Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-07-08

being able to close, and thus secur,
tupon the distracted assailant.
/ We then made our way down tt
|'the bar-room, where We found th,
gIum host and his naughty spouse
mas great alarm and as elegant dish
abille as ourselves; they, and indeed
every soul in the house, having beer
aroused by the madman's vocifera-
| tions.
i What was now to be done?' The
unfortunate man was still raging; We
could hear him humping against
the door, as if endeayoring to break
through, and roaring all the while g
frenzied cry of victory" With
hat savage knife in his hand-nay,
wi tn a dozen knives, perhaps-fol
arms and clothes were all, in the hur-
ry Of our flight, left together in the
room-who should dare attack and
disar m him? Nobody showed an ap-
petit for the enterprise; and although
the ugly landlady proposed, in her
costa dcy of terror, plan that might
have ended the diIlieulty-namely,
that some Of US should take her
hush and's gun, and shoot the bedlam-
ite Il through the key-hole, (and really,
she did not seem to consider the
shooting mad Yankee any very
atrocious crime, ,)-the business was
ended by our sitting up all night III
the bar-room in extremely simple
costume, debating the difficulty.
The terrible din with which we had
been ousted from the garret did not
continue long; but was succeeded,
first, by a dead portentous calm, then
by strange half groaning, half
snorting kind of noise, that was rep
resented by some who had the
courage once or twice to creep silly
to the garret door to listen, to be
peculiarly terrific and which, indeed,
lasted all night long.
When the morning broke, we held
another consultation, and finally,
growing more courageous as the day
grew broader, wrought ourselves to
the resolution of proceeding in a
body to the travellers room, the
landlord magnanimously leading the
van, armed with a broad-axe; our
selves following at his heels, some
carrying such means of defence as
could be gathered up, and others
cart-ropes and bed-cords to tie the
madman, and mine hostess behind
with a bulldog. We paused mo-
ment at the door, listening to the
groaning sound, which was still kept
up, and then S pftly entered the room;
where We had the satisfaction Of find
ing the poor fellow lying very sound
ly and ortably asleep in the best
bed, sending from his up-turned nos
trils those anomalous and horrid
sounds, which now appeared to us
the natural music of sleep. HeI
opened his eyes, stared upon US some
what enquiringly, yet with a look so
extremely natural and lucid, that we.
refrained from laying hands upon
him, as we supposed would have been
Il
"Good morning, gentlemen" said
he, quite like a sensible person; "a
fine morning we have after the rain.
And a very fine sleep I've had too,
he added: Il hope you can say the
same?'
..:It's his lucid moment, poor dew
i" said the varmint; and gathering
up our indispensibles, We Advent down
to breakfast.
The Yankee was now the observed |
ofall observers-as solemn, as sad, as
modest as ever; and, to all appearance,
quite Unconscious of his late parox..
ysm. We were all too prudent@or too
generous to- remind him Of its even
by distant hint; and, for the Same |
we all took care not to cross
him in any thing at the table,
dish he looked at was i'm
surrendered to him; even
the ugly landlady requested his ac-
;eptanceofa tumbler of cream she had
poured out for her own use, but on
which he chanced to cast his eye.
And thus it happened that our gen.
.leman, whose appetite had by no
means suffered from his itflliction, ate
he best as well as the hi ighest break
asst Of all; after which be ordered his
lorse, called for and I aid his bill
With every air of sanity and then,
With every air of sanity,I departed.
A few moments after, We we're
ourselves upon the road, laundering