The record-union., 1893-11-03
LAND OF BOB WHITE.
characteristics of People In Kentuck
and Tennessee.

characteristics of People In Kentucky
and Tennessee.
Folk who insist upon being uncomfort-
ably accurate Will tell you that it reaches
from the great lake to the gulf, and certes
all that region knows his ringing sum-
mer cry. But the land here meant is that
wherein every well-bred darky thus in
terprets the song:
Bob, Bob White!
Wheat mos ripe!
The historic parallel So 30 runs very
near the middle of it. That is to say the
land OF Bob White, par excellence, lies in
Kentucky and Tennessee, either side of
the State line. There he abounds, runs
riot almost. From April to January the
morning fields are vocal with his calling
In fiOcks he scuds across the lawns, dusts
himself at the roadside, pillages straw
berry bed and cherry tree boldly as that
feathered glutton Robin Redbreast HIM
self, whirs up beside your pathway upon
dewy autumn mornings, calls aloud to
his mates through the hick-falling dusk.
His nest. OVerruning with pearl white
eggs, is the choicest spoil of harvest time,
and from the 10th of October to the same
date IN January the pursuit OF him occu-
pies a large place in the minds and hearts
of most or the male residents.
That, too, regardless of age, color or
darkies have developed most amazing
stomach for sport. Every one of them
big enough to wear trousers owns a gun
OF some sort, often more dangerous to the
hunter than The hunted. The ambitious
and thrifty among them to man have
observation-disclosures OF the finest make,
yet stout and serviceable weapons. The
small lads set traps and coops without
number. 1t is thence that the best birds
come to market, since they are taken
alive and wholly unmutilated
The WhlteS-ah, the Whites-hunting
IS IN their blood, since they come of pure
English strain, yeoman or gentleman. In
between are the men who fought at Eu-
taW and the Cowpens, who rode with
Marion the Swamp Fox" followed
John Sewer to turn the tide at Kings
Mountain. Later, you may recall the
hunters of kentucky" the riflemen of
| Tennessee, who saved New Orleans from
Pakenham's redcOats, and dealt a death
blow to savage supremacy at the Horse
shoe and River Thames Next to his
wife, before even his horse or dog, each
man Of them loved and cared for his gun.
In at least half the modern households
there is a tradition Of some ancestor who
scorned to kill the wild turkey otherwise
| than with rifle bullet in the neck, or
shot wild geese flying SO high as scarcely
to be visible; or at the shooting matches
of his day would put six bullets in sill
yer hali-dollar at fifty yards, and finish
with seventh exactly in the middle of
them.
Naturally, among folk of such lineage,
ito ride, to shoot, to tell the TRUTH is in
large part ''the education of a gentle
man." Additionally it is we'll to be able
to read, write and cast accounts:" to
dance reels and cotillions, to know good
whisky from bad, and use without abus-
ing it, and to make love decently to the
nearest pretty face. All these are valua-
bile but non-essential. 1t is, however,
imperative to vote the Democratic tick ct,
and to show on all occasions the most
profound Difference for everything in pet
ticoats, no matter how old or ugly
Martha McCulloch- Williams in Frank
Leslie's Popular Monthly.