The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-04-03

road TO the woods, t. try TO mead him I,
and them on OF was climbin the
fences and racln over the cOruiields,
and through the brush aud briars all
holicrin to Sam to stop. But they
mought as well hollcrcd TO the winds.
Away he went, never stonnin for any
thing, till he got to the woods, in
which he soon disappeared, scrcamin
and yelling like maniac all the time.
After running about half a mile in
the woods he tuck Il swcctgum, and,
climbin into the very top limbs, sot
thar when his pursucrs come up, trcm-
bin and shakin like he had ager,
with his shirts all tore to ribbons,
and his legs and feet blcedin whar
they was cut and scratched all to
pieces with the brush and briars.
His friends tried to coax him down
from the tree, but ali they could do
they couldn't git him to move peg.
Come down, Samy," ses Joe En-
dermsn, what upon ycath has go. ;n-
TO you to cut sich antic this mornin?
Come down, old feller.'
Sam tuck no notice, but jest KEEP on
groanin and scrcamin and holdin tight
to tho tree.
Come down, Sal.y-wc's yer
friends nobody shan't hurt you
"Oh. let me off this time, MIR. Dew
ill.," ses Odum, clingin to the limb he
was on, and lookin down as wild as a
loon.
"Nonsenso!" ses Bob Moreland.
ether ain't no devil here. Don't you
know me, Sam? Come down and less
go home before you catch yer death Of
ocld."
COW !-ow ~ 90 o-oor' ses
Odum.
ooh, don't be diugcd fool, Samyl"
ses old John Hendricks, who was a
particklcr friend of Odum's and had
had the "man with tho poker after
him time or two himself. "Come
down. Nobody aint gwinc 10 hurt
you.
But all the scoldin and coaxin in
creation couldn't move Sam. He
know d the old devil was after him
with all the hounds in the Internal
regions, and he was determined
not to let EN- catch him if he could
help it.
His friends fndin that they couldn t
do nothin by reasonin with him, they
all agreed to 60 away and hide them
selves, and see If he wouldn't come
down by himself. But thar he sot
and sot, maxim the ugliest noise
through his rattlin teeth that ever
mortal heard, lookin round all the
time as wild as buck rabit, but with
out movin to come down.
I'll bring him, boys scs John
Hendricks; and with that he sent q
niger to town to bring him bottle of
whisky.
AS soon as the whiskey come, Hen
dricks tuck drink himself, and then
went to tho tree and axed Sam to have
some.
Come, Samy," ses he, '"it'll do
you good this cold mornin. Come
down, old feller, and try some"
"Ow!-owi-oo-oo-oo!" was all
that Sam could say.
After tryin in vain to convince him
that ther wasn't no devil about, Hen
bricks tuck another drink, aud sot the
bottle On stump little ways from
the tree, so Samy could see it, and
then went and hid himself again, to
watch.
BY this time the sun was up several
hours and the frost was off the ground.
Sam began to calm down. He grad.
ually got over his skeer. Lookin
round to satisfy himself that the devil
and his hounds was all gone, he spied
tho bottle Of whisky what Hendricks
left.
Now you watch him." ses Hen
bricks, "he's beginning to come too,
and he's monstrous dry by this time.
and if that bottle don't bring him,
then he amt Sam Odum no moro.
Shore enough, the frat thing they
knowd, Sam come sl; IN down the
old swes: gum, and gWino straight to
the stump, tuck good long swig.
Before he tuck the bottle from his
head his friends had him surrounded,
The whisky had the effect on him do.
sired, and after putin or aome clothes
what they had brought for him, he
went along quietly enough with 'em
60 his house, whar everything was ex-
planned to his satisfaction.
The whole circumstances crowd out
OF fox hunt what tha hnvo xvoo o,,;no