Major Jones' Scenes in Georgia; Containing the Whole of His Chronicles of Pineville, Its Incidents and Characters

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1858. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... A CASE OF SUPPOSITION. The subjoined petit morceau originally appeared in the New Orleans Picayune. A Texan returning home after the battle of Buena Vista, having separated from his companions, had his horse stolen by the Indians, and was obliged to take it on foot . Walking along leisurely one Sunday morning, with his rifle on his shoulder, looking out for game to make a breakfast upon, without knowing what day of the week it was, he suddenly came to a small stream on the confines of Texas, not knowing that he had as yet reached the border of his native state. Perceiving that the stream abounded in fish, he took a hook and line from his pocket, and, procuring some worms for bait, sat down patiently on the bank, wrapped in a brown study, thinking of his little farm at home, when a preacher who was on a circuit rode suddenly up and thus accosted him: Hallo, stranger! what are you doing there? Fishing for my breakfast, replied the imperturbable Texan, without deigning to look around at his interrogator. Well, do you know you are violating the Sabbath? said the preacher, in a drawling, psalm-singing tone. No, said the Texan, turning around and looking up at the preacher for the first time with an air of surprise, which the preacher took for consternation, I must be somewhar near the white settlements, then? Yes, you are, replied the preacher, and violating N (102) the Lord's day, for which you will have to answer hereafter, on the great day of judgment. The Texan looked up with a supplicating air, and the preacher thinking his penitent mood a good time to make him a convert, continued: Do you know, my young friend, that you are sitting on the verge of the broad stream of iniquity, and without you leave here and turn into the home paths of virtue, tha...