Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-06-27

this must be Mr.. Bill Arp,s cusSlI
man. Mr.. Carren was gittin nc
better fast, and | thot l had bet
ter be taken with a leaven. So
put out, and as long as | could
hear him he was cussin, and artel
travlin on / come in site of a
high black wall, and | seed my
road went to a gate. So l walked
on thinkin of circumstances, until
l found myself most up to the
gate, and just turning my eyes
to the left, there squated one of
the biggest black dogs in the world.
And it had three heads. l jump
ed back and hollered begon. 1t
looked at me very pleasen and
sed, howdy. | sed howdy. 1t
axed me my name. l told it Tim
othy Tapp from Possum Trot,
Chattooga county, Ga. Then |
axed it its name, it said Ceberus.
l says what place is this, it said
Hadis or Orcus. I says does the
Sheebang belong to you; it sand
no, it used to belong to Mr.. Pluto.
1t axed me whar [ was gwine.-
I said to Hi l expect, fur that
was my notion when | started
1t aXed me how come me to die,
and | told it | had been livin on
roots and fence rail splinters ever
since the war, and it was that
which give me the Tipod Colora-
morbus and killed me. 1t said if
that was the case go on. Well,
jist as I got into Hadis, l seed a
fellow that looked like he was
trien to hide himself. l axed
when l. got in speakin distance,
whar was all the folks that lived
in this place; he said they was
all gone to the big fite. | axed
him who was gwine to fte. He
said the devil and Brownlow. ]
axed him when Brownlow come
here; he said yesterday, and he
and the devil had been quarlin
ever since he come. I axed him
what was the matter; he said
Brownlow wanted to set up his
Knoxville Whig here, and the
devil wont begin to let him do it,
for it would corrupt the morals of
all pandemonium in less than a
month and make it as bad as East
Tennessee, and he sed they was
list about to clinch each other
when he left. l told him | be-
lieved l would go and see it, and
if they would try to conscript me
to put me into. the fite [ would
claim foreign protection, and if
that. would not do to keep outer
the fite l will tell them | am not
naturalized. So l thot as | went or
as fast as ] could, and at las leone
in sight of the biggest kind of &
crowd that put me in mind of
South Carolina gineral muster
arter a parade. | got up as close
as l could, and | seed a great big
feller with horns on his head, and
long tale with spike at the
end of it, setten on a big rock
the euler of suffer, and rite afort
him stood a long, tall, slab sided
CANT lookin fellow, with ears thai
hung like sides of lether, popir
his fists at the chap on the rock
sain you old barkin, neighin, bio
ten, braggin, temptin, mewlng
putin, struttin, scoundrill you
you can't run over me. Think:
[ that is Brownlow, for that il
his style. Jist as he ended his
speech, l seed old Horney rise
from his rock, raise his tail an(
| jump up and pop his cow heel
together, and swear by the powe'
!, in his tail that he was a man ant
: a half and no COWS calf, and h'
; was not guine to stand it any lon
ger. So he pitched in on long
! ears; and, dear cusin, l have seet
many a .fite afore, not only atweel
; men, but atween bulls, bars, tigers
! lions and other varmints, but thi
! was top notch above um all
: l tell you it was a hurtin fite, ant
/ the smoke billed up often them
r while the fite was goin on, SO thicl
; you could have sliced it up will
5 a knife. Arter they had Tough
for an hour they got a little calm
and the smoke had sorter go
/. outen the way, so | could sorte
see thar position, and | tell you
| was quear one. The devil ha'