St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-07-25

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Billy Virgins went down to Ais creek
farm: where h had - acres q swamp
corn land hit bunehin for tie 49,
ser'-there was water. water every
where, and not blame thing but
water.
Now you mought maybe think that
BY this time them two eantankerous
old men have met up together some
where's along the big road and had .
bloody fight. But they haven't-not
~ anybody knows Of. And my own
private opinions are that they never
viii. From general experiments I
think one Of them il right tolerable Bad
skeered and the other blame glad Of II.
They put me In mind of julie Majors
when he went out through the settle
ment lookin for work, and prayin to
the good Lord not TO let him iind any.
Old man Billy has now took out and
quit the Methodist church on the
grounds that he can't fellowship with
the Clancys, and old man Uriah has
left the peoples party because he don't
zee how the Clancys and the Wigginses
can vote the same ticket.
There amt no tellin for certain where
the family rucus win stop. But in the
main time we are not loolin for any
second-class funerals. and the country
il safe.
The TAiae Wss Loaded
Old man Joshiah Jernigan has got one
Of these long; tail army muskets. which
has come down to him through the
Jernigan generations from the first set
Element Of the country. It ID one Of
them guns what you read about. You
ought to hear Josiah tell about II. He
can spin some Of the hair-raisin yarns
perhaps - 70 how his great-grandfa-
Their use to shoot bear and painters and
kill wild Indians with that same old
army musket.
like Wade Turner had went over there
to tho Jernigan place to spend the
night with the boys. And after sup
per old man Josiah took down the old
muslket and unwound himself in re-
CARDS to the war history and the fight
in records Of the Jernigans. In his
own wild pecurious way he told some
tremendous bloody yarns. and conse-
quentially the boys they saw things in
their sleep that night.
Next mornin Wade Turner and Sol
Jernigan-both Of them nothin but
yearlin boys-they went in kersnooks
together and fixed up for . wild turkey
hunt. Wade lowed he would take the
old army musket and 60 out after the
fresh meat. Sol was to meet him st the
big spring down in the woods and play
turkey. When Wade found the game
and leveled his gun and pulled the trig-
ger and the cap popped-so far ~ they
knowed that old musket hadn't been
fred on aimee the last war@Sol he was
to jump up and keel over and hop like .
wild turkey gobbler with handful Of
buckshot in his head. Everything was
fixed up and laid on to mats bristle.
and the boys went forth.
Sol hid out in clump Of gallberry
bushes, and when Wade slipped up in
sight with the old army muslret he
stretched his neck and gobbled loud
and clear and sassy. Then Wade he
brought down the old musket, took aim,
pulled the triggerand-well. the blamed
thing was loaded. Il was 20 hard ON
trigger till Wade pulled it upand missed
his mark. But It give out = regular
Fourth Of July report and kicked Wade
ten feet down the hill. In the tremendous
roar and confusionment Sol forgot to
Jump up and keel over and mop like
regular shot turkey. He lit out and run
on down the branch and clum tree, and
there he stayed till old man Josiah and
all the family come and told him that
nobody was hurt and the war was over.
But the old army mueket, which
hangs on the wall, amt gone nowherea
RUFUS SANDK1s.