The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-08-11

Ol buc lJlho was ouu u4O NOtOIOA
grabbed me by the arm and hustled
up into the woods. When we got
under-cover he was steaming like a
soap factory, and cussing me, 100.
" What in the name of thunder
did you ever bring me out here for?
You want to get me arrested, do
your
'I was that speechless that I
couldn't answer. I just stood and
looked at him. Pretty soon re-
covered.
Brought you out here?' said I.
You blooming blot Of idiocy, who
brought you out here? You came
yourself.
''Then the ecolonel gotmadder than
ever, and he wouldn't talk again.
But that was mercy.
"It was getting along toward dark
when we got to the hotel. The
colonel was prancing up to the front
door when the man who drove the
team came out of the barn.
Hey, says he, the constable's
waiti4g for you fellows. He's over
to the hotel.
Maybe I and the colonel didn't
run. We just lit out and hung
around in the brush until it was
plump dark. Then we crawled back
to the hotel, but the constable was
still sitting there.
"Then the colonel tried to make
bolt to the woods and the constable
saw him. With a whole pack in full
cry after us, the colonel and ran
down the hill. I guess we outdis-
tanced the constable and his crew.
But after awhile they came after us
with lanterns and we had to run
again. Up in the heavy brush they
lost us, and when we got our wind
we struck out for the railroad.
''The nearest station was ten
miles off, and the colonel was nearly
dead before we got half way there.
he sat down on q tie and swore
that he was dying. He was wet
through and about the most misera-
BILE man that ever cussed a streak Of
hard luck.
''The colonel got so bad that I got
some chips and started a fire by the
railroad track. He lay down beside
it and began to get dry. He was
just beginning to grunt when there
was a roar down the road and
the train came putting round the
curve.
THE first thing the engineer saw,
I guess, was our fire, and then you
should have heard the racket. He
just turned all his steam into his
old whistle and footed like fienG
possessed. The train came to 6
standstill by our fire, and then The
conductor came racing up, swearing
awfully. gotout The colonel ex
postulated, but they were so mao
that they were going to thrash him
I got on the platform of the last car
and blow me if they would let tn,
colonel get on. He prayed anC
pleaded, but the conductor said no
and the train started, with the colo
mel doing more cussing.
"When the last car was abreast
however, the colonel grabbed tn
, hand bar and hung on for his life
! He took steps about four yards lonI
and when the train got going he jus
sailed out behind. l yanked an
pulled till I got him aboard. Myl
thought he was going to die. Blu
; he didn't. After awhile he bega
| swearing again, and then felt re
heved.
! ! 'After we had gone about te
miles we got up in the car Th
!. colonel went first, but he hadn
( taken two steps when he fell bac
: with q gasp.
What's the matter, says I.
2 'Matter?' says he. The consti
L bles in that car.
0 "And, sure enough, he was. The
d we went out on the step and sat j
e the cold. The colonel shivered ii
! he rocked the car and he more tina
L lit into me. Say, I've been sworn
It in fifteen different languages, bl
J: the way the colonel sailed into n
( was art. l sat there and groane
s and for about twenty miles the trat
K left streak of blue behind.
:, 'We rode on the tail of that CT
n for fifty miles and the colonel swol