The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-02-13


yaller terbacker. can't bear TO have
you go with wrong ideas o Solomon.
The hired maj cut a chaw off o his plug
o. black navy, and piece of it fell into
the tub. Solomon he came fer it with a
rush, but he stopped quick when he
showed his nose ag'in it.
"'He paused and pondered. He
want eXacIy sure about that ter
hacker. He skinned one eye up ct
me, but J never said a word. Then Soil
ONION risked it and took the piece o
terbacker in.
"'He gave a couple o. chaws on to
it, and scowled some. He cooked his
head fust on one side and then Oh
t'other. as if he was sort o. considerin'
what mowt happen. Then he went to
work on to the terbacker ag'in. He
chawed il an chawed it. and by and
by he swallowed it,
Solomon" says I, sit don't APP
pear to me as though I'd "a done that"
says !.
"'Soiomon looked up and sort g
shifted at me, but it wa'n't long afore
he began to act as if he thought that
mebbe | want fur from right. He
looked at me mournful like, and then
moved to'rd one corner of his tub,
slow and sad, like funer1 When he
got there he shiyered quite some, and
then rolled over on his side, turnin' his
eyes up and lookin' pale around the
gills.
"'He's a gorer!' says T. 'Terbacker
has pisined Solomon deG!' says I, and
was all broke up, | tell YOU 4 hand
fun o. that loose cheWin' % yourr,
Cap'n, while it hain't mama in the
wilderness, so to speak. like black navy
plug or even the common everyday
yaller would be, mowt lift Solomon
| out a. the
Il cut the man on the fence off
pretty sharp and would have whipped
up my horse, but he held up his hand
and said:
'Terbacker has p'isoned Solomon
dead says !. and | went in the house
| a-wailn'. II was an hour afore had
| the heart to go out to git solomon
and take him off and bury him, and I
| Jest about jumped out o my boots for
| JOY men | see that he had turned
over onto his belly and was wrig-
glin'
"'Iie skinned a 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 some,
still in the arena, as it were, but a
little off his feed Next morniu'
| though he was on hand as lively as
cricket and eat a pound o. liver and
three flannel cakes for his break
| fast.
"'Sceiu' that Solom0u's health was
fair to middlin' after his first chaw
Of terbacker | callated it wouldn't
he Il bad idea for me to sort o. eX-
| pertinent on him. | sent and got o.
plug o black navy terbacker, cut off
a toler'ble good-sized chaw, and hand
| ed il 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 iub and chawed and chawed,
| rollin' his cud from one cheek TO
t'other and shown as plain as the
grin on his face could show it that
he was enioyin' himself more than u
log-chopper at the circus with his gal
and a pint o peanuts
Solomon had larnt 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 aud chaw-
in terbacker jest as juicy and jest as
KNOWN as if he was Squire Jagers
settin' aud chawin' and discussin' the
state of the country. down to the
Geeville tavern.
"'But ! didn't think that it was
Jest the proper thing for a catfish,
that had right from its surround
ms to be brought up in the way it
should go, TO chanter-bac and so
! set out TO break Solomon of il, but
great dog hopple. hadn't counted
on Solomon's idees about it,
when | quit handin' him down
his regular chaw it upset 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 o. 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 oyer-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 minute,
cap'n, he was calm as Sunday
mornin', and as contented as cow
standin' up TO her knees in the creek,
in the shadder of "a big tree chawia
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, capn, and can't lay in
| th;c eiIa ~ Eaavilla Unless Sol.