The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-06-16

office, so he told Postmaster Higgins Z
mark It Refused" and send 1t back q
the editor and started to walk 2acH
home shortly after dark. Now the nearss
| way from Bipgville to where Enoch lives
| is crost the fields and so Enoch returned
| that way. 1t was about 8 o'clock when
he come outen the edge Of the woods not
| far from his house, and suddenly he
stopped in his tracks and his blood most
froze In his veins for there standing not
fifty feet from him was one of the most
feeroshious looking pirates Enoch had ever
| saw. Enoch said he had gun aimed
at his (Enoch's) heart, but meyer said a
word. But Enoch knowed which side of
his bread was buttered, so he held his
hand as high up into the air as he could
reach and stood still expecting to be shot
on the spur of the moment, every second
as you might say.
Enoch says he never wants to live
over the agony he suffered In them few
minutes, standing there facing death in
the most horrible form. His arms ached
i'm so that he couldn't scarcely keep them
up. but he was afeard to let them down.
The pirate Jest stood there as silent as a
ghost, but never said word--after lit
tie while Enoch got SO weak IN the knees
that he swooned and sunk right down in
a heap and become unconscious. When he
come to the pirate hadn't moved and
Enoch inch by inch crawled behind the
cover of a big white oak and then from
there little further into the wood
until he was out of sight, then he run
home by a round about way arriving all
outen breth and his tongue as dry as q
bone.
Soon as he got his breth he loadened up
his old shotgun with buckshot and walked
UP Brad Hinsley, who Is his nearest neigh
Dor. and him and Brad walked to Bing-
vile and got Seth Dewberry, our lion
hearted town constubble, and they was
Joined by several other Of our most re-
specified citizens until there was quite a
possy of them, all armed to the teeth. and
led by Seth they all started for the spot
where Enoch had saw the man.
When they arrived and crawled up to
where Enoch had saw him, there he
stood in the dim moonlight jest the same
as ever. Cy Hoskins told Seth to walk
right up to him and put him under Arrest
in the name of the law, but Seth said he
didn't think that would be good plan
Seth said If he should walk out there to
where the Teller stood and the feller
should see that big tin star which Seth
wears on his coat as constable, the Teller
would run and excape from custody Seth
said he would deppytize Cy and Cy
could go out and speak to him, but Cy
remembered that he had told his wife
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back by 10 o'clock If he come back alive
at all. and he would haft to start right
Off which he done.
Finally Seth he mustered up enough
courage to creep up closer with his pistol
cooked In one hand until he was behind
a tree about % feet from the pirate then
Seth peelSed around the tree and said in
a loud voice, 81 Arrest you In the name
of the law!" There was no answer and
Seth repeated 1t louder. Just then there
was gust of wind blowed' acrost the
field and the pirate seemed to wave his
arms. THAT gosh-blamed thing acts like
a skeer crow" says Seth. Then 1t all
come back to Enoch that It was the
skeer crow he had fixed up and he ex-
planned to the crowd that he had forgot
all about it and they all returned to
Bingville in deep disgust and went to
bed and Enoch went homo.
The general opinion is that If the skeer
crow works as well with the crows as 1t
this time without molestashion.
p. S.-LATER-Enoch was In BingvilIe
again yesterday. When we asked him
how his skeer crow was workin the lang
wige he used was pitiful to hear COM
ing from a member OF the Binsville
church like Enoch is. Enoch saws his
corn is all pulled up again and that the
last time he seen the skeer crow there
was five crows perched on it. Enoch has
give up raising any corn in that patch
this year as it is too late In the season
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