Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-12-10
FROM THE y, Y. SPIRIT OF the rmEs.
The Knob Dance "A Tennessee Story.
DIoE nARLAN's sroRY.

< " In the swamp" in spite of his palheti
appeal not to ''crowd the niourners,n seem
= very much inclined to do that same to
considerable extent lie crowds Col
+ Knox" Just a leetle closer TO Louisville
& Charleston and Winchester, than ever
expected to see it. II makes the old tow
a quite FESTIVE, il does. He saws Knoxyil
IS 200 miles from each OF the places aboy
/ named. Now that's hoti Biographies
wouldn't sell in that "swamp" if they hap
pened to insinuate that the man thar wa
wrong, perhaps, few hundred miles.
think if he was 10 occur in this rootin
somebody would see one dead man trice i
they never saw two dead men at one time
and he would "See the elephant" sure
His sketch'is good and true, though, all
save placing us so near where somebody
lives Wonderful he was at g ara froick'
while he was in East Tennessee? reck.
on not, or you would have hearn tell of il
before now in the spirit of the Times
MY friend Dick Harlan tells of one that
took place somewhere in the neighbor-
hood Of Stock creek, that "crowds the
mourners." Hear him bust!
You may talk Of your bar hunts, Mistor
Porter, and your deer hunts, and knottin
tigers tails thru the buug holes OF barrels,
an cock filn' and all that, but if regular
bilt froick in the nobs Of sold KNOX, don't
beat 'em all blind for fun, then Pm no
Judge of fun, that's all! said fun, and /
say It agin, from Kiss that cracks like a
wagin.whip up 10 tte that rouses up all
out-doors-and as to latin, why they H.
rented latin, and the last laf will be heerd
at Mob dance about three in the morn.
ing! Pm list gettin so can ride after The
motions | made at one at 10 Spraggins's a
few days ago.
III try and tell you who 10 Spraggins
is. He's a squire, a school comishner.
oserlooker Of mile of Mob road that
leads torards Roody's aiH.h6ase-a fid-
der, judge of boss, and boss hisselfi
lie can belt six bits worth Of corn.iuice
at still house rates, and TRAVELLED out
shoot and out lie any Teller from the Smo.
ky Mounting TO Noxyille, and ifthey'l bar
one fellow in Nox, I'll say 10 the old Kahn
tuck line! G'm sorter aiecrd of him for
he lied jackass to death in two hours y
can make more spinnin-whees, kiss
more spinners, thrash more wheat and
more men than any one eyed man know
on. He hates a circuit rider, a niger,
and shot gun--loves a woman, oldsedge,
and sin in eny shape. He lives ina log
hous about ten yards squar; it has two
rooms, one at the bottom an one at the top
of the ladder-has all out of doors fur
yard, and all the South for its occupants at
times. He gives a froick oust in three
weeks in plowin time, and one every Sa-
turday-nie the balance of the year, and
only asks picayune for a reel, and two
bits for what corn-juice you suck; he
throws the gals in, and bed too in the
hay, if you git too hot to locomote. The |
supper is made up by the felefs; every
one fetches sumthin; sum lick Of meal, |
sum middin of bacon, sum hen, sum
a possum, sum punkin, sum a grab Of Ia
tiers, or a porket full Of peas, or dried ap |
pies, and sum only fetches good appetite
and a skin chock full Of particular devilry, |
and if thaI's been shntn match for beef, |
the day before, why leg finds its way 10
JOS, sure, without eny help from the bal. |
lance Of the crilter. lie gives Jim Smith, !
Ilhe storekeeper over Bays mounting,) |
warnin TO fetch skane Of silk fur fiddle.
strings, and sum Orleans" for swee1in,
or not to fetch himself; the silk and sugar
has never fhiled to be thar yet 10 then
mounts Punkinslnger bar backed, about
three hours afore shutdown, and gives all
the gals dem. He does this a leetle Of
The s'ickcst-jstrides pas in peart rack,
.ingin,
30 mel frog with a fiddle on his back,
a axing his way 70 the fr-o-I-i-c.k,p
That's enuG The gals knows that amt
q jackass, 50 BY shutdown they came pour.
ID out of the woods like ants oul of an
Old log when toiher eend's afire, Jest as
fine as silk, and full o fun, fixed out in al
soiisol fancy dons, from the broad.striped
homespnd to the sunfower calico, with the
ground. As for silk,
If one had silk gown, she'd be too smart
10 wear it TO 10 Spraggins's, for if she did,
she'd 60 home in her peiicoal-taIe sdrtia,
for the homespun wud tare it off of her
quicker n wlnkin, and If the sunllower
caicos didn't help the homespuns, they
wouldn't do the silk eny good; SO you see
that silk isneyer rattIin about your cars al
d Mob dance.
The sun had about sot afore got the
things fed an had Bhrkmlll saddled, (you'll
arn directly why call my pony Barkmill)
but an owl couldn't have cotch rat aiore
WIS in site OF JOS with my gall, JULIE
SAwyERs, up behind me. She Rugged me
nifty tile she was $50 fccrd Of FILLING off
# that drafted poney.' She said she
lid'nt mind falling but it mought break
her leg, and then sood-by frolicks. now