THE ROANOKE NEWS, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12, 1801.
Bill finny s Arrest.
Bill Kinny.of Dry Fork, killed a prom
inent man of the community, ami the
authorities, after some little meditation,
decided that he ouht to be arrested.
But Bill objected, and when three depu
ty sheriffs called on him he laid a Win'
cheater rifle across one corner of his
homestead, killed one of the deputies and
80 painfully wounded the other two that
they strolled back to the Shady Grove
Court House. Several days later, while
Bill was sitting iu frout of his door, Mark
Townsend, the Sheriff in chief, walked
up to the fence and lazily placed his arms
on the top rail. Bill reached back and
took up his rifle.
'Good mornin', Bill."
"Hi, Mark."
'Had a good bit of frost last niht."
"Yas, ruther. Which way you trav
elling Mark?"
"Oh, no way in particular. 'Lowed
you mout be lonesome, an' I thought
I'd drap and talk with you awhile. Don't
make no difference how lively a feller is
he's apt to pit lonesome once in a while
specially this time of the year."
"I reckon that's true," Bill replied.
"Some fellers come out here the other
day, and one of them got so lonesome
that he jest natahfully had to lay down."
"So I beam," said the sheriff. By
the way," he added, "them fellers that
you speak about wanted you to go Shady
Grove with theni, didn't they?"
"Yas, they lowed that a jedge down
thar wanted to make my acquaintance."
"You don't say so," exclaimed the
sheriff. "W'y thejedge isa mighty big man
an' I think you'd like to meet him, Bill."
"I would, but you see I ain't in society
this yaar."
"Sorter retired, air you?"
"Yes, thought I was agettin' a leetle
too old fur the bright foolishness an'
yaller trimmins' of this here Vife"
"Yes, that mout be," the Sheriff re
plied. "A feller does withdraw mightily
as he gets along in age; but say, thejedge
is a friend of mine an' I want t you to
meet him."
"No, I'm obleeged to you. I never
hankered after these here fellers that
pride themselves on their book larnin'."
"I don't exactly crave them," the
sheriff rejoined, "walLping" his tobacco
about in his mouth, "but ttill I think we
ought to meet them once in a while.
But say, Bill, there's a man down at
Shady Grove that I do want you to meet."
"Who is he?"
"Sam Powers."
"He's the jailer, ain't he?"
"Yes, an' the best one you ever seen."
"So they say," Bill replied, fondling
his rifle. "In fact, them fellers that was
here the other day wanted me to meet
him "
"So I learn," said the Sheriff, but I
lowed that uiebby they didn't extend the
invertatiun in a soft and gentle enough
way.
"Oh, I didn't have no fault to find
with the invertatioo. I jest didn't
wanter go, an' sorter pulled back a little
an' then one of them laid down an' the
Other two limped might'ly."
"So I hearn," said the sheriff. "Still
I thought there mout be a easier an
smoother way of putting the invertation.
Gentleness always pays. You can some
times lead a man with a string of bead
when you couldn't drive him with a hoop
pole. You recollee old Wash Bowles,
that was once the sherin ol this county,
don't you?"
"Mighty well."
"Ah, hahl Well, that old feller had
more gentleness and consideration for the
fallings of other folks than any man
ever seen. One time be had to hang
feller named Brice, an' Brice sorter kick
ed against it, bein' a feller that was hard
to please, anyhow, so Wash, in that soft
way of his'n, stepped up to put on the
rope an' says: 'Brice, you'll please excuse
me, but I'll not detain you but a moment.'
So I thought that if I'd come here to day
with strong consideration an' smooth
gCHtiODOoS yOU iuoiit accept the
invertation to come an' spend
jailer
awhile
with him."
"No, I'm obleeged to you. I don't
care about goin' to day. I've got to gj
over the ridge an' whip a feller to-morrer
an' if I don't do it I'm afeered he mout
he disappointed. Well, now, Mark," he
added, "ef you aim got no further bus
iness with me I reckon you'd better be
shovin' along."
"But I have got some further business
with you, Bill. I want you to go with
me an' see the jailer"
"Wall, I aint goin':"
"I 'lowed you would. Bill.
"Take yo' arms offen that fence or
I'll drop you right whar you stand."
"So I hearn," said the sheriff. "Say, I
come over to take you to jail.',
"You don't say so."
"Yas, an' want you to go with me."
"How many men did you bring with
you."
"None at all; but you air a-goin'."
"JHebbe: atter all these here cartridges
is shot off."
"Now I thought you would go with
me without having to waste ny of the
cartridges. You know the price of
bross an' powder have riz might'ly of
late."
"Oh, now here, Mark, I don't care
nothin' fur expenses. I don't mind
shootin' a few balls into a feller that
wants to put me iu jail and afterwards
hang me."
"I am glad you ain't stingy, Bill.
Some of the boys at the store said that
you was mighty economical, but I am
glad to see that you ain't. It hurts a
man might'ly you know, to have it no
rated around that he is close."
"I know that, Mark, and I'm alius
tryin' hard to keep that charge from bein'
flung agin my reputation."
"I'm pleased to know that you tbink
so much of yourself, but say, I told the
boys over at Shady Grove that you
would come back with me, an' I wish
you would."
"I'd like to accommodate you, Mark,
but I don't feel like strollin' to-day."
"Sorry to hear that, for I told the
boys that I'd have you in jail by 12
o'clock to day."
"I wish you hadn't told them, Mark,
an' you oughtener done it, fur you didn't
know how busy 1 mout be."
"Yas, mebbc I done wrong," said the
Sheriff, ''but I didn't know after all that
you couldn't fling aside your business an'
come along with me. The boys air all
axpectin' you."
"Yas, the boys up the river expected
Gineral Jackson once but he did not
come."
"So I hearn," said the Sheriff, "an'
you air not coming with me?"
"That's what I ain't."
"I'll bet you $15, Bill, that you do."
"I'll take that bet, but in the mean
time if you don't take yo' arms offen that
fence I'll drop you right in yo' tracks."
"That's the way I like to hear a man
talk, Bill. Say, last night the jailer and
his two sons went 'possum huntin'.
They called the dogs and they have got
some of the finest hounds you ever saw
and here they came with brightness in
their eyes an' deep music in their voices.
You ought to have heard them go 'ounk
ounk.' Well, they went out, an' about
mid-night they came back with two of
the biggest and fattest 'possums you ever
saw. Well, they dressed them right
thar an' then, an' put them out on the
house so the frost could fall on them, an'
began to bake them along with some
sweef potatoes. Then the jailer's son
he says, says he, 'Pop, we ain't got no
regular wildcat licker to go with these
here 'possums, so the man, bavin' a
mighty eye for art, gave a jug to the
young feller an' told him to go up in the
mountains. The young feller went but
he couldn't find no licker, an' at last he
seen a ole feller drivin' a wagio' an' when
he asked the ole feller if he could git any
licker he swore that he didn't know
nothin' about it; 'but,' says he, "if you
will take that jug on the hill.-ide and put
a dollar under it I don't know what mout
happen, but when you come back Idou't
believe the dollar will be there.' Wall,
he went up on the mountain side and put
a dullar under a jug aud weut away, but
bless your life when he came back the
duiiar was iroiie but the juj was gone
but the jug was tilled wiih the best lick
er that has passed its teens. And so, at
dinnei to-day they are goin' to have them
possums und sweet potatoes and that ole
licker that's got a bead ou it like a dew
drop; and say, that jailer says that you
may enjoy the feast."
' L ok hete, Mark, you ain't tryin' to
trifle with my feelin's air yon?"
"No; I'm tellin' the Lord's truth; an'
say; that aint all. The Perdue boys
caught a big bear down in the bottoms
and after dinner they air goin' to set the
dogs on him in the jail yard right in full
view of yo' cell. Think of that."
"Look here, Mark, I am . about con
verted an' I'll go with you if you'll let
me take my rifle along."
"No, can't do that, Bill, an' besides,
I'll have to handcuff you. , possum, sweet
potatoes, licker with a bead on it like a
dew drop an' a bear fight in full view of
yo' cell."
"Mark," said Bill as he put down his
rifle, "fetch on yo' handcuffs. Blamed
if I ain't with you. Opie P. Read.
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