if he was Squire Jagers
settin' and chawin' and discussin' the
state of the country, down to the
Geeville tavern.
"'But l didn't think that it was
jest the proper thing for catfish,
that had right from it's surround.
ms to be brought up in the way it
should go, to ehanterbacker, and so
/ set out to break Solomon of it, but
great dog hopple. l hadn't counted
on Solomon's idees about it.
"'When l quit handin' him down
his reg'lar chaw it upset his nerves
tremendous. He ripped and tore
around in the tub like a 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 O. the tub. Then
he took to buttin' his head ag'in the
sides O. the tub, and I 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 l passed him down a
chaw.
Solomon grabbed it and begun to
chaw away. In less than 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 a big tree chawin'
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 hell
81 whipped up my horse and drove
on.
The man on the fence hollered aft
er me:
essay, cap'n! If you kin give me a
couple of clutches O. that three-cent
long-cut blue paper smokin' O. yourn,
mebbe mowt coax Solomon through
on that!'
81 didn't answer him. / half be-
ieved he was liar. When I looked
back and saw him cutting himself off
a big chew from plug of black navy
tobacco 1 was sure he was. IN. Y.
Sun.