The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-03
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1916. at IL O'Clock. started for
the boat landing on the ecst bank
of Salt Greek. A. ! approached the
landing. I could hear some loud dis
cucsion through the darkness from
behind n clump OF bushes AZ the
landing. Rem mbering that a num-
Der OF foul murders had recently
been committed. and for obvious
reasons not fearing an attempt at
robbery in the least, | crcpt eau
tiously through the undorgrowth TO
discover what all this loud talk was
about and wEo was TO blame for
such unseerly conduct in wha. was
soon to be such public place. When
| drew nearer and could hear more
distinctly. discovered that the ar
gument / bad heard was between
Judge Spencer and w. ]. Hamilton.
w. i. was following the Judge car
nestly up and down short salty
sandbar. Spencer was anxious to
be off and was saying that II the
other fellows wanted to go on that
boat they had better come on for
he wasn't going to walt much longer.
When the judges voice subsidized,
i w. ]. Immediately began to insist
that he be given an opportunity to
make a speech. At this. Henry
Forbes. who was sitting on the edge
of the boat with his bare feet in the
salty water, broke out in a loud
laugh and said, "CutN loose. and ii
you kill anybody, I'll help Henry
Dearborn catch you"
BY this time | realized that was
in no danger, and as ] was raising
up to join the crowd. I heard heavy
| footsteps in the rear. In moment
Iup walked Billie Bratcher, Peter
Smith, Tom Blakey. Martin Miller,
Hardshell Jones and J. b. Hemp
HILL We all got together then on
the sand and talked for few min
utes, and it soon appearing that no
one else was going to join us dur
| ing the night. we decided to try to
sleep for a while.
When we were just beginning
Ito doze off for the first time.
Billie Bratcher raised up and said,
Boys, i still want you to call me
Uncle Billie.'" A low litter went
around among the boys at this, and
then we heard raspiag sound near
the edge of the brush which We
found was caused BY Hardshell
Jones lying flat on his back snoring.
In a little while, Bratcher, Hemphill,
Smith and Spencer, finding that on
account of advanced age, they could
not sleep with such a noise going
on, they got up and went to Hard
shell and turned him over. This
disturbed Hardshell and put him to
talking in his sleep. At first he
simply mumbled i'm foolish way.
II discovered an old bucket in the
rear of the boat that had been used
TO bail water when the boat wasn't
tight, and dipped up some water in
| 1t and went and put Hardshell's left
hand in it. His speech became in
telligible at once. He said. my
friends, entered this race to put
a little pepper into it, but put
too much pepper and too little plat
form in it, This ruined the bal
ance of the night for all present.
w. J. Hamilton asked Tom Blakey
what he had under his care and
keeping. Blakey's sleepy reply was,
Il have had thirty years experience
as a practical bookkeeper, single
and double entry; what more could
you ask of one of your worthy citi-
zens?" Peter Smith raised up on
his elbow, but just kept on saying
nothing. j. b. Hemphill raised up
and said to Martin Miller, Miller.
I believe the legislature is tainted"
and Miller answered, Eyes. judge,
faint yours and faint mine"
At daybreak Sunday morning We
enjoyed salt water plunge. Every
body seemed to he in good spirits
and time passed very pleasantly
with nothing happening except a
commissioner dropping in occasion
ally and telling how long he had
known that he had no chance to
win. Jim Callens came in through
a thicket from up the creek and re-
ported that he had found a very
peculiar track. and he was sure 1t
was made by the wild animal that
killed calves in Grove Greek, Red
Oak and Brushy earlier in the year.
All of us went to have a look at the
track. Some said it was bear
track. Henry Forbes thought it was
the track of a runaway negro. Si-