title: Legend Of the Wampus: Smoky Mountain Bedtime Tales
author:  R. W. Wells 
description: R.W. Wells born and raised in rural Florida, was entertained by many stories by his Grandpa Fulton at an early age.
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  # Down the Ravine
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Charles Egbert Craddock (Mary Noailles Murfree)
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
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  CHAPTER I.
  
  
  CHAPTER II.
  
  
  CHAPTER III.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV.
  
  
  CHAPTER V.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII.
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER IX.
  
  
  CHAPTER X.
  
  
  CHAPTER XI.
  
  
  CHAPTER XII.
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  This Etext was produced by Les Bowler, St. Ives, Dorset.
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I.
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
    
  The new moon, a gleaming scimitar, cleft the gauzy mists above a
  
  
  rugged spur of the Cumberland Mountains. The sky, still crimson and
  
  
  amber, stretched vast and lonely above the vast and lonely landscape.
  
  
  A fox was barking in the laurel.
  
  
    
  This was an imprudent proceeding on the part of the fox,
  
  
  considering the value of his head-gear. A young mountaineer down the
  
  
  ravine was reminded, by the sharp, abrupt sound, of a premium offered
  
  
  by the State of Tennessee for the scalp and ears of the pestiferous red
  