The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-10-20
a HORRIBLE SIGHT TO SEE.
Col. Peg Leg Graham and His Collie
Dog Do Mean Trick to a COL
ored Female Cyclist.

Charlotte Observer
81 saw a horrible sight, the other
dav" said Col. Peg Leg Graham, OF
Pineville, Saturday, as the boys tore
gathered to hear him talk.
"What was that, colonel?" asked an
Observer man.
zone day, just about noon, when
the cotton pickers were coming IN 1or
dinner, stood on my front porch and,
looking down the Steele Creek road'
saw something strange approaching
7 couldn't figure out what it was tor
quite a while. The old woman came
out and she suggested that it was
balloon that had lit on the ground
and was trying to move OFT but l
tried to think Of fair that week but
7 hadn't heard of any close by; l
knew that the Mount Holly fair, the
greatest fair ever held in these parts,
had burst, and it was too early for the
Mecklenburg fair. But, the thing
looked like a balloon all right. AS we
watched, it kept coming towards us.
It was pulling long grade above my
house. I became more interested.
tWe see so many DANCED new
things, these days, in the way OF au-
4on,obiIes. that I never know what
to expect next. Vixen, my old COL
lie dog, watches for automobiles and
it takes two days to quiet her after
one passes. Sometime ago, way IN
the night, heard her holler like the
very. old Nick himself had her and
in a iiffy, she broke through the front
door, tore through the house, burst
out the back door and ran clar away
from home. I never heard such
racket as she kept but I knew what
had frightened her-one Of those con-
founded automobiles. The next morn
ing, when I got up, she was still tar
from home, on top of hill, IN the
field, barking as if she had treed some
thing in the moon. I called her and
she came running, but every fuss
turned her back and made her bark.
When succeeded in getting her to
the house and calmed her, she went
TO the road TO scent for the beast that
had scared her. I followed her and
there in the dirt saw the track OF the
automobile.
"But, I am leaving my story. Yes,
me and nav watched that thing come
I'D the hill. 1t began to look like
somebody on wheel, but | had never
seen the like before. About the time
it got within two hundred yards OF
the house Vixen came tearing out,
with bristles up, growing and bark
ing. She was mad. / knew then that
it was negro on wheel for the old
collie naturally hates negro and
wheel. But, bless my soul, the negro
proved to be great, big tat woman.
The wind had gotten beneath her
skirts and had them blown out like a
balloon. The old thing was having
mighty hard time. She couldn't
ride well anyhow, much less in gale.
Old Vixen spied her and went for
her with a vim. Me and the old wo-
man were still on the porch, looking
and laughing. Vixen was IN her
glory. Round the wheel she ran, first
IN front and then behind, grabbing
at the skirts.
Gs-way frum here! shouted the
negro.
:*But that just made old Vixen hot,
more teeth. The negro was AFRAID TO
light and her skirts were becoming
tangled in the wheel. It was better
than a show. Well, sir, when one
side of the skirt was tied and twisted
in che wheel Vixen caught hold OF
the other side and in two shakes OF
dead Sleeps tail the poor old colored
woman was without a dress. The
wheel held on to a part Of the skirt
and Vixen fetched the other part to
me. There stood the rider with moth
ing left but her wheel and good name.
Nav ran in the house while l lay