The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-07-15
Old Zeb White
ne Tells How His Career Wa, Gu, sho,,
BY M. QUAD
Copyright. 1915. bv thu ~o,
Newspaper Syndicate.

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thought owned this hull stait 90 r.,
nessee ana was the biggest man in T.
said old Zeb White as he was in .
STORY telling mood one evening ,erhot
was a good many yrs ago ona to~.
Delo got married and perhonS -
was powerful good thing that SIM
'hlh happened to me when IL did "
asked the old man a question IN
tended to draw him out. and oftor
bit he continued. 'e'
wal, when was a young man I
nauht no sense in my head. lest
reckoned that the critter who oould
"restle and jump and fight and veil
was smarter man than the governor
when l was twenty-three years old
tnar wasn't nuthin' human in This
yere cumberland mount'in which could
stanu up to me. One day | fell in
love. but that didn't settle me down
any. Mebbe l was even wuss arter
'hat. wanted to show of to the gal,
70 know, and so continered nv mad
career"
Inc girl Is the present Mrs. White.
l take It'll" said as he waited to All
his pipe anew.
Jest so. sah," he answered. and she
mad mo- boss sense In her leetle finger
tnan l had In my hull body. She
KnoWed was making a fule O. N.Y.
self. and she knowed it would take
strong medicine to cure me- She
didn't say much one way or tother,
but jest waited till the sign cum right.
One day she went down to Spottsville,
and when she cum home she SEE to me,
SEE she:
"Zeb, thar's gwine to be a circus
down at Spottsville tomorrer, and
reckon I'd like to go. Will yo' promise
to behave yo'rselfT
"'As to how?' asks.
GAS to raisin' a FUSS
eff nobody steps on my heels thar
won't be any fuss
1--WE made all our plans for an early
start the next day.
"She didn't say no mo- till we wus
on the road next forenoon. and then
she suddenly turns on me with:
"'Hev yo' ever been licked since yo'
becum a fighter?
Never, and thar amt thing as
stands on legs as kin do it.
"1 want to ask great favor of yo.
Zeb,' she seq as we walks along.
Thar's gwine to be an elephant at that
circus
"'And what of it?'
'Nothin', | hope. but bein' he's big
germ yo' are didn't know but yo'd git
mad and tackle him. Don't do ii. Zeb.
Don't do it, fur my sake
IF she hadn't spoken as she did I'd
never thought of tacklin' the critter."
said Zeb as he softly rubbed his knee,
"but them words sorter stirred me up,
and begun to git mad. We didn't say
nuthin' mo- till we got to town, though
| was dom a heap o. thinkin'. We
seen the elephant a-walkin' along the
street with the purceshun, and my wife
sez to me, SEE she:
"'Zeb he don't look to be very betty
on the jump, and he can't wrassle, but
he pears to be an awful fighter
"'Shoo,' SEE /, but | don't reckon he
kin fight fur shucks.'
"Bimeby the parade was over and we
went into the circus. I'd kept gittin'
madden and madden all the time, and
now was ready to bust The elephant
was chained up in the middle of the
tent, and | walked around him and
felt dangerous. The missus was watch
In me and purity soon she SEE;
"'Zeb, he's as big as q hill. amt hep
".Mebbe he are SEE l, but that's got
nuthin' to do with it. The bigness Of
a man don't count fur much In a fout
/ lest consider to reckon l kin make
that critter heller fur mercy In about
two minitsr
"'But yo won't try it? Yo are the
awfulest fightin' man on the face OF
this airth, but yo' won't tackle critter
like that
IF she'd kept quiet mebbe my mad
ness would a gone off. but her words
hurt me. and all of a sudden peels Off
my coat and whoops a whoop was
usin' both fists on his head when he
winds that trunk around my body ana
lifts me off my feet and begins to play
with me. He slams me on the ground
and agin cages and wagons. and when
he finally let's go they picks me up
and carries me out fur dead man.
"That critter broke purity nigh all
the bones in my body. and I'm teehn
the effects to this day. 1t was tive
weeks arter the fuss befo' l got things
straight In my mind l kept thinkin
all the time that this we're Cumberland
range had slid down on me. one
mawnin' l axed the ole woman how II
was. and she sorter laughed and said;
~ jest led yo' up to it, Zeb' kase l
wanted to see yo' git some sense In yor
head. | knowed yo'd git whopped, out
| reckoned thar'd be nuff of 20 LETT TO
build up ag'in. Yo' ar the whopped-
est. lickedest man in all this Worlo'
and faint no use to fool around no
mo-. When yo' git up jest let the fght-
I'm, hizness alone and tend to the COZ