The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-14
ITO Be Continued Next Sunday.l


mar S lots or men Beaver crick
That's limberer in the jaw,
But thar hain't no man kin rassel me down
When hit comes to knowledge law:
Thar's others. too, thatll say hit;
And thar's ben considerable talk
That my opinions would git to ride
Whar the 'squres would hev to walk!
/ think Squire Virgins as honest a man any
you ever see:
But the judgment he give in the kittle case. the:
plum oisgusted me-
1 Kin state that case clean thu
Thum the nose to the pastern jints--
/ kin norrate the thing thum eend to eend
And give you the legal pints:-
The Wilder Plunkit and Abner
Was down in the timber-patch
A-bilfn sugar-worter;
And. when they finished the batch.
They ; piled up the troughs and kt,le
Allowin' that they would come
And bring the team and wagin
And haul the truck up home.
But the crick hit got bender,
SAnd carried that kittle mild or more
Onto old Pole Beaslys land
And Teller by the name Hines
Was -huntin' thar one day
And found the kittle, ketched in drift,
And ne up and packed hit away.
And sof up MGaf PR TSbsv cnA I'M k'''
And Hines he fit for SALVAGE,
And old Pole Beasy said
That he reckoned HE'D take hand,
On account ov Riparian Owner
For the kittle belonged with the land.
Inc lawyers come thum Jerk-Tail,
And Virgins on the case
And they speenied tract ov witnesses
For ten mild around the place!
Old Jim Roach was for plaintiff
Bamboozlein' ov Jestis
Is the longest hollis for him.
Why, afore the squire knowed hit,
Or see what Jim about.
He'd busted the claim for SALVAGE
And NOLLIED the Hines Teller out!
That married the thing little;
Old Roach pleeded Beasly's case,
And the wilder represented
BY man ov the name ov Chase
little fiste Teller.
AS peert and sharp as a lance,
But, la, when Jim rz on him
He hadn't the ghost ov chance!
HE'D allus win-you can bet YET
He'd manafacter decisions
And woller his client thu
He'd thes stand over Virgins.
"a. And holler and, sweat and strain.
Till his weskt showed his galuses
AS eff he'd ben in the rain;
And wiggns'd set thar and swoller
His arguments clean and slick
And l see defendants chances
Was a-gittn powerful sick.
For Jim hilt the squire tight
Old Beasly'd a-got the kttle
Eff hit hadn't ben for the FIGHT.
And. speakin' ov that thar frakis.
thes make bold to say.
Thar hain't ben anything like hit
In the deestrct sence that day.
Why. the whole of the dogoned bottom,
Was in hit-and legal perceedins
Is a-pendin' tharon stilli
A hoss-racin' scrub. Wash Bunker,
Thes drunk enough for a muss,
A-cussin' around the doorway
And eetchin' to git a fuss.
AS WoULDN ''f' CURRY No 5fo SHEER,
When some Teller. off and drapped him
With lick the burr ov the ear
| Then come rush and a scrimmage,
And afore you could holler scat
The interest he'd got on the outside
And perceedins had tumbled fat
Boxiey jerked off his linsey
And was wadin' in with a rail.
| When Snodgrass diffed him a couple
That tuck the wind outen his sail;
Then passed. ov other fellers
Thes peeled themselves TO the skin
They thes shucked of thar garments
And slunR EN- and lighted in:
And TANNED in the winders and door.
And smashed up the cheers and table
And rasseled all over the floor.
whar was the squire? No whar.
| He didn't know what do
With the statutes. made and provided
| A-layin' right thar In view.
| But the fuss IL turned the trial:
For. when he got order agin,
| see. thum Wigginss actions,
That Beasly'd hev to give in.
Mebby the squire ratified,
Or mebby the Teller skeered
| But he give the illegalest judgment
That think ever heerd,
| Hit stands thar yit on the dockit,
| ORDERED, DEFENDANT AND PLAINTIFF
| DIVIDES THE KITTLE AND COST
They froze out the pore Hines Teller:
And. ov course wasn't MY pitch in.
Ef he HAfNT nan no friends sd Is nor ms ti nights
| Whar is your fiotsam and jetsam?
And whar does the eekity stand
| That gives Teller Bee-Tree
| He finds another ms land?
| And yit a kittle don't count
| No matter how many he finds:
Ef iests Is testis and law Is law