(1903, Josh cogent a adventure to Silas that took abode just afterwards the Civil War)
Old Josh, 100-years old, sat on his porch, laughing, and Silas comes up and stares at his old papa, apprehensive what the heck in traveling on, it is the bounce of 1903, and because it’s spring, he remembers a babe down in shantytown, alleged Spring, says Josh,
“Sit on down son, be-fer the day gits on to bein’ sunset, eyes goin’ to acquaint yaw bender Lick’Idy Luke Sim (and in my bigger English, I shall acquaint it as Josh told it to Silas 
It was aback in ’46, Lick’Idy, as he was called, came up from the Florida swamps, those marshes you alarm the Everglades, he rode in on a adult to Ozark, again assimilate shantytown, I was there with Amos at the time, both of us acclimation to advertise our bootleg moonshine, and actuality comes this drifter into our Alabama shantytown, I acquaint you I laughed a mile top if I saw him, he wore a bubble atramentous weskit and pigeon-tailed covering and a fox-tailed hat that shined as if he were Davy Crockett himself, on his way to congress, oh we all anticipation he was mad for the moment, but he was added brier than mad.
He was white man in his lat 30s, had continued bouncing hair, a continued best nose, a big smile, and his teeth were ample and white, a attenuate neck, and a accent to his muscles.
He looked appealing an a Christmas timberline all let up on Christmas Day, or even prettier than a baiter advancing down the Mississippi, all decked out, tooting its horn.
He was searching for a wife to yield aback to the Everglades, down in Florida.
When he had chock-full it the belt of Ozark, it was just to activate up a bit, afore branch on to Shantytown. They say he blew into his harmonica all the way to Shantytown, some three afar alfresco the township.
Amos was continuing there forth ancillary the clay road, with his acquaintance Josh, with four jugs of moonshine, they had been aggravating to advertise for Granny Mae, and would accumulate bisected the profit. If Josh and Amos aboriginal bent afterimage of the stranger, they didn’t apperceive if they should laugh, cry or ask how was business, cerebration he was affairs something also.
The alpine attenuate white man, pulled out a horn from abaft his saddle, said to Josh, “Fill it up with that blah whiskey, and let me apperceive how much,” Josh pulled the cork off the jug, abounding the horn up, and said, “Two $.25 stranger,” and he threw Josh a argent coin, said, “My name’s Lick’Idy Luke Slim, I’m aiming to acquisition me a wife, if youall don’t mind?”
Josh and Amos were so abashed at the man, they just stood there aperture open, and silent, Josh putting the bread in his pocket. Again all of a abrupt there was a army about him.
“Im goin’ to accomplish youall a suggestion” said Lick’Idy Luke Slim, to the army about him, searching at a accurate admirable Negress, I see a woman I wants for me wife…”
Said Josh afore he could accomplishment his sentence,
“You in the amiss abode stranger, you best be headed aback to Ozark-that away,” Josh acicular his arm and duke abaft him.
There was twenty or added town’s association continuing about, said Lick’Idy with a blessed grin,
“Im a bit, white, atramentous and Cherokee Indian, and I wants a woman that is as amber as a aphotic mushroom, bendable as a rabbit, and who was accomplished to baker well, from the day she waz born, and I accord $200-dollars in gold fer her, and claiming anyone actuality to a cockfight over her…” and he pulled out a agrarian searching erect from his saddle bag, and he saw who he wanted, a adolescent atramentous girl, conceivably seventeen or eighteen, with a alpine atramentous man, alert her age…!
“I account I’ll yield that one there, she looks like a appealing fox,” pointing at Asbury, but the alpine beefy aback man said,
“She’s my wife,” and anyone abaft him said, “And she is his additional cousin, and they aint married, jes’ he like her so he abutment her, her mamma done larboard her continued go,” the beefy man angry about, said, “Shut your mouth, put a lip-lock on that mouth, ole lady, you is nothin’ to her!”
“A cockfight you say, haw mister?” said Burly Sam.
“Well,” said Lick’Idy, “´We all can acquit that abstraction if these actuality bill will amuse youall?” and he threw a accessory of gold bill on the arena abreast his feet, some fell out of the pouch.
“Whut den happened Pa!” said Silas to Old Josh,
“Whut you anticipate happened?” said Josh, abacus “he done affective the money up so fast, that he never noticed that little babe jumping up on Lick’Idy’s horse faster than a cat afterwards a abrasion and said,
“Git on a-goin’ be-fer he changes his mind,” and they were gone out of shantytown faster than a hundred bees afterwards a bear.”
Note: accounting in the morning of 12-9-2008 “Old Josh, in: Lick’Idy Luke Slim” in my accommodation in Huancayo, Peru.