The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-16
A NAT 7AH w HOHAH
DOWN IN TENNESSEE,
Uncle Reuben was mixing the salad.

Uncle Reuben was mixing the salad.
''These gemmen crost thu big watdh
done had uh trouble, ain they? 1t sho'
looks LAX ole times tub see uh souple
NV gemmen stan up an fight it out
that way. ain hearn tell Nv uh real
duel sence I lef' Ten'see."
Did you ever see a duel, Uncle Reu-
benz
mo. sub, I kahn say as I evan saw
uh real affaiah Nv honah, sub, but I
was presen' wen a. pair NV gemmen
give a pow full good imitation Nv
fight. Didn't 1 nevvah tell yuh bout
that time?
"Yuh hearn me talk bout Mistah
Sam Baxter? He's not our family
exactly, but he's uh cousin Nv us An
thah was thu doctuh Thu dootuh was
uh mighty popular man bout home an
mucn thought Nv by thu community.
He come outten uh f1ghtiR family His
brother was uh navy man on uh ship.
an they used tuh call him 'Fightin
Bob Thus doctuh was much that way
hissef But that ain sayin' that Mis-
tab Sam is wantin nothin. He is
sumpin Nv uh man in uh trouble his
sef.
Somehow thu two gemmen didn' lax
each othah They was good frien's
onct, but Miss Bell. yuh knows her,
she got mixed up wiz 'em. Dey bofe
NV EN- wanted Miss Bell. an wanted
her pow'ful bad. Miss Bell she dldn'
tell nobody whut she thought bout it.
She jes' lay low an smile an wait faw
her min tub get fixed. That's mighty
disheartenin' tub uh gem man whut's
pinlR faw uh lady, an befo these gem
men was sho' dom that.
Thu trouble happen enc night when
we had uh dance at our house. Miss
Bell was thu prize waltzah Nv thu
county Than cum uh waltz an some
how thu two gemmen got mixed bout
who owned tina dance. Mistah sam
he say it iis'n. an thu doctuh he say II
his'n Miss Bell she Wouldn say no
way. an than was some words in thu
parlah.
''Cose they couldn say much whah
thu ladies was, but bimeby, when
they's gittin' on they bosses tuh go
home. they was some hot tdihin.' an
thu othah gemmen had tub use 'sua-
sion to keep EN- fun havtn' trouble
right thah in thu boss lot
it, but mex day thu gemmen got talkin'
bout it in town, an so they fixed up
uh challenge fun thu doctuh tan Mis-
tab Sam, an one fun Mistah Sam tub
thu doctuh. Bofe sides accepted w
cose. an thu seconds was named Thu
maiah an Mistah Sans brothah was
on one side, an Mistah Fo'd an Col
onel Lawson was on thu otnah. w
cose they all knows it's IN joke; bot
Mistah Sam an thu doetuh, they don
know, an tfey's sho' worried
Miss Bell, yuh know, she's stayin' at
our house Mistah Sam was thu fust to
come. He was ridin mighty slow wiz
his head hung down an dom sum
thinkin' when TUX his hess He stayed
a long time an mus uh said uh heap,
cause Miss Bell was loolNin' sorryful
an white when she come outen thu
parlah, an Mistah Sam was kindah
peaked.
"Mistah Sam hain't no mon gone
when 10 rides thu doctuh. He's kindah
CAV like, but you could see he ain feel
in like uh jaybird. He stay till thu
sun go down, an he mus uh had IN
lot to talk bout, an Miss Bell look lax
uh ole woman when she walk down
tuh tub gate wiz him. Now 1 notice
she des come to thu front do XIV MIS-
tab Sam, an she walk down to thu
front gate wiz thu doctah, an I say tub
masef, thah's thu gemman whut gifts
dis lady when she git ready tub say
sumpin'.'
when thu majah come home he tell
me tub have thu bosses hitched tuh
thu carry-all mex nawnin' at daylight
That's all he say tub me, but L done
hearn tell bout thu duel. an know
I'm gwine tub be than git thu hosses
ready. an thu mex mawnin' des as
days breakin' I'm at thu dig gate WV
thu carry-all.
II didn' know bout that, but Mistah
Sam he sleep at our house that night,
Bimeby out come thu Majah an Mis-
tab Sam brothah. en- Mistah Sam, an
they all git in. Mistah Sam look kim
dab funny, lax he ain been sleepin'
hissef tub def. Tina maiah an Mistah
Sam brothah, dey is des quiet YIN ain
got nothin' to say. Thu najah he tell
me tub drive oyah tub Cottonwood
Pint on thu rivah. Thas bout u1 mile
away an it DON take me long to git
thah-
cts mighty lonesome on the Pint
! Thu riyah is all covered wiz smoke,
an you kin heah it talkin to itself
down under thu willows. Thu cypress
an thu cottonwood is all hangin' still
/ an mou' nful, an it sho' ain lookin' LAX
uh barbecue. Bimeby up druv anothah
kerridge an out git Mistah Fo'd an
1 Colonel Lawson an thu doctah an an
! speak low 'cept Mistah Sam an thu
doctah. They amt got nothin' tub say
/ Thu gerumen have some talk an then
I they come roun benin fields thu carry
I all an load thu pistols, Two dig navy
/ skies. They load evan barrel. 1t begin
{ to look lax somebody dom go. home thai
/ day. an I'm sho gittin' troubled in ma
mind an don think de5 right bout Miss
( Bell. wo'se maxim all this trouble.
hearn thu gernmen talk bout they, gwinet
( do it. Mistah Sam an thu doctuh mus
STAN back to back Then they walk
! way fun each otah ten steps apiece
: Then they trun 'roun, an when thu
majah ne say fab they begin shootin
an waIkin' todes each otah. When any
body fall. then they stop shootin' Tina
sho' sound mighty bloody WV them bis
( navv-sixes lookin' at yuh.
d 'Then thu gemmen took their places
standIn back to back, an bofe Nv en-
straight as uh string Thu majah he
/ Forward an they commence steppln'
One. two three, four, five. six, seven
SsIIn mos falHn' outen thu caryalI
when, ten. an bofe gemn1en wheel. an
then [ shut ma eyes. Bang. l look t
! see which gemmen. an bofe is standln'
Rangr Bofe gemmen steppin forwards
i Bang!F Bofe gemmen is standin' agin