Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-05-29
AN: HUMBLE HERO.
THOMAS p MONTFORT-

Lord, yOn bet Q0n'L / QOn I Wdut
nothin to do with them ha'nts an fix
ms, all amt never goin to tech no.
body that's been killed, you bet, even
If they never are teched."
"Shucks, you fellers don't know what
you're talkin bout. Say, you all jest
wait till you've seed dead men as I've
seed 'em. lyin round on q battlefield
lest ever'whar." Thus spoke Ebenezer
Sparks, the warrior bold. Lord
Almighty, I've fit into many a battle
whar men were jest a-drappin all
round me so thick that couldn't move
'thout steppln on lot Of 'em. My
land, want skeered of techin 'em. an
they never come back Of nights to pes
ter round ha'ntin Of me, nuther."
ut want that away that time when
you went into Hicks cellar to whup
the battle. was 1t. Ebenezer" Jason
Roberts asked.
Ebenezer flashed angry.
"Doggone it all" he cried. "ain't l
never goin to hear the last Of that dad
burned old cellar? Ever time men.
tion any word bout when fit into
the war some blame fool has got to 60
to work an drag that dod blasted old
cellar In"
"Waal, we want to show intrust In
your war record, Ebenezer. an that's
the only battle we ever see you fight In.
80 that's all we got to speak bout"
"Waal. you needn't pester bout
shown no intrust. then. I'd ruther
you wouldn't"
Say" Sam Morgan called. don't
you reckon Sim Banks has ha'ntT'
"Of co'se he has," Thorn replied. ian.
say, fellers, l bet it posters him jest
awful"
ITO be Shore" Turner agreed.
"Speakin Of Sim Banks minds me Of
somethin," Hi said. Reckon amt
! none Of you uns hearn nothin Of Sim
sence he went away%
Mary word" Hicks answered.
"Quaire them officers don't find out
nothln bout him. amt it?"
"'Tis so. Guess they've hunted round
all over ever'whar most an they amt
found hair nor hide of him."
"S'pose he must a gone clean OF
somewhar."
Looks like 1t. You know he left q
note for his woman sayin he war ago.
in away an want never comm back no
morew
oJ baar ha did
"But she don't b'lieve it."
| Don't sheW
mot now, she don't. She b'lleved it
right smart at fust, but Pap Samp-
son kept a.talkin till he got her to
change her mind"
Pap still stan's out that Sim never
killed that fellerT
LA. yes, wussn ever"
"Qualre he'd git that sorter notion,
amt itr'
"'Tis. shore. Pap's gin'rally putty
level headed. but he got his nose pint
ed wrong this time shorely."
HE thinks Sim'll come back, does
hep
"Jest knows he will"
"Waal. he'll be hung or sent up to
prison If he does come"
"Pap's got notion somethin'll turn
up to clear Sim fore he gifts back"
Don't see how he goes bout maxim
that out"
~ don't see nuther, but that's his
talk"
"How's Sims woman a-doin"
kinder porely. guess. She amt
livin here no more"
"That so"
Eyes; she left the fust Of the week"
"Whar'd she goY'
"Down to the county seat"
"What's she 'lowin to do down thar%
"She reckoned she'd git into some
work Of some kind"
''An jest bout manage to go through
everything she's got"
"She amt got nothin."
"Ain't? Why. been hearin Sim left
her all the land an everything"
"He did, but she won't tech It"
won't? Why, say, what's the rea-
son?'
"She lows it's hisn an she amt no
right to live it up. Says mebby some
time he'll need it,
"Waal, I'll be smutched"
| "Then | guess she kinder wanted to
git away from here anyhow. That
bout her an Melvin started a good bit
of talk, ali reckon she found it want
none too pleasant a-stayin here"
Naturally. How'd she take 1t bout
Melvin bein killed? Did she carry on
much"
"Nary a bit that any Of us seen.
Guess she behaved plumb nice
"Did she come to see the cawpse"
Hicks hesitatcd for an instant. He
knew from Pap Sampson about that
night visit. but he had promised to
keep it q secret.
WAL, | didn't see her come" he
said. ANY you fellers see her Gomez?
They all shook their heads.
"Some folks lowed she'd take on q
heap over him an mebby give Sim hts
too"
"Lonl, she tuck right off for Sim.
She jest acted for all the world like
she keered more for him than any
body"
ut would "a been q moughty good
thing if she'd "a tuck off for him soon
er Std Of foolln with that other feller.
a-gittin him killed an putin Sim into
this mess"
81 reckon that's so, Hi, but l amt
never b'lieved Loueesy Banks aimed to
do nothin wrong. She was jest sorter
thoughtlcSs, guess"