Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

shuilin' MS iect onea.sy IKE speak
! up yelled old mars.
Den DAT big nisger jes' broke into
~ sin like his heart wuz broke. "'"iH7
ter ON run aeir own ~ay. please.
sun, hc says. 'ae.ll MAKE % PROV
% 10 tho hun l. oVeF-de'a acy VIZ
pat niger is crazy says Cnnne
Staileton.
No, says old Mafse. solemn like
he loves the dawgs, dats All. JIM
I'll count on Wa ypu say. !.
we wuz den in he fieIs back of
Big inns cabin, ar de daWgs wuz
p%rowlin' 'roun' in de grass ~ qulet
up his head an let out a 'yawnk'
'yawnk in dat deep bass voice OF hlsn'
Den we heerd Bing-he WAS d beagle.
suh-begin chimin' in like Il SILVER
bell.
Oar dey go al las. yelled the ole
Mars. It's de fust time deyNe spoken
today :.
DE rabbit wild the sorrowful eyes
yelled Big Jim. but nobody noticed him
'cep me.
Den seten music. Um-m. Both
packs jined in and off dey went. Mars
ter. Use seed many a good run. puc
dat one wuz de swif'es ever wuz
at. Dat rabbit outrun de horses an
all de dawgs wuz lef' benin 'cep Lead
an Bling. Lawd. didn't dey move obel
de groun'. Jes' year dem talkin' "
yelled old Marse'. tickled to def.
.'Throo de thickets dey went. crossin'
cricks am up de hills. wild the tail
grass hidin' de dawgs from sight:
Stand whar you be- yelled Jedge
Dawsett. 'Dey'll circle back hyah.
Tarnation. Dat rabbit runs"
Dat rabbit wuz only a-hitten OBJ
der high places.
Il looked 'roun' an seed Big Jim
take ii runnin' start, dash across a
meadow to IA hill top an crouch down.
De music KEEP gettin' nearer and near
er. Den right throo' a clump of high
de bigges' ting in the way of a rab-
bit dat l ever set my eyes on. de
longest legs an de biggest ears Gawd
ebber put on a rabbit.
He didn't hesitate a bit. but ran
straight to'ard Big jim. whose CUR wuz
wabblin in his hands like Il tishin'
rod wild a big one on de en- of de inc.
DE rabbit stopped bout ten yards
away. set up. an he an Big jim looked
at one anudder ez if dey wuz ole ac-
quaintances. An dere. in de sight Of
us all, wild Lea and Bling yelpin'
like mad bout a hundred feet away,
Big Jim riz up his gun an took aim
at de rabbit.
You idiot, don't shoot cried Judge
Dawsett. But de ole muzzle-loader
spoke out clar am true. De rabbit
turned a BACKYARD summerset an fell
dead in de grass, ez Big Jim stretched
out his hans 81 if iii prayer.
Mars Gawge won de bet. All de gen.
tiemen agreed dat dere wuz neber sech
a run ez dat rabbit made. nor Lead an
Bing's, elder.
Ole Mars went up to Big jim. .Dat
rabbit wuZ not done for; Wy did you
kill him.
Il neber seed sech a look in a Mig
| gers eyes as in Big Jim's Wen he am
swered: THANK de Lawd. Mars
Gawge, de hoodoo's dead. Bins an
Lead an me kin see some peace now,
sub
"'come to de house tonight wuz all
dat Mars Gawge said. Den he turned
to de gentlemen. Use proved two
things today he said, smilin'; you
recomnember Wal l wuZ sayin' bout
imagination"
Big Jim's hoodoo wuz buried dat
night at de foot of Witch Sally's grave
You're smilin' ut me, sub, but jes
femme tell you dat de niger stead of
havin' de eddycation oh de wife man,
has got de power of seem curious
things dat de wife man CANT see.
OATS de trufe, subj.
Big Jim went up to de greet u
dat night after de burial eZ ole Mars
Iftu " MN W uO. i MuZ up OtTt, tOo
jes' outside the liberty, in Mars
Georges little den, an 1 heerd him say
Jim. eff ebber you opens you mou1
about dat rabbit agin it will rise up an
hoodoo you ez long e2 you libe. Re
member dat.' Yes. subj says Jim. an
after he'd gone away ! heerd ole Mars
chuckle softly to hisself. ez he SEES, Iii
Major Buttons boy, Dick. ebber heers
tell oh how dat niger kilt his bis
Jack rabbit what he took so much
trouble to bring hyar fun Texas. dereI
be war times on de plantation. she
nough.'
Il don't kno muffin bout no jack rab,
bit nor what ole Mars mean, but for'
Gawd. sub. somethin' ware sure wront
bout dat rabbit ind unnatural like an
Big Jim nebber been hoodooed neide
since he kilt dat thing"