Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-12-27
For the Herald and Tribune.
SOME "REMINISCENCES.
DENVER, COL, Dec. 10, 1898.

hoHy inCiuents tnat nappeu long years
ago. You speak of one g. w. Millhorn.
Well did l know George w. Millhorn,
who married Jacob clippers daughter,
and lived on what was known as the
Calvin Mathes farm, one mile from
Washington College. We worked to-
gether and played together, teamed to-
gether, hauling saw logs to Isaac
Broyles saw mill. George was jolly
little fellow and good man and rather
mischievons. l must tell you in my
awkward way of few jokes we played
off on one old colored man named Billy
Frost, who lived near by. One evening
George and l was sitting at the spring
near the big road, or lane, we called it,
and up rides old Billy on his old pony
with an old saddle tree tied on with a
rope. ''Well" says Billy, 'Masa Mill
horn, dis old niger com over to see if
he could git some apples. " Eyes, Billy,
all you want" Billy took his sack and
up the orchard he went. 'Now" says
George what trick can we play on
Billy, oh l know you unite that rope.
II united it and George got three chest
nut burs under the old blanket and put
on the saddle. Soon Billy come with
his sack of apples, threw them on the
pony and the old horse commenced
bucking round. George says "let me
hold him. Up got Billy, and away
went the old horse down the lane,
bucking and kicking. The old rope
broke, off went Billy, saddle, apples
and all, in the fence corner. George
and ran down-"Billy, are hut hurt?"
mot much Masa." George says, you
help Billy git the pony and l will pick
up the apples" The first thing was to
git the burs and throw them over the
fence. Billy says II don't know what
is the matter with dat hoss, have had
him well on TO twenty years and pebber
see him cut up dat way afore." George
says-"two much oats, Uncle Billy"
"oats, dat hoss not see any oats in a
year 'cept he look ober de fence in some
udder mans field" So we got old Billy
on with his apples all right and home
he went.
This same George w Millhorn on
one Saturday night before Easter Sun
day had an egg supper, and three of
the students from Washington College
came over. We had on big pot boil
ing eggs George says 81 bet FIVE
dollar hat l can eat more eggs than
any man in the shanty." Henry King
says: II take the bet" They COM
menced; George eat fifteen and Henry
got up to fourteen. Then George took
up goose egg. Henry says: lit is
your hat, you had the advantage of
me, you drank .one pint of brandy, and
l only drank half pint, l will pay for
the hat before see a good friend kill
himself
Now for an old timer, named John
Falls, good friend of mine and rala-
tive of my wife. Hewas good, genial
elegant gentleman, and enjoyed good
joke. He lived ON Cedar Branch, near
the George Gillespie farm; his wife
was nice lady and they had large
family, think eight or nine girls and
each one had brother, one evening l
and man named John Brown went
over to Falls with our fox hounds to
stay all night and take fox hunt next
morning. We found John Falls at home,
also Bill Falls and scaly boy named
JEFF Payne. After supper some one
proposed we get our horses and 60 down
to old Alb Howard's watermelon patch
, and steal some melons. We got oul
horses, each one sack off we went
, down to the river to old old Alb g field
We climbed the fence, got in the patch
every one helping himself; got up Oh
the side of the hill where there were
, many of those round rocks. Brown
, says: Fails help me, don't know &
ripa melon" "come on Brown, will
t fix you all right, hold your sack, her'
q is fine one." and Falls would throw /,
, big rock in the sack, next a melon
a next a rock, until Brown had thre,
r rocks and four melons. We got to ou
Z horses and went pretty lively for home
D When we got to Falls, Johns wife
' Joann as he called her, was up waiting
2 for us. We all got our sacks in tn
+. house. united and rolled out the melon
a on the floor, Brown dumped his out an,
7 here went the big rocks on the floor
{ Brown looked Falls in the face an,
q says: by doggy, if my horses back i
d hut some body will get hole pu
9 through them id sight bigger thai
+ one of them rocks" and out he wen
q and home he went; never showed u
to take the fox hunt Some week
after Falls and were going over t
o DR.. Brabson's to take hunt with Doc
& After we were there short time u
y rides Brown with his hounds, jumpe
}, off his horse, shook hands all round
II no rocks ever thought of any mort
= That night we got joke on FALL
d Doc put Falls in room to sleep wheI
II the bed stood near large clock wit
b an alarm, and those days there was br
l. few alarm clocks in the country; Fal
:, had never seen or heard one, 80 Doc 81
D the alarm to go off at A. Alta she wen
W Falls commence calling BrabstoI
"come here, Doc, your clock is tore a