The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-06-14


mighty we'll They was a-grownup men, of course. And
was only chunk of boy, like. The hosstes as we
us fer plum week keepn uvverbody under kvver thar
en- the fort Well they got to settun Nv her avn fire at
last And then they make her hot"
What fort, Major"
"Why Fort Porter, hyur, of course They haint no
fort there no more. But they was a mddun good un
then, lemmy tell yuh.
for the lnjuns An some Nv um lowed at Lieutenant
Mahon wasn't no match for i'm. Mahon was a kinda
common lookun scrub Nv fellow as | receleck. Nuver
put his uniform avn, less offser was cumun Good
clothes makes blame sight dfurnce fur as peoples
pinions goes, tell yuh
well right in there where you thode that last minner
--mebby lttle farther out-the Gwin bows had thur
canoe chained fast to sycamore stump. Some a the
stump's there yt See ut when the worters low enough
ur YOU could few yurs ago.
list CANT keleck which night in the siege hit war
The wair up middlun bright SOS feer could see
good piece. Uvverbody was, squattin down en- the
bok houses Marry feer but the two Gwin bows dast
to moveapeerny. That is With the ickseptons # Ma
hon. He KEEP lumbe roun, fust place then another
ookun out thsaway thataway. Nobody give him
much credit fur ut then An he didn't to want no
moren they give him. nuther Look out thar Cap! You'll
spill that terbacker That's all I've got fur todayf
They'd been three-o-four fellows killed right plum en-
the fort that afternoon An they'd bin dozen more thes
grazed with bullets Uvvery feer at dast to stick his
head out I'D h-yur bullet comm kuh-zipl An by Grum
nobody could tell whur on the yearth they come thrum
nuher Most um lowed at they'd out to shootun thoo
the porchholes An lowed at hat-a ornery-oe In
jun witch, the Prophet had bewitched the bullets SOS
they'd go thess about anyways they wanted to- Sorto
knea like the kyruve ptchun that the baseball pitchers
do YOU know
1hurecEy, l nodust them two Gwin fellers pntun
with thur finger acroSt the river there where that big
beechtree stands Then they go to the lieutenant an
talks to him bit; and he comes nd gifts out his spgast
and coks an looks An thurreckly he draws back an
nCds to the two Gwin fellers
Then both um slid down the ladder like they'd bin
creased away they went. They wus big, tall, feers,
both Nv um The army sargent said they was the best
made men at he uvver seed en- his life So uvverbody
hin lack chi
seed the gate of the fort open eete ways and out
they goesbendn way over and steppn high an light
cat Thess then gifts my eye onto that air big beech
tree an tlame eff uvverbody else wawnt ookin and a
bugin thur eyes out at the very theng. ukn
all the tree thrum end to end and by Grum! all at
wunst, seed someun shine leetle, right in the main
fork An then someun black move roun the tree thess
like squirul hustlin roun to get away thrum some
fellow on tother side.
the gate An uvverbody hollers out looky! ooky! An
shore huff, seed the feer grabbin a-grabbin fur
the big limb at he'd been a-leaning agin. Then he
kinda stidde hissef second two; then be begun
wobblin a-wobblin till he couldn hold no
longer An then he lets go all holts and down he goes
eendovereend into the White river kuhspash! He must
ben the biggest nun the whole White river country
Blame e the worter didn't splash plum up to the top OF
than willer bushes h-yander.
Then you orter hearn the yow that them air nuns sot
crawdsh haint enawed thisn plum offun my hook"
And what became of the Gwin's Captan?'
'Well, sir, blame eff anybody could tell whut uvver
went with um Some lowed they was killed; and some
lowed they wawnt. So nobody nuvver seed um-nairry
one after they went outen the gate But theys
passel Gwnsez as live up hyur piecethess eette
ways offun the ole njun trail whure hit crosses njun
crck above h-yur an blame eff some han't thess
the dead image sir! Some lowed the tuck their
canoe an lit out arter kun the big njun in the beech
tree. They'd both said leetle too much They'd said
Mahond git um all burnt upan sich as that Some says
they was found killed and skulped by the lnuns. Some
says they sot down deserters An says one
theng and some says another Anyways, kin tell you
felers shore nu circumstances bout blame lot of peo
pie that's mighty well thought of days! Things ISL
difurnt now thrum what they was then."