Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-04-10

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Pap Sampson and the rest interfered.
guess" Jim Thorn remarked II been
thinkin bout that. an don't know II
the word she spoke want true word.
Sims woman did pear to be right
smart struck with the looks Of that
stranger, an
| "Jim Thorn. you are liar"
They all looked up In astonishment.
and there was Sim Banks standing
among them. his eyes ablaze with an
ger and his form trembling with sup
pressed rage.
"Jim Thorn" he repeated. you are
liar. q dirty, cowardly, miserable.
sneakin liar, an you'll take back them
words or I'll knock your head clean
down your throat!'
Thorn sprang to his feet and started
to run, but in an instant Sim had hold
of his collar with one hand and with
| the other had given him blow on tlh,
side of the head that sent him to the
floor as limp as rag. Sim would have
followed up bis advantage and pound
ed Thorn numerically, but Pap Samp
son and the rest nterfered. and five or
six of them held him while the others
got Thorn away.
After 1t was all over and Sim had
been released they stood about him for
some time. looking at him In silence
and with a kind Of awe. To them he
had suddenly become q new man, and
they felt that they did not know him.
1t was Hicks who broke the pause.
"Why, SIM" be said, whats come
over you? Who'd a ever dreamed Of
you doin sich thing as thatY'
LET him keep his mouth shet an
quit a-lyin bout Loueesy, then" Sim
replied. not exactly in line with Hicks
questions. T'll hit him ag'in If he
dast to say sich another thing, an Ill
hit anybody else that does 1t, an I'll hit
to kill"
well. that's all right, Sim, but you
Jest cool down now. Jim Thorn was
the only one that said anything, an
you've done hit him. so thar amt no
more to do, an you'd jest as we'll git
quiet"
"My land. Sim. you shore hit him a
good unr' Jason said. 81 never see a
purifier lick struck in all my life."
IAN it was all done so quick" an
other observed why. them words
wasn't much more'n outen Jim Thorn's
mouth till Sim was a-standin up here
an sayin. Jim Thorn. you are liar!
Jest that away. Then jim starts to
run, an afore | knowed it Sim had
gathered him by the collar an give him
that lick"
"An wasn't it lick, though" Jason
said. why. say. it jest keeled Jim
over thar so quick that bet he never
knowed what done it."
II bet he didn't know nothiS touched
him-jest Topped down thar for all the
world like shot hog. Didn't low it
was in you to hit q feller like that,
Sim"
| Lord, reckon Sim never knowed 1t
neither" Pap Sampson said. "but he
knows II now. an you all better look
out. No matter how harmless dog is
while he's asleep. he may be the wust
kind Of dog when you wake him up.
An Sim Banks Is awake now."
IAN you'd all better not fool with
him If you don't want to git hurt. !"
Hicks added.
You'd all better not say nothin bout
| Loueesy." Sim said. "'less'n you all
wants to git your heads punched"
| Guess nobody hain't goin to say
nothin bout Loueesy." Pap Sampson
replied. 80 you mought's we'll quit
a-throwin that at us. Jim Thorn had
no business to speak the word he did,
even If it had been true word, an |
most know It wasn't. an you done right
an nat'ral to take it up. I'm peace
able man myself. as you uns all know,
an ingin'ally set my face ag'in fussin
an foughtin, but ! amt got nary a
word to say ag'in man what fights
for his woman's good name. So say.
Sim Banks, an | say it open IN above
board. you done jest right, an ever fair
minded man rn woman is bound to say
the same"
THAT'S what they are" Jacob Hicks
promptly agreed. My land. Pap, you
uns all kncwS amt no hand to mix
ND in no furse an that | amt never tit
nobody in all my life. but you jest let
some feller say AIRY single word az In
my woman, an if the fur don't fly 1t
won't be my fault Them's my sentl-
ments ever time, an | amt a-keerln
who knows it."
Course, Sim done right another
said, with that ready sympathy people
are apt to feel for the victor as against
the vanquishrd. ''d a done Jest like
him if Id a been in his place, only l.
bet I'd "a laid Jim Thorn out SOS lie