Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-01-30

} defile to the level ground that lay
along the margin of the Broad river
The greater part of the day had been
spent in threading the mazes Of a
series of sharp and abrupt hills COW
cred with the native forest, or winding
through narrow valleys, amongst tam
gled thickets of briers and copsewood
by path scarce wide enough to permit
the passage Of a single horse. They
had now emerged from the wilderness
upon a public highway, which extend
ed across the strip Of lowland that
skirted the river. The proximity of
the river itself was indicated by the
nature of the ground, that here retain
ed vestiges of occasional inundations,
as also by the rank character Of the
vegetation. The road led through a
swamp, which was rendered passable
by a causey of timber, and was shaded
on either side by mass Of shrubbery,
composed of laurel, magnolia, and
such other plants as delight in a moist
soil, over whose forms a tissue Of
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profusion as to form fastness or i'm
pregnable retreat for all kinds of nox-
ious animals. Above this wilderness,
here and there, might be seen in the
depths of the morass, the robust cy-
press or the lurid pine high enough
for the mast of the largest ship, the
ash, and gum and towering above all,
the majestic poplar, with its branch
less trunk bound up in the embraces
of huge serpent-like grapevine.
| AS soon as Butler found himself ex-
tricated from the difficult path that
| had so much embrassed his journey
and once more introduced upon a road
that allowed him to ride abreast with
his companion, he could not help con-
graduating himself upon the change.
well here at last, Galbraith," he
said, "is an end to this bride path, as
you call it. Thank heaven for it! The
settlement Of the account between this
and the plain road would not leave
much in our favor; on one side, I
should have to set down my being
twice unhorsed in riding up perpendic-
ular hills: one plunge up to the belly
in the mud of a swamp; a dozen times
in danger of strangling from grape
vines, and how often torn by briers, l
leave you to reckon up by looking at
my clothes. And all this is to be cast
up against the chance of meeting a
few rascally Tories. Faith! upon the
whole, 1t would have been as cheap to
fight"
whilst, major you are a young
man. and don't study things as do.
You never catch me without reason on
my side. AS to standing upon the
trifle of a man or two odds in the way
of a fight, when there was need Of
scratching, l wouldn't be so onaccom-
modating as to ak you to do that. But
had some generalship in view, which
can make appear. This road, which
we have just got into comes up
through Winnsborough, which is one Of
the randyvoos of the Tories; now
| thought if we outflanked them by
coming through the hills, we mought
keep our heads out Of hornets nest.
The best way. Major Butler, to get
along through this world Is not to be
quarrelsome; that's my principle"
Truly, it comes we'll from you, SER
geant. who within two days past have
been in danger of getting your crown
cracked at least six times! Were you
not yesterday going to beat man only
for asking a harmless question? A
rough fellow to boot, Horse Shoe, who
might, from appearance, have turned
out a troublesome customer"
"Ho. no, no, major! Do you know
who that character was? That was
mad Archy Gibbs. from the Broken
Bridge. one of the craziest devils af-
ter a fracaw on the Catawba; a tear
ing Tory likewise"
And was that an argument for
wishing to fight him."
why. you see, major, I've got a
principle on that subject. It's an OBJ
servation I have made, that when
ever you come across one Of these
rampagious fellows, that's always for
breeding disturbances, the best way is
to be as fractions as themselves. You
have hearn of the way of putting out
a house on fire by blowing it up with
gunpowder?"
"A pretty effectual method, SER
geant."
Dog won't eat dog" continued
Horse Shoe. "Ho. no, l know these
characters; so / always bullies them.
When we stopped yesterday at the sur
veyor's, on Blair's Range, to get lit
tie something to eat, and that bevy of
Tories came riding up with mad Archy
at their head, a thought struck me
that the fellows mought be dogging us.
and that sot me to thinking what an
swer 1 should make consuming you if
they were to question me. So, ecod, !
made a parson of you, ha. ha, ha!
Sure enough, they began as soon as
they sot down in the porch. to axing
me about my business, and then about
) yourn / told them, correspondent and
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terian minister, and that had under
took to show you the way to Chester,
} where you was going to hold forth
And, thereupon. mad Archy out with
! one of his tremengious oaths, and
swore he would have a sarmint from
YOU, for the good of his blackguards
before they broke up"
Mad Archy and his blackguards
: would have profited no doubt, by my
spiritual lessons"
Rather than let him have anything
to say to you," proceeded Robinson
"for you want prepared, seeing that
you didn't hear what was going on
though l spoke loud enough, on pur-
pose, major for you to hear US through
the window: l up and told Archy, says
: /, / am a peaceable man, but I'll be
id if any minister of the gospel shall
be insulted whilst l have the care OF
5 him; and. Furthermore, says 1, didn'1
come here to interrupt no man; but II
yOu Archy Gibbs, or any one or your