Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-03-30

1iSt run thru the centre Nv the ned and
NOTED on the outside tn hang luse in
the inside, which drawn tight and the
thumb rubbed over hit and this makes
the musick, and hit roars wusner than
twenty bulgines runnin off the track
l recollect dad ulster hev wun Of EN- to
skeer away the weazzles frum mans
hen roost. So Pete Scritchly and Tom
iWhizZler made hit up to give John a
little skeer, and l wur knowen tu hit
too. Well, wun evenin Pete an Tom
went up to Squire Sousely's store and
made 1t up tn surnade John that mite;
and as they wus comm down the creek
down by Johns, they seed him over in
his Punkin bottoms a plowin and sing
in luve songs. feelin happy. as IL he
had every thing fixed between him and
Sal. and so Pete and Tom made out
ike they wur skeered and in a power
full hurry and called tn John and told
| him that they had not cotched that
ar lion yit what had got outen his den
up in Sharlot, and that he wus seed
ist above old Sousley's stor
mornin by several and roaring orfully
and when last seed wur maxim his
way down the bottoms rite toards Pid-
dleburg. Hit skeered John monster
ously, as his house wur the furthest up
| next the big thicket, and John axed and
begged them to cum and stay with
| him that mite; but they told him that
| they must go home and mind their
own folks, fur they moved the lion
wud be along afore day in the mornin
| and they wur in a hurry to go round
The nabors. John then lusens his horse
| outen the plow rite strate and put off
for the house listenen every mint for
the lion, and feeds his things and goes
in afore dark and bars up his door rite
close. and put a nue. flint on his gun
| lld sot-the broad-ax inside the door,
| and then shed off and went tn bed and
| ricd to make hiself easy and cumposed
thinkin about Sal, and hopin, that
Drfu! varmint wud go on down the
creek without hurtia him or Sal uther.
Awhile after this as John wur a gittin
little hopeful and easy, Pete and Tom
had got reddy fur thur surenade and
had got round in Punkin bottom and
gave the Dumb Bull wun twang, and
| 7um on a roarin down tu the spring
md there stopt and roared hit a long
| time. and cum on up nearly tu the
house. They herd John jump. and cud
see him, by the light thru the cracks,
painless a runin and a rantin frum
wun end Nv the house tn the uther.
They then give it low twang, sorter
like unto a growl, tell they got rite up
to the back door, tween the kitchen
and the big house, and twanged and
roared hit louder than ever. John cud-
ent stand it no longer, but busted the
glass and shuttur and jumped rite thru
the winder-jest as he wus when he
got outen bed-and then struck bee
line rite across the cuckle-buf bottom
fur widder Jenkins, leaving a white
streak out behind him to bring up the
rear.
We had all gone tn bed at the
widders, and Sal and her nanny
had been snuzin' fur sum time, and
tho 1 wuz miety tired, fur 1 had jist
finished irwin boards at sun down,
but 1 cudent go to sleep fur listenin
fur the Lion Serenade, and when l
fust heered hit strike up. eff 1 he'd
had on my close, or If the lightwood
nots hadn't ben given so much lite,
I wud a gut up and went tn the door,
but while l was lien thinking what
wud becum Nv John, a knowen he
wus miety skerry, l heered somebody
cummin q lumberin up the spring
hill maxim as much fus as a drove
NV young mules. then jumped over
the fense, rite thru the old 'omon's
bean patch and panten fur breath,
hollerd out fur Gods sake! fur
Gods sake open the door," and then
busted rite in and cum with sich a
rush that he knocked the door on
the luther side often the hinges, and
then staggered back and like tn fel
kerslue in the middle Nv the fore,
but backed and ketched by the old
| 'omon's bed post, and never stopped
until he had planted hisself strad-
die Nv the jice. l tel you thar wur
no use Nv these here spansion rods
tn swell his skurt as he run up that
ar wall-cept that part Nv the skurt
behind what had cOtched up the
cuckleburs as he cum thru the bot
tom, and he put me in mind, fur all
the world. NV white pony with his
tail NOTED for muddy weather. The
old 'Omon an Sal walked up a scream
i'm like they would go into fits, and
| lookin up and seeing John in that
| fix. they pulled the kiver over their
faces. and John hOllered out as sune
as he cud git his breth, "Widder
Jenkins. fur Gods sake git up an
| shut tn the door. fur the Big Lion
| what's outen his den is rite arter me.
Iur hit is run me plum frum home
rite outen the bed" The old 'omon
jumpt up and clapped the dore tu
an pinned hit. and set the luther
wun up an put the big table agin hit,
and throwed hur hands up an cried
out Lord hev mercy, hev mercy upon
us" Sal whimpered and whined and
! Sniggered; l stuffed my mouth full
Nv bed close to keep frum spilen
the joke. John! John!" says the
old 'omon, recuverin frum the fust
| convulshuns, ARE you sure hit Is the
lion: did you really see hit?" Yes!
Yes marin, tn be shure, for Pete
Scritchley and Tom Whizzler cum by
from Souseley's store afore mite, and
told me hit was seen up thar, and |
went home an shet up everything, an
sure enuf a while arter dark ! heerd
hit cummin roaring up In Punkin
Pottoms, an then hit stopped down
about the spring EN- hit rOared an
Snorted down thar a long time and
then cum a shakin hits lubbery self
up the spring road tn the house, a
grOwin en- nashin Nv hits teeth or
fully. and hit cum on till hit got be-
tween the kitchen en- the big house.
an thar hit smelt blud, whar / had
throwed outen the entruls Nv a
chicken-en then gewhitaker how
hit did r-o-a-r!" John! john!
said the old 'omon. "git down! git