[Life On The Mississippi by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookLife On The Mississippi CHAPTER 26 Under Fire 13/19
They lived each side of the line, and the church was at a landing called Compromise.
Half the church and half the aisle was in Kentucky, the other half in Tennessee.
Sundays you'd see the families drive up, all in their Sunday clothes, men, women, and children, and file up the aisle, and set down, quiet and orderly, one lot on the Tennessee side of the church and the other on the Kentucky side; and the men and boys would lean their guns up against the wall, handy, and then all hands would join in with the prayer and praise; though they say the man next the aisle didn't kneel down, along with the rest of the family; kind of stood guard.
I don't know; never was at that church in my life; but I remember that that's what used to be said. 'Twenty or twenty-five years ago, one of the feud families caught a young man of nineteen out and killed him.
Don't remember whether it was the Darnells and Watsons, or one of the other feuds; but anyway, this young man rode up--steamboat laying there at the time--and the first thing he saw was a whole gang of the enemy.
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