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*WILD BOY OF WALLAHEE. Haunted the Bushes and Brambles of a Plantation Gon6 to Waste. Been Skulking Furtively its the *Thicketp o Running Through Open Woods. The Chbese to Effect His Capture, Lei by Billy ltaglanu--orratled I a Dense Olump. [Writton for Tnt IIcLhEA INDEPENDENT.7 HIPLANTATION was called Wallaheo from the name of an Indian chief who once owned it. In 1829 it was owned by Thomas Vrrplank, who settled upon it with some fifty negro slaves, and it remained in the poe. session of the Ver plank family until about the year 1868, when a detachment of Federal troops de stroyod it. At the end of the war Wallahee was badly arown up with bushes and bram bles, the fences were all gone, the house a ruin, and the large cotton gin stood roof less and forlorn, the rusted mlachinery.all exposed to the weather and fallifg to pieces. Nobody came to occupy or assume own ership of the place, nor did anyone know what had become of the Verplanks. , About September, 1868, there arose a ru mor in the neighborhood that i wild boy had been seed at Wallahee. It was. such a preposterous story (told by two or three not over reputable negroes) that little no tics was at 'first given to it by the neigh bore. The boy was long-haired, wild-eyed, poorly clad, so th%~s negroes said, and ran like a deer whenever he was approached. But in a little while, so leady are people to receive gruesome impressions, the story was a familiar one at the firesides of all the families along Pearl river for miles, and although everybody openly refused to be lieve a word of it, a good deal of talk was had about it. Again and again the negroes who were cutting wood near Wallahbee saw, or pre tended to see, the wild disheveled boy skulking furtively in the thickets or run ning, ghastly and emaciated, through the open pine woods. One day equire Gordon was riding along by way of the bridle-path known in the neighborhood as Little Wolf trail, when suddenly this strange, much talked-of lad stepped forth from a clump of haw bushes a little way ahead of him. The apparition startled not obly the' squire but his horse as well. Indeed the latter shied so viciously that his rider was tumbled all of a heap at the side of the path. To be sure there was nothing in the boy's looks particularly frightful, although his eyes were sunken, his cheeks wnx-n and withered, and his clothes ludiorously worn and tattered. When the 'squire scrambled to his feet the a; parition was gone. As soon as it brcame known that a just ice of the pence could testify to the story of the wild boy of Wallahee there was a mighty stir in the neighborhood among both the blacks and the whites. What had before this been a mere fireside whisper now swelled to a veritable wonder-tale. And now more and more frequently the boy was seeon, by this one or that one, black or white, it was always in some lonely place near Wallahee, and he invaria bly evaded in the most mysterious way any would-be pauruner. Finally it began to be observed that no matter where he started up, he never failed to run toward a co:tain ares of swamp land which was covered with wisps of cane and tangled clumps of moss-hung oak trees. I-Is idemed to like the night better than the day, ea pecially when the moon shone. Many good people affi moa that they had sRon him looking wistfully in through their win dows, and that before they could get of doors he was gone. "o the matter woent on until nearly every body had seen the wild boy of Wallaheo, and those who hadn't seen him were ex pecting to do so every moment. More than once a party of mant organized them selves and went on a systematio hunt, de termined to capture this mny.,terious little fellow; but evenr trial ended in failure. "It's or sperit, thet's what it air," de clared old Andr Davis. "kHow d'ye e'pose ye're goin' ter ketch er gbhoat?" Andy was the oldest inhnbitant. Htis memory went back to 182., when the Ver planks first came to Wallahee. "They was a leotla boy ia livin' thnr 'at Tom Verplank war guarjin of-Tom hod no chil'n of 'ip own-an' thet loeetle feller dis erproued mighty s'picion!able like: I 'mem hers it very well. They was some talk I1 ·J CHASBING THE WILD BOY. of foul play, but nothin' war done erhout it. Ye see the leetle boy war heir ter all the money, niggers, an' lan' 'at Tom Ver plank war a usin'-don't ye see?" Andy winked knowingly, but nobody else could be found who had heard of a miessing heir to Watlahec. A great many people came to accept this hint, however, as the true solution. The wild boy was, they were sure, the ghost, of Little Tunis Ver, plank, who had disappear ed so mysteriouthl in 1831. No sooner did Andy Davis' theory become current neigh borhood talk than the specter appeated twice is often as before. He was to he seen both day and night. Children and nervous women were afraid togo out alone for fear of meeting what they now named the "Hannt of Wallahee." It wese William itnglan, or Billy Raglan. as the people called him, who at last roused ad and organized the men and boys of all the count y round about to make a comuprehensive, systematic "drive," as he termed it, to capture the thing, be it ghost or boy. Billy Raglen was a youth of 10, reckless, and yet a good enough follow in his way. When he eat out to do something every. hody knew that he would succeed if sue case was possible. His plan in this aoes was for all of the men and boys In the Wallahee settlement-some 200 or mor,-to form it great circle aound the woods haunted by the wild boy, then gradually draw in to a center by closing up the line and marohing abreast from all directions in toward the little swamp. The i len was anecepted to be noted upon, to Billy's great delight, and he felt like a genera. In comn wnand of an army when he saw the line toraing. "We'll ketch that 'ar' boy," he said, "or ron 'lm inter his ible an' stop ap the hole wi' or pine knot-*-tabt's what we'll dot" It was a lovely night. with the full moon climbing up a soft sky in the east. Dint gtd stragao wrse the outlines of the trees in the thok, duskgy southern wood. A Jight breease made a wide rustle and a sol omn moan in the tall pines. The shadows waved fantasllolly. Wallahee, with its tangled woods, was enoircled by the men and boys, 'They blew horns and shouted as they closed in toward the little swampy spot in the center. Billy Raglan was the most enuor one of all. rie tried tp,be everywhere at the same time. "I air Jes' or achin' tar git or holt or that 'ar' boy," be kept saying as he ran this way and that just inside of the line. Many,.yild animals, mostly small things like hares, raccoons, and opossums, were seen; but the wild boy did not show him self. At last the little swamp was reached by the noisy and now closely-drawni cordon. "'There he is! Yonder he goes! Look outl don't let 'is through!" Suddenly a chorus of voices yelled out: "Grab 'im if he tries to pass! We'll git 'im nowl" Billy Raglan rushed forward, and many declared they saw him in full chase of a wild, ragged, hagegrd, tangle-haired boy. Plash!plah! plash the feet of the pr suer and pursued flung up the water of the coffee-colo:ed pools as they tore along. The line pressed in with a surge and a tumultuohsyelling that made the forest ring for miles. Those who could distinguish them said that the wild boy was not as large as Billy Raglan; indeed he did not appear to be more than 12 years old, and that he ran like a deer and went straight for the cen tral little bummock of the swamp. Billy was straining every muscle. Blowly but surely he gained until, as it was afterwards said, he could almost touch ,the long, yel low hair that streamed in half-oarling looks from the bars head of the emaciated little fellow. Closer and closer, in the wavering moon light, swept in the rapidly diminishing cir ole of orowdina, vociferatina, floundering people. The wild boy could never break through. Once, it was said, he turned his face back on Billy with a look of terror and despair. This was just as the two were en tering the shadowy, moss-festooned clump of trees on the hummock. The circle was now so narrow that a stone could have been tossed across. Into the central clump, as the account goes, plunged the wild boy, and just one step behind him followed Billy Raglan. A moment later an awful scream was heard and then came a dull, muffled sound, as of some heavy body falling to the bot tom of a pit. Instantly the voices of the co:don were hushed; even the dusky trees seemed to be hearkening. Everybody cressed on, scram bling over fallen trees and dashing 'knee deep through the black muck and leaf-cov rrod ooze. "Whar' air ye, Billy?" called ol1 Andy Davis. "Her ye cotch 'im, Billy?" 'Thre was no answer. Andy's large yellow dog darted forward from his master's side and began snifling at somethling beside a huge, half-decayed water-oak log. "What ye got thar. Trumpet?" demand ed the old man, as he cautiously approached the spot. "Hey ye foun' somethin'?" The crowd now rushed up, end what they beheld almost curdled their blood. Billy Raglan lay in a shallow, grave-like pit, face upward, apparently dead, and by his side a skeleton' of a small boy. The wild boy himself was nowhere to be seen. When the first shook had passed they lifted Billy out and found that his heart still beat. He was ill for some weeks; but he recovered. The skeleton when examined proved to be old and bleached. Evidently it had lain there for many years undis turbed. One thing about the story was always and still is vexatious. Billy Raglan him self, though he is yet living, has never told any person a single particular of that strange adventure; perhaps there is nothing for him to tell. If you ask him to relate to yon the seal facts of it he only smiles and shakes his head with a shrug. But old Andy Davis, now in. his nineties, is always glad to give you 'his account of the whole matter; but Andy has never been con sidered a very good or a very truthful man. MAURnICi TeHOMPSON. ('oplyright. Euek:en's Arnica Saven. 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