The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-06-14


axed him when Brownlow come here he
sed yesterday, and he and the devil had
been qaarlin ever since he come. 1 azed
him what was the matter he sed BrOWnlow
wanted to set up his Knoxville Wing here,
and the devil won't begin to let him do it,
for it would corrupt the morals of all pan
demonium in less than a month and make
1t as bad as East Tennessee, and he sed
they was jIst about to clineh each other
when he left 1 told him I believed l
wonld 60 and see it, and If they try to
conscript me to put me into the fte
woul claim foreign protection, and if that
would not do to keep outen the fte I will
tell them I am not naturalized. So I thot
I went.on as fast as could, and at last
come in site of the biggest kind of
crowd that put me in mind of a South Car
olina gineraI muster arter parade. I got
up as close as I could, seed a great big
fellow with horns upon his head, and
long tail with a spike on the end of it,
settin on big rock the cutler of suffer,
and rite ofore him stood long, tall, slab-
sided, CANT looking fellow, with ears that
hung like sides of lether, popin his fists at
the chap on the rock, sayin you old barkin,
neighin, bloten, braggin, temptin, mewin,
putin, struttin, scoundril you, you can't
run over me. Thinks I. that is Brownlow,
for that is his style, jista he ended his
speech, seed old Horney rise from his
rock, raise his tail and jump up and popped
his COW heels together, and swear by the
power in his tail that he was a man
and half and no COWS calf, and he was
not guine to stand it any longer. So he
pitched in on long years and, dear cusin
have seed many fte afOre, not only
atween men, but atween bulls, bars, tigers,
lions and other Yarments, but this was
a top notch above them all, 1 tell you it
was a hurtin ite, and the smoke biled up
often them, while the fte was goin on, SO
thick you could have sliced it up with a
knife. Alter they had fought for an
hour they got little calm, and the smoke
had got outen the way, SO I could sorter
see thar position, and tell you it was a
quear one. The devil had Brownlow by
the ears tren his best TO pull um outen
roots but it was no use, his old whit-leth-
er was too tuf. Browrlow's head was be-
tween the DEVILS legs and long ears had him
By the tail, pellin aud twistin it with all
his mite, and nawin and twistin it with his
teeth after long fte, hard fte, and
IL e. fo1o
then old Horney cried out, Brownlow, you
may have what you want. I gum it up, let
US drink and make friends. The parsou
sed no, will kick you over the walls, and
fist then Brownlow ordered the crowd Ito
come with him, and we all went to that
gate whar the big dog staid, and Brownlow
kicked the devil out and throwed his tail
arter him, and said now take your tail and
go. The devil sed can go; you haven't
made much no how, I'll just go to Tennes-
see and get into your old body you left
there, and rule Tennessee, and so you see
we have only changed places. BrOwnlow
sed to the big dog at the gate, 1 is now
King of this place, and your orders is new
/ er to let the devil in. He then turned
round 10 the crowd and axed if there was
any rebs here, and give orders to the rad
icals to take every one of them and tye um
all hand end foot, and bury them alive for
I a time, and take um out afor they die, and
put um in mortar guns and shoot them
against the walls oS that place in order to
keep ther hands in for the next war. Jist
when that order was given, it seemed that
every one of them tuck arter me, and soon
cotch me, and when 7 was kicken to get
loose from um, jist then it looked like the
foundations give way, and me, BrOwnlow,
and the whole crowd was fallin. My head
hit something, and I walked. When I
come to find out the fallin was the bed
stead which I kickek down tryin to get
away from the radicals.
No more at present, but remains your
most loyin cusin,
TIMOTHY TAPP.
P.s If you see Mr.. Bill Arp, you can
tell him if he has any immediate use foI
his cussin man, he will find him at the
ferry. I. L.
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