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THE WEEKLTt CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY FEBRUARY 24 1885 TWELVE PAGES.
OLD TIMES;
Ths Children of To-D«y Better Off Then Their
Grandparents Were in Childhood- rhe Matur
es y Wood-Chopping for Sunday Flraa-
Improvtmenia In Illuminetinoa.
A sweet little girl from Marietta writes me
a nice letter and bega me to write something
for the children—juat for the children.
I never look upon a flock of happy, well
railed children without wondering if they
knew how well off they are—how much better
off than tbeir grand-parents were some fifty
•r sixty years ago. I would like to aee old
father time aet bia clock back a half a century
juat for a week and put everything like it was
then, and I would walk around and have lota
of fun out of these littlo folks. I don't bolieve
they could stand it a whole week, but it would
do them good to try. In the first pi ace, they
would have to get out of their comfortable
bouses with plastered walls and
large glass wiudows and coal
grates, and get into smaller houses with
atout two rooms in front and n back shed
room, that bad no fireplace and no ceiling and
a window with a wooden shutter, aud in that
shed room they would have to sleep, and the
wind would come slipping in all night and
kiss tbeir faces ever so nice. They would have
to take of! all their pretty clothes, .and wear
country jeans and linaey,*nnd they would havo
to go to the shoemakers and have some coarse,
rough shoes mado of country leather and no
high heels nor box toes nor buttons. But they
would be good and strong, and two pair would
last any boy or girl a wbolo year—one pair
would do them iftbey greased them now and
then and went barefooted during summer as
we used to do—all tho store stocking* woultL
have to be dispensed with, and the elastic too,
nnd they jrouM put on some good warm ones
thst were knit by band, and be tied up with
a rag—no nice hats from the milliners,
with pretty flowers nnd gay ribbons flying,but
tbe girls would have to put on homo mado
bunds nicely quilted, and tho boys havo to
wear home msdn wool haU or seal skin enp*
that would Inst two or three years, nnd stretch
bigger as their heads grew bigger. There
would not be found u store in tho whole state
where ready tnsde clothing could ho found—
not a coat, nor a pair of pants, nor u shirt, nor
a skirt, nor a doll, nor hardly a toy of any
kind. I suppose that soino few tiling* for
children might be found in Augiinta,or davnu-
nab, or Mnron, but the country stores w»u!dont
have anything, not oven candy or oranges or a
box of raisins. A boy could find u dog kuifo
or a barlow, and bo allowed about one a year,
but tho littlo girls couldent even Had a thim
ble small enough nor n pair of soisiiors. Chil
dren were not of much consequence thou,
especially girls.
I would like to see the clock aet hack for one
Week and see tbn boys cutting wood and
making fires, cutting wood half tho day Hatur-
dny lor Sunday, ami Sunday morning sitting
down to lenru some inoro of the Shorter
catechism about justification, nnd sanctifica
tion, and adoption, nnd so iio more verse* in
fhn Bible, and that poetry in tho primmer
about—
In Adam's fall
We Sinned all.
The cat doth play
Aud aftt relay.
Xerxes must die
And mi must I.
Znelieus, lie
Did climb a tree
Ills Lord to see.
I would like to ace ouo ot these boys
wake up -sumo cold morning ami
when he tried to make a fire
and stirred around among the ashes to find a
coal, he couldent find one, and what then?
Not a match lu the wide, wide world,
waa none invented. Wouldent _b
Well, be would have
if he waa a town ‘
ho waa a count
mile or so, mi ‘
before bo got
chunk would bo apt to go out on tho way,
would liko to aee these buys and girla studying
tboir lessons by tbe light of one tallow caudle.
No gas, no kerosene, no oil of any aort—only
end flickering light of a candle, or tnayho
only aliglitwood binao in tho fireplace 11 reckon
they would study hard and atudv fast and
to to led anon iii.il gel up early iu tbe morn
ing ami try it again. I would like to see them
sit down to write a letter aud fiud nothing but
nn old gm so quill for a pun—not asteel non in
tho world. 1 would watch tho poor follow a*
he tried to make a pen out of the quill, and
after be hud out it to a point aee him try to split
it in tbe middle with Ins knife, and split it too
far or not far enough, or on one side aud thou
throw it away iu despair.
It would all be fun to us old folks, but it
wouldrbt bo fun for the boys or the girl* to bo
set back. But there are old people living now
who do the same obi things and live tbe same
old way. t-olonel Campbell Wallace still uses
tbe mull pel « umi makes thorn himself, uud I
w ii-h you could are how nicely uud how
nuirkiy ho can do it. Our schoolteachers
had to make tho pons for
•II their scholars, nnd it took
•tout half their time, for they had to mend
tin m olteter than make them. When tho
fust-split wore out ho had to split il again
• t«l trim it down to a new point. His kuifo
was nlways open and ready. Poor maul llo
died before the steel pons were invented and
never got tbe good of them.
But wo were used to these ways nnd never
thought hard of them. Judge Lester used to
run over to our house of a cold morning and
say to iuy mother: Please mam, loud mo n
chunk 11 tire, and 1 used to go over to his
homo and do the same thing. But wo didn't
li t it go out often. Wo knew b »w to cover up
fire iu tbe ashes so ns to keep it till morning.
1 remember going over to Forsyth couuty
•lire when au old Indian lived there by tho
name of Pawnee, lie didn't go oil with the
rot of tbe I ndians,biit lived on a mountain call
ed Bawtue'e mountain,nnd ho hud some grand-
eoi e alout our age. George Lester and Cieoro
Plri.ug were with me, amt wo guvoau Iudiau
boy some money to show us ho* they g »t Are
when their tiro went out. Ho took two dry
hickory sticks about n tnot long uud us largo it*
my thumb ai d a little bunch of dry grata, and
start'd oil on a run, and rubbed the sticks
tegither so rapidly that you could hardly see
th*m, atd the friction made tiro and caught
the grata, and he came buck in' half a minute
with a blaic in his hand. 1 u 'ed to go down
to the store tit night with my father, and ho
bid a tinder box nailed up by the door and
w»uld rtrike the steel with tho flint aud make
a spark ami K U it full on a piece of punk
and .light it, and thru he would light
his candle from the puuk. * But
matches cunie along after while
and stopped all that. I remember tbe first
match* s that ramc to our town. They were
calltd Lurifrr matches for some folks thought
that the "old boy" had something t» do with
them and * wouldn’t use them.
They smellrd strong of brimitoue and
were iold at 25 rente it box. Now ten time*
as many sell for a nicklc. But about lights.
Pipping the candles was one of the notable
esrMs of the year. It waa almost as big a
thing as hog killing The boys prepared the
rates or reeds shout I'U in number, as largo as
the little finger and nearly a yard long. They
were smoothed at the points and put away in
a lundle todry. When the time corns, the
fir*tro!d weather in the fall, our mother
Id get out the caudle wick nnd wind it
a pair of cotton cards end w*ys
after a g-nid deal ’was
Would cut one end with
tr.e MM»tors and thst made ths wicks when
d« ul!«d just long enough for a cun tic. Three
er four cat.es were- then inLrlarad through ths
lark of an old raahi.ned chair to keep them
•Uady while »he looped the wicks around
Hum and twisted their ends together. Seven
wicks wetc tut » u inch cane uni when the
C * 1 f V* u ** n *»ad held h >r.:>aUl the
Wieks hung down and were about two incite*
•pert. When all the cause were foil thee
a table ready for dipping. T »-
or quilting frames were placed parallel on tbe
backs of chairs and were wide enough apart
to let tho candles between and bold up tbe
cates. The big pot bad to be kept nearly full
•11 tbe time. A * cane of wicks . was
let down slowly in the pot
until tLe cane rested on its edges.
Then it was lifted up and allowed to drip
awhile and then placed a* number ono be
tween tho long poles where, if it dripped any
more, it was on tho old plunk. Tbe first
course was long and tedious, for it took the
lorao cotton wick some time to absorb tho tal
low. After that the process eras rapid. Tallow
would harden on tallow quickly, and at every
dripping the little candles got larger until
after while they wero largo onough at the bot
tom ends to fill a candlestick, and that ondod
the job. They were left on tho poles over
night and then slipped off the rods and placed
in tho caodicbox or an old trunk.
Seven times sixty mado 420 candles, and
that was tho year’s supply. Only ouo candle
was usual lor the table in tbo family room.
Tbe reeding and sewing was all done by that.
Tho boys were allowed a piece of ono to go to
b«d by. Nobody eat up until midnight then.
The night waa believed to bo created f >r sleep
BLd rest, nnd tho day for work. There were
no theaters nor skating rinks—uo reading nov
els half tho night, and lying in bed until
breakfast next morning. The rule wh* to go
to bed at bine o'clock and get up with tho
chickens. But now wo couldn't rend by can
dle light. It takes nt least two lamps, and
one lump is iqtial to ten candles. But wo got
along pretty well. All the substantial things
were an good as they aro now. Good water—
good air—good sunshine and shower—good
health—good warm clothes—good bread and
meat, and milk and butter—good peaches and
apples—good horses to rule—good tithing and
swimming and hunting. Wo didont hare
railroads and telegraphs and telephones and
sewing machines, and so forth, but wo dident
need them. We need them now
for tbe world is so full of people that the old
ways wouldn't feed snd clothe them. The
right thing always comes uloug at the right
time. If the clock was set back I wonder
bow this generation would manage about the
cocking business. Fifty years ago there were
no cooking stoves. The ovens and skillets
and spiders were big heavy things that had
to be lift'd on nnd off the firo with a pair of
pot hooks. They had heavy lids and the
cooking was done by putting coals under
neath nnd coals on top. It
took hark and chip* to make coals quickly nnd
our old cook used to say, "Now git mo soino
In rk, little muster, and I gib you a bikket
when ho done." There was no sods or tar-
turic acid or baking powder. The biscuit
w< ro made by main strength. Tho dough
was km fhlcti by strong arms, snd sometime*
it was beaten with tbo railing pin until it
blistered. When tho dough blistered it wn*
good and made good biscuit. I can't any that
we have any bettor cooking uow than wo had
then; but the stove makes it a great deal easier
to cook.
Tbe boys had no baseball but they hud bull
pen and rat and town bull nnd roily hole and
tag and swccpitakca and pull over tho mark
and foot races and so forth nnd they thought
there was nothing better. They had tbo beat
rubber bolls in the world and mado them
tb*fine!vcr. Homo of them could bounce thir
ty feet high. They were made by cutting an
old rubber shoe into string* and winding tho
strings into a ball and covering it with buck
skin. But slier while tho rubner shoes wore
not mado of all rubber. Thoy
were mixed with flomothing
that took M»ine of the bounce out and our balls
degenerated. There was on old man living
round
aid
wiutd
Were Ini r
tallow was hdud in i bi/ «r*«h \».-t. 8-
betswtx — * - • r 1 **
lwsawsx was added and n littlo Jig-*. od
plank were placed on ths floor where the din-
1-1*1 and dripping wu lo be. Two long poles
us who was culled "Lying Tom Turner,
and he told us boys one day tlmt when he was
a boy bo hnd a rubber bull that ho was afraid
to bounce hard for fear it would go up out of
sight and ho would lose it. We asked him
what brrumo of his ball, nnd he said he
boULced it one day moat too hard and il weut
i gone half an hour,
his littlo dog grabbed
“ Minced a ml carried
isfght, and he had
' littlo dog since.
•ich Hines aro tb<*
“ST„ khtft&tfg
—miff a iiriij v;.i
ride on the cars, but in the old Unto*, people
didn’t hanker after such thing* and they were
easy to please and were in no hurry to get
through life, and thcro were no suicides aud
very lew crazy folks, and uo pistols to carry
in the hip-pockets. Nowadays there is a skel
eton in most every house. I dou't menu a
mil skeleton but some great big trouble that
throws a 'lurk shadow over the Umily. There
wire not any exciting books to read, no sensa
tion novels that poison the mind jint like bud
food poison tho body. There were but half
a dozen newspapers in tho whole state and
they didn't have whole columns full of’
lnuiders snd suicides and robberies and
awful fires (list burned up poor lunatic*
•II other horrid things to niiiko a tender heart
feel bad. There wiih nobody very rich and
nobody vrrv poor, and wo had ns grout men
then as we havo now.
If tho clock was set back, and he littlo girl
who wrote to me wutiled to go to AuguUn
with lu r grand pn to visit her kinfolk* she
Would have to get iu the mail conch and jog
along all day and nil night at four miles an
hour at d pay ten cents a mile, and it would
tnketwro days and flights, uud sho would be
tiled almost to dcHth and so would her grand
i>n. Well, thoy just couldn't go. But uow
they enn go ns cheap as to stay at home, aud
do it in less time, as the Irishman said.
But the clock will uot be set buck, and to
wo must nil be content with things as they aro
and make them better if we cun.
Bn.i. Am*.
AN INDIGNANT SPEAKER.
The Speaker of the New Jersey I.egUlaturo
Keys a Word About Tslmss*.
Trixtox, N. J., February IU.—In the house
ot the assembly some excitement was created
when Mr. Corbin arose and called attention to
the publication in a South Jersey paper of n
sermon delivered by Bov. T. Do VViUTal
mage, In which ho used the following lan
guage under the head of tho "Evil cf Blas
phemy t"
Let us fora high license, say 9101000, gtther VK)
nu n In these cities, men of the hottest temper*
•idthe II*vet»t tongues aud the most »pltehil
•salmi God and decency, and add to them tar
m i nkt r of tbe New Jersey legislature, whose ad;
oit>» to the ligUlbtine last week wa* *» full of
oath* and Imprecation* that the printers, who
never swear themselves, had to put blanks
all through the speech r-
where the ^ oaths can..
Having gathered this precious group lo do all the
hlsM'h* my of the country *t hlgu license. give
them full sweep, and then just Ictus extinguish
•II Our* small swearers, who never had any'genius
•I svm arivg. aud who always swear on a small siwle,
and who never gel beyond "Bj George, or •Ur
star*," or "l»arn It ,r Extirpation for all small
swtarer* Yon w!U never put down blasphemy iu
Ibis country except by high Iwcnse.
Speaker Armstrong took the floor and said
thst he had never aworu in his life, aud be
knew iretn KTs knowledge of the legislatures
of New Jersey that no speaker ever uttered a
profane or blasphemous word from behind
that desk (pointing to th* sneaker'*). No
member who ever sat there would ever forget
his dignity ar d manhood or the respect he
owed his constituents by so deiueauiug him-
a. If. It was a serious matter. He had been
asked about it by people from different parts of
lie state,nnd ithad received widespread pub
licity. It is false in every word, line and sen
tence, atd an insult to New Jersey. It was no
iencer a psnonal matter, but it reflects on
New Jersev. Talmage, he understood, wa*
born in New Jersey, and he (th* speaker.)
Wondered b*»w he had. to far forgotten huuself
as to make use of nn expression so f*!*e in
every particular. Hehsdforgolienthesacred-
rets of his office. Ho (th* aa*«ker) did not
know how many thousands of people had read
tl e lie and took it for truth It has not even
the foundsticn of truth in it. (Loud ap
plause.)
( heap Living.
The vrshdl has little trouble lu feeding his army
TLe native wilt live upon a cake of black bread
eno a few hnir■!*» and an onion, and never care for
erlr ai fe« d >11 that an Egyptian hosrdtnyhouse
kupr ii<iuint to»«*t no business ts a few dat**^ s
(• w erst *«». a i «« V'.of tentels and onions and a
halt <cx'b pvnta ol black bread.
BETSY HAMILTON.
Romance of Owl Hollow—A Continued
Btory In Dialect of Love and Humor.
Copyright 1A84. A11 rights reMsr ed )
PART XIX.
That night the Rodocks was all gethered
•round tbeir big log heap fire, and fluog on
pine enough nt odo time to make kindlin' for
town folks a week. They was all monstrous
glad to have tho dock back with 'em agin.
Tbe boys bad a pbwer to tell him that had
happened in tbe settlement seme he left; the
old man sot in tbe corndor a smokin' of his cob
pipe a waitin’ for ’em to give him a chance to
open his rnouth; the old 'onian sot in tothcr
cornder too busy to talk, as sho twisted her
mouth fust ono side then tother a cuttin' up
her pupkin to dry—she ^.bad dons strung tho
jice logs full of it end was a fixin’ more. The
gnls was both happy. Tigc had henrn tbo
Bock wss thar and had come over to set tel
bed time. He thought a power of Dock and
Dock did ol him. It hnd been monstrous
hard to, gitthe chillun off to bed that night.
They was iuginncrly good to mind but that
was Christmas eve, and they was plum wild
to know what "old Santy" was gwine to fetch
’em. They hung up thcr stockings by the
cbimbly and scampered around in ther bare
bet and the old ’omen had to tell ’em forty
times to wash thcr foet aud git to bed,
didn’t old ftanty wouldn’t comoa nigh, and at
last Governor (V^do Hampton got off without
a washin’ of bis'n.
The little fellers layed tlinr and whispered
and giggled and tried thcr bcBt to keep awukc
to see him when he come down the chimbly.
Mies Norn bad left a Christmas gift, a piece
for ’em nil, and the Dock hadn't forgat nniry
one of'em, and old Santy he coine and stulled
ther stockings tight, but they never seed him;
when chillun runs all day they sleep* mon
strous sound at night.
Atter Tige went homo that night old msn
I’.odock got n chance to talk, and ho was glad
of a chance to tell tho Dbck all about littlo
Sugarcane and nx him to hunt up her kiunery
aiiu see if anything was n cornin' to her. So-
ccsh had done told tho Dock that Iloao wasn’t
no a kin to ’(other two chillun und that Gordon
hud sa>d her ]>ntv was alive, but she hadn’t
ti ll him all that about Jauo Grubbs, and how
she ntolt her when she was a baby and all that.
Ole mun Undock he never leaves out nothiu’
when bo’s a tollin’ anything nnd ho dont sco
no use iu n kcepin' of nothin’ a secret—ho sot
in ntthe hcciunin’ like lie allots docs aud told
it all, und the Dock sot and listened and look
ed quair out'n liis eyes—then ho up au' axed
quick if Jane Sharp ever went by tuo nnmo of
Jane Grubbs, and they nil at onco’t 'lowed
Then says he, Rose must bo my own
"1
child!" soys ho. "My littlo Leonora that I
thought was buried with her mother," and
they all sot and looked nt him in a mars—
"Well, well, well," soy* old Miss Rodock, "Ef
(hat dont bent me, that takes my time shore;
this hero is a qunir, quair world Burlin'—uud
linns a henpot quair things iu it to Uo shore."
The Dock'lowed if sho wau his own baby ho
would know her quick without a doubt aud
they axeil him how; and ho 'lowed his little
Ltonora had a big brown mole tho nhapo of a
heart under the bottom of her left foot—in tho
hollow of her foot—and with thatSecesh cried
for joy, and all bands screamed out: "Then
its her, its her, I know its her—for sho has got
itthoruand sartiu—a great big black mole
right under the bottom of her foot, ’ "Yes
she is got it, and its block as tare." This
come Irom over In tho cornder. Thoy thought
Governor Wade Hampton was asleep, but he
hsd been a luytn’ thar all that time with hi*
iyce and year* both wide open; ho rir. upjpQ'n
the pallet iu the cornder aud spoke out: rYet
she is got it—and sho’sdono named tbat’al her
nigger foot." Bonny hud rushod to the
truudlc bed and jerked it out iroin under the
big one aud grabbed tho child’s foot to prove it
was so, and mighty nigh skeerd tho little thing
into fils. Dock Hunter tuck her up in hi*
aims. Rho looked around sorter curi* and
taid: "I was so steord—I foughf yon was old
Santy turn to dit me and tote mo off to his
house." But nuick as sho seed it was Dock
she wss all right.
Dock Hunter tot down on side of tho littlo
bed and hugged his chile up close to him; ho
knowed beyunt a doubt tliut she wushis’n, his
own little Leonora, and when »ho seed it wa*
Dock instid of old Bantr sho hud drempt was
cornin' to git her, she urupt her littlo head ou
his shoulder and went back to sleep. Ho sot a
long time a squeezin’her in his arm*, not a
say v*' of a word—and tho Rodocks alt stood
around and never said nairy word to him. Al
ter while he layed her hack over iu tho little
ted easy to keep from wakiu' her, thou tuck
his cheer by the lire and put his faco in hi*
hards and shuck from head to foot, aud the
big (*nrs fell on the floor, aud still no body
nivir said nothin’—you couldu't hoar nothin'
but the cat snorin’ on the hath uud the ticking
of the big old clock over tho liro board. All
wa* still as death for a long time, when tho
gal* and tho old 'oiimn begun whUperin’ to
up* another and the two boy* talked low; tho
old man need ho lmd a good chance now to
speak better’n ho had had any time afore, nnd
he mad* use of it, he up and Mowed: "l have
knowed from th* fust, tho very fust that that
nr young 'un wasn’t no common young 'un
and 1 'lowed her folks wn* good blood, I'm
whfits hard to fool on tho blood ol folk# and
horns too. I dont kuow a* any body has over
henrn nta lesto hut nevertheless notwitUstnnd-
It.’ hits been my opinion front tho very fust that
Buga rente or Kosou* yod call her wasn't to be
snetred nt." Uo?* in her littlo Uni was dream-
iu’ ol what old Santy would (etch her and
never hcarn nothin’ they said, and nover
knowed tel next day what it all meant. Ah!
law when Seeesh Ibnlock told Dock Hunter
that she couldn't marry nobody that wouldn’t
hthcrkicp Rose—sho never onco’t dreauipt
that Rose could iu reason bo more fo tho D vk
than she was to her, atd ho never dreampt it
tiuther for ho believed hi* child to bo dead.
Next nioriiiu' the chillun riz by times ami
was hsppy to find what old Santy hud fetched
’em hut Rut* was the gladdost of all wheu
they told her he had fetched her a pappy, and
in paitlckler glad when she found out who he
was. Th* old 'onian 'lowed in a whisper tx
the gal*, "Now wasn't it a blessed good thing
1 made them chaps wash ther feet 'foro they
went to bed? Ef Rose hadn’t washed her’n
Dt-ck never would have found that ar mole ou
her‘nigger foci’ twixt tho heavens and the
jeth." The Rodocks was tho happiest folks
in all Cooay valley; they put the big pot iu
tho little one nnd stewed the amoothin’ irons
that day, slid axed Miss Nora aud Mr. Mackey
over to spend the day, and aleh another din
ner never was seed iu Owl Hollow. Tigo and
Tube Mil linger was both axed but Tobe bo
never come—he tuck hia old rill* and his little
squirrel dog and went off a huutiu’ on the
mounting.
Atter Miss Nora and Mr. Mackey got thar
•nd Tige Miiliugcr come, Dock he made a
n otion that they’d send alter the preacher—
Tice and Mackey both 'lowed they’d second
the mol bn, and it waa agreed to have the wed-
din’ that day all three at once aud not wait no
longer. Thetdd 'omen ’lowed that l-nked
might!v to her like "swallowing the old Nick
who*c, A but she rackin’ as how thar wasn't no
use in taken of two bites when one would do
st d Dock he fetched it to her mind what she
bad said to him when she was thankin’ of hint
for savin’ Benny’s life—how she belt to bis
battf and cried and said thst il ever she hai
•nytbiig that be wanted all he'd have to do
would to to ax her tor it aud he ahould hare
il, "That time has come," says he, "But I’ll
make a fergiu* with you," says he, "l II giro
irv daughter to your daughter if you’ll give
vour daughter •« me," and tho bargain was
ill Uck, and to they had the we ldin’ thu dsy
sll *hrt* couple# married under one ceremony
®i d t nder on* horse shoe. The Dx’k w.'Uld
have the old horse shoe fetched «*ut’u the
•n ry at d hut g over ther bands—they
awurr it from the j>se fogs, aud hint
oid fieerth stood right under it tu tbe
middle, and totfors on each side, and
tber wasn’t no happier folks on that
side of Big Tater mounting. That day had
been sot apart for the Christmas tree, at the
school ’cute and Mie» Nora ’lowed while they
was oil so happy they musn'fe furgitthcr
promise to the school chillun, aud she
wouldn’t disoppint ’em, |*o atter they mar
ried they all went over to the school 'o tse and
fixed the tree for the chillun, and some of the
little fellers hadn't saw a Christmas tree afore
in ther lives and they had lots of fun, and thit
was the tend of tbe session, and wound up
Mis* Nora’s work in Owl Hollow.
PART XX.
They sny n man oilers wants to go back to
tbe place wbsr he has tuck life’s blood; mobbe
he will run away and stay off for years but ho
haint neve: satisfied tel he goes back to the
spot wliar his devilment was done, and it have
been the occasion of ketobin’ many a one.
Old man Rodock said one time a man kilt a
man by the name of Partridge and run off,
and no body knowed who done it; he was
found dead at tho fork* of the road; and fifteen
year alter that, two men rid by thar and one
of'em stopped his critter und piuted to tho
place and ’lowed: "Fifteen year ago to-iliy I
Kilt a pattridge right thur." Tother man had
him tuek up nnd he wus hung for murder.
It retched old Miss Amos’s years by some
book or crook that it was the talk all over the
settlement that her son Bill knowed whar
Mo*ea Gant was, and sonio 'lowed he had be^n
seed a bangin’ around the hunted hut aud
that Bill w&B n hidin’ nnd a harborin’ of him
from the hands of jestice and sho was pestered
so she couldn’t sleep of nights and bcgcod Bill
soys she "William, William, my son William,
ef you raily and truly knows whar that ar
Gant boy is, do for the ronasy's sake dout tell
it—dont tell no body—don't lot no body choko
it out’n you—I knows the law my son, and cl
it* found out on you that you air a hiding of
Mores Gant the murderer, they’ll say wehms
was all consarned in it, and they mought sue
out a writ agin us and slap the last ono of us
in jail—nri8rk my ■*•#»» ef they, dont—so
William, my son William do prav clinch your
tongue twixt your teeth and dont let 'em
choke it out’n you—I knows the law, 1 tell
you, I knows the law." But the old critter
had all her oneasiness for nothin’; Bill never
kLowed no more about Moso than sho did.
Bill and Mose was good friends, but Moses
Gnnt give Gwl Hollow the dodge, bo was too
sharp a fellow to let sich a "blab mouth" as
Bill Amos find out his mistin’ pole. Bill
couldn't have kept it to save hi* life; but he
popped his eyes all the same and looked wise
and never nenied it. It ullers done Bill a
power of good for folk* to think ho knowed
sump’n he wouldn’t tell.
Gordon or Grubb*, Jones or what ever his
name "mought bo" had been monstrous greedy
after gold, nnd wn* a waitin’ for Miss Nora to
git the money she promised him, but atter he
found out she was married, and that her
brother was tho very man ho was a tryln’ to
dodge; it was like the Dock said, it never tuck
him no time to git away. He hud a pretty
face nnd n slick tongue, and borrowed all the
money poor old Miss Pike had and promised
to send her a big pile of gold when ho got
back to Memphis, nnd she believed every
word he said, but poor feller he never got
back to no Memphis.
When lio sneaked around tho littlo log
school .bouse that night and peeped th-ouga
tho window ot the cnilluu a playin’ Johnny
Brown, he would right then gin ever*.thing on
this ycth to havo been ono ot them littlo fol
low. Oh 1 if he could only take back his life
and live it over, hut it wus too Into ho couldn’t
do it, nnd now ho was a dodgin' aud a jump
in’ at his own shadow, like a wild beast that*
nfcard ol the hound*. H i hadn’t hearn about
them two men bein’ in Owl Hollow and so
when he coteh a sight of Mr. Mackey leuuin'
agin tbe firo board a talkin’ to Miss «Nora, ho
knowed in reason he would have to make his
icf skasc, nnd was a wonderin’ how ho was
ever n gwine to git that money she promised
him, when who should ho ace but Dock Hunter
that bo thought was gone away from Owl Hol
low lor good. "Whvn’t you come insido Mr.
Jones and see ‘old Santjr?" says U"'o Simon
Grubbs a talkin’ to his owr,-paw. Its hard
when a man’s old chile has to call him Mr.
Jour*. But Mr. Jones pever come in. his
devilment had made him coward nnu ho
knowed ho must be a gw.YK.Ho slipped
nway in the dark easy and weut back' to tho
ferry; be wanted to put as much ground twixt
him and them two men ns them logs of hls’u
could travel that night. When he got to tho
ferry and found tho boat on tother aide ol tho
river he jumped in a littlo old rickety canoe
and tried to row it across and upsot it in tbo
niiddlo of tho Coosy river; ho hollowed loud
for help snd the men at tho ferry boat tried to
git to him but it was too late—wjicn they got
him out he was dead. And so it leaked out
that ho was the ghost that had all that tirno
bunt'd granny Bh»rp’a cabin. Peggy Moran-
dy hnd told him about tho iron pot full of fino
things that granny Sharp had buried, and ho
hod pnt it out that the home was hauled so ho
could slip thar ot night nnd dig onbeknowst to
any body. But'bim aud old Miss Pike both
wast'd ther time a diggin* for nothin’, and it
never done old Miss Pike no good to hido them
things that come out’n that old chist, for Dock
llurter marked tho place whar sho hid ’em,
and him nnd Sccesh went right straight thar
and got’em; atd thar win tho witch he had
give to Leonora’s maw th« day thoy was mar
ried, and thar wa* tho silver cup w.th
"Leonora" writ on it that Mis* Nora had sent
to her little narao sako. Poor Jauo had itolt
’«ni tne day sho tuck tho child and thorn
things that Bccesh found in tho iron pot too,
and‘Dock knowed every one of’em.. Tne chain
was a pieco of the aamo little chain ho put
•round Rose’a neck the du£ra left Owl Hol
low ; tho pin had hit piotur on ono side and
when you whirled it over thar was the btby’s
on tother. His piotur wss struck firo he
turned out his whiskers, and didn’t, have the
favor of him much, aud Uo»»
out growed her’n.
had doao plum
Tobe Millinger slung bis old long rills, the
"baby waker" over his shoulder tho day ho
lelt aud whistled to his little dog and nover
said good bye to no body; and when they
hcarn from him agin bo wus away over yander
In Flurridy a killin’ of duck*. Folk* ’lowed
Tobe hnd run off to keep from a courtin’ ot
Cindy Amos—that alter Cindy found out sho
couldn’t git Tige she sot her cap for his brother
Toll*, anil Tobe he was sich a tender-hearted
filler he kuowed in reason if he stayed around
her he would bo oblege to court her, so ho lit
out snd left for nothin’ else but to keep Irom a
courtin’ of Cindy Amos, least ways th*ti what
folks said. But Tige he knowed netter’n that,
he knowed mighty well what tuck Tube oil*,be
kuowed Tobe could n’t stand to stay and sco
Benny married to some hotly else. Poor Tube;
the hsppiness of some folks mtuy a time
uiskca misery for tothers. The three couple*
wa* all happy and ns old man Rodook said
nsiry one ot them wasn’t to be "suesxed at."
Doctor Grflin Hunter had really and truly
fetched good luck to Owl Hollow aud to "The
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