Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-07-09
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had IA basket dinner over III the skull
house. or course everybody was on
tn here, tibet drafted 10 Clark an,
Roy speak aud kervort in there spree
eagle stilc ill most dark. Well sun
ov the boys got purity meller, as l
w'r, aud don't yer think sum NV en-
cused me NV being sorter oil, but
dident take but 4 or shorts the hol,
cvenih, well tibet 10 Clark aud RI,
aud u lot NV SIGH like was gyen HON,
with me, And tibet drafted Bill
Simpson what's so Trade of costs tucl
a notion hede go tu. So the boy
lowed thade have sum fun outen hin
aud Civ him good skeer, so they al
walked kinder slow Oyer see we wei
all afoot and walkin) but me aud Jor
Bud, we lowed wede walk up fast
aud make a fire fur Malindy to COOK
sum supper. So we soon got outeu
site and hid in the same old grave
yard where l ike to have got SIGH q
skeer mr. 3 yers ago, as you reker.
lecI no dout. II you don't do, well
Jon wrapped me up in err shet tibet
we had in our basket NV dinner fur a
table cloth yer see it wer new sheot
aud powerful strong and Jon he pin
ell IL on so there was no gitteu it of
by myself, as l afterwards found out.
SO we hid in the thicket close tn the
rode and waited fur the boys tn cum
up. AS soon RS we left the boys and
that drafted 10 Clark they began
talkkin bout gosIs and grave ards
and SIGH like not tenden tn notice
Bill Ill they got him most skeerd tn
deth (Sam Gramper told me bout it
afterwards.) lie wood NV went back
but IL was gitten dark aud he was
afrade, 10 Clark told him not TO be
afrade aud don't yer think he gin Their
drafted fool CRATE big six shooter
aud tol him tn shoot any ghost or
any thing else tibet botherd him,
Gramper sed he wood NV tuck it way
from him but they woodent let him
and showed him 1t wer loaded with
blank charge. Well tn make a short
tale long they cum long purity quick
and gin grone ur to aud ratified
the bushes. Je whize, SEE tibet 10
Clark, what the thunde was tibet aud
they all stopped TO lisen cud see Bill,
aud he looked like he wished he
wer an an angel and had wings, L
were tickeled tn think NV the fun
thet was cumin liked to larfed out
and wish now / had. Lets 90 home
SEE Bill most cryin and STEPPED off up
the rode nifty hi: Nows my time
thinks |, SO rushed out in the rode
behind him aud alwiXed him aud the
boys. They all tended Ike they wer
skeerd most to deth aud rusned in
The woods holerion murder" fur
life, Bill fetched lew jumps down
the rode gruntin like hog, fur he
was skeered so he cudent holler, and
me bout 20 feet ahind him. Come
back, come back, hollerd tibet Roy.
don't leave us. Well sur the DRAFTED
fool stopped aud whirled found and
was 30 surprised at this that l stop.
ped too seed him jerk sumthin out
Ell his pocket and the next thing II
node was, seed sumthin cumin rite
lords me that looked like the tale OF
the crate commit Nv 1865 aud a roar
like the bowelf OF the yearth were
broke loose, then all tn once 1t fash
ed cross my mind tibet l was a ded
man, l cud feel the bullet hole
through Inc his plain as cud be, and
the hot blood was runnim down. Oh
Lord Pme ded man, SEE ], as loud
US could ball, | dident have time tn
think no more til bang went the old
pistol agih louder than ever and il
seemed like the world all round me
wrs on fire. Murder, SEE l and over
| tumbied rite ina mud puddle. II
kicked and pulled few times at the
drafted sheet but it weren't 10 use fur
it were on me TO stay. So lade still
thinkin the fool wood think l was
ded and hold up. Mr.. Editure was
you ever in jist SIGH a. scrape Well |
sur / could see the funeral list as
plain as l ever will when Pm ded
shore huff. There was, mother aud
Malindy cryin and goin on. Malin-
dy was sayin she knowed node that
10 Clark would be the deth NV Inc
and she intended to have him hung
fur it if it cost her the colt and my
new Waterbury watch. And l cud
here old Square Blue sayen that he
alters sed he arter be done sumthin
with ever since he cheated me outer
old Biazes colt. But dident have
time to think no more fur BANG
went that terrable old pistol agin, so
| shUck my self and got up and hol-
lerd to Bill to hold up. Don't yuI
no me yer drafted fool. Cost COST,
squalled Bill abackin down the rode
aud bang went his artilleru agin rite
at me, well sur got in the bushes
quicker than litenin, but bang he
went agin but by this time 1 had
tore muthers new sheet ofen me and
was maxim tracks fur sink hole
about 80 yards off, where L lade
down. By this time the fellers had
cum up and was tryin to keep the
fool from keelin over and faintin.
could here Charley Anderson askin
10 Clarke like he was mad if he was
shore there was no bullets in the pis-
tol. He sed no, NV course there
weren't. Du yu think we wood NV
gin it to him il there had bin. Well
sur this kinder brot me tn my sences
and when | seed they had turned the
joke on me my dander begin to rize
as it were, but it dident git very hi
fur bout this time here cum drafted
polecat what had young ones in the
sink hole and the shootin and holler-
in had skeerd. After 1t had perfum-
ed me l got up and struck bee line
fur home III Muther and Melindy.
Mr.. Editure l wont try to describe
the scene that tuck place wnen l got
home. Malindy lowed she never
was goin tn let me go any where any
more unless she went olong to take
care Nv me, she SEE every time 1 git
outen her siiiht snmthin terabe hap
pens to me. Sam Gramper and Char
ley Anderson, what was down here
tn see them JuIer gals, was most as
mad as was. They say If ever |
want tn lick that 10 Clark they will
soc IL well dun. But Malindy seq tu
let the drafted rascal alone fur there
is no tellin what he mite. do. Now
don't make no threts but he must
keep on his side NV the creek.
No more from yer friend till deth.
BILL RoGUs.
p. S-Square Blne SEE II he was