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LIFE Oy THE MISSISSIPPI.

about his business. He had been to Tennessee to buy a drove ot hogs, but
when he got there pork was dearer than he calculated, and he declined pur*
chasing. We concluded he was a prize. Crenshaw winked at me ; I under-
stood his idea. Oren-
shaw had traveDed the
road before, but I never
had; we had travelled
several miles on the
mountain, when he
passed near a great
precipice: just before

I SHOT HIM THBOTOH THE HEAD.

w« passed it Orenshaw asked me for my whip, which had a pound of lead
in tbe batt; I handed it to him, and he rode up by the side of the South
Gsiolinian, aud gave mm a blow on the aide of the head and tumbled him
from his h-orse; we lit from our horses and fingered his pockets ; we got