Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1879 — Old Gaffer Peters. [ARTICLE]

Old Gaffer Peters.

And now for a story about old Gaffer One day Jack Brily, which is the wicked sailer, swears and everything, he was going by old Gaffres house, be toun him diggin a well, an a boy was pullin up the rocks in a bucket with a winlass. So Jack be giv the boy to bits and sed: “You go an git sum candy, an lie pull up for you till you git back,” ana the boy done it. Then Jack he put his bull dog in the bucket, and let it down, and the dog It jump out in the wel with Gaffer, which hollered wild, and the dog too. Then Jack be cough t ole Gafferses cat and pitch that down, too, and the dog tackled the cat between Gafferses legs, and the eat run it up Gaffer like be was a tree, bn J all yellin like Ipjens, there wasent never such a site! After a while Jack he let the bucket down and hauled old Gaffer up with the winlass. lookn mighty beat an bis close tore bad. Fore Gaffer cud git his breth, Jack sed: ‘-Tellyou wot, Gaffer if I badent come along yude had a pretty rough time of it Iges, cos that boys gon for another cat.” Then Gaffer he helped Jack git the dog out which had killed the cat, and Jack and the dog went a way, and wen the boy come in site Gaffer he met him morn hales way and licked him til he was sick in bed, and wen Billy he sassed the school master he was licked too, yes indeed, and made beller.—[The Argonaut.