The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1824-04-27
FROM TIN MponiuM.
TIL. LOG CABIN.

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| Mercy on Us who Is that female so lou
| npon our right OF a III. sty she must be lii,
original woman who hired the devil TO teach
her how to oulsrold all Ter neighbours,
Bart Far.
My table is not so much about the cabin
as about Is contents, though every one
who has travelled from Alesbury 10 Dur
! ling Fork, must remember The three cor.
| ncred plur.long At the foot OF the Red
Ridge, rooted with loose slabs, with a mud
aud straw chimney, aud large hole cnl
out of one side for the double purpose oil
a door aud window. And II there was mol
such another cabin in the country, neither
was iust such another pair as the honest
coupl" who inhabited II. The land on
(Which i; eteod belonged IL Il dA;asi pro
prlctor, and as such lands We're considered
free" the present tenant Peter Keller
had put up the dwelling himself with such
assistance as two quarts OF whiskey com.
manded on the raising day, and lived,
as one would readily imagine from hls
manner of living, entirely unincumbered
with ground rent.
Peter had scarcely troubled himself 10
cut away the bushes that grew by his
door. He minded neither the grabbing
hoe nor the pruning knife, his only Imple-
medt of husbandry, If may call II so, was
rough bored rifle, which lac kept IN ad.
mlrable order, and with which he never
failed to do excellent service whenever ne
cesslty or whlm drove him To seouf the
torests, aud climb the rugged mountains,
or trace up the winding streams, IN pur-
suit Of game and, IN truth, necessity OF
whlm kept the poor man pretty constantly
on the scout, for when the yen,son was not
out, Madame Kellzer's temper always
was, aud the failure of the one or The
other WINS AN equal misfortune for Peter
Dame Keller was Il tim, shaIp -slsaged
lady, about five feet two with black
piercing eye, and bnt three teeth the
others, as Peter affirmed, having zen
Utterly worn out of her mouth by the con-
slant conclusions of her tongues, which,
also, were three IL number, # his word
might pass for value indeed he graVely
asserted that il wasln consequence al these
remarkable and concidng anomalies, that
the Dame had compelled him, after n
years fire, To build athree cornered house,
she having fallen upon the resolUtiolb since
her husband had conceived n mortal an
tpathy to the number three, on her nc
count, To oblige him TO tolerate another
trio in the chain OF his mlsfortmes. Peter
himself though hr possessed but com
paratINrly small portion Of his mates volu-
bty, was Il man of much courage, and
Willie IN The frequent renconires between
himself and Madame keltzer, To which he
was subjected, he wae uniformly obliged
70 beat the retreat, he turned hrs back
vita an air Of 'ordly defiance, and his
yisagc showed evident signs of threatened
retaliation.
Between parties 80 often behigerrni, II
was hardly To be expected thai every con-
test should end ~ smoke. Peter com
planned L. all his neighbours Of hrs wins
reasonable war upon his liberty, aud ac-
Cuscd her with design Of reducing lln to
downright slavery while she WAS not less
prompt IN charging him with an idle ramb-
ling disposition, an entire neglect ni all
home affairs, and tven with being guilty ol
amours with some of her good neighbours
wives, whom he had occasionally furnished
with q saddle of vrnlson or string Of
squirrels As the Danes suspicious
seemed founded on THIS, The last charge
was probably untrue, but the others were
doubtless substantial, and ineonirovertible
OF either side.
No one who has sern any thing of the
world need be told what kind of advice
the friends Of our honest couple gave them
on these occasions, or that It's tendency
was not in The smallest degree of conci.
Iitaory kind instead of growing better,
things grew evidently worse, and from of
repeated threats ON both sides, plans Of
execution were revolyed in the minds of
both Peter and his wife. The Dame in one
particular. acquitted herself with honour !,
she improvedthc humble dwelling nightly
in the course ofe few years aud instead ola
ground floor she introduced one Of boards,