The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-04-26
THE GEORGIA SCENES
Sui' Account of FIgh, For .ho Ladies.

Sui' Account of Fight For the Ladies
from hurpers' Edition ofhe "Gtoygin S,.e,r.'
| 'y Judge Lomgstrcct
In the younger days of the rep,,h,;e
there lived in the county of tw(
men, who were admitted on all hands r.
be the very best men in the counirv
Mnich' 10 the Georgia vocabulary, mean.
sney couid iiog any other two men in the
county. Zach, through many hard
fought battle, had acquired the mastery
Vi DIS own battalion; but they lived on
opposite sides CT the Court. house, and in
uiherent battalions: consequently, they
were out seldom thrown together. When
lhey met, however. they were always
very friendly indeed, at their first inter.
view, they seemed 10 conceive wonder.
iul attachment 10 each other, which
rather increased than diminished as thew
became better acquainted; so that, but
ior the circumstances which am about
to mention, the question, which had been
thousand times asked, (which is the
pest man, Billy Stations fStallinps) or
Bob Durham?" would probably never
have been answered.
BILLY ruled the upper battalion. and
Bop .he lower. The former measured
/ SIX feet and al inch in his stocking. and
without q single pound Of cumbrous flesh
about him, weighed hundred and eipb.
~. The latter was an inch shorter than
MS rival, aud ten pounds lighter; but he
was much the most active of the two. In
running and jumping he had but few
equals IN the country; and in wrestling,
not one. in other respects they were
nearly equal. Both were admirable spec.
linens OF human nature in its finest form.
bllly's victories had generally been
achieved by the tremendous power of
his blows, one of which had often proved
decisive of his battles; Bob's, by his
adroltneSs in bringing his adversary to
the ground. This advantage he had ney.
er failed to gain at the onset, and, when
gained he never failed to i'm prove it to
the defeat Of his adversary. These
points of difference have involved the
reader in doubt IS to the probable issue
OF contest between them. 1t was not
80, however, with the two battaliops.
Neither had the least difficulty in deter.
mining the point by the most natural and
irresistible deductions a prior aud
thoug b, by the same courage of reason.
ing, they arrived at directly opposite con.
clusions, neither felt its confidence in
the least shaken by this clrcumstan nee.
The upper battalion swore that Billy
only wanted one lick at him to knock
lis heart, liver, and lights out of him,
and If he got two at him, he'd knock
him into cooked hat The lower bat.
TALON retorted, that he wouldn't have
time to double his fist before Bob would
put his head where his feet ought to be
and that, by the time he hit the ground.
the meat would fly off his face so quick.
that people would think it was shook off
by the fall These disputes often led to
the aryumenfun, dd hominem, but with
such equality of success on both sides as
to leave the main question just where
they found it. They usually ended, how.
ever, in the common way. with bet;
and many quart of old Jamaica (whis.
Ky had not then supplanted rum) were
staked upon the issue. Still, greatly to
the annoyance of the curious, Bill and
Bob continued to be good friends.
Now there happened to reside in the
county just alluded to a little fellow by
the name of Ransy Sniffle; sprout of
Richmond. who, in his early days, had
fed copiously upon red clay and black
berries. This diet had given to Ransy
a complexion that corpse would have
disdained to own, and an abdominal 70.
tunlty that was quite unprepossessing.
Long spells of the fever and ague, too,
in Ransy's youth, had conspired with
clay end blackberries to throw him quite
out Of the order of nature. His shoul.
ders were llesbless and elevated his
head large aud fat; his neck slim and
translucent and his arms, hands, fin.
gers, and feet were heightened out of all
proportion to the rest of his frame. His
joints were large and his limbs small;
and as for flesh, he could not; with nro.
priety, be said to have any. Those
parts which nature usually supplies with
the most of this article-the calves of
the legs, for example in him
the appearance of so many we'll drawn
blisters. His height is Just five feet
nothing; and his average weight in
blackberry season, ninety.five. [ have
been thus particular in describing him,
for the purpose of showing what agreat
matter little fire sometimes kindIeth.
There was nothing on this earth which
delighted Ransy 80 much as fight. He
never seemed fairly alive except when he
was witnessing, fomenting, or talking
about fight. Then, indeed, his deep sun.
ken grayeye assumed something of liv.
lag fire, and his tongue acquired yolubil.
ity that bordered upon eloquence. Ran.
sy had been kept for more than year in
the most torturing suspense as to the com.
parative manhood OF Billy Stalings aud
Bob Durham. He had resorted to all bis
usual expedients to bring them in coils
ion, and had entirely failed. He had
faithfully reported to Bob all that had
been said by the people in the upper bat.
talon 'agin him. and he was sure Billy
Stallings started it. He heard Billy say
himself to Jim Brown, that he could
whip him, or any other man in his bdttal.
ion > and this he told to Bob; adding,
bod darn his soul. if he was little big.
ger, if he'd let any man put upon his bat
talon in such way Bob replied, If
he (Stallings) thought so, he'd better
come and try it, This Ransy carried to
Billy, aud delivered itwith spirit be-.
coming his own dignity and the charac-
ter of his battalion. and with coloring,
we'll calculated to give it effect. These,
and many other schemes which Ransy
laid for the qualification of his curiosity,
entirely failed of their object. Billy and
Bob continued friends, and Ransy had
began to lspsa iste the most tantaiizing
and hopeless despair, when a circum-
stance occurred which led to asettlement
of the long disputed question.
It is said that a hundred gamecocks
will live in perfect harmony together if
you do not put hen with them and so
It would have been with Billy and Bob
had there been no women in the world.
But there we're women in the world, and
from them each of our heroes had taken