The National tribune., 1902-05-15

wuz clean Outen meat, & wanted mine bad
DOant no what kind of gun he had, but
he muStve shot at me thousand times NJ
least. * | doant G how humminbirC
could've got thru the shower ov led. But
| did. with the loss ov nuthin but my idee
that the Yanks won't fife. for which thank
Cod mean that | got thru.
We're layin hear on LitewOOd Crck. :
purteck Leesyilc. * stop emmy OY the
Yankee robbers from gittin acroSt the
crick back in2 the country. We've got q
mitey strong posishun, X kin hold the hull
ov Sherman's army back, il tha doant git
on our eend. Ole BoryGard is . look out
for that, but if he doant do no bettern heze
bin dom hede better go back gum-Suckin
round Charleston agin.
But what / wanted rite L was that
wele probably stat hear sevrl days, & Cap.
| HickOX cant stand hit no longer bein so
mere his jularkee Il not married = her, soze
| they're gon be spliced to-ntc at the Lite
wood meetinhouse, up nigh the forks. L
no the plaise The foxes air gwine = bring
in baskets ov suthing 2 eat. Il Elder Wy
lie'll tie the not, Il wele hay Il dams after.
Now, Sally, line jeS' honin to see L.
Cant U come? Z kin righd over from
IRE plaise in Il kupple ours, IL thar'll be
plenty = go back home with L. But, sal,
Sally, won't stat for a day or =? Won't
| L let Elder Wylie splice us same time he
does the Cap. IL Betsy Gillet? I've bin
waitin n heap longern he has. & | luv U
heaps & slathers bettern he does that car
rot-head. If Ule marry me now, & | get
kid, Ule have my plais on Gopher Crick.
all IRE own, IL He give L my pacing mare
2-wunSt.
| y. B-Weve got brush & torpedies in
the ford at Litewood Crick. so that when
! L come be sure 81 turn off the name rode
| at the gum spring, Il talk the bridal path
| behind the orange brush on the rite hand.
| DOant fale 2 do this, for the torpedieS air
| hair-trigger, Il thar's wires all round lead
in 2 them.
Ures til deth,
JIM.
Hes got it mighty bad" remarked 81,
refOlding the letter and looking at the 9TH
er. Il hope she'll go to him.
why, that must be the same fellow
who tried to take me prisoner yesterday"
said Shorty.
Seems TO me he came pretty near doing
it," said ST.
And he was the Teller was shooting
at" calculated Pete. Il believe he's ly-
ing. | must have hit him somewhere
No, Pete: | guess you didn't hit any
thing but the State Of South Caroliny
You were more interested in working that
pump-handlo than in aiming
Pete looked as if another had been add
ed to the burden of injusticeS constantly
being laid on his young shoulders, Just be
cause he was boy.
81 slit open the'other letter, and read
Home. loosely
Deer Jim, live .heared that you all was
over on the North Fork. somewhere, and
| dident no but what lde hear from you.
Its bin terrible time sence | seen hide
nor hair of you. and ! wonder what's be-
come of you, Mebbe line a wilder, and
dente no hit But.as we haint bin married
yit. what sort of a wilder would be?
Tom Buzzell-yQu recolleck Tom, donte
You? Him that useter he in the Ordi-
nary's office. ritn'? They conscripted
him, but he got sick soon's he reached the
army, and his folks got him detailed in the
Tax-in-k Kind Buro, and heze now over at
Leesville, tending to getherin up provi
SIonS, and comes. over to our house rite
often. He says that most likely lie never
see you agin, for betwixt bein killed off by
the Yankees and taken prisoner. and dying
with the measles, and running off after
other girls most of the girls round here
are losing their boze 1t looks as If the
hill country was going to be an old maid
settlement. ! donte no which is maxim the
graitest havoc among the boys-the Yam
KEGS, the measles, or the other girls. Hits
powerful lonely not to see you for so long
but then Tom Buzzell comes over as often
as he kin, and line getting to like him
real well. Heze alters so weIl-dressed. and
has plenty of time to set round and be
company.
| hoap you're real well, but Tom BuZzell
says hits powerful sickly in the camps,
and heaps are dyin which is too bad, since
there's not mere huff boys now to go round
Tom Buzzell says the Yankees are aw-
full bad down in the low country, burnin
and steelin, and toting off the cattle and
niggers and women, specially the women.
But he says that they'll never get up here
i'll the hill country. Would you mind aw-
fully if some hateful Yankee toted me off
Tom says hede fight hard before hede let
me GO
Send me word or letter whenever you
kin.
Yore loyin,
SALLY.
''Aunty, you say this letter came from
Squire Movers place." inquired 81, with
a thought appearing in his face, as he care
fully refolded the letter, replaced it in the
envelope. and then drew the edges of Jim
Yarnell's envelope together and smoothed
them out so as to conceal that the letter
had been opened
Yes, sab. Miss Sary Jane Mower is
ole Squire Movers da'ter, an big.
bouncin' lady she is, sah.''
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