The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 4, March, 1836Various
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The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 4, March, 1836
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American literature -- 19th century -- Periodicals
"At this moment," says the narrator, "the victor saw me for the first
time. He looked excessively embarrassed, and was moving off, when I
called to him in a tone emboldened by the sacredness of my office,
and the iniquity of his crime, 'come back, you brute! and assist me
in relieving your fellow mortal, whom you have ruined forever!' My
rudeness subdued his embarrassment in an instant; and with a taunting
curl of the nose, he replied; you need'nt kick before you're spurred.
There 'ant nobody there, nor ha'nt been nother. I was jist seein how
I could 'a' _fout_! So saying, he bounded to his plow, which stood in
the corner of the fence about fifty yards beyond the battle ground."
All that had been seen or heard was nothing more nor less than a
Lincoln rehearsal; in which all the parts of all the characters, of a
Georgian Court-House fight had been sustained by the youth of the
plough _solus_. The whole anecdote is told with a raciness and vigor
which would do honor to the pages of Blackwood.
The second Article is "The Dance, a Personal Adventure of the Author"
in which the oddities of a backwood reel are depicted with inimitable
force, fidelity and picturesque effect. "The Horse-swap" is a vivid
narration of an encounter between the wits of two Georgian
horse-jockies. This is most excellent in every respect--but
especially so in its delineations of Southern bravado, and the keen
sense of the ludicrous evinced in the portraiture of the steeds. We
think the following free and easy sketch of a _hoss_ superior, in
joint humor and verisimilitude, to any thing of the kind we have ever
seen.
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