The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16
GOOD sleep. We had not yet determined What 70

do but we ate our breakfast In back kitchen
hats. s Just then three men Issd n. T S
talked little time about the weather and
The war, and We began 70 edge toward the door.
lanta. We told them that We had Then they
advised US to surrender, saying that the ferries
comrades had been shot down Ia the woods, and
that they had come to take us. Brown said: mo,
ont Of the back door and made for the neighbor-
ing wood, jumping the fence and running like
two deer. They ran out at the front door and
round the end Of the house, calling, Halt haifY'
but we did not halt. We bad no choice but to
the same day. We UnersooS 70 ct s &C s Is
road to get in behind them, as'we feared to cross
I ssa % lake s5s 4s but int oS tso@ a aRS
whom we had stayed turned his hounds loose
go down and then one to go up before We could
reach the woods. We put In our best Hicks, and
could mes near n me s nSns mn Az r6 PES m ~
ing the hin. when we saw that the hounds were
about to overtake us, and we prepared for battle
rocks ready We waited for them to come Gloss
up and took them at short range. We rolled
used to say after a battle: I've won the victory,
but we evacuated the ground;" for by this time
we could see our three callers coming around the
road near by, on horseback, to get ahead Of US.
We got to the woods as soon as possible, and
as to get away from the horsemen. They got
part OF their hounds rallied that they would
follow along and howl on our track, but they
could not be made to close up on US any more.
After awhile we would see these horsemen head
ing us on again. and then we would cut in an
other direction, and the hounds would give them
our course again. About noon we came to q small
stream Of water. We plunged into that and
water and drink as We ran. We kept In the bed
Of that stream for couple OF hours, and then the
Stone mountain, about eighteen miles east Of At
lents, and went on the north side of it and con-
picked out the north star and travelled by it.
For twenty days we travelled by night and
could see them after us, sometimes with dogs
For six days after We left Mason We were with
such as nuts, bark, buds, etc. On the seventh
day we were going along little stream that had
willows on both sides, and which ran through
on the other side, and we thought we could get
on their slope and be travelling in the day time.
two ears of corn on the bank and q fiock Of Eeess
in the creek, one of which we captured by means
We co commenced to pick our goose. II sny6odJ
ever picked goose without scalding, they know
what kind of e job we hadl When We got tired
We took each leg and pulled it in twoI then We
went along eating our raw goose, taking first q
bite Of It, then of corn That goose lasted several
On the tenth day we reached the Chattahoo-
chez river. There was a rail fence alongside OF
the woods, and we took two large rails, crossed
them near one end, dashed them fast with bark,
and putting our clothes on the highest end we
hoated at the other till we got across. We took q
good sleep in the thick cane break on the other
-
pigs and began to figure for one. Finally stood
behind a tree with club; Brown bit OF little
pieces Of apple and pitched to the pigs; and soon
one little fellow commenced TO pick up the pieces;
then Brown kept working backward till he passed
the tree where stood. and when the pig followed
up shot him with my stickl Previous to this We
found an iron strap that had fastened q shovel to
its handle, and one part of it had been worn thin
This was rubbed up little on q stone and it made
very good butcher knife. We split the pig, and
and waited till dark for wonderful feastl We
could see over the farm where there was fire
burning out in back field, and we went there
and roasted pig most OF the night Then we had
one Of those feasts you read about That pig
lasted us till we struck the Hiwassee river In the
corner of North Carolina. Here we had thought
we could run boat down by night and hide in
the day time. But when we saw the river we
changed our mind, for it was q swift stream, full
of great rocks where we could not have run q
canoe by daylight. But we tried to cross, and
each picked out q rock that we intended to reach.
/ plunged in and missed my rock, as the current
swept my feet away while tried to put my hands
on it. looked to see what had become of Brown
the river than intended He was sitting on
stone laughing at me, though did not see where
the laugh came in. He asked me to wait and see
If he could get that far downi He started, and
landed far below me, and did not feel so much
Ike laughing!
But the tug OF war came when we were on the
other side, for now we had to cross the noun.
tains which we had been travelling lengthWise BE-
fore-mountainS lit took two men and boy to see
to the top of itI' It was SO rough that we were
In deep mountain valley beside Q river We
met two men armed to the teeth. We all stopped
as IL we had been shot, but quickly moved on
again We simply spoke when we met, and all
do with each other. Soon we came to q small log
cabin. the door of which fast. We waited 4