The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-19
MOUNTAIN SIGHTS.
A JOURNEY IN EGYPT AND THE
CURIOUS THINGS THERE.

Some Bear stories-Egyptian Yer
sion OF Gabriel Grub and the Cob
Ins-A Mountain Burial.
AsHEvILLE, n. c., Oct. 13.-As Mr.. Der
nard and / rode southwark from Bald
Mountain creek, on the morning of ouI
third day in Egypt, we met man, ap-
parently about 81. mounted on nice young
horse. He was rather good-oOking, anc
saluted US in pleasant voice, giviag Mr.
Bernard some information ne requested il
a ready and intelligent manner.
After he had passed Mr.. Bernard remark
ed: THAT fellow has killed thirteen people
twelve men and a child of Z or s. Some
partly under cover or the law, as he used tc
be a revenue raider, some in drunken brawls,
and yet others in cold blood. He says the
only one of his victims he ever felt any re-
morse over was the child. This little fellow
was sitting on the rails of his pig-pel, hav-
ing Just fed his pig. when Rap rode past and
shot him, Just to see If he could hit him.
Our last night in Egypt we spent at Nicely
Byrd's.
Nicely was quite a character, something of
wag in his ''own peculiar way" There
were a couple of mon with their guide out
on hunting expedition, also stopping at
Neely's for the night-Baltimore men,
think. and evidently new to their surround
ings. Mr.. Bernard was an old acquaintance
of our host ard winking pleasantly across
the str Myers backs at the table to him the
former exclaimed loudly and alb upty:
.'Here. YOU two fellows hev violated one o.
tbe rules Nv our hous ehold-uv our hull
establishment"
TIE men turned little pale and begged
to know in what they had given offense,
assuring him that they hal Intended none
and we're anxious to offer apologies for any
breecb they had unwittingly made In his
soc al C de
"Nall. we only sop our bread on one side
in the molasSes and you've sopped yourn on
BOTH said Nicely sternly; then with an
other wink at my companion, which also
included me, he burst into a tremendous
hoarse laugh.
Tue hunters Joined 10 somewhat nervous
~ and noticed they retired very early and
very quietly.
As wew we're riding into Ashville we passed
q little conf, ctionery and fruit store about
Two miles out from the city, aud which was
evidently recent establl shment.
Here We stopnei TO get glass OF lemon
ade ana listen to the amusing comments of
q tall, raw-boued mountaineer youth who
had never-as he told us-"been to no place
bigger'u Grays,n settlement OF perhaps
a
caught lis wandering eye. He gazed at
them in blank astonishinent for time,
slowly revolving around them ana regard
ing them from every side. Finally ne in
CURED pinching first one and then another:
''N ell Ill be blamed What kind o dad
burned beans is thess hyer !"
TIE proprietor, a little voluble Italian,
about five feet tall, dropped the lemon he
was preparing and few 20 the rescue.
oh No cnuaayaa banana
cocoanutm
THAT man." said Mr. Bernard as we rode
homeward, fought to DO diplomats"
But now to go back to the night ives peut
at Bald Mountain creek, where | heard
some of Little Johnnie Higgins exploits
related.
After supper the women were peeling and
slicing apples for drying, an employment /
have assisted in at almost every stopping
place since | left Roam mountain. | pro-
duced my large. gentlemanly pockat-knife
and commenced on a basket, then Mr.. Ber-
nard followed me, and finally all the men
of the family-the father and three or four
sons and sons-in-law-drifted in. got out
their knives, and joined the circle 1t was
one of the few times have ever SEED the
men assisting at any household work; but
this was more in the nature of a frolic.
They fell to talking about Little Johnny
aud his wife, who was almost as tall as he.
Someone said he believed she had right
e.nart hoax learnin'.
"Who, Nancy Higgins, that moon-fixer,"
exclaimed the old man. "She's got jest OF
much ez have Six weeks at one o these
liver yelpin' schools is the hull o. her eddi.
catioo aud mine too. We went It the same
time"
Applied to in an undertone for dsfini-
ton of "velpin' school, Bernard explained
70 me that it was an old-ield school where
the pupils were all permitted to study
aloud.
Permitted" interrupted the old man, ~
guess we wuzl If ye didn't yelp yer
lessons good an loud the teacher'd come
around an warm We up with's hick'ry.
amt never heerd 'em called nothin' but
yelpin' scao is. )"
The "moon-hxer" and the 'yelpin' school,
remained in my mind as fine examples of
pure Egyptian.
johnny alters wuz er powerful hunter, ~
ssid one of tae young men. 81 heerd i'm
tell onct bout time o had with oil bar
an 'er cub. He'd went out in the evenin
10 hunt hogs, an some way'r mother never
tuck is gun along. him an the dog, run
oato a OF bar an cub. They treed 'em
both In trees bout hundred yards apart.
.Juhnny he lef the hounds to hoi' the cub
in bits tree an he built i'm or big far nigh
the OF bars tree an SGT down TO wait tell
InOrnllt, W on tneyQ ne Sartln TO come
searchin' fer i'm and bring a gun so he
cud sho s both bars. Look like sin to 60
home an' leave all thatoIr meat out in the
woods.
while he's settin' there he heerd d
yelpin' au' snarlin' an a tarin' th'oo the
bresh--the cub wuz Off weth all the hounds
airter hit. The OF bar come snarlin' down
to the forks o the tree. an' Johnny says she
lowed to herself, We'll, eff don't go down
an hep. them dad burned hou ds'll kill my
cub; an if | do go down there's Little
Johnny Higgins, the wust man iii Yanca y
fer bar to fool weth-he'll kill me. IL
chance it, an down she come, bout half
way, when Johnny, not havin' any thing tc
fight weth, grabbed chunck o. far an
flung hit at 'er. She run back up an' sol
thar tell come day, an Johnny's wife come
along weth lis gun.
Johnny saws she showed all 'er teeth an
snarled, Jest bout what l lowed. What
one CANT do t'other helps out weth.
reckon them ornery hounds az done killed
nv cub, so blaze away
"Airter Johnny'd shot the oil bar, they
went an hunted up the dogs, an found EN-
settin' round oak whar they had the cut
freed, so they got 'em hoth."
Here. again, is story that is of ranklN
Homeric favor, and suggests the diversions
OF the original savage or the sportive gam
b9ls of amiable ogres, temporarily out o
the regular ogre business.
Johnny and a couple of his special choic