Ogden Daily Standard | 1891-12-20 | Page 10 | It Wasn't Hogs Section

it bic altoe an old colored man bad had brought out a pall pail of 0 water for my home and we were talking about the weather and the crop when a young negro about eighteen years old broke out of the woods on the other bide of the road he ile was bareheaded barefooted and had on a torn tora shirt and a rag rasped pair ot of dungarees dung arees the minute the old man saw him be called out coyl boyl I 1 like to know what disiere fussing ings all bout what fus fussing ing replied the young youn g man doan you ax me what fussing sahl I 1 knows yo boyl you Is a digger who dun works fur cajah gamble Gamb lef what it if I 1 does what it if yo does toes why tab sab ize gwine to tell bedge smith dat yo has bin chasle one of his boast shoo bebber did it doan yol yo lie ile to me boyl cant I 1 dun gee see yol yo is all out of breff wid cabasin dat hog it de do bedge coant have yo la jail beto two days den im a possum ill look ayere a yere uncle ben den a said aid the young man an as he be came across the ro road ad does yo member dat time de ledges hogs bog dun got on oil de railroad track down dart dar of cose sah of cobe I 1 doea does an when de train cum along what did dem bogs hogs do dey run right do down wa de do track of coso dey did an did dem ki vered ayars cotch up ill to lent cm dey run two miles an dea den jump into de sw swamp amit yes bah still dey ley did wall den was yo big fule to reckon id be fussing wid hogs dat could run faster lade n de bull gine reckon ize got wings t to olly fly wid does I 1 look like dikea a bird ho ile went off up the road turning to look back occasionally and when he lie had passed out of 0 night sight around a bend the old man shook his head in a solemn way and eald said to me 1 I reckon I 1 dun made a powerful mistake wid dat I 1 said hogs but ize dead sure he was arter a calf new york world