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The Legend of Crockett's Hollow
When Jasper tipton married Talithie Burwell and settled on Tipton's fork in Crockett's Hollow, folk said no one could ask for a better start. The Tiptons had given their house seat, a bedstead and table. Jasper had a team of mules he had swapped for yoke of oxen, and he had a cookstive that he had bought with his own saving. A step stove it was two caps below and two higher up. The Burwells had seen to it that their daughter did not go empty-handed to her man. She had a flock tick, quilts, coverlids and a cow. But old
Granny Withers, a midwife from Caney Creek, sitting in the chimney corner sucking on her pipe the night of the wedding, vowed that all would not be well with the pair. Hadn't a bat flitted into the room right over Talithie's when the elder was speaking the words that jointed the two in wedlock? Everyone knew the sign. Everyone knew too that Talithie Burwell, with her golden hair and blue eyes, had broken up the match brtween Jasper and Widow Ashby's Sabrina. Yet Talithie and Jasper vowed that all was fair in love and war. If a man's heart turned cold toward a maid, it was not of his fault. There was nothing to be done about it. You can't change a man's way with woman, they said. It's write in the book.
"And soon as Jasper had cast her off. Widow Ashby's Sabrina took to her bed and there she meant to stay. So she said the rest of her life. Or, until she got a sign that would give her heart ease. Sabrina Ashby didn't mince her words either. I don't care what the sign may be. She said it right out, before Granny Withers. That toothless creature crackled replied, I'm satisfied you're knocking center.
"Indeed, Sabrina was telling the truth. She meant every word of it. The jilted girl did not go to the wedding. She didn't need to, as far as that was concerned, for old Granny Withers came hobbling over the mountain fast as her crooked legs would carry her, and it in the dead of winter, mined you, to tell Widow Ashby,s Sabrina all that had happened. How lovely fair the bride looked beside her hansome bridegroom! Eh Law, they were a doughty couple, Jasper an Talithie. Granny Withers mouthed the word. She lifted a bony finger, Yet, mark my word, ill luck awaiting the tow. When the bat flew into the house and dipped low over the fair bride's head, she tremble like she had the aggers.
The bat flew over her head? Sabrina asked, her eyes a glistening, Abat-it's blind! the jilted girl scholed gleefully,. Ther's a sign for you. Mistress Jasper Tipton, to conjure with! She let out a screech and then a weird laugh that echoed through Crocketts's Hollow. She cast off the covedlid and in a bound was in the middle of the floor, though she had lain long weeks pinning away. She clapped her hands high over her head like she was shouting in the meeting house, and laughed again and again.
"Granny Withers though the girl was bewitched. So did Widow Ashby and when the two tired to put a clabber poultice on her head and sop her wrists with it, the jilted Sabrina cast them aside with pure main strenght. That was the night of the wedding.
" Days went by. Jasper and Talithie were happy and content, while old Granny Withers in her dilapidated hut up the cove, watched and carried talesem to Sibrina. The old midwife told of how she has seen the two with arms about each other sitting in the dooeway in the evening many a time when their work was done, and of how she had happened upond thwem by chace in loving embrace under the big treeat the end of the corn patch.
When the foresaken Sabrina heard such things she vburned with envery & jealousy. She tried to conjure them by wishing them ill will, to no aval. One day she went far into the woods and caught a toad and put it into a bottle. There you are Mistress Talithie Tipton. Iv'e named the toad after you, wshe gloated as she made fast the stopper. You'll parish there, that's what you'll do. Didn't old Granny tell me how she worked just such a conjure on a false true love in her young day? He slipped and fell off a high cliff! Sabrina made her way far up the Hollow where the big rock hung, and put the bottle far back under a slab of stone. She waited eagerly to hear some word of the wedding couple. And one day, a few months later, Old Granny withers came hobbling over the mountain again. Jasper's woman is happy with child, the toothless midwife grinned. He's done axed me to tend her.
" Sabina kept to herself, the secret of the toad in the bottler. If you ever tell a living sould what youv'e done, that breaks the conjure, " the old midwife had warned long ago. So Sabrina kept her tonque and bided her time. Nor did she have long to wiat. Bad news Travels fastest of all.
"As first Jasper and Tilithie were unware of their babe's fate. Although Talithie had noticed on d day as the midwife carried the child to the door where the light of the sun was bright, thats the the child did not bat an eye. Granny noticed it too, but never said a word, while the young mother kept the fear in her heart and said not a word of it to Jasper. One night, two weeks later, after Granny had gone, and they sat by the fire, the babe whimpered in her crib a beagum crib, that Jasper had made from a hollow log, and Talithie had fashioned a feather tick no bigger than pillow from their bed, and made a little quilt. Rarely did the child whimper, but this night small Marie was fretful. Talithie pick up the child and taking a pine stick from the loe fire she lighted it and held it close above the baby's face to better see in the dim light. The small eyes were open wide and strangely staring. She passed light to and fro before the little one's eyes, but never once did the bebe bat a lash.
" Oh dear lord talithie cried. Our babe is blind, Jasper! blind I tell you! Stone blind!
"Jasper leaped to his feet, the wooden bowl he was making and the knife fell to the floor. The pine stick, still burning, lay where it had fallen.
It's can't be, our babe is blind he moaned and sobbed bitterly as he put his arms about the two he loved most in all the world." Again Old Granny Withers hobbled over the mountain as fast as she could go to bring the news that the babe was blind. Stone blind, Sabrina Ashby! Do you hear that?
" Sabrina Ashby, the forsaken girl, sank into a chair. Her face turned deathly white, she stared ahead, unseeing. it was a long time before she spoke but no one was there to hear, Granny withers had scrurried off in the dark and Widow Ashby had long since passed away. She buried her face in the vice of her hands and moaned. Little Margie Tipton your pretty blue eyed won't never Tice no false true love away from no fair maid. A toad in a bottle works a conjure. Ma's gone and Talithie's babe is stone blind.
Some shake their heads sympathetically when they speak of Widow Ashby's Sabrina living along in her ram shackle house far up at the head of Crockett's Hollow. A foresaken girl that holds agrudge and works conjure come to a sorry, sorry woman they say.
" And should you pass along that lonley creek and venture to call a cherry Hellow inly a weired cackling laugh, a harsh begone will echo back in ansewr."
Killed at Bunker Hill
Event War of 1812
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