Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1913 — KNEW EVERYTHING WAS SAFE [ARTICLE]

KNEW EVERYTHING WAS SAFE

(Tennessee Mountaineer Understood the Joke and Enlarged It With His Own Humor. . Tom Jernlgan, my driver, had been explaining to me how the eastern Tennessee mountaineers hated revenue officers who were on the lookout for lpopnshlne stills, and gave some local ■color to his story by pointing out places where at least two had been

, j shot Tom knew that I was what I pretended to be, a mining engineer looking for coal outcrop. But we came upon a ’’covite,” who eyed me and my dog, which ran by the buggyf with a suspicious stare. “You-all aimin’ to git some birds?” he asked. "There's a flock of pa't’ldges in the bottom over yon. But you-all is goln’ the wrong way. w "Nope,” answered Jernlgan solemnly. “This man’s a revenue officer. That dog’s a new dog, he is—a whisky dog. When we come to a creek that

dog smells it, and if there’s a still far as five miles up, he’ll p’int” The mountaineer understood. But ha showed by no twinkle of his eye that the humor had lodged in him. "That’s right interestin’,” he commented. “But 1 was Jest musin’ whether he was an applejack p’inter or a sour-mash setter. Wilt you gentlemen buy as much as a quart?”