Show the arkansas traveler k in the early settlement of arkansas a traveler after riding some eight or ten miles without meeting a human being or seeing a human habl tation came at length by a sudden turn of the th wood d road to a miserable ble bie shanty chanty the center of woo ito a small clearing in what had originally been a black jacket thicket whence the only sound that proceeds edi edl is the music of a broken winded fiddle from the bowels of which the occupant 13 laboriously extorting the monotonous tune known as agthe the arkansas or aacken sack traveler our traveler rides up a few feet of the door which was once the bed frame of a cart body now covered with bear skins and ami hung upon tipon two biz big wooden hickes biages after alter much shouting the inmate appears fiddle in hand and evidently at being interrupted in the exerile of his art the following colloquy en endres endues ues aes the indefatigable fiddler still playing the first strain of the arkansas traveler I 1 which it in fact he continue continues at sudden intervals ter fer vals vais ils kis als until the diio dialogue as will be lie seen 1 is brought to an unexpected conclusion con clusin n if this is not seeking lodgings lod iod ginga under difficulties 2 we should like to know what might be legitimately so considered travel traveler er frie friend n d can I 1 obtain accommodations for the night with you arkansas artist arlist no sir nary 9 travel traveler er pr 1 my dear sir I 1 have already trav aled thirty miles today to day and neither myself nor my horse has had a mouthful to eat uly why cant you accommodate me for lor tonight to night nigh W ark artist just cause it cant bedad we ave are plum out of everything to eat in the house bill has just gone to mill wih ih the last nubbin of corn on these premi premises ses and be nih nih rih onto the shank of tomorrow to morrow evenin afore he bums home unless sum ething uncommon happ bapp happens fis fig Trav You surely have bave something so methin g the that at I 1 can feed to my horse even a few potatoes would be better than no food 7 ark art stranger our ealin eala root roots gin out about a week ago so your chance is slim silk slim siim trav but dut friend I 1 foust remain with you any way I 1 cant go any further whether I 1 ob tain tan anything to eat or not you certainly will al allow ow me the shelter of your roof ark ar art it cant be did old cousee you see bee weve go only one dried hide on the pre premises mires and me and the old woman ailua allua occupy occupies es that so elars ulars chars your chance trav ballow allow me to hitch my horse to that persimmon tree and with my saddle and blanket ill make a bed in tile the fence corner ark art hitch your horse horsa to that simmon tre tree in a horn why you must trust he be a fatral fool stranger dont dona you see me and old woman sonly only chancelor chance for cimmon beer inthe in the i fall of he year if your hoss hosa is so hungry as you say he is hed girdle it as high up as I 1 lie he cot conid could reach afore morning hitch your boss to that thai tree I 1 peet sped not no no stranger you yon cant come nary ich dooge as that our traveler seeing that he be had an original to deal with and being ieiri lim eit liell an ar amateur performer upon the instrument to which the settler was wag so ardently attached thought he would change ids lih tactics and draw his big determined no not tole tto tobe to be bost host out a little lilal before lefore informing him of the fact that he could play the arkansas traveler which once being known he rightly conjectured lectured would be a passport pass port to his big better graces i trav well weil friends bierd it if I 1 cant stay how far is it to the next house ark art ten miles add aud think they are mighty long ones too afore you get 1 I elim cum nigh unto forgetting for gettin to tell you yon the big creek i is 8 up the bridge is carried theres nary yearth ly chance to ford it and if yer bound to cr crosb cross it yell yeii in have e to go 0 about epen seven even miles up the stream to old dave blodys puncheon bridge through one of the darr darn idest deat bamboo swamps ever you see I 1 reckon tha bridge dridge js Is andin et yet yesterday mornin though one bend had started down stream about fifteen fil teen feet a matter trav friend you seem communicative and I 1 if its HO iko of mince fince id like goow to know what you d do 0 for tor fora tora a ark art no offense offence on yearth stranger we just krep kaep keep a grocery trav where in the name of all that is mercantile do your customers come from your nearest neighbor lis ils 13 ten fen eh miles distant ark art abe the the fact is me and the ole woman is 18 the best customer yet but we that the thee these e diggin will improve too how ilow sever alever we do guthin now even me and the ole woman took look uhe the cart day days and went wept to town we bort a barl bari of and arterie arter we cum home and gin to count the balance on hand we but one solitary picayune left and as 49 the ole woman allus carries the russ fuss inco in course coarse urse urBe she had it well I 1 sot the barl agin one side of the room hind aind shortly arter the ole woman aez sup you tap your ebud of the barl and I 1 did and she he bort a drink and paid me m the picayune ric Tic ayune pretty soon I 1 begun to get dry and arid aez 1 I oie ole woman shozen you tap your end of he barl and she did and then she sells me a di dilak ink and the way that picayune travels traveis back backards backyards yards lards arid and for ards is a caution to them as loves redeye red eye but stranger losses is apt to come with every business and me and the ole woman harlost some in the grocery line and ill tell you yoa how etwas the boy bill our oldest see tee how the he lick j er was goin and ha he did ut have nary red to orinel jine in the retail business so one night he crawled under ier the house housel and taps the barl bari the cracks creeks in he the puncheon floor and I 1 rally raily believe hes got more aban than me roe or the tho ole woman ither the good for bothin vagabond to come the gaeff over his natural born parent parents its anuff to make a man roan sour agin all creation that boyll be the ruination of asyet ho he takes to trickery aist as a hungry ta tak tal st ra b ben hen 9 rk roost now what on yearth am I 1 to do bile rile beats me and me the ole woman entirely j u I 1 would be difficult for me to 0 o advise in regard to your son as I 1 have no family of ay my own you say it is ten miles to the next house the big creek Is up the bridge carried away no possibility of lording fording it and seven miles through a swamp p to the only bridge in in the he vicinity this is rathar a gloomy prospect prope ct particularly as the sun sums bums is just about down still my curiosity is 13 excited and as you have been playing only one part of the arkansas traveler ever since my arrival I 1 would like to know why you dont donl play it throb iyo aro ark art for one of the best reasons on yearth old hoss hsi I 1 cant do it I 1 faint larnt the turn of that and drat me if I 1 believe I 1 ever shall trav give gire me your instrument and ill see if it I 1 can ran play the turn for or you to 2 ark art look 0 1 here liere my iny friend do you play the ane turn to that tc huney hunel trav il 1 I believe I 1 can aik art lite lite me old hoss boss bosswell weil well well a ell eil find a place for fot you in the cabin sure ole woma woman i a hollia within the shanty was the alist indication the traveler had of any other being on the 1 ibes 8 es the th stranger plays the turn of the aacken sack traveler my f liend hitch your boss to the trimmon simmon tree or anywhere else vou you ou please billiel be here soon and hell take caire cadre ca re of him ole oie 01 woman you call sai sal and nance up from the wrin spring house boue and cut olt off a good large piece of bear be steak teak to brile for the strangers supper tell sal to knock over a chicken or two and get out some flour loins doirs and chicken chichen figins for the thili stranger bill just heaves in four hours earli barlit r than he was expected half an tin hour before J bill 0 bill theres a Ft stranger ranger herband here and lie he plays the turn of the traveler go to the he corn crib and get a big punkin and bring ann it to the house bousi so the stranger crin can have euthin to sit on arid and skin a later long with me and the ole woman while the gals is gettin supper P er and bill take the hos boss and give him plenty of corin corn no nubbins bubbins nub bins bill then rub him down welland then when you come to the house bring up a dried ade h de and a bearskin for the stranger ur to sleep a ep on and then B 11 hell play the turn of the traveller for us the punkin was brough brought tv the enters inters were akin ned and eaten the turn of the Rack enack traveler was repeatedly played to 0 o tho tha abundant edification and the gals finally announced that supper was reaal ready and although instead of store estore tea they had bad only tea dom without mak yet the repast was one to be long jong and gratefully remembered the traveler remained all night and was piloted safely over the big creek early the next morning of a truth music music juis has charms to soothe the savage breast |