Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-09-15
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plunked down in a chair, slammed his
hat On the floor. and said:
I'm one OF the Bungbubble boys,
from Hoppin' Holler! I'm Jehosophat
Bungbubble-'Hoss' they call me fer
short. an that's what I am, Squirrel
A boss. you bet you'll A boss that
always gifts there, an gifts there first!
You had Blarin' from Blarin' Ridge
In your paper last week, stain
p'tic1ar an quite conspicuous like. as
sorty maxim Blarin' Ridge some
punkins, that Elnathan Jaggers's
wife Araminty Jane had run away
with young Socrates Munyon, some
thin that hadn't happened at Blarin'
Ridge sence nobody knowed when.
That's about the natur' o. the Blarin'
from Blarin' Ridge that brung the
Ridge to the top o. the heap in the
Trumpet Blast last week. amt it,"
/ admitted that The Trumpet Blast
had been enlivened the last week by
an item such as he mentioned.
AN week afore last you put to the
top o. your Waftin's from Wiggly
Run the circumstance that some one
had broke in Deacon HUNS barn
while he was to meetin' Sunday, an
stole his best team an wagon. an
that hide nor hair o. the team or
wagon or the individjil that stole 'em
hadn't been seen nor heerd on.
though suspicion was lingerin' with
considerable heft about a neighbor o.
the Deacon's who went away some'rs
on business Sunday an hadn't got
back yit. That's what give your pa
per its leadin' vim week afore last,
want it,"
said yes; we didn't often get a
bit Of news as important as that stir
ring episode at Wiggly Run.
Huh, huh," said the beaming Wis
itor, nodding. THAT was a bumper
an no mistake. It was most as ex-
citin' an entertainin' as the one you
had in The Trumpet Blast the week
afore that yit, in the Limpin's from
Lame Crow Barren, about RUDE
| Sloper havin' been ketched settin'
fire to Bran Wings barn, an the
findin' out that he had lugged away
all the hay an others things that was
In It fore he sot the fire. Jedgin'
from the way l look at literatoor
Squire, that Limpin' topped way
over the Blarin' about the slopin' o
Ariminty Jane Jaggers with young
Socrates Munyon. an had consider
BILE more p'ints than the Waftin
about Deacon Huffs team. It was q
top notcher. lookin' at it from the
way l jedge literatoor. that Limpin
was"
said thought his judgment was
about correct as to that. The stem
from Lame Grow Barren certainly
was unique" I said
Huh. huh" nodded my critical Wis
itor. who then remarked with a great
rousing OF posftiveness:
But I'm goin' to give you piece
for your paper that's as much more
uniquer than runnin' on with some
body's wife, or boss stealin', or burn
in your neighbor's barn as lynchin
a feller-citizen is more tetchin' thar
trappin' mushrat, You know the
Wilder Smudgecrack, an you know
the Wilder Smudgecrack's place
don't your"
had some knowledge of the widow
and her place. told my eccentric
visitor.
why, consarn IT," exclaimed thil
excited representative of the Bug
bubble family. She's sixty-eight 4
she's minutei Sixty-eight past An
amt she humly? Jeff Sitter. wha
worked fer her. says he'll make am
davit that she sot in her cornfield thii
past season an act'ly skeert tn,
crows away. she's that humlyl An