Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-06-12
Bill Arp's Chat.
FIFTEEN YEARS BACK WITH TECUMsEII
SHERMAN.

From the Atlanta Constitution
I bad just finished reading Of it and
was ruminatin, when my nabor Free
man come in. II carried me back
about 10 years 20 the time wien they
come along through this same beautl
full region and destroyed everythiIg Q
in their pathway. l thought about
prairie fires anG Mississippi hurricanes
and aValanchcs and the pestilerce
that walketh at MONDAY. J thought
about women and children made
/ homeless an1 desolate, and driven
away TO wander in search of food and
shelter and a hiding place. / don't
think about these things often, for the
old sore has got well but, then, the
scar is there, and there's weak spot
| in the bone underneath, and it takes
the rumatics wherever anything hap
pens that freshens up the horrors Of
that march TO the sea.
Well, l was just a ruminatin when
my nabor come in; and somehow or
other we got to talking about dogs.
Freeman said some of 'em had sense
and memory and resentment just like
human people. That his dog Dixy
never molested anybody without prov
IL
when they come inside the gate and
smell around and keep his eye on 'em
till they gel inside the house. He
was monstrous savage looking dog,
and every one that come in would
much him up little for fear of acc;-
dents. One day stranger came along
and instead of muching him up, shook
his stick at him. Dixy made for him
like killing snakes, They had it
rough and tumble for good while,
and DiXy tore the hind sights off Of
him, and would have whipped him,
but another feller run in, and between
'em they mauled the dog mighty nigh
70 death. Well, Dixy never saw that
man any more for several years, but
one day he come along, (sOld Te-l
cnmp?' said -, Il disremember his
name," said he, "and he wanted to
come IN again on some bisness OF
other, C'1ron works." said I,) and as
he dident have a stick he commenced
muching UP the dog and whistling
little turtle-dove notes to him, but
DiNy knowd him the very minute he
put his eyes on him. There was no
disturbance, for we were all about,
but that dog never did get reconciled
to that man."
cold Tecump?" said I.
NO" said he, 'that wasent the
name. What makes you keep calm
him Tecump?'
''We eli, | couldent tell you prczact
ly, said /, ''but I've just finished
reading the pcroosal of Mr.. Sher-
mans letter, and I've got your dog
story and the letter so mixed up to-
gether | can't tell tother from which.
I've got nothing agin the letter in par
ticular, and if it had come forth a
little more anonymous would have
liked it first rate, for it amt often a |
Northern Republican is honest enough
to tell the truth on us. But then YOU
see there's many a Dixy dog who
haven't forget, and all this muching-
up don't reconcile 'em worth a cent.
Now, it don't make any difference with
me, for I've done harmonized. shake
hands across the bloody chasm with
everybody that wants to. I've 20
doubt Mr.. Sherman is sorry for what
he done and wants to be friendly.
He'd make a better President for the
South than Grant"
"Who would?'' said Mrs. Arm as
she come in.
''W ell, we were just talking around
generally" said I.