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The Daily Dispatch: may 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ng laughable affair is from a book entitled Fisher's River Scenes and Characters. The incident is located in North Carolina. It is the story of a man named "Oliver Stanley," who was taken captive by wild "Injuns," After some consideration, they put him into an empty oil barrel and headed him up, leaving the bung hole open that hin the leaves, and snortin' every whipstitch like he smelt suthin' he didn't aczactly like. I lay as still as a salamander, and thought, maybe there's chance fur Stanley yit. So the critter, whatever it mout be, kep' moseyin round the bar'l. Last he came to the bunghole, put his nose in, smelt mighty perticuler, and gin a monstrou the bar'l to test inards. I seen that were my time to mark my Jack; so I seized my holt, and shouted at the top ov my voice: "Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!" And the bar he put, and I knowed tall holt were better than no holt; and so we went, bar'l and all, the bar full speed. Now, my hope were that the bar