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A good many years ago there was a story current in Atchison county, that when this Hayes was acting as wagon-boss on the plains, in a train owned by Russell, Majors & Waddell, that one of the teamsters having offended him he tied him up to a wheel of one of the train wagons, and, holding a pistol in one hand, he cowhided him with his black-snake whip with the other.
"I know it's mighty haud on yer, gittin' cowhided ev'ry night, but stealin' ain't goin' ter he'p it, Lizay." "I never stole yer cotton, Als'on," Little Lizay said with a certain dignity, but with an unsteady voice. "I see'd yer do it," Edny Ann interrupted. "I emptied my sack in yer baskit when I didn't go ter do it," Little Lizay continued. "It wus my own cotton I wus takin' out yer baskit."
Even if we had been insulted, it only proved that the old man thought we were like himself that we were told in the Psalms that wicked men thought God was like themselves, and did approve their sin, and he did not have them cowhided. After a moment's reflection she sat down, exclaiming: "Well, you are the strangest woman I ever did see!"
Roger gave him a wrathful push which precipitated his limp form into the gutter, and growled as he walked of, "If you value your life, keep your promise." An evening or two later Roger said to Belle, whom he had taken out for a stroll, "I kept my word I cowhided that fellow Bissel, who played such a dastardly part toward your sister.
Why, my dear, I'd have to cowhide him if he said a word of the kind." "Oh, no!" said the tablet with frantic energy. "But you see if I wouldn't! You see if I don't! I suppose they think a lord isn't to be cowhided in this country. I guess I'll let 'em know the difference." "But I don't love him," said the tablet. "Goodness gracious me!" "I don't.
"I -I'm not well enough yet -my head is dizzy," pleaded the young acrobat. "Up you go!" snarled the ringmaster, and cracked his whip in such a fashion that the end of the lash took the young acrobat in the calf of the leg, causing him to cry with pain. "What an outrage!" whispered Snap, clenching his fists. "That ringmaster ought to be cowhided."
"Father 'd have cowhided me anyway, I guess," he added, meditatively. "Do you call him father?" "Ah, father's at Laramie," said Billy, with disgust. "He'd not stop for your asking. Lin don't bother me much." "You quit talking and step up there!" ordered his guardian. "Well, m'm, I guess yu' can sleep good now in there." "If it was only an 'L. and N. I'd not have a thing against it!
Before the war the South's best people had no use for the German emigrant, and did everything in their power to discourage his living among them. If the slave returned home to his master under the influence of liquor, the master in many instances went and cowhided the seller.
Honestly, I believe if all vile abusive papers on both sides were suppressed, and some of the fire-eating editors who make a living by lying were soundly cowhided or had their ears clipped, it would do more towards establishing peace, than all the bloodshedding either side can afford. I hope to live to see it, too.
Then I get up and say that I beat him because he made me buy Standard Egg at 63 by telling me that his mother had some, when really the old lady had been dead for fifteen years. When I think of it in this way, I do not feel " "I know, interrupted Ethel, 'you are afraid of ridicule. All men are." "Had Ethel insisted, I believe that I should have cowhided Mr. Beverly for her sake.
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