The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-12-02
They Tramped Some

"My relationship with Budd Dillon
began with the starting of a daily
paper and ended with tramp. / mad
and was therefore permitted to take an
humble position on the Nashville Mail.
'"But when the sheriff of the county
took charge OF the institution was a
prime factor of the failure. The N lit
was that Budd and / starred out on
tramp. We were assured we might
pickup work along the weary road to
Memphis but he took a humort us
view of labor and insisted upon avoid
| ing the places where there was threat
OF employment. But hunger overlook
us and met us at about the same time,
and work became advisable il not
necessary.
Zone afternoon we we're straining
every nerve to reach a town called
bolivar. The county road IAN parallel
with the railroad tract, and of every
one whom we met we would inquire
as to the distance, and invariably it
was six miles.
Away down the hot road where the
rails seemed to meet and where the
heat danced IN fantastic capers we
would gaze, worn and hungry. Beyonu
this glimmer lay food and tobacco.
Bolivar Six Miles Away.
How far is it to Bollvar?"
"Six miles. -
"I'm getting tired of this sort of |
hing, SAID Budd. UNLESS some of |
hese fellows cut down the distance |
there's going tu be trouble.
I'VE met woman driving in a rat
10 trap buggy. 'Good-day, miss, said
Budd She was an oldlsh woman, but
anxious to get to the town he thought
to reduce the length of the read by
calling her miss. 1t pleased her.
would you be SO kind as to tell us
the exact distance to RoliyaI?'
why, OF course. Let me see, about
six miles.
"Goo1-by. madam. and be thankful.
that you are not man.
ION We trudged, mile after mile,
and Budd was warm and sore. ]. Along
The road came an old fellow riding a
iee-c itten horse, a gaunt old chap,
with his feet almost dragging the
ground.
II m going to give him the opror-
unity of his life, said Budd I'm
ding to warn him, but unless he cuts
lown the distance he'll have me to
Whip"
Picked Up Live Wire.
"Hold on there minute. The old
elbow halted. do you live anywhere
D this neighborhood?
"Yes. right over yonder.
''Been living there long?"
.'Borh there"
"Do you 60 to Bolivar pretty often?"
every week or go
"Then you ought to know how far it
J." (.
II should reckon"
swell, now 1 want you to put your
lind down on it and tell US the truth
'ont act impulsively-don't be rash, 4
ut tell Us how far it is"
"Well, il you want me to be ex ict,
,ould call it six miles. ty
"Get down of that horse" y
what do you want?" Y
I'm going to thrash you. Get %
)wn.o -,
But what have / donaY'' NJ
8 Makes no difference. Get do W." as
"All right, sir, III try to ac,"mmo- fn
tie you.
Budd had but one garment ,rthy OF
the name, a coat, and he to ,k it Oft w;
ID threw it down. BY this t me the =
/ fellow was on the ground, waving t.,
3 arms like a pair Of winding blades. ~
I'd Budd went at him. ~
more deceiving fellow neve' lived. = !,
, knocked Budd down while he APP -
AIRED to be seven feet away. Why, he r.
nldn get into the neighborhood. An
press train came laundering at and
engineer shouted but the fgut con tai
ued, rs fast as Budd could get up. in
naIiy he said: thi
: h old on, may be it Is six miles to an,
1 Internal town." oh,
He brushed himself as best he could, {.
ugh thsre was no need OF 1t, and "h,
nbed the embankment to put on his thi
1. The train had run over it and cut .
n two. ser
On we trudged, and Bolivar was six q
es away. DO.
That was long time ago, when near. I
very printer was humorist. Now and
il an intellectual mschinist. a bust. q
, man, living IN ono town. Onos he sale
a migrating wild goose, flying after ws
shadow Of work that he might over rule