Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-06-08

over TO his house III the morning and
he would give me a side to feed the
children on till l could make raise,
and he told me to try and be better
man and pray to God and he would
help me and send me food; what do you
think of that Sally ?" "l think if
you would pray more and drink less
we would get along better" Well
Sally, am going to pray right now. "
"You better wait until you get So
ber." mo, II God will hear me when
| am sober he will hear me when am
drunk" down he went by chair.
"oh Lord, he says, ''send me barrel
of -four and barrel of salt and sack
of coffee and FIVE bushels of potatoes
and two hundred of bacon, not too
fat, and barrel of pepper. Here he
made little stop. "Oh hell, Sally,
that's too mach pepper. Oh Lord send
me all the things and two pounds of
pepper. Amen" At one time he
STEPPED into James Anderson g store in
JonesborO. James brother, Dedrick
was great man to laugh and was
laughing hearty about something Z
when Spradling steped in. Spradling
stopped in the middle of the floor
looked Dedrick in the face When
Dedrick quit, Spradling commenced.
Dedrick was not acquainted with him,
so Dedrick commenced again. Sprad-
ling stopped and looked serious at him.
James said he had to go round the
counter and take his brother out of
the house to keep him from laughing
himself to death.
Spradling at one time came to old
James Cloyed's to corn husking and
one Peter Click, Dutchman was there
The boys put Spradling up to raise a
fuss with old Peter. Spradling says
Peter Click, | can whip you in one
minute" Peter says: John you can t
do it if you would fight fair; what
does you want to whip me for?'
because you are black dutchman.
We don't want you to live among
white people," Old Jimey Cloyd
slipped to the house and got pewter
spoon and slipped it under Spradlings
coat, the moon was shining and Sprad-
ling jerked out the spoon handle some
eighteen inches long. Peter started to
run. "Kill him! Kill him ~ from the
crowd. Peter ran for the bars fell over
them, up and a going down lane to
a second pair OF bars, over them and
Spradling at his heels with the 5000 n.
Peter never stopped until he got home.
Peter was brother of Henry, the
man who broke the flax for Sam Doak
must say your Observer got Sam,
uel Bottles down fine; knew him
well when he was a boy. His father
would start Sam to school to the col.
lege. Sam had pet coon he would
start out and take it with him and
stay at the college half day, then
come to Payne Town, go to every
dance and apple butter boiling in the
country, have his coon getting chest
nuts out of his pocket. His father
said he was going to chain Sam ant
the coon at home and feed them OF
bread and waiter. Sam had brother
James. that was pretty wild. Jim go
little race horse and many times he
would come out along side of twenty
acre field had up above Payne Towl
and run his horse up the big road. On,
evening he came out and called me t,
see his horse run. Off went his ha
and he started; near where / was
large tree stood between the road an,
a little path Jim's horse made righ
for the tree. Jim had long red hal
the horse ran on the side next tn
path, and Jim's head just missed tn
tree and barked his ears and left
dozen OF more hairs in the bark of th
tree. Jim came back leading the hors
and says Bottles not dead yet bu
in an inch of it.
So ends my history book for tn
present.