The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-07

the top. Henberry didn't pause to pass the courtesles of the season with this alarmin vision, but he begun to git ac- ton on his legs in a pair of minits. In three shakes of a sheep's tail the whole settlement was alarmed with rapid suc- cession of agonized war whoops and ex- screwshiatin' yells, followed by a multi tude of sounds as if short blanks was slapped on the ground by Dlnky Engine. Conhdentially, I'll tell you, son, that these heare noises was the product of Henberry's feet gittln' themselves in CT condition to do some artistic runnin'. Fol- lowln' this there ensued a wheezin, a gruntin', cloth-rippin' and war-eries, the like of which had never been experienced on Tarrapin since the 1njuns left the country. Folks Twin erlong the road to the e'try sposed 1t was a small har- rkin passin' and the niggers feein' per- suaded that the schedule time for the day of Jedgment had arriv, let in to prayin' at the top of their lungs. Parson Spencer's dog, Bulger. loped out in the road to scrutinize the comin' feenomenon and before he could get his thinkery to work some sort of a unknown Gias-Cutus run over him and knocked him galley west.
 It's haf mile from the graveyard to the crossroads store and old soldiers who went over the ground and measured the tracks next mornin opined that the distance between them jumps exceeded the most strenuous efforts of the wuss- skeered Melish endurn' of the war. 1t was their deliberate opinion that a rub ber-tired Kangaroo had made them im- pressions. In obtrudin' these revelations on you, son, I'm bound to remark that about every three minits Henberry would go up in the air and remain d short pe- riod, and when he'd again hit terry Army he'd strike 1t with his legs work ing like an electric churn, at the same time he favored the atmosphere with an operatlc variety of howls seldom heard off the Lyric stage section of barbed wire fence was permanently attached to the bust of Sprawls trowsers, and 1t rig and fell and circled and banged against stumps and rocks with the ultimate ef- feet of adding more emphasis to the gy rations of this here Henberry. Finally he fell exhausted and sorter fitihed on the verandy of the cross roads store and the nabers got around him with fans and liniment and hot bricks and things, and Dock Pearson worked a stummuck pump, and an Lectric battery in the region of the Epigastrium, until Henberry was re- duced to the condition of q rag at a pulp mill, but none of 'em could get Sprawls to tell what was the matter. Er little while after that he got religion, jined the church, and the last I hearn of him he was sorter studyin' for the ministry. "One of the unexpected results of this eepisode resulted in the wedding of Lige Hornby to Sallie Prultt. This here Lige boy had been making a feeble bluff of courtin' Sallie for over three year. but he was that bashful and green he was like kid just sheddin his milk teeth, and his mouth wouldn't go off to pro- pound the necessary connundrum. The gal helped him all she could, the old folks encouraged him, and the whole naybor- hood aided and abetted his courtin. but in spite of this aid Llge wasn't able to pop the interrogatory On the night of Mir Henberry Sprawls desarte perform ances these two young people were sitting on a log by the side of the road, and Lige had been trying for an hour to work n pop through his system, but it had been a dismal failure. When MT. Sprawls rounded the bend of the road Lige tux one glance at the fearful sight and think in 1t was the end of the world. or the devil. or Gabriel. he reached over and grabbed Sallie in his arms and yelled: Its the day of Jedgement, hug to me, Sal, and less die like menl' And she did.