Show FLUNG 0 Iz Watkins Gets Geis a Awful Surprise While Spring Plowing Might of Been as a Result if Kindly Kindly Kindly Kind Kind- ly Providence Hadn't 1 r Iz Watkins one of our most re- re citizens had a thrilling eck- eck last Monday morning which it gives Iz a pain to recall every time he thinks of it and it was only by the of a kindly providence as you might say that we are now writing about Izze's of writing his obituary notise notice Last week Iz made up his mind he be would plow the hillside back backof backof backof of his bis place and plant it in corn and so he started in plowing Monday morning bright and early just about daylight with his bis 2 Barney Berry As everybody knows knovs Izze's hillside is proby one of the stoniest pieces of ground in this Iz says that in the past he has bas nearly broke his bis back picking up stones offen that and lugging them to the stone fence which surrounds it He says no matter how bow many stones he be lugs offen the one year there seems to be just as many there the next year and that he be believes that the stones on that bat must and gro grow there Well Iz had bad plowed a cupple of furrows furrows furrows fur fur- rows around the and was coming down the hill bill on the east side in the third furrow when the point of the plow went in under a stone ledge which cropped out and the stopped Instead of sliding the plow over the ledge like he be ort to of done Iz got mad at the oxen and prodded both of them with his ox goad The who was nearly asleep woke up with a start and nearly jumped the yoke This run the plow point still further under the ledge and the plow handles bandIes forward with witha a jerk Iz Ix who was hanging onto the plow handles bandIes like grim death was high into the air and come comedown comedown comedown down right betwixt the with on one leg run through the yoke This frightened the brutes to such sucha a that they run off down that hill bill with their tails switching the air and belle ring like everything banging the plow along alone over the ground be- be be be- hind them What was Iz doing all this time you ask Iz was praying to be saved from froma a ignominious death death that's that's what he was doing The had shook him the yoke all but one foot which remained fast and as a result Iz wa was drug along the while the tongue banged him on the hed lied and body until he nearly lost conscious conscious- ness At the bottom of the hill bill the run into the stone fence and stopped while Iz unsnarled and andset andset andset set down on the stone fence to rest after what he had bad went through Iz Ix has 2 or 3 bumps on his hed bed as big as asa asa asa a hens hen's egg and his bis ankle was so sprained that he lie is limping yet jet et After he be belad lad had recovered Iz unhitched the and them to the cow sta stable le and after he lie got them he lie shut the door and give them both a good thrashing with a n. big black blacksnake blacksnake blacksnake snake whip Iz thrashed the and cussed them until he lie was oaten broth breth Iz is a man of great ackom ackom- i he he can make a beautiful prayer one minute and the next minute minute min min- nun nun- ute he can cuss a ox until a fly wouldn't light on it Iz has bas de sided that he be wont plow the back bade of his house and anu so ax t. t 1 hi i 4 t i i |