Demoine courier., 1856-01-24
ID eSteru Sketch.
Adventure i'm kentucky.


Adventure i'm kentucky.
Under ordinary circumstances vi are
apt 10 remember very distinctly events
which occurred upon u frs. entrance
into a new country. city or state, and j,
10 often very amusing TO compare our
first anticipation OF a new people, as
suggested 10 Us by first interview with
the characters which they eventually de.
velope
Every one wto has j~ourneyed To the
great west, scene 10 meet with adven.
lures more or less peculiarly indicative
of The people Of these ..reg,ons. Some
what surprising mus, have been the feel
ings Of a friend of ours. during an in-
,erview with u native Ken.uckian which
occurred Immediately after the arrival Of
the said friend on The 'dark and bloody
ground" as the natives delight in s,yl
ing their land. a
Our friend belonged TO the engineer
ing profession. and had come I Ken.
lucky TO improve tina, region by the adj
diiion Of a certain railroad. which wac
TO make the fortune of every body near
il. ID hand. but which dldn'. do any
such thing as The even. proved. Riding
slong a pretty good pace. in order TO
reach a certain Town by nigh,fall. he pas.
sed q ruis looking house which stood
a little back from the road, and which
was the only house passed by rim for
some miles.
While glancing behind him al the 3D.
isy Of the architecture displayed in the
erection of the building, his attention
was sudden'y absorbed by the contem-
plat on Of a rough.looking individual,
who mounted 90 a large black horse.
and brandishing a long rifle. suddenly
dashed around The corner Of the house,
and came on at a slashing pace, vOcifer-
a,ing to him to stop. Seeing no propri-
ETY. in being ordered to a stand in such q
peremptory manner, our friend pressed
on at the top o. his speed.
"S.oP. you devil STOP" yelled the
black horseman, al The same time throw
ing up his rifle and firing wildly at our
engineering youth. A small limb was
cut from the tree a few ieet from The pur.
sued, who, thinking tina. he had better
gci on, OF the way of SO ~furiously dis
posed a native, and beiEg unsrmed.
sough, 10 escape BY flight. The eviden,
superiority Of the black horse which the
rineman besuode, to his own travel worn
beas,-and the fact tina, Kentucky mad
nearly completed the reloading Of his
long rifle, and expressed a determine
ton to bring him down the next shot.
induced our friend to rein in his beast
and await The arrival Of his pursuer.-
Dashing up TO his side and presenting
the rifle. the black horseman calculated:
"Say your prayers my coon. before ]
vex,iiale your miserable carcass with a
bullet hole!''
"Whs, do you mean! Who DO you
suppose l amt VIVA, the devil do you
want! Shouted the questioned man."
want! Why you're the fellow who
broke into my house three nights ogo,
and ! want o shoot you to make II
square"
..You mistake" replied our friend,
camly. 81 am . stranger just arrived in
your singula, country. and | neve. saw
your house until the lass hall hour, il
indeed the one ! have just passed be
yours. What do you mean by firing al
an unarmed ~s.rapecrl hare not harm
ed you any way. and haze no valuables
abou, me, if you intend robbery"
Robbery! ~s,ranger!" The horse.
man looked at him inten.ly a few min
uies while repeating the QUESTION me
chanicslly. "Hallo! you ar'ni the mani
he suddenly shouted. Il see i. now
he continued. "you Amt the man who
broke into my shanty-bus tell you
what" he went on, "you look danger.
ously like him. and I did come mon
slrous near making an extra button hole
in your Goa Anyway. stranger, ! see
my little mistake, and don't bear any
malice, and AZ your paldon."
Our engineering friend recovered bis
comLosure and frankly forgave the ,riie-
ing occurrence, and to show his absence
from all lear. produced a drinking flask
and asked The black horseman to drink.
Ills reques, was complied with. and az
ter taking his drink. Kentucky again
held forth, tins time in the wav Of arol-
ogy.
"you are a stranger here, and you
havn't as . matter Of course got used 10
our little ways. I'm powerful cory
shot at you, being a. you wssn't the Iigh,
fellow. ] am wan,in' to make il all
right, for the honor Of ole Ken,uck and
to accommodate q stranger. Now jus,
look you q bit, Here's my rifle with
one load 10 il; suppose vi toss up a cop
per anJ see which Of us st.all have The
shot! The fellow that gets the sho,
shall FIRE at the other, fair Distance
VIVA. ssv?"
"Sayl Thank you, l am perfectly sa.
isfsd already"
Bu. . look OF much trouble remained
on the face Of The Kentuckian. and he
seemed hardly sa,isfed at the repa,a-
ton he was making for his mistake
Watching his face our engineering friend
thought he detected a look Of ~incipient
ins.nitv in hia eve and thinkin0 he