Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-01-04


SO one as tbs way those hounds riil
with their noses to the ground. scat
tered in three packs one pack on the
trail of each CT the three whose shoes
! had doctored When they got neal
us they broke up and VENT arocn1
everywhere that pa and the giant and
the fat lady had walked. and fell over
zach other, but finally one pack went
to the tall tree where the giant HAD
climbed to the first limb, and stood Gil
their hind legs and barked a salute te
him. He trembled SO | was afraid
he would fall off, but he wound his
arms and legs around the tree, ant
Logan to cry. The planter told hin
whatever crime he had committed il
was all up with him.
The part or the pack that was OF
pas trail began to close in on IA
snd / said: PA, il you don't. want t.
be dog meat, 1t is up to you'to climb
and you better get a move on, CT
shall be an orphan mighty quick
cause the dogs are starving" Ia
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 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 Aemed TO be endowed
with superhaman strength. for he
urew himself up on the limb and
raised the dog from the ground. and
all the pack came around the tree
and set UP howl that scared pa So
the perspiration rolled off him. and he
had chill SO he shook like the ague.
Pa yelled to the planter, who was
holding up the fat lady, and said
Here, Mr. Confederate, | am not a
union prisoner, and | want you 20
unlock your dogs jaws. and free me,
cause can't hold up a 9O-pound dog
fy my suspenders much longer. If
this is southern hospitality. i don't
went to be entertained no more" The
PLANTER leaned the fat lady against a
tree. and went to pas tree, and took
the dog by the hind legs and pulled
him Off. Ae
The planter yelled to the negroes 10
come down and help handle the dogs
hut just then the boy who started the
dogs on the trail, at my request. came
up whistling, with dog whip in his
hand, and all the dogs surrounded him.
and he made them lay down and roll
over. Allof the scared people come down
from their perches in the trees, and
surrounded the boy and the dogs, AMI
the dogs painted and lOlled as though
they had been having a nice run for
their money. The old planter asked
his boy how the dogs had happened
to get loose. and that fool boy told the
whole thing, how l had asked him TO
let the pack run. and how | had put
anise seed in the shoes of pa, the
giant and the fat lady Then you
ought to have seen what they did
TO me. The planter said they usually
had a lynching when the dogs made
a run, but that was impossible in this
case, so he suggested that they make
lie run the gauntlet. | didn't know
what running the gantlet was, but
after pa had told me he should diSOWn
me from that moment. | said / was
willing to run any gantlet, SO they all
cut switches, and formed in two lines.
and let cle run down between them.
thought it would be fun, but when |
started and every last man gave me a
cut across the end of my back with
hickory switch, | yelled murder. and
run between the giants legs and
tackled him like football | toppled
him over against the next man, and
that man hit the giant in the stomach.
ana everybody teGan to fight, and the
festivities broke up.
l went to the house with the boy
and the dogs. an We set the dogs on
a HiCSO vi CtCo, 6ttIu litSu every tUl0S
alive on the plantation. Finally the
whole crowd came back to the house
and had another lunch. with mint
julep. and champas ne. and then every
loGy was hugging some one. and cry
ing on each others neck. and swear
ing that the war was over and that
the north and the south were one anG
irseparable, and the two together could
whip the whole world.
Pa somehow saw double. 1 was
standing alone. smarting from the
switching | got when pa came up t,
me AMI said: Il want you two boy.
to understand that | cont want any
more experiments played on me-
,aa take a joke az well as anybody
out when you set hundred dogs O
ny trail. am ro gentleman. see
~ w Will ~ ~ 70 the chow