The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-25


was born in Virginia; and when he lived il
Virginia once on a time, lie climb a sim
! mon tree, and fell out, but God didn't for
sake him then, for he wasn't hurt. On an
other occasion he was stanin' over an oil,
well, kivered with rotten logs, the Iogt
broke through, but God was merciful, anC
| he didn't fan in the well. When he I,-f
| virginia lie came to Nashville with his par.
| cnts, but his mother wouldn't let him
| leave her to see the city for fear that he
! lnought get lost, but God would not forsak {
I the riteOus--he wasn't lost yGt-but here Ia
| teii qyen sinners the way of riteouSneSS
| He then came o Columbia, and he didn't
| nav to beg bread for he went to work fol-
| Anthony GOlSOn, and made InOrtor for him
| and helped build the old market-hous
| what used to stand over thar, but it taint
| over thar now; and then old Capt HeIIInI
| offered him sixty cents Il day to keek uo
hOeln' with him. The old Captain finding
that could keep up hOein' with him.
thought to get rid of me without hurting
my teellns, so he put me to splittin' rails Ii
was awful tuff timber-and when ! engage
10 DO work for man am as good as my
word; so ! stuck to SpIittin' rails The al
me in that way, told me if were wiIIfn' 20
quit, ali right. So jest told him to pay me
up and would quit-and ] di.!.
| tell you my friends God will not forsake
the rlteOuS, nor see his seed beggin' bread.
then got a job splittin' rails for Parson
HorSIey. He put me in awful tuff timber
too, but split fifty rails a day. Old Parson
HorSley was Il big, strong man; so he thought
10 show me how to split rails, but he soon
y5ON '" I'LL
my job with old ParSOn HOrSley, / blowed
rock in Cellar-ah, for a man named Lem
PhilipS-ah, for God will not forSake the RI
teouS-ah, nor see His seed begin bred-ah
While was down in the cellar-ah BLOWN
OF rock-ah, u woman came where | was
WOrk-ah, and she said to me she wouldn't
be a man for anything-ah, beEase a man
has to work so hard-ah. / told her that we
were jist alike, for l wouldn't be woman
for ans thing in the world-ah, bekase wo-
men had SIGH hard time of it. He had
never seen the riteouS fOrSaken-ah nor Their
seed begin bred-ah. His people never
preached Tor mOney-ah. The only thing he
had ever got for preachin-ah, ware three
bushels of corn-ah. Three weeks ago he
lett home-ah, to come to Columbia to
preach-ah; that he left home with not a
cent in his pOcket-ah; that he came through
the tOle-gateS-ah, but he told them he was
goln to preach-ah, and they wouldn't
charge him any ll-ah, and when he got to
toWn-ah, he hitched his jimmie in Ed. Gam
ble's hitchyard; because / wouldn't have to
pay anything-ah.. He then went to Latta's |
Stable and they wanted to know why he
didn't hitch with them-ah; but he didn't |
have anything TO pay them with-ah. 1 |
80 tII nCt ~ CiIt CNeIL gan ana Wnen L
GOT through-ah, Squire Clear got me up five /
dollars and sixty .centS-ah, more money 1
IMAM L ever got in my life-ah TOR preaching
an. tell you my friends God never for
Sakes the riteous-ah nor sees their seed beg
GIN bred -ah. Well, arter I got through
went back to CANDLES lot |
and got my Jinnie-ah, and put her in Lat
la $ Stable-ah, for had money then, | tell
You, TO pay for it-ah; then went home with
my Old friend Joe WoodsdtAah, and tuck
inner with hlln-ah, and helped eat big |
tat turkey-ah. | tell you my friend God |
won 1OrSakG the ritcOuS nor see his seed |
Deggin bread-ah. ON another occasion l |
bought Il barrel of whisky of Joe Wood |
'ideS-ah, and sold it out on a credit-ah. |
Wei, tell you lost money on that; but |
'eed DeSSIn bred. Had heard that Joe had |
got relIgion-hOped he would stick to it-ah |
ma at last get with the saints in paradise |
/ had been said that BaptiStS went into |
heaven DackWArdS-al. hUt that 1
ul miStake-ah, kase if they did, baldhead-
ct men couldn I get to heaVen-ah. He had |
been a chicken peddIeT for long time, 1
'nce on tlme he came to this town and had |
10 money, and wanted credit lie went to- |
reap OF stores-th, but they all refused him
BIZ Dale'S. He had some bows, in thar:
maybe they were his sons-ah. They had
OF OF WnlSperln, ah, but they give me credit |
or SIX do.laIs-ah. Ete thought old man Dale
one Utah, and | intend to pay him GER
ain-ah; for | think old man Dale-ah is a
ood man and honest man-ah; and l tell
GU, my irlenuS-ah, that God won't fOrSake |
he rlteous nor see his seed begin bread-ah. :
intend to pay old man Dale that debt
m comm up here Tuesday with one hun
red dozen eggs and some maulS, and | in
end to pay old man Dale that debt GER
ain-ah.
l once bought a gun-ah of Mr.. Gosh White; !
GU all know Gosh White don't YOU? Well |
bought a gun OF Mr.. Gosh White at auc-
on-itll, Tor two dollarS-ah, and he tuck one | {
0llar from me-ah, and kept the guu-ah nm | [
i ! paid him the other dOlIar-ah Mr.
oSh White calls me Punkiu Davis-ah but | [
e Is a good friend of mine-ah and l tell you
Fed beggin bred-;th. When / preached I
ere betore-ah and started home-ah, | went | I
} Latta to get my Jennie-ah and he only | {
ltfSed me nall prlCe-ah, only had to Day
I'M one dollar and fifty CentS-ah. | tell
gu my dear congregation, God won't for |
IKE the riteus nor see his seed begin bred. | [
- mad had a heap of ups and dOWnS-ah |
ny II was 10 tell you all the troubles | | I
I'D had-ah, they would be Il mighty site
ld on time bot fine dress for nv
leah, paid seven dollars for it-ah and the 7
idy OF that feller Riddle-ah, that was tried | 6
'r numbering the Jew pedIer-ah, you have n
u herd of that | reckon: well the daddy of Il
lat teller StOld that dreSS-ah; so Bro. Davis
ize with him. Z
ri tell you why they call me Punkin Da- s
san My name amt Punkin Davis-ah,
lt IL IS John Daniel DaviS-ah, John, for | v
'hn the Baptist, and Daniel for him what
as cast into the lion den-ah. One time | G.
was tenden lection at Shady Grove-ah,
Id a feller said he could throw me down. | n
l, but he didn't, because l throed him
own, and he remarked, "yOu are some | .
lnklnS.' You see God never fOrsakes the
teOus nor lows his seed to beg bred, so
icy have been calling ME Punkin Davis
'er Stnce-ah. Once old Squire Kennedy
nat lives on Cathey's creek met me and
III, How are you lunkin naviS,' | said, | f
low are you Simblin Kennedy" He said |
didn t intend to make me mad, and l |
III him didn't intend to make him mad
ther.
1 iiNiS W tlo " 'tllIto ". DdN 49, some OF you
ay recOlleCt him, ell when he came to
is place he tOted him on his back across
creek; well James .. Davis was |
cousin of his, but he didn't bear a very
'Od character, and there was THOMPSON | :
emlng, he was kin folks of his but he +
All hearn that they had him up in the | a
iurb House once on a time. =
! n one of his trials God had been merCi-
/ TO hlm-ah and spared his life on many |
caSlonS, that he didn't let him break his | n
sck-ah when he fell out of that SimmOn di
ee-ah, nor fell in the well-ah, nor get lost | m
NaShNllIe-ah, but when he come to get |
llSlon he was greatly troubled-ah; that he |
lu never stolen anythin%-ah, but once
tlped some boys to eat some stolen water
elOnS-ah, that he went out in the woods
l and he prayed and prayed-ah, fer he
new lie could do nothing by his own
but he finally silSt his burden on
lrlst=ah, who had atOned for all his sins
4, tell you my friends, YOU ought all to
religi0us-put your burdens on Christ,
+ God won't tOTSake the riteOuS, nor see
5 seed begin bred. He never had receiY-
a dollar OF public mOney-ah, had never
zen Juror-ah. one time he worked for
man at sixty cents a day, until he owed
III twenty dOllarS-ah, that he took the
oney and bot a boss with Utah, he didn't
e the hoss-ah, but bot him on the repre-
nations of Others-ah; that he was over on
lthertOrd creek-ah, and he went to get his
)SS-ah, he found he wasn't worth the
Oney-ah, and he lost fifteen dollars on
al boss Irade-aH Ola RacCu, a lderSOD |