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The Daily Dispatch: may 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
lack paw in jist as fur as he could, and scrabbled about to make 'scovery. The first tho't I had was to nab his paw, as a drowndin' max will ketch at a straw; but I soon seen that wouldn't do, for you see he couldn't then travel. So I jist waited a spell with great flatterbation of mind. The next move he made was to put his tall in at the bunghole ov 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 would jump over some pressepiss, break the bar'l all to shiverations, and liberate me from my nasty, stinkin', ily prison, and sure 'nuff, the bar at full speed leaped over a caterack fifty foot high. Down we went together in a pile, codswallop, on a big rock, bustin' the bar'l and nearly shakin' my gizzard