The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31

gourd. and the renderin of this yere mad
 rigal raised goose-bumps on the listener
 The musical party announced hissef as Buster Temple from over on Polecat Ridge and added to our stock of infor- nation of further statement that he felt
 qualified to lick any man-crtter inha bitin' Peckerwood Beat. Then the indi- vidual from Polecat, arched his back, bent
 his elbows, and purceeds to dance war dance around our synod. maxim scornful remarks about the men of that neighbor
 hood and finally he flung in a sarcasm re.
 garding the women of the beat.
 "E-paminondas Thackerson was sitting
 over by the mobby sulky as bear
 because Calie Perkins had devilled the life out of him that week; and this yere Gefinance of the Polecat bellgerent was aboon to him, so he. rig. and fell on that blood-thirsty party, fist and skull jaw and claw The riot don't last more'n fifteen
 minite until the delegate from the Ridge
 holers for the boys to pull Pam off en
 him, which 1t required the best efforts of an expert connoisseur to unhitch E-pamin from his prey.
 "rhe tuneful MT. Temple observed, sub- sequently. when him and Paminondas l lbated, and compared notes; while Doc Pearson sewed the Polecat Mans year back on. that he thought at the time of l Pams uprisn' that the still had blowed up. She's shore the vividest ructlon l ever participated h. an the busiest. I wouldn't CT missed 1t for a bale of Cot l ting" remarked the assuaged balladist. "These encanguined particulars of a 1 voylent scrimmage is merely flung in as prelimernary to working up to a bird s. eye biography of the parental parents of this E-paminondas Thackerson. There was two parents of lem and his ancestor on his Pap's side figures m the dram-atis | pusson-nee of this dramy romance, as | Harv P. Thackerson. At the time Of these occurrences Harv. Thackerson was widower man, jes' bustn foarth into 1 the glorious dawn of his fifty-foarth year. | with CT unsuitable hankerin for more l connubial bliss The assests of his first venture Into matrimony consisted of ten yoke of steers and several thousand acres of river bottom, encountered with a deli cate female in the last stage of Tuberky- | lowest but by unfalterin' economy takin mortgages, shavin' notes, and wearin' the same pair of home-nit socks for three weeks, seriatim, he accumulated lucre un- 1 til he was alluded to by the Editor as a | "Captain of Industry of Peckerwood | Precinct"
 "The fust Mig. Harv. fit death, and association with Harv. powerful game for
 
 tired of her lungless struggle, an up an died. beuuethin to Harv. the funeral expenses and abig. likely boy she had named E-paminondas. after some roman tic Dago, who invented Cro-kay or suthin' ar other. After her untimely demise the 1 bereaved wdower laid in a stock of fine raiment and hair dye. some sudden and pinted out to court Callie Jerkins, with | hilarious abruptness: which aforesaid voung woman had hitherto been the only iew-larker. and steady affinity of his illus | trious offspring E-paminondas Thacker- | son. Esquire.
 "Jrsuallv CT widower is mighty im-
 pulsive and gregarious a whole heap in l ohtrudin voylent attentions on CT un- protected female, but Harv. was that over zealous in his courtin' that he mighty near come under the category of headlong. l If appeared to Pam that his paw was | absolutely too simultaneous Tn lavlshng
 his affections. and too blasted adjacent in
 comforting his society on caihe ferkins. Rnt that little Callie gal didn't seem to | mind it mite. Fast is she warmed up 10 | ,t like a sick kitten to CT hot brick. | Som'ers back of this epock Pam and | calue indulged in fierce conversational debaueh. said orthographical orgie ensoonin' in a Lovyear's quarrel causin'
 their attitoods to be frigd. mutual.
 "rhis we're boy. Pam tux after his nav lin disposi-shun. He wasn wasn't leetle bit like his daddy, none whatever. Big, blond and steer-eyed. and gaily, every tot in the beat would hang on to his laigs, ride on his shoulders. and ginerally make | him play boss for 'em. One ot 0ase yere