The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-07
SET UP ALL NIGHT
Blgs Barker Got Caught Out In tho Rain and Dark and Thought H8 Was g
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Bige Barker had a terrible awful ex- perients while driving home from the county seat last Wednesday night wien will go down in his memory as some thing horrible to look back upon.
 Bige had went to the county seat with a basket of butter and eggs, wien ne says he can get cents more for on the eluzzen than Hen Weathersby, our store keeper, pays, intending to take it out in groceries. Bige says he arrived at the county seat about Il o'clock, and before doing his marketing he fed his horse, Wich was that old piebald mare of hfsn wich he calls "Jinny. Then Bige ct his own snack which his wife had nut up for him and afterward went and done his chores about town. After he got all through and was a-going to start for home about o'clock, so as to git back to Bingville before dark and do his feeding, Bige heard that a political orator was a-going to make speech In publick square at the county seat be- ginning at D. m, to wich there was no admission Being as Bige Is red hot on politicks,h he desided he would walt and hear whot the political chap had to say. and so he did, and he got so interested that it was neer o'clock before he hitched up and started for Bingville.
 Bige hurried old Jimmy along some, but being as she is spavined and ain't much on the go it began to git dark before Bige got half way home.
 To make matters worse, 1t clouded up and a stiddy. drizzlin rain set in. and before Bige knowd it the atmosfere was so dark that he couldn't see his hand before him. It wasn't no use to try to guide Jimmy so Blge jest let the rains hang loose, and told her to go ahead and that If she got off the road he'd give her a good lickin as soon as he got
 
 the black darkness, until he thort he must be most to BingviIle. They wasn't a dry stitch on him and 1t was chilly, too.
 Then very suddinly Jimmy stopt in her tracks and refused to go a inch further. Bige he clucked to her and scolded her and licked her with the whip, but the old mare wouldn't budge a inch. Finally Bige thought he'd git out and kind of feel his way ahead of the horse to see whot was in the road. so he jumpt out of the blackboard Into water clean up to his waist and climbed back into the blackboard quicker'n scat. and set there and begin to think it over. The more Bige thought, the more he couldn't make | out where he was. He was now afeaFd l to go ahead, thinking he might get drownd and when he went to back the horse out he found the wheels had stuck 1 in the mud. so there was nothing to do but jest set there and walt for daylight. Bige says 1t was the most terriblest night he ever put through, being as he was almost skeered to breathe for fear the bottom would drop out from under { him and sweep him away into the water and him not able to swim a stroke. It rained hard all might and Bige was very near froze stiff. He ain't no drinking man, Bige ain't. but he said if he had a bottle Of Ticker in his pocket ne would of been tempted to of took a nip of 1t in order to get het up some.
 At last daylight come and to Biges surprise he found the mare and hisself standin in a bog hole in the road. hub deep, and within sight of his own house at the edge of Bingville.
 Bige was purty mad when he dlscov- cred this and he said so in terms too strong to be put into the Bugle. He says if he don't git a cold in his chest after this experients, 1t will be a caution to him.