Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-06-20
SMITH GIRLS Slight.
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BY oPIE READ.


JEFF Slogan and old man Matterson
sat at the kitchen table long after the
remains of supper were cleared away.
! It was night of "reminiscences with
I the old man, and he told of the bears
and wolves he had slain in the days
when Tennessee was young. my old
granddad left me the rifle said he,
glancing towarda corner of the room,
'tand many a time I've been advised
! to have a percussion lock put on it,
but hintlock was good enough for
him and it's got to be good enough
for mo. Of course you've seen the
gun, but I'll show it to you again"
'Its beauty" said JEFF.
SWELL, yes, unless you can find q
better word. And let me tell you
something, but you must not say any
thing about it. Granddad was be-
ginning to get pretty old aud little
things had begun to bother him. One
ofhis daughters married a no-account
stage-driver, and his half-witted son
cut fellow all to pieces at sawmill.
So he fretted a good deal. Well, one
night he was coming home from a
muster, and man named Bridge
: Peters with him. All at once grand
dad stops in the road and says to
Bridge: IF I only knowed which one
of them stars up thar was my unlucky
star, I'd shoot it out Bridge asked
if he thought his gun would tote that
far, and the old man hooted like an
owl. Don't you worry about that,
said he. Just pick out the star you
think is the cause of my bad luck and
out she goes
Bridge was sort of reckless fell
low, so he looks up, he does,
and says: There she is, that star
eoff there about Is feet from the
MOON The old man didn't hesitate a
minute. he raised his gun-this hero
old one right here-and she cracked
like whip-and what do you think
happened? Out went the star like
lsnufin, a taliow candle. Bridge he
took to his heels, and it was encngh
to scare any man, but granddad didn't t
run. He walked off slow tosshow the
other .stars that he wasn't { afraid, but
he begins to git sick at his stomach,
and be the time he got home he could
hardly hold up his head. And, sir, he
laid for four weeks, aud then died.
,Jeff1ooked hard at the old man and
said: 81 don't believe word of it. !"
'.How do you account for it?"
ST account for it by not believ-
ing it; that's how" JEFF was in
sorrowful mood that night. and was
not prepared to believe even the most
apparent truth.
''What are you thinkin' about,
jeff"
''Liza Smith and her party"
''Sorter in the dumps because she
didn't ask you?"
'sWelI, 1 don't like it.
''Why don't you kill her dog"
"What good would that do?''
''Why, don't you know that the best
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