| As far as my experience goes, it's not well to eat too much bear's fat
when one's in a fever. Thar war a pashint at my house, who war very ill with the tipus fever, and wanted a
swet. We giv him a smart chance of whiskey every morning, an brought on the sweat by setting him to
climbling up a pine tree an sliding down agin. The whiskey and the climbing brought on the sweat, and
then we put drafts on his feet maid of aqua fortis, and skunk's marrow, and that cured him. |
| The best dog that ever I owned, war named Teazer. Besides that I had Tearer, Holdfast, Deathmaul,
Grim Porcupine and Growler, that I've got now. Teazer was the best of the hull lot, and he died one day,
bekase when I ordered him to dive in the Mississipi, I forgot to give him the word to come up to the
top o' the water, and he wouldn't presume to put his nose above water without orders. He war the only
dog I ever owned that war true gritz an the way he could throw a buffalo war astonishment to all my
other dogs. He war in his eightieth year when he died. |
| When I war courting Ann Hunky, up in Dog's Paradise, it war a hot summer's
evening, an we sot in doors without anything around one another's necks, an I war feeding Ann with the end
of a sassenger and a pig's tale. She held open her mouth while I poked it in.
All of a sudden we looked
around, an the room behind us war full of snakes as it could hold; I took up Ann and sot her on the shelf
out of' the way, but I war in sich a hurry that I sot her behind into a plaitern o' hot soap, an she jumpt down pesky
fast, an squirmed most beautiful, for it burnt her sum, I think. Then the snakes cum at me an twisted
around my legs, an arms an body, like a Yankee pedlar when he wants to cheat you out of a dollar.
Thar war a smart chance o' snakes that chased the gal too; but she jumpt out of the window, and got
off Then I seed I couldn't do nothing with my arms, for they war fastened by the snakes like ropes. All
at once I begun to scream. I screamed till the chimbly fell down on the roof; it upsot the bed, an turned
over the tea-kettle, and the snakes begun to unloose themselves, an they trotted off most beautiful.
Every one o' these snakes war hard o' hearing arter that. I forgot to count 'em, but I think thar war
over two thousand; every time that I war out huntin arter game, 1 could see these snakes runnin in all
directions to git out o' my road. |
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