Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-11


RSAA4 in thar | wanted to wait till after sup
8AYD3NS per- when could git out here whar we
I}A8N could talk better, to tell you why the
plEay TN hain't none. The start of it a mans
tgAGGS love for huckleberry pies. He was from
some 'eres up around Boston, and the first
Job he struck down here place as revenuer-
which place wasn't hard to git account o the danger
hooked up it. And if all Yankees love pies like he
did they shore love pies
He was young Teller about twenty three, tall and
strong and fine lookin with the twnkln est gray eyes
in the world and smile that stayed with him even
when he mad. He always did remind me of jest
great big boy. But he REILLY man, much of a man.
and in more ways n one; he would fight high-speed
log if he thought it right or he would git down
from his boss to help junebug often its back His
Charles Matthew Brad1ng; but he made us
call him Matt because he said it seemed like every boss
in the State answered to the name of Charley.
Not that I'm any too good he'd say. Il was a
hinkn of the hoSSeS.' And then he'd throw back his
head and jest kee-haw.
Granny Carter was a longtime wilder who lived in
little cabin down clost to the edge of the mountains
She had four grown and unmarried sons, who was as
much alike size and looks, the four fingers one
yore hands, and she had brought them thar four boys
Children At first she didn't have for Matt
Brading than mule has for side pocket. She didn't
skeer up hate for him account o him a bein a
she didn't like the stiln business, and hadn't
liked it. She jest didn't take Matt because she
thought he some sort o furriner.
- afore her little cabin and axed her for goodness
sake give him somethin to eat, tein her that he
was about to StaTve.
Shore she says, If you stand to eat sech as
I've got"
Now, han't it funny how woman likes to give
hungry man somethin' to eat? Matt he lit often that
thar boss and hitched fencepost and then olered
Granny Carter into the house, which clean
YOU please with all the old cracked dishes polished and
a shinn, and with a floor that you could dragged
white billed shirt without diryn it. She set him
down to table covered with red-fowered oilcloth,
and begun to bring things from the sprnghouse-nilk
and butter and things He told her go trou
BILE for sech trn beggar him; but she was hotfoot
fryin peppercured and acorn-fatted ham and
maxim some strong coffee, which she done
But Matt didn't pay much attention to the ham. He
set thar with them gray eyes o hsn twinklin at
pair huckleberry pies at the tother end o the table
And the old woman seen it.
do you eat pie trst!" she axes him. not shore
whether she understands jest how furriners eats.
Il don't gen rally, says Matt Bradng; "but them
thar pies looks much like home with their scaloped
edges and the little pnky places whar the juice has
soaked through If it's all the you, he tells her
right bashful, Il want to make dinner on one Q them
pies
So he got it. He told me afterwards that it
OF his own mother pies straight up and downand be
burned if he didn't mighty nigh lose that smile o hisn
for a whole minute, by gyar
OF course Granny Carter somethin' of a taker,
wunst she that Matt wasn't thing of horns and
split hoofs
Are you a indin any moonshners?" she him
he eats his pie.
"Im sorry to say that we haint- says Matt as hon.
est could be. They've give heap o trouble up
in Pine Gap too. Thes bunch up thar that we don't
seem to git q line They don't fight they jest
keep out o the way, and we cain 1t ind EN-.
Il hope you git EN-" says Granny Carter-and Matt
shore surprised 4 don't like the whisky business
she goes on, because it lot o trouble
Now, the gov ment little hard on the revenuers,
because they hadn't had no luck with takn' the law
breakers in Pine Gap Matt in charge, account
o the boss revenuer bein on the sick list He was
dom his best: but the gov didn't look nohin'
but results. Matt chanst to try different
at huntin the Pine Gap
mis- Carter says he, 1T hain't right to vi late the
law, and if you know whar any stills is its yore duty
to tell it, SOS it can be stopped