Back Home: Being the Narrative of Judge Priest and His People

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Cobb Irvin Shrewsbury. Back Home: Being the Narrative of Judge Priest and His People

PREFACE

I. WORDS AND MUSIC

II. THE COUNTY TROT

III. FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD

IV. A JUDGMENT COME TO DANIEL

V. UP CLAY STREET

VI. WHEN THE FIGHTING WAS GOOD

VII. STRATAGEM AND SPOILS

VIII. THE MOB FROM MASSAC

IX. A DOGGED UNDER DOG

X. BLACK AND WHITE

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WHEN Breck Tandy killed a man he made a number of mistakes. In the first place, he killed the most popular man in Forked Deer County – the county clerk, a man named Abner J. Rankin. In the second place, he killed him with no witnesses present, so that it stood his word – and he a newcomer and a stranger – against the mute, eloquent accusation of a riddled dead man. And in the third place, he sent north of the Ohio River for a lawyer to defend him.

On the first Monday in June – Court Monday – the town filled up early. Before the field larks were out of the grass the farmers were tying their teams to the gnawed hitch-racks along the square. By nine o’clock the swapping ring below the wagonyard was swimming in red dust and clamorous with the chaffer of the horse-traders. In front of a vacant store the Ladies’ Aid Society of Zion Baptist Church had a canvas sign out, announcing that an elegant dinner would be served for twenty-five cents from twelve to one, also ice cream and cake all day for fifteen cents.

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“For the past sixteen years.”

“When were you admitted to the bar?”

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