The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-12-27

they will tell you. shot deer one dny.
1t fell, and he stepped UP to il TO cut
It's throat. AS he WAS standing aSigidc
the deer ho supposed was dead 1t rose
suddenly ana went bounding down the
creek. with SiiaS on it's back clasDing
its neck and vocifClatiug loudly that
help would he welcome Job Ecnk.
who was hunting along the creek. saw
the deer in it's Wild flight and cmptlol
the contents of bis rifle into it. He
not only killed the deer hut Bored
Silas Glubb with his rifle haiI as well.
Not long after that spcctCr deer.
bestroGe by specter rider. appeared
mt intervals in the woods daSniuG
wildly down the creek until IL reached
tie spot where FenkS rifle had done
its fa,al work. and there always VAN
ishcd. Then folks took 10 calling the
creek Spook Run and the gully Spuok
Run gully ana by and by n lumber
company put II big dam across the
creek and log shoot three miles long
through tie deep. dark. crooked,
ehost!y gully, down which the logs
were sent from the woods TO the mill
dam as swift as the wind. and down
daredevil Bill Top&on. having drunk
more than generously Of log driver
rum anu was;Crcd that he would make
the fearful ride. He made it. nclud-
ing the wild plunge from the mouth
Of the gully to the pond. fifty feet be-
low. When he was taken from the
pond, after his awful ride and plunge,
his hair, which had been black when
he started, waS as white IA snow.
and it'd a been queer if it hadn't
turned white" ;.ny OF ihe PasSadarky
narrNtors VIII tell yUu. He rid that
log thoCl three niles in less than four
miuTt, s."
Eul .Le reason this feat Of Fill Top
sons has particular place OF honor in
the chronicles OF Old pasSadanky is
because it was the culmination Of the
career Of Old Beelzchub as a wonder
working br1r When that hear was
less than Il year Old. Jcphtha Virgins.
the pClt gatncrpr, killed IFS father and
mother and CHASED the orphnr cub for
days, with Ii" hope Of adding its pelt
TO the other two. but failed in his pur.
pose. After awhile that orphaned bear
returned to the vicinity Of lis Old home.
and. as everybody will tell you up
there. II came back with grudge
against Icphtha Virgins.
THAT bar came back" they VIII say
"and if he hadn't n come. there'd
been more sheep and pigs along the
Old Passadanky than there was for
the next three or four years. And he
was so overpowerln' full OF Satan that
fnll oyixr "A Inn, ,Fn "A
bub. And Jepthy Virgins had good
reason to be sorry he ever pelted that
bears father and mother, for what
happened to him when lie begun to get
the orders for black sheep pelts?-or.
ders that came i'm thick and fast, al
though nobody never knowed what i'm
the world made setch q cali for black
sheep pelts. What happened then?
Why, black sheep pelts got scarce. !
should say they did! And what made
'em git scarce? That bar with q
gr ye ag'in Jepthy Wigglns! That
vengeful bar jest lugged off all the
black sheep there was in the district.
Not smell Of white sheep did he
fetch
"But that maxim OF black sheep.
skin famine in the district wasn't cir.
GU Istance to what that schemin' bar
done In iayin out his plan of vengeance
aS'in. although il was included in it,
He wouldn't "a gone as fur as he did.
though. If he hadn't happened to see
Bill Topson shoot through Spook Run
gully on the log that day. He see Bill
shoot the gully and come plungin' out
Of that hole In the rocks down into the
pond. and he didn't ferglt 1t. He re-
membncd 1t. and It give him the
chanre to give Jepthy Virgins what