This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...double-barrel, Ben was arrested and sent to Walterboro jail and Harrison was summoned as a witness. Harrison was fond of a dram and looked forward to the approach of court week which would bring him a visit to the county seat with witness fees of 50 cents a day and mileage. Walterboro was 35 miles away, and five cents ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...double-barrel, Ben was arrested and sent to Walterboro jail and Harrison was summoned as a witness. Harrison was fond of a dram and looked forward to the approach of court week which would bring him a visit to the county seat with witness fees of 50 cents a day and mileage. Walterboro was 35 miles away, and five cents a mile both ways meant $3.50, which loomed large in the mind of the old hunter. On the Saturday night before the convening of court, he prepared a week's rations of cornbread, bacon and baked sweet potatoes, and early Sunday morning filled a great knapsack, and, with his long gun on his shoulder, walked all the way to the county seat. On the following day the pig thief was duly arraigned, the jury organized, and old Harrison, loaded to the muzzle with Walterboro whiskey, to which he had been treated by the youngsters who liked to hear him talk, came to the witness stand, a 20-pound knapsack of provisions around his shoulders and his long gun in his hand. His direct testimony was: "Sunday mornin' bin over t' Cap'n Elliott's, coz mostly Sunday mornin' ef uh goes by th' house Cap'n gennully gives me uh pow'ful drink, en' uh allus likes me dram. W'en uh got through me dram, uh was walkin' 'long by ol' Ben's house, en' uh heerd uh gun shoot. Uh meet some boys and went to th' house en' fin' th' shoat en' fin' number two duck shot een 'im. Uh fin' ol' Ben's gun in the corner, one barrel been fired, en' uh drawed th' load of t'other barrel en' fin' number two duck shot, same size ez een th' shoat. Then uh told Cap'n, he give me 'nother dram, we 'rested ol' Ben in th' pulpit where he was preachin' to a raft uh niggers, en' we send him to Walterboro." Then came the cross-examination. The young lawyer for the defense baited old Harrison to the ...
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