The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-02-01
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,. knocked down the rail fence and left
Jason without his natural means OF
support. But he knowed this wouldn't
do. with old Deacon Thorp's COWS
ranging about seeking wot they might
deyour, so he put up wire fence
NOT barbed wire, cause 1t wasn't In /
vented yet, but old-fashioned smooth
fence wire. Strung up five wires from
post to post down long the side OF
the pertater patch and 'crost the hoiler
where Jason was 'customed to roost.
There says Hod, Il reckon that Will
fetch him. Leastways he'll have to lay
down on the sudgy ground now and get
the chills, and I'll get rid of him, any
how But did it fetch him? Not much;
Jason Just put his coat on the top
wire. clumb up, sot down, hooked his
heels on the second wire and went
plumb to sleep as soon as the wilder
wasn't looking. In fact, l think he
slep' better, cause he swayed little
in the breeze and it sort O rocked him
and made him dream he was child
again in his mothers cradle.
"At fust Hold was dead beat. He's
too many for me- says Hold. The wild
der might just as well put a spring bed
out there and let him regularly turn
in and sleep till meal time But Hold
got a-thinking, and one day hit on an
other plan.
ut was about the middle of warm
afternoon, and Jason was a-s,eeping
quietly on his wire at the bottom of
the holler. This holler, you know, is
mebby 40 feet below the tops of the
little knobs each side of it. Well, Hold
went down along the fence and pulled
the staples out of the posts that held
the two top wires all the way acrost
the holler, leaving them fast on the
furder side. Then he hooked the wild.
der's team on the ends up by the barn
and drawed them two top wires up
tight, and fastened 'em solid to the
posts by the barn. OF course Jason
went up with the wires, and when Hod
got through there Jason was swing
ing gently in the summer breeze 80
feet from the ground, his face buried
| in his hands and his hoe balanced
. acrost his lap.
swell, it being near the road, the un-
{ yoosial sight 'tracted 'tention, and soon
. passed. of us was awaiting below to
see wot Jason would do when he woke
: up, we reckoning he would be some
q fabbergasted when he seen where he
e was. After quite spell, there being
a no sign of his Waking up, Hod went t.
b the house and got the dinner horn ant
: come out and footed it furious. Wher
b this welcome sound struck his ear!
Jason sort o. tossed up his head ant
2 opened his eyes. Then he looked OF
d and seen the bloc sky, and the Whit
! clouds, and felt hisself floating in TIL
air. There he says, sort o. s'llquiz
ing to hisself, that there foot was oil
Gabriers trump, just asI s'pected, AM
!, I'm an angel, like ought to be. Poo
: old Hod, s'pose he's down in t'othe
:, place!' Then he sort o. worked hi
!. head around and caught sight O. tn
= ground and partly sensed the sityoowa
= ton. Hello says he, ''pears 'sif com
9 by telegraph. Always lowed if
didn't stop working SO like hous
: aire that I'd get catched by somethin
:. FAST Then he studied the lay c
!. things a little more, and says he: Sc
- here, Hod; If I'm going to labor an
a slave and do my own work and half