The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1885-09-24
that the title thereto was in the name
Of Mr.. Blake.

Not daring 70 trust 70 his own knoWl-
edge OF such things, Mr.. Parsons took
the abstract and deed TO the landlord
OF the hotel, whom he thought a man
likely to be possessed Of some knowl-
edge Of business. The landlord looked
them over and pronounced them all
right.
Determined to have no lingering
doubts to worry him hereafter, Mr..
Parsons then sought out the village
lawyer, and submitted them 10 him
also.
That gentleman glanced them over
and replied;
'1t's all right. sir; all right"
LAND entered by John Smith. who
sells 10 Peter Jones. Deed signed by
John Smith and Hannah Z. Smith, his
wife. They sell 10 Thomas r. Blake.
Thomas r. Blake and Mary s. Blake
deed to Martha j. Parsons.
my once against the above described land.
"Eros PUTERBAUoH. Recorder"
That's all right Title in your wife.
Nobody can get It away from you, sir. -
That's what I thought every time
afore," muttered John Parsons TO him.
self as he left the Office, "but they did
1t all the same. But may be as this
place ain't worth much aud amt never
likely to be, they'll leave ms in peace
the rest Of our lives.'
II was near the middle of the after
noon when the family found themselves
In the spring wagon and on their way
The road wound round and round the
hills, now up, now down. rocky and
full Of gullies washed by the rains;
never being repaired except when it
became absolutely -impassable, and in
spite Of the careful driving of his faith
er the rough jclting hurt Jebnny.
sometimes causing himto cry out with
pain.
Night overlook then-when theywere
several miles from their journeys end,
making Il still more difficult 10 travel
with any speed, SO that it was ten
o. clock when they turned their tired
and jaded horses off the main road into
by-track to the right, and = quarter
OF mile further on pulled up in front
OF a cheap, unpainted board shanty-
their new home upon the mountain
side.
II was too late to think OF doing any
thing except to make q cup Of coffee
and bunk down in the easiest way pos
sible for the night.
Mr.. Parsons, with the assistance Of
the neighbor who came with him the
day before, had put up cook-stove
and made q bunk for themselves on
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had crawled out Of IL in the morning.
Another similar one was now made up
in another corner of the room, and
upon these the family slept, except
Johnny, who occupied bis wheeled cot,
it having been the last thing packed on
the wagon before leaving the old home.
When they arose the next morning
the sun was shining over the mountain
tops, and doing the best it could TO
make the scene pleasant one.
Mr.. Parsons hastily slipped on his
clothes and went out TO look to the
horses.
Mrs. Parsons and the girls also
dressed hurriedly and then stepped to
the door and looked out. 1t had been
too dark 10 see much the night before,
and they had been too utterly tired out
to try to see even the little that might
have been seen, but now they were
eager to know how the place really did
look
A sad enough contrast it was TO the
old home. Instead of q white cottage
with its green blinds and wide open ve-
randas, Itheir dwelling was a rough
shanty of boards nailed perpendicularly
TO the framework, resembling in this
respect the one which they had occu-
pied for few days on the Suscol
ranch. But instead of Icing sixteen
feet in length. these boards were but
ten feet long, and as consequence
there was no loft above as in the Suscol
cottage.
The interior was ceiled with cotton
cloth, but there were no little nicely
made conveniences: no sink; no cup
board; no partition; no porch over the
door. All was in one room and all was
cheap and rough.
Outside. the view was no more cheer
ing. The shanty stood we'll up on the
hill or mountain. Below, and for lit
blt QiStuuCc, DObu III iOnb ohN euO
rear, was piece of tolerably level
ground, perhaps forty acres in all, which
declined gently to the west, ending in
ravine, beyond which the earth became
broken and rocky again.
Above the shanty the ground sloped
upwards with sharper pitch for q few
hundred feet and then rose rapidly, be-
coming more and more precipitous, un-
til it reached the summit third Of o
mile away.
In places portions Of the solid rock
foundation projected through the bar
rem soil, while in others immense de-
tached powders, weighing hundreds Of
tons, lay only slightly imbedded in the
earth and looking as if push would
send them crashing down the mountain
side.
Here and there stood digger pine.
its blue-green spines looking. in the dis
tafce, like punches of thick smoke.
l. These. with few scattering white
oaks, half denuded of their limbs by
the tempests. and an occasional clump
of manzineto bushes. were the only vege-
tation which grew here, except where
some large bowlder formed a slight pro-
lection from the wind, and prevented
the raine from washing away the thin
coating Of earth below it, might be
found few lunches Of coarse wild