Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-23
Arkansas Anecdotes

Last Sunday afternoon, as we were
returning from visit with friends IN
the country, the topping Of little
rise in the road brought into view
ahead of us a little splOtch OF AMI
mated color against the dull back
ground of long-leafed pines in the dis
lance. Later this resolved itself into
large black and white dog, small
boy with a gaudy colored basket and
an overgrown youth of the genus Hill
billies, clothed in a flowing khaki col
ored suit of "wamus" and overalls, and
I carrying a snow white pillow sllp'
stuffed full of some, to us, unknown
substance Ere we had reached the
group it became more animated, and
! the dog darted away, yelping, with an
old tin bread box attached to his tail.
After several gyratiOns the dog took
straight down the road, when he was
soon relieved of the tinware by con-
! tact with big stone, and he then with
a final yelp at sight of us, turned to the
left and disappeared down the side of
the canyon.
When we came within speaking dis
lance of the Hillbil1ies, the oldest in
CURED in a very stern and precise
voice: How fer dawn did thet dawg
went?'
We could only reply, he had gone
out of sight.
Hes a mean dawg, he is, he sucks
aigs, he does. He sucks all Nv my
aigs, an | don't git no aigs nohOw cuz
he sucks all my aigs, he does. He goes
right inter my chicken house, he
does, an sucks ever aig, an he
takes off chickens, tew, he does. The
other day seed him take hui chick
en- an lug it off, he did"
"Why don't you shoot him." said
wife?
L been thinkin Nv gittin' Ground ter
shoot him, but hain't yet an | thought
mebe eff tied tibet can ter his tail he'd
quit suckin' my aigs."
A state should not be judged by the
ilIiterate portion Of its people, yet
Arkansas has been peculiarly mis-
judged by this unjust method. How
ever, some of the stories related of
the Hillbillies, whether true or not,
are certainly amusing. Among them
is the following:
When the M. e N. A railway was
carved through the Ozarks, there were
many of the natives who had never
seen an innovation of this kind. Among
these was Bud Means. So one Sunday
Bud put the mule to the shafts of the
family carryall and having loaded it
with his woman and eight children,
drove across country to see the
"keers." The point where they came
in sight of the railroad was at the
top of a hill, and judging this to be
a good point for observation, the mule
was taken from the shafts and tied to
a tree Bud had just lifted the shafts
. to draw the wagon little more in
/ the shade when, with a wild shrek, a
, train flashed into view. The mule was
. stampeded and breaking away took
/ for tall timber" Bud was also STAN
peded and forgetting to drop the
, shafts, started on a run down the
. h! with his little flock in the wagon
screeching at the top of their lungs.
When Bud realized what had hap
nened he was. unable to stop, but man
fully kept ahead of the outfit until
reaching the foot of the hill, where
the whole "caboodle" was dumped into
the dogwood and sassafras bushes at
the roadside.
It would be highly interesting to
know exactly the ideas Of these people
concerning railroad. after this expe-
rience. N. G. ABBOTT.
Eureka Springs.