The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-23

Alu1. he tIe1uUleu 50 l. Was dlIdlU
he would fall off,, but he wound his
arms and legs around the tree, and
began to cry. The planter told him
whatever crime he had committed it
was all UP with him.
The part of the pack that was on
pas trail began to close in on pa,
and said: "Pa, if you don't want to
be dog meat, it is up to you to climb.
and you better get move on, or l
shall be an orphan mighty quick.
cause the dogs are starving" Ia
made couple of quick jumps, and
grabbed limb of a hickory tree, and
was pulling himself up and repeating
prayers, when the leading dog reached
up his nose and smelled pas shoes,
when the intelligent animal gave a
bark and yell to the other dogs, as
much as to say: That's the identical
cuss. Eat him alive"
He grabbed about double hand
full of the cloth of pas clothes right
below where his suspenders button on
and held on, and shook pa real hard, but
the cloth was tough and didn't tear.
Fa suddenly seemed to be endowed
with superhuman strength, for he
Grew himself up on the limb and
raised the dog from the ground, and
all the pack came around the tree
and set up a howl that scared pa So
the perspiration rolled OF him, and he
had a chill so he shook like the ague.
Pa yelled to the planter, who was
holding up the fat lady, and said:
Here, Mr.. Confederate, I am not a
union prisoner, and want you, to
unlock your. dogs jaws, and free me,
cause can't hold up a 9O-pound dog
ty my suspenders. much longer ~. If
this is southern hospitality, 1 dom;
want to be entertained no more.'' The
PLANTER leaned the fat lady against q
tree, and went to pas tree, and took
the dog by the hind legs and pulled
him off.
The planter. yelled to the negroes 10
come down and help handle the dogs.
but just then the boy who started the
dogs on the trail, at my: request, came
up whistling, with'a dog whip in his
hand, and all the dogs surrounded him.
and he made them lay down and .rol!
over. Allof the scared people come down
from their 4perches in, the trees, and
surrounded the boy and the dogs, and
the dogs painted and lolled, as though
they had been having nice run for
their money. The old planter asked
his boy how the dogs had happened
to get loose, and that foot hoy told the
J Whole thing, howl had asked hina ID
let the pack run, and how had put
anise seed in the shoes of pa,::: the
giant and the: fat lady. ~ Then you
ought tof.have' seen. what: they. satlfd
to- me. Z The planter said they us>llly
had a lynching when the dogs made
a run, but that was impossible in this
case,' So he suggested that they make
me run the gantlet. I. didn't know
what running the gantlet>, was, but
after pa had told me he should disown
me from that moment I. said Iatwas
willing to run any gauntlet, SO they all
T cut switches, and formed in two lines:
and let me run down between them.
thought IT. would be fun, but when l
started and every last man gave me a
cut across the end of my back with: d
hickory switch, / yelled murder, and
run between Tthe: giants legs and
tackled him like football. II toppled
him over against the next man, and
that man hit the giant in the stomach
and every body began to4f1ght, and; the
festivities broke up. ,fi: " ~. E: = /
| T went TO the house with the ! boy
and the dogs, and we set the dogs OF,
a mess of cats, and freed everythinG
alive. on the plantation. Finally the
whole crowd came back to the house
and had another lunch; with mint
julep, and champagne, and then every:
Eody was hugging some one, and cry.
ing on each others neck, and swear.
ing that the war was over, and that
1.-The north and the south were4oaeS and
inseparable, and the two together could
whip the whole world.
l. Pa somehow Saw double. was
standing alone; smarting from the
switching ! got, when pa came up tt
me and said: II: want you two boy:
to understand THAT i don't want any
more experiments played on me,
can take Joke as well as anybody
but when you set . hundred dogs 81
my trail, am no gentleman, seei
! Now We will 60 back toth ssho !. s y Il