Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-03-23
ind any hole big enough 70 hide n.
and "the idea," II there we're lot men
enough to protect q lady.

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enough to protect a lady.
Well, I never expect to see anything
40 fine as the way those hounds run
with their noses to the ground, Scat
tered In three packs, n pack on the
trail Of each of the three whose shoes
I had doctored. When they got near
us they broke up and went around
everywhere that pa and the giant and
the fat lady had walked, and fell over
zach other, but finally n pack went
to the tall tree where the giant had
climbed to the first limb, and stood on
their hind legs and barked a salute to
him. He trembled so I was afraid
he would fall of, but he wound his
arms and legs around the tree, and
began to cry. The planter told him
whatever crime he had committed II
was all up with him.
The part Of the pack that was ON
pas trail began to close in on pa.
end I said: PA, II you don't want to
be dog meat. 1t is up to you to clinic,
and you better get a move on, or
shall be an orphan mighty quick.
CduSC tut uOSo IL otoi ="
made a couple OF quick jumps, and
grabbed a 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 a yell to the other dogs. as
much as to say: That's the identical
cuss. Eat him alive
He grabbed about a 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.
IA suddenly seemed to be endowed
with superhuman strength, for he
Drew himself up on the limb aud
raised the dog from the ground, and
all the pack came around the tree
and set up a howl that scared pa 50
the p%erspiration rolled off 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, l am not
union prisoner, and | want you &c
unlock your dogs jaws, and free me
cause | can't hold up a 9O-pound dos
~ my suspenders much longer. II
this is southern hospitality, / don
want TO be entertained no more" TIL
1.lanter leaned the fat lady against
tree, and went to pas tree, and tool
the dog by the hind legs and pulled
him of.
The planter. yelled to the negroes Il
come down and help handle the dogs
hut Just then the boy who started tn
dogs on the trail. at my request, cam
up whistling. with a dog whip in hi
hand, and all the dogs surrounded him
and he made them lay down and rol
over. Allof the scared people come dow
from their perches in the trees, an
surrounded the boy and the dogs, an
, the dogs painted and lolled, as thong
I they had been having a nice run TO
, their money. The old planter aske
r his boy how the dogs had happene
to get loose, and that fool boy told tn
{ whole thing, how l had asked him {
n let the pack run, and how | had pu
= anise seed in the shoes of pa, tn
giant and the fat lady. Then yo
q ought to have seen what they di
4 to me. The planter said they usual
had a lynching when the dogs mad
@ a run. but that was impossible in thi
case, so he suggested that they max
me run the gantlet. | didn't kno'
what running the gantlet was. br
sfter pa had told me he should disOw
d me from that moment, | said ! wa
willing to run any gauntlet, SO they a
q cut switches, and formed in two line
and let me run down between then
O ! thought it would be fun. but when
started and every last man gave me
cut across the end of my back with
hickory switch, l yelled murder, all
run between the giants legs an
tackled him like football. l topple
him over against the next man, ar
that man hit the giant in the stomac
d and everybody began to fight, and Il
festivities broke up.
ID went to the house with the be
o and the dogs, and we set the dogs c
a mess of cats. and freed everythir
.. alive on the plantation. Finally Il
whole crowd came back TO the houI
70 and had another lunch, with mi
julep, and champagne, and then ever
e. body was hugging some one, and or
ing on each others neck, and swes
n ing that the war was over, and tn
.. the north and the south were one al
inseparable, and the two together con
ri whip the whole world.
=. Pa somehow saw double. l W