Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 48142-h.htm or 48142-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48142/48142-h/48142-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48142/48142-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/adventuresoftwoa00crum Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). THE ADVENTURES OF TWO ALABAMA BOYS [Illustration: W. B. CRUMPTON H. J. CRUMPTON "The Boys" as they looked then] THE ADVENTURES OF TWO ALABAMA BOYS In Three Sections by H. J. and W. B. CRUMPTON Part One The Adventures of Dr. H. J. Crumpton, of Piedmont, California, in his efforts to reach the Gold Fields in 1849 Part Two The Adventures of Rev. W. B. Crumpton, going to and returning from California, including his Lecture, "The Original Tramp, or How a Boy Got through the Lines to the Confederacy" Part Three To California and Back after a Lapse of Forty Years Montgomery, Ala. The Paragon Press 1912 Copyright 1912 by W. B. Crumpton Printed at the Paragon Press Dedication We dedicate the little booklet to our children. Maybe others will be interested also. We are certain there are important lessons here for young people, who are in earnest. For the frivolous and thoughtless there is nothing. "_The Boys._" Foreword. THE ADVENTURES OF TWO ALABAMA BOYS was prepared some years ago with the view of putting it in book form; but "The Boys" have been so very busy the publication has been delayed. SECTION ONE contains the adventures of Dr. H. J. Crumpton, a native of Wilcox county, but since '49 a citizen of California, now residing on a beautiful spot in Piedmont, a suburb of the city of Oakland. These incidents which he relates, his baby brother, the writer of these lines, heard when he was a scrap of a boy. They made a profound impression on his youthful mind, and he has ever cherished the hope that some day he might see them in print. They were prepared at my earnest solicitation. I feel sure it was no easy task to dig up from memory almost forgotten incidents and put them in shape for the reader. At this writing, though he is advanced in years, past eighty-four, the good wife writes: "He is smart and active as ever--walks fifteen miles and it doesn't feaze him."