Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1883 — Second Battle of Shiloh. [ARTICLE]

Second Battle of Shiloh.

For two days and nights a party ot ;hree of us from the North were quariei'e'd wjth a log-cabin farmer while we explored the battle-field of Shiloh. He ivas a good man, though rather shy at first, and h's wife'was an awful good woman, though she had her faults. Two of us slept in a room divided from the family bedroom only by a thin board partition, and on the second night, after we ought to have been sound asleep, the old woman suddenly began: T’-q “Now, Jabez Smith, you’n Til have a settlement!” +* “Why, mother, what is it ?” he asked. “What is it? Why, ever since them strangers showed up you’ve bin carrying a powerful high head! You claimed you were in this fight. ” “Y-e-s.” “Take it back! Take it back, Jabez Smith, or I’ll make a bald-head of 1 you!” liair, and he yelled out that he was a liar and wiis sorry for it. “And you’ve been taking pains to spe ik of your farm, and your team, and your this and that. Jabez, who owns this farm? Who bought them males? Out with it, or I’ll get the gouge on your eye!”

“I—l reckon you do!” he stammered. “You bet I do! I heard you telling how you lost eighty niggers by the war. Jabez, that was an infernal lie! Own it up, or PR shet yer breath off!” - 51—I own it, mother.” “And you was telling as how your father was a Judge in North Carolina. Jebez Smith, take it back?” “Well, wasn’t he?” “Never! He was nothing but a Tennessee! ’coon-hunter, and you know it! Oh! you need pounding!” He hadn’t any opinion to express on that point, and after an interval of silence she raised upon her elbow, and resumed: “Now, then, you hear me! I own that squat, and that mule team, and that cow and all else. I run the business. I run you. If I ever find you prancing around again like you have for she last two days, I’ll make dog’s meat of you ! Do you Jisten?” ■ He didn't say. “Oh, you don’t! Then take that! and that! and - At this juncture the bed broke down with an awful crash, followed by the howls of the dogs sleeping under it, and the groans and jaw words of man and wife, and he turned over and went to sleep with the conflict still raging.— M. QuacL——. .-. ■