Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-10-16

ency and pitiful grovelings when he
plead abjectly for help both Divine
and human. In substance he said:
MY name is Jones-Simon K Jones.
and have a small place about Eve
miles out in the country on the old
Creek road. | live there with my wife
and little girl eight years old-Oh, in
the name Of God, men, help me-help
! me save henry daughteT-my dar-
ling-all right, III try and be calm,
boys, for know you will all do what
you can for me,
1T happened an hour ago-just about
but II seems year already. | was
coming across field and happened to
glance up at the sun to see what time
1t was and saw him--yes, | saw him
the Flying Man, for of course had
heard of him-I guess everybody In
the world has, He was up, way up,
mebby a thousand feet, and didn't
look very big and at first | thought
he was some funny kind of a hawk,
then | got better view and saw 1t
was man. There was no chance of
Its being a flying machine, for I've
seen them and they don't flop their
wings. l ran then-ran as fast as
l could, looking UP at him over my
shoulder. He saw me too, for he COM
menced to come down in great circles
like an eagle does when he is soaring
off a cliff into a canyon, and he was
getting in on me closer at every
swoop. But | had a good start and
beat him to the house by quite bit
and rushed in and locked the doors
then took down the gun-an old mus
ket that / always keep loaded with
birdshot. This was just about noon
time and my daughter was at school
half mile away. Well. everything
was still for while, kind of a
creepy still with nothing but few To-
Gusts singing, still, still-still as a
graveyard at high noon in midsummer
seemed as If had never known 1t
to be SO still, then / heard something
light on the roof and go pat, pat, soft
like, as If somebody was trotting
knew he was up there and looking
around. Then that sound stopped and
for while everything was quiet as
death again outside and | was stand.
ing against the wall where could see
both windows in front of me and with
my ears-well guess | never listened
SO hard before. l could even hear the
flies buzzing on the pane clear across
the room and hear my wife breathing
behind the closet door, Pretty soon
heard him try the kitchen door very
soft, but l had locked 1t and the next
heard OF him he was fooling around
out in the woodshed. That made me
get cold, for | thought he was after
the ak to smash In the door, but
after while he seemed to go out OF
there and for long time there wasn't
a sound don't know how long, il
seemed like an hour, but l guess II
was mebbY five minutes. Anyway !
got SO nervous that / couldn't stand
still any longer, so l pulled off my
boots and tiptoed out into the kitchen
peeked out of the windows, but
couldn't see anything, and after look.
ng and listening for while l crept
back soft as a cat into the parlor.
md my God, men! There he was
with that awful face pushed tight
against the window pane and those
treat June bug eyes of his looking
traight In at me. don't reckon ]
vas ever SO scarf before in my life
now wasn't. just lost control OF
myself, let out a yell and blazed away
t him. He ducked like a flash and
ont reckon | hit him; for l was too
cart to take aim. Next thing | re-
nember | was cooking my gun and
ouldn't remember whether | had
oaded it or not, so tried it with the
is an old-fashioned muzzle
oader. you know--and found that I
ad. Must have put In the shot first,
hough, for when tried to shoot It
ater only the cap snapped
We'll, kind of pulled Myself to-
ether and went sneaking around
gain sweating and trying to keep up
ny spunk by telling myself If ever
OF another shot at him he'd never 20
round bothering people again In this
ord Next | saw of him he was
bout hundred yards away over by
re stone pile and was lifting up a
ock that must have weighed seventy
We pounds While ! was wondering
hat he was up to he got 1t in his
rms and made hop or two and them
reat black wings shot out, and up
e went flap, flap. circlin' around and
citing straighter overhead every min
-e till he was SO straight up
,uldn't see him any more from tho
indow. Must have been a couple OF
inbred feet up when lost sight OF
m. Then Of sudden | got cold
! over again, for | knew what he
as up to now-knew 1t as well as il
} had told me. And wasn't mis-
ken neither, for about minute
ter came smash-bang and that
ok come through the kitchen roof
xe a thousand of brick and knocked
9 stove all to smithereens.