Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-05-28
ABE RAYNORT THROWN
THE GUERRILLA CHIEF AND THE Al
LEGGED MRS. FEB WHITE.

His Wife and Gave ADe q Great sur
prise--After That Her Name Was Ter.
ror In the Tennessee Mountains.
had been trading war stories with Zeb
White, the possum hunter, of Tennessee as
we sat at table together and smoked our
pipes when he said:
"What made it bad fur our wimmen
folks ysre doorin the wah was the guerrillas
who used to go sloshing about and robbin
and burnin both sides alike. In this nay
burhood'w feller named Abe Raynor
who had about 20 men with him, and he
did nuthin but ride about and bluff and
rob the wimmen. Now and then, as in
the case of my ole woman, he found some
hody who'd stand right up and defy him,
but befo he got through with it he driv
most everybody out and left the cabins OIL
fire behind 'em. Arter my ole woman had
defed him two or three times he got mad
and swore he'd drive her out at any cost,
and jest about that time l got q furlough
and come home.
"When heard what Abe had been up
to, wanted to hunt him down right
away, but he was purtendin to be good
Confederate, and it wouldn't jest do to
kill him off. thought over it fur awhile
and then got plan. One day when
heard he was down at the Corners with
his gang had the ole woman dress me up
In her clothes and then sent her off up
stairs to hide. / had no whiskers in them
days, and when got dressed up in female
clothes didn't pear much like man. |
was at work in the kitchen when a gang
of dozen guerrillas rode up to the cabin
and Abe Raynor got off his hoss and
kicked the door open and yelled:
"'Hello, thar, ole woman! Do yo' want
to pack up any of yo'r traps befo' sot fire
to the house?'
Z" What's the row. sez as l goes to the
door.
"'We've come to burn yo' out.
"'What fur?'
&c Jest to keep our hand in
"'But I'm fur the south and my ole
man is in Gineral Lees army Reckon
yo' dasn't burn down no cabins over the
heads of good Confederates.
''He said it didn't make no difference to
him, kase he was bigger man than Gin
cral Lee, and his plan was to burn all tho
cabins around yere, so as to disappoint the
Yankees if they got up so fur. l begged
him not to burn me out, but he only
laughed at me- Bimeby l sez:
Abe Raynor, I'm lookin fur my ole
man on furlough, and if he finds this
cabin gone he'll hunt yo' down.
:" 'Zeb White couldn't hunt down a rab-
bit, sez he as he laughs in my face.
'Mebbe yo' don't know him.
'Mebbe do, and if he was yere I'd
nail him to q tree by his ears and he'd cry
like child. If yo' wants to save anything
from this house, yod better be mighty
spry, kase we can't stand yere all day
chinnin with woman
"'Abe Raynor, sez I, I'm only pore
weak woman, but Pm the wife of Zeb
White, who kin whop any man in this
yere kentry. Seems like yo' orter be will
in to gin me show
"'What sort of show9'
"'I'll tackle yo' single handed, and if
can't flop yo' this cabin may burn. If yo'
ain't coward, yo'l gin me show.
"'I ain t a-fghtin Of wimmin, he sez,
as his men begun to laugh.
Then yo're afeared of me?'
~That reused him up, jest as l had
counted on said Zeb, "and arter lettle
mo- he promised that if could lay him on
his back he'd let the cabin stand That
was what wanted, and I stepped out
thar on that clear spot and told him was
ready. He took off his coat and flung down
his hat, and seed that he meant to use
me rough. We danced around bit, and
then he Gums fur me. / was ready fur
him, and he was on his back befo' you
could count ten. 1t was far fall and
all the men said so, but the critter got up
mad. He'd bin downed by a woman and
felt cheap and he said he'd hev another
try at it. was willin, and when he cum
agin gin him the back heel and flop,
4 and he went head over heels and plowed
up the airth. When he got up, he was the
maddest man yo' ever seed. The boys was
a-cheerin ME and alaughin at him and he
i wasn't gwine to hcv it that way. He
\ looks at me bit and then sez:
4 MRS. White, if yo' was man, I'd
whop yo'.
"'Yo' needn't mind my sex, sez l.
Il think I'll cuff yo'r ears to larn yo'
manners.
)" If yo' think yo' kin do it, cum on
tsThe gang cried out that it wasn't ia r
\ to fight woman, but Abe was mad clear
threw, and he cum fur me- let him play
around fur few lninits, and then jumped
in on him and picked him up and throwed
him over that stump. He cum down on
his head with crash and it was jest half
| an hour by the clock befo' he was able to
climb into his saddle and ride off. He'd
hev burned the cabin quick huff, but the
men said it was ia r bargain and sided
| with me-"
"And was that the last of the AFFAIR."" I
asked of Zeb, as he paused.
"No, not exactly, he replied. "He went
away that day, but he'd bin licked by a
woman and it ranked, and he couldn't
| abide it. The blamed critter thirsted fur
revenge, and one AFTERNOON he cum back
yere alone to git it. My ole woman seen
him sneakin in the brush over thar, and
| so l dressed up in her clothes agin and sot
down ysre to smoke my pipe and wait.
Purity soon he showed up, and, walkin up
to me, he sez:
"'Mrs. White, cum along with me-
! What furp'
"'Kase I'm goin to tie yo' up and switch
yo' and hev music while the cabin Is burn
in
"'Abe Raynor, W go on and don't fool
with me or tin be che wuss for yo'.
| s'Wuss be durned' sez he, and he
makes grab fur me and lifts me up.
When l was on my feet, I let's out fur him,
and in five lninits he was licked man. ]
tied him hand and foot and licked him
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