The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-11-08

to go home without you. Besides, what would
the gineral and Rafe say promised them
fight and it would be onfair to disapoint them,
it would
"Well, sez he lookin' as savage as she bar
what has cubs, s'Ifyou will have it blaze away,
then"
@No, Dick, says /, I'm made up mind to cap
tivate you, but its agin the laws for me to fire
before you We made any resistance, SO shoot on
at once or else s'render-it amt no use talkin'
so much about it, for you must come'
s'Stranger you should have hearn him rir and
cuss, when Isaid that, he stamp'd and he swore
and called me all manner O. names, ontil he
churned himself up into froath? but it wa mt
no use-he couldn't skear me, nor yit put me
in a passion and make me forget what war
doing-Tve fit Ingins too much for that. Soall
at once't he gave screech, and blazed right
away. Iseed what war coming, and so I lodged
behind the cotton wood tree. warjust in time
for the bullet ploughed along the bark and TUX
off splinter right agin my mouth, and the wind
of it tuck away my breath, SO as to make me
stagger O. one side eetle, when crack! come
another bullet and rips my hat right off my
head.''
'sHooray!'' sez Stewart "thats twice I'vehit
you, Ru', go home, now, like a good boy you
can't take me-
Il didn't say nothn' but drops quietly down
: behind the tree, and curling my rifle round it
blazed away at him, and hit him in the side, ,and
when seed him fall back, crawls to the
other end Of the big gum tree which lay on
the ground rottenin' and turning on my back
and loads my rife in double quick time, and
then peeps the leetlest mite through crook
in the limb to see for Stewart. Thar he was in
the doorway, with his lips tight clinched and
his eyes fashin', and looking all about after
me with kind of snort. His face was a little
pale and the blood was oozing out from his side.
Well, he waited just SO for good while-he
watching for me, and Ia peepin' for chance
at him, forhe kept himself covered pretty much
with the door post, and it warn't no use to fling
away shot. At last got tired, and thought
I'd better draw him out So lifted my hair
on my head until it stood straight up like, and
showed above the log. Crack went his rifle
up and fires right into him. knowed l struck
him, for he guy queer sort O. screw to his
mouth and fell back behind the door post again.
"Wel after this, we wasted a good deal O.
time a watchin' for one another, but at last
cotched his eye shining between the logs, and
, then thought would try trick on him that |
had practysed on the Ingins once afore. So |
wobbled along on my belly like a sarpent till |
reached the cotton wood tree, | swung myself
right round it, as he fired jumped away up
with shreek and then fell kerthump right fiat
on the 'arth. The momentI did So hesprang
out all bleedn and struck for the canebrake, but
Rafe Morgan dashed forward, and ketchin him
in his arms, flung him down, and thar they
rastled, fust one down and then t'other, till
; Stewart GOT Rafe undermost, and then I seed
him tumble in his side for somethin, and pres
emily ginneral Plummer called TO me quick
''Look out, Ru'! look out! Shoot Stewart the
scoundrel See, see he's a gwine to knife
Morgan"
'And sure enough the bowie knife was
i about to make a plunge when fired. Well,
4 alters said Dick was a real roarer-what dye
; think he did? Why he dropped his knife anc
flung Rafe uppermost, Just in time for my bulle
to perforate him through and through"
= "What Morgan-your friend?'
"True as gospel stranger. 1t was clear
hole in at one side and out at other side. Wei
it made me mad to see Rafe turn over on his
back, so sprung forward and afore Stewar
L could use his knife again, pinned him to the
. ground.
? "S'renderH' sez /.
e 'I'l see you id fust," said he, and ther
he turned all sorts O. colors and he tainted.
"The gineral and | stanched the blood bott
of them and then we carried them to the dug
# out, and padded down the bio, making tht
a nearest tracks for Columby. Arter had lef
d Rafe at home and got doctor for Stewart--'
It "But Rafc did he recover?"
: "Recover! to be sure he did. Bullet hole!
s ain gwine to hurt him.
Il "And Stewart, what became of him.
: s'Well he stood his trial, and got off for wan
+ of white evidence There war nggers enough
seed the thing, but they amt legal witness"
u "You had better take care now that Stewar
: is out again.
e "Take care what! 1t war fair fight.
e shot him twice-took him down the bio in my
e dug-out-got doctor and dressed his wound:
d and put him in Columby jail myself. That's
all right enough. Dick loves me like brother
r he does.''
d CHARACTER OF THE TuRKs-We commonly
: conceive Turk as busy individual, surround
: ed by great number of submissive beauties
anxious for the honor Of the handkerchief; bu
it is not remembered that there is prodigou
;, number of bachelors in the east. In spite o
Il the disgrace in which celibacy is held, large
a proportion of the men of the middle classes
abstain from marriage, on account of the diff
y culties thrown in their way by manners ane
= the competition Of the rich. | have known in
k stances among the Levantines, in which
e young shopkeeper has been compelled to spene
I half his capital to buy dirty little wife. Th'
e same system of purchase prevails among thu
O Turks and is indeed derived from them. The
II number of unmarried persons in the Ottoman
empire is therefore very great. The Turks arr
IS naturally a licentious race. Even the confor
d nation of their heads reveals that fact The
posterior portion is enormously developed; ane
II the napes of the necks are something almos
It miraculous to behold-they resemble those 0
t. bulls. They are often luxurious; and, in cas'
no suspicion Of jealousy crosses their minds
- hoir with considerah he Difference