The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-21

and the jedge was arguing some law
pint ana they were just sweeping across
the Chitwood fork of the road when the
Jeage laid his hands on the lines and
said; 'Whoahl This here Is the Chitwood
Iork that Calvin told you about: I be-
lieve you have forgot to stop and look
Inc solicitor got out of the vehickel.
laffin walked through the ferns and
Sweet Williams over to the prostrate dead
pine and stood there a long time, look
Ing straight before him at the point of the
1utting crag Finally he looked down at
his feet, and thar, right behind the log.
was fVe gallon key, painted blue. with
a handle to 1t. He lifted it into the car
riage, and when the jedge sampled it he
pronounced 1t the finest specimen of corn
whskey that had ever surprised his
stomach. 1t was old Calvin's way of Of
FERN the olive branch, and showing that
gosling young solicitor man that he
didn't harbor no malice.
How did he git thar with ii before the
judge and his crowd eh?"
Bless your soul, son, the moonshners
has methods of their own, unknown to
the laity. Revealin' the anser to your
/ eohnundrum would be lettin out state Sc
crets Them mountain chemists has err
grapevine telegraph. and err subway rail-
road that's er heap more reliable than the
Frisco system
Endurin the rest of the ride to the
next kort that yearling solicitor was ST.
lent and thoughtful, with a far-away
look in his eyes that prevented him see
ing the bottle as it circulated, or indul-
gin in the decoctions so needful in a trip
from one kort to another. Jess as soon
as the last case on the docket was tried
on the next week he mounted his nag,
and pinted back into the hills heading
for the naberhood of Chitwood Fork
This conduct appears a heap onhamp-
cred to you. son, but the fact was that
solicitor party had seed suthin at the
Chitwood Fork which the folks in the We
hickel couldn't see, on account of that
erag bein' between them and the objict.
He fust thought it was vision, engen-
dered by an undue intimacy with Gavin
likker. He wakes ankshus and looks
hard at the allurin' fantasm, expectin' it
to float away over the ocean of wild
flowers and mountain ferns every mint.
This apparition didn't do no vanishing
act. but got solder and more captiyatin'
and er heap sweter, endurin' what seemed
to him an eternity of gazing into his'en,
and pair of milk-white feet, as bare or
coverin' as Ball mountain is of grass.
Them pedal extremities knocked him gal
ley-west. They wuz plump, white as but
termilk. small enough to fit in man 5
closed hand, pink toes with dimples ON
en- and shaped as true as the four cor
ners of a temple. Straight into his bulg-
ing eyes she looked for a silent mint, the
red slowly rising in her purity face, then
with a whisk and a smile she fed as
noiseless as a partridge. This snort
horn solicitor gent amt that dinusve IN
his condolences as TO go surgin back tellin,
his visions to that carriage full of legal
drunkards, but he hides the memory OF
ii in his heart, doting on 1t day by day.
until he feels he is bound to go back
moonin' round in them hills, with the
shadow of this gal with the milk-white
feet hantin his reveries. Didn't know
no more about where to find her tnah
nothin Didn't even know her name. or
whur she lived; couldn't ask nobody
about her without giving things away
that oughtn't to be told and maxim a
fool of hissef-tho' he made up his nina
to locate that gal if 1t cost him his right
arm.
After a weeks vain search ne nau
about staggered down and CIV II up
when one Sunday mornin he rio up u
the ford of Tarrapin, and thar on 'ne
other side with her shoes ana STOCKINGS
off lust fixin' to wade the creek on ner
way to church, was the same picture ne
had seen at the Chitwood fork. IL was
the identical female down to her very
toes, and what's more, she looked across
at that ratified young prosecutor anu sNe
him a smile that would have moVeu
rock fence With stoopenoous con'''o