Show tho sow was all right night thera are some sections ina in ar r kalsaw which like some sections of kentucky are far removed from the active enforcement of revenue law lawe the laws of the Sta state teare arc respected spec ted and even that part of the national statute which does not prescribe restraint on the eccentricities tri cities cs of pers personal oual liberty nor m make ke suggestions concerning tho the occupation a man shall follow is regarded by the natives as not all right but as 83 something sorter do tho the natives of these sections aap bious regard distilling as the common right of all men and the law which forbids it is simply an all enactment intended to oppress the people consequently consequently illicit distillers lers ar arc a sheltered by y people who take no active part nor receive no 10 revenue from this unlawful man manufacture au A revenue officer is regarded as an enemy of the people and any one who can call succeed in misleading him and throwing him off the track is ever commemorated in the annals of neighborhood tradition as a man of great intelligence and worthy of emulation several days lays ago ago a party of bf revenue men stopped at the rudo rude house of a 61 squatter railroads and other civi civilizing klizing influences had from time to ti time rue driven the squatter before them until he be had bad at last built bis his home iu in the mountains where he lie lived in defiance of progress 1 when the men stopped he ile saw at a glance who they were and when they called to him ho be limped out to the fence limped for the tile squatter like the old negro al waya ways ha bai an active enjoyment with rheumatism or a memory of it that seriously interferes with his locomotion 1111 how DIV do you do sir said tb the e commander of the squad wo we were told that if we came hero here you could give us some information concerning the lands of tins this igei neighborhood abor as we wish to pure purchase lase a tract at assuming suming the guise of immigrants migrants td with a view to misleading 0 tho the old fellow 6 putty well uell thank yer wont yer light an hitch no nit 0 we are in something of a hurry what is good land laud worth 1 I dellilo dun dul no lilo dont you live here yes sorter and dont you know the price of good land laud no singular 4 it mout be ter some folks but it aint ter me inc say that jim tu aning to hia his son con drive the tile sow the house fur lie mout turn over the sugar iron on spill the V young un how is it yeu you dont know the price of land 1 I do mayou why you eaid said that you 1 I said I 1 know tho the price 0 goo good lan ian an I 1 dont case aint no good food lan ian in this here community muni 1 I understand now well what dees average land bring brings about an average price what would you call an average price what mint would you call an all aver ago inn ian wall I 1 hardly know do you know a man in this neighborhood named bob blakemore ap 11 Is he lie the son 0 ole man blake more ore yes I 1 think eo so Is he got it sort 0 moon eye on OU one side an a sort 0 rainy eye on oil tuther the man I 1 believe sorter walks like he be kere whar ho lie was gwine do ho lie yea from what I 1 know of him he lia does sorter whines when he lie talks like he was longin fur euthin ho lie aint got hes the mani havo have no d doubt wars a par 0 shoes what was mado made by josh Sim mong with one ono heel beel way an tuther way making signs with hia his hands the individual where can I 1 find him well ef yer know him as well as I 1 do you orter know whar to find him when did you seo see him last dont ri colleck the last timo time aa as well as I 1 do tho the fust tho the first time I 1 seed him wo we fit UP ile flung me and I 1 flun flung t him H he e draped blood and I 1 fra ived blood then we fit until his wife she come and anti therley then I 1 afu coffia come then wo we all fit arter a while wo we got mi mixed K d up and my wife she fit my me and h his Is wife she fit him bin an well we dont caro care finy anything tIling about that id like to know where we can find him as we can doubtless strike a trade yas but lemme tell yer say jim did yer drive out the sow y yas as pap pal did he dipill spill tho the young u un n P IN no 0 pap 96 Walt wall again gain turning to the men inen 1 I want ter tell yer bout bob my aly wife ashes gone ter one 0 the tile neighbors an I 1 ait dut pushed push ed fu fur r time airier wod wed fit aap an fit in my wife she gave mo me a powerful lie lick over the eye we dont care for that ya yo wall I 1 was gwine ter tell yer what give bob that rainy d day ay eye bobs wife she snatched up a wet cob an gi give e him a lick on the eye never by I 1 a wet cob was yer wust tiling ming in the world bejer seed a hit with one by ole darb sevier once know darb I 1 wall it makes no difference fur look here my friend dont keowns know as im yer friend but im cr er bodgin we want ter nud flud bob blake more ill tell yer how ter find him ef what yer want bee that batho hog path yes ap pp wall ivall take thai that path till yer come ter the deer lick bobs a mighty hunter an yer air mighty 0 likely ter find him suppose Suppo izo he lie in there then I 1 ken tell yer whar ho he is where summers else say jim jimy is t the bc sow jonm 11 ril billit lit asi y pill look Diu loukin kin ti alir alin rsm we want avant to t pi go mio the house Sar tinly tile in and the party di d nud ald ni liUi vied cd after looking ar und wid no nothing tb ing but a bed a kruk kettle it lur trough C cradle radle and a baby they went away after they had been gono gone a while awhile a blanket in one corner of tho the room moved and bob blak embres head lead appeared all tho the time the old squatter qu atter had been engaging the revenue men in conversation blakemore Blake who knew that flight would bo be useless was di digging a hole in the dirt floor and when hen he be had lind crouched down and covered himself with the blanket the boy jim discovered that tho the sow ww wag was all right 0 1 |