White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-05-30

getting top prices. we we're told. TO
!; tobacco and winter lambs.
Inc man With Within W. 44e.u an APP
pointment at Leonardtown showed II
gracefully and without thought o
apology at dusk, three or four hour
Liter the hour named. lie sat with u
on the porch of the hotel there. A goot
many cars were in town now. and quit,
few people stood here and there il
small groups talking. with sort O
5eda-c liveliness. Now and then a ca,
would start its engine or you woule
hear somebody laugh But it was TO,
the most part as quiet as way out il
he country there in I.eonardtown
- n everybody doing just what WE
were doing; just taking it easy. listen
| ing to the crickets, and watching nigh;
come on.
A straight old gentleman in a
straight gray suit, black string tie
and gray billycock hat came walking
down the sidewalk on our side of the
square. Long face. high nose, the regu-
| lation white chinwhiskers; the tradi-
tional Southern Colonel, to the life.
Everybody paid him difference, and he
stopped often to talk. When not walk
ing, he leaned heavily on walking
stick. AS he came nearer, our friend
went over to him and, calling us over,
presented us. "Ah want you gentlemen
to know Col. Richard Mattingly Swami
OF Tudah Hall. He fought on the bor-
dab with Buffalo Bill. Set down Col
onel. Take youah weight off youah
feet
The Colonel sat. He was tired and not
inclined to be garrulous. He famed
himself with his hat and asked soft
questions as to crops, the weather and
the political sentiments prevailing in
] the counties through which we had
/ passed. Nudged into 1t, my travelling
companion turned the conversation to
warfare, relating a few grim ones as
to hell in the Argonne. The Colonel
liked it, He wanted more. It was so
late that we could scarcely see one
another, when he started in talking
OF his own accord. His voice came to
us out OF the darkness gently, absent-
mindedly, with peculiar resonant,
swinging undertone not to be heard
so Tar as know, in any other part of
the South
Il was just yeah Or so too young
to fight in the Civil War. A mighty
bad war for this country, tore it wide
open, kin against kim The young men
who got head staht went South to
fight. Then the draft came through
for Union soldiers.
And the government ran Union
gunboat right up to that pier there
an took about every slave in the coun-
try south, down to Norfolk remeln-
bah that day. Most of the darlies were
cryin' but one old uncle KEEP yellin'
Praise Gawd Aim goin' south. Desc
yeah Northern overseahs, dey's too
free wild the whip!
1T wasn't until 1 was twenty that
l got away from home at all: and
that was the only time was evan
away from this country for any time.
Ia gone up to Washington of
~. was twenty years old. was lust
wandering aroun up theah in the city
when came on to band playin', and
a lot OF people standin' around, and
man in a buckskin suit was maxim,
speech"
They were recruiting troop of
scouts for service with Buffalo Bill on
the border. The Colonel joined up as
buck private, SIS month. for two
years service. II wasn't but twenty.
An what does a young man of twenty
want on fahm?
Mexico was foreign. country to
me an was young. We had plenty
OF sport. We caught lot noah wild
NOSES than we did Mexicans an had
a grand time tryin' to break them. The
war we went down theah foah soht
OF died out on us, an we neyah did
new any discipline to speak of, but we
had plenty of fghtin' among ourselves.
"Theah was some tough customahs.
LII tell you, in ouah three troops of
scouts, an a good bit of tradin' with
The enemy: Two bits an Jug undah
bush between lines, an when YOU
came back the two bits would be gone!
Things don't change so much They tell
me theahs men in this country right
now who get noah corn out of a patch
d woods than they do out of theah
fields!
Buffalo Bill? He was half Indian.
He could give man mighty mean
ook. -. His forehead receded in
peculiar manner-youll see it in good
many 1ndians-an' the back of his
head fell off like the side of house.
hand man, hot-tempahed. {,
He'd stand up theah an give an I,
'rdah an then follow it right into the t
anks, his fisSs a-f1ailin'. We buck pri- ,
'ates'd generally decide to do things {