The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-01-11


in Abram Fendle's hands.
~'l want the money ON that note.
said the neighbor that held il, If vol
hef to git it outen Zeke Glszer's skin !
says he, an he were mad. Abe had
made good many trips to 'Zek'eps Oh
similar 'easioDs, an he know'd th't tn
WANT much left on the premises tc
even up many more claims. The
brindle COW were still on hand, but
she'd had to put up with rather thin
fodder, an Abram kinder had his
doubts bout her fetchin' ten dollars
an costs. But he levied on her, an
sot date wen he would sell her
'cordin' to law. Three days fore the
day o sale the neighbor th't held the
Judgment agin Zek'el kim tearin TO
Abram Fendle all in sweat.
"Jeewhizz he hollered. Zeke's
brindle has got away an can't be
found high or lowl You got to find
her, Abram,' he hollered, sor III held
ye to make good fer her That
brindle cows in your Jurisprudence, ,
he hollered, AN unless ye hev her rest
ed IN time fer the sale, I'll slap the hull
business onter your
"Abe he tore 'ronnd his bailiwick
for couple O. days, looking fer that
brindle COW, but tn want hide nor
hair of her to be skeert up. Then
he begun to wish he hadn't put his
self IN the hands of his friends, and to
wish, b'gosh, th't 'twere some un else
o. him tL't were bein' Just an fearin,
not, an pledged but to truth, to llber.
ty an law, an hewin' to the line ez
constable O Lost Grow Barren. an
lettin' the chips fall whar they mowt.
To'rds ovenin' on the third day O,
the hunt fer Zek'eps stray brindle
Abram were goin' a hossback through
the Barren, an had give up, an were
almost weepin' an wailin' an gnasb.
in his teeth ez he mourned over the
hollerness o'p'litical honors, wen all of
a suddent he heerd noise o. sump-
in browsin' In the brush. He souint-
cd through, an kim nigh tumblin
ofien his hoss, keplunk, for thar he
see the brindle feedin' ez cool an i'm
pydent ez If she hadn't turned the
balliwick upside down for three days.
Abram drove the COW to his own
premises an locked her up. She were
on hand fer the mex day, an ey'ry-
body noticed how slick an fat she
were. She were sold for the amount
OF the judgemt an costs, and the
world didn't look dark an dreary no
more to Constable Fcndle, but loomcd
up cz a place wuth mans vile fer to
hew to tho line in ez constable o. Lost
Grow Barren, with prospects, mobbe.
O. lettin' the chips fall whar they mowt
ez Shurff, or mebbe O. bein' lust an
fearin' not ez member o. tho Legisla-
tur.'
"Three or four days arter the sale
Gabe Owen dropped around TO sec
Abe Fendle. Gabe lived on the place
nigh whar Abe had found the COW.
"'Did you sell brindlc COW, tether
day, Abram p said Gabe.
"Abram said he did.
"Who bought It p said Gabe.
"Abram told him that Peter Jump
had bought the cow. Gabe Owen
went away an bimeby kim back to
Abe's ag'in.
"Wall, Abram, he said, you sold my
COW tother dayp
"Course Abram wouldn't b'lieye
that, but things begun to look holler
agin. lie toP Gabe that the COW were
the property o. 'Zek'el Glazer, an II
had ben took up reg'lar and 'cordin to
the statute SO made an pervided.
Gabe he said the cow mowt ha' ben
took up regular, but were his COW, am
ez the man th't bought her wouldn't
give her up, Gabe said he'd see wat
the statute in some other case made
an pervided would do bout 1t, an he
sued the man fer the COW. Somebody
beyent McAvery's woods heerd bout
this trouble with brindle cow, an he
kim to Abram an tol, him th't the
dead body of lean brindle COW were
layin' on the edge Of laurel swami
out thar an th't mebbe she mowt be
good witness In the case. Abram
went out thar, aud the minute he see
the frame o. that COW he know'd th
want no doubt but wat IL were the
frame O 'Zek'el Glazer's OF brindle.
He went back an top Pete Jump that
the COW he bought were Gabe Owens.
sure, an then Pete gave IL up. But
then he naturally wanted his money
back th't he'd paid fer the COW. In
bein' just an fearln' not, Abram had
distrib'ted that money 'cordin' to the
statue made an pervided, an he said,
b'gosh, that he didn't Sc how he ked
pay II back to Pete Jump. But th'
want no gittin' out of 1t, fer Peter per-
posed to hew to the line leetle him.
self, without keerin' continental wber,
the chips tumbled, an Abram
had to settle. lie thort, then, th't the
world were lookin' bout ez dark an
dreary ez 1t could, an th't the holler-
ness political honors couldn't git any
bigger, but he was wrong. VILE he
were flounderin' In the hollerness, who
sh'd drap in to see him but 'Zek'el
Glazer.
az s'pose ye know, Abram,' he said,
'th't | know'd all the time We were
sellin' th't brindle COW that Il want
mine.'
"Abe said he didn't know nothin' o.
the kind.
@'An' sp'ose ye know, said 'Zek'el,
th't | were ready to bid th't COW I'M
an keep her If she had ben mine, but
seein' th't she want mine I didn't
bid, knowin' I'd git in the same trouble
that Pete Jump did,
"Abe said this was news to him, an
The hollerness o. things KEEP gittin'
bigger an deeper.
'HAn' | s'pose We know said Eek oil,
th't my COW were your pris'ner wen
The got awav an, died In tho swamn ; |