Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-11-22

At these words, that agitated, skairt
man rushed right up stairs. I a foller-
in him, summer savory still in my
hands, and fear and tremblin in my
mean.
And I see him dash up to the old bed
stead in the attick, dash off the bed
clothes and the feather bed, are begin
min oncordin' of it.
I then laid hands on him, and COM
manded him to desist.
" won't desist," seq he, II won't de-
sist."
There wuz /, still a holdin' him by
the buck of his frock-he had on his
barn clothes.
"Then do you tell your pardner the
meanin' of your actions imegetly and
at once"
II haint got time," SEE he, and oh!
how he wuz onriddlin' that old bed
stead of the rope; the fuzz fairly flew
often the rope as he yanked it through
them holes, and twice I wuz hit by it
voyalently in my face. as l strove to
hold him, and elicit some information
out of him.
But l could git nothin' but hard
breathin' and muttered oathes till the
bed cord wuz all onloosened, and then
he gathered it over his arm and started
on the run for the door, I a follerin'.
And then I see that there stood Old
Robbet, Sine Yerdin, Deacon Syphor,
and, in fact, most all the men in the
neighborhood and some beyond it.,
some from the Loontown road, and
some from over towards ~Shackville.
There wuz more'n twenty of 'em.
And l SEE, and / almost tainted as l
seq it
HAS another war broke loose, or is
it wild animal from a circusp Tell
me, oh, tell me what it isl"
And n on 'em hollered, st is a
wild beast in human shape. but he
won't be a wild beast much longer!n
And he pinted to the rope he had on
his arm.
And l see then the fearful meanin
hangin' round that bed cord. l see
that Others had 'em, and l see that
hangin' wuz about to take place and
ensue. And l besought Josiah Allen
ito pause, to stay a little, to tell ME
what it all meant, to not take the law
into his W hands,"
l poured out words like a flood, 1 wuz
inkoherent in the extreme, and my
words wuz vain.
But Josiah Allen-oh, how that man
loves me! He darted back, throwed a
paper at my feet, and hollered-
THAT will explain, Samantha" And
then he wuz gone; I see 'em divid into
four parties, and go towar Is the woods,
and towards the hills, and towards I'll
creek, and towards the beaver meddler,
each party havin' a rope, and l seq sol.
m like, before l thought
MAY God have mercy ON your poo,
SOUL"
spoze | meant the one they wus
after, and mebby I meant them that
wuz after HIM, l don't know; l wuz too
inkoherent and wrought up to know
what I did NEAR.
But l know / sot down and read that
paper as quick as l could find my
specks. And | well remember that after
huntin' high and low for 'em and all
oyer the house with tremblin' knees
and shaky hands cold as a frogs, !
found EN- on my own fore top, and
sot right down in my tracts and read
Well, it wuz enough to melt the hear,
OF a stun, a grant stun, and as l sol
there and read, the tears jest run dowr
my face in a stream; why, they fell sc
that they wet the front of my ginghau
dress wet rs sop. and entirely unbe.
known to me.
But KEEP a thinkin' to myself, "Oh
hat poor little cleeterl Oh, them poor
poor creeters that loyed herl Oh, tina
poor mother!" And then anon | would
say to myself, "Oh, what if it wuz my
Tirzah Ann! What if it wuz the Babe
Oh, that william; may the Lord punish
him!'
And that is jest the way 1 sot, ant
wept, and cried, and cried and wept.
You see, the way it wuz, there wuz 6
sweet little girl, only ten years old, de
coyed by a lyin excuse from her warm
cosey home at midnight by a william
and took through the snowy, icy streets
to her doom.
Her little cold body wuz found in ar
empty old barn, and her destroyer, he,
murderer had fled. But men wuz OF
his tracts, the hull country wuz reused
and the III huntin' him down, as i
he was a wild animal, as indeed he wuz
But anon, as l read the paper owe
again, 1 see the words-"The man wa
intoxicated"
And then l began to weep on tn,
other end of my handkerchief (metafor.
And then, when other accounts com,
out, and the man wuz ketched, b,