White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-06-25
A Coon Huut ID 4 Fsncv Country.


mitted to analyzation, as the great doc
tors call it, II would be found to contain
all manner Of dcvilment that ever entered
the head Of man, from cussin' and steal
in up to murder and whippin' his own
mother, and nonsense enough to turn all
the men in the world out Of their senses.
Ii mans got badness in him, it will
bring 1t out, Just as sassafras tea does the
measles; and If he's a good for nothin'
sort Of fellow, without no bad traits in
tpetikler, it'll bring out all his greatness.
1t affects different people in different ways
some it makes rich and happy, and
some poor and miserable; and it has a
different affect on different peoples's eyes
some it makes sec double, and some
it makes SO blind that they can't tell
themselves from a side of bacon. One
of the worst cases of rum foolery that
Ive heard of for long time, tux place
in Pireville last fall.
Bill Sweeny and Tom Culpepper is the
two greatest old coveys in our settlement
for coon huntin'. The fact IS, they don't
do much of anything else, and when Mey
can't catch nothin' Sou may depend ont
eoons is scarce. Well, one night they
had everything ready for a regular bust,
but owin' to some extra good fortin',
Tom had got pocket pistol, as he called
it, of regular old Jimmakey, to keep off
the rumatics. After takin' a good start
in horn, they went cut on their hunt,
with their light-wood torch a blazin' and
the dogs barkin' and yelpin' like forty
thousand. Every now and then stoppin'
to wait for the dogs, they would
drink one another's health, till they be-
gan TO feel very comfortable, and chattcd
away bout one thing and another, with
out mindin' which way they was g'wine.
Bimeby they cum to a fence. Well,
over they got, without much difficulty.
who's fence is this % said Bill.
"Tain't no matter" SEE Tom, "let's
take somethin' to drink"
After takin' drink they went on won
derin' what on airth had cum of the dogs.
Next thing they cum to was a terrible
muddy branch. After pullin' thro' the
briars and gettin' on t'other side, they
TUX another drink, and after g'wine lit:
tie ways, they cum to another fence, a
monstrous high one this time.
"Whar upon airth is we got to, Gull
pepper % SEE Bill. 81 never seed SIGH
heap of branches and fences in these
parts"
"Why," SEE Tom, "it's all old Stur-
lids doins-you know he's always build
in fences and maxim internal improve
ments. as he calls 'em. But, never mind,
Yves through 'em now"
Reckon we isn't" seq Bill, 'here's
the all-6redist fence yet"
Sure enough, thar they was, right agin
another fence. By this time they begun
to be considerable high fence. Tom drop
ped the last piece of the torch, and thar
they was in the dark.
"Now you is done It'll" seq Bill.
Tom know'd he had, but he thought
it was no use TO grieve over split milk,
so says he, "Never mind, old boss, cum
ahead, and I'll take you out" and the
next minnit, kerslash, he went in the
water.
Bill hung on the fence with both hands
like he tho't he was slewin' round to
throw him of.
"Hello, Tom !" seq he. "whar in the
world is you got to 90
"Hcre is" seq Tom, spoutin' the
water out Of his mouth, and coughin'
like he'd swallowed somethin'-'look |
out there's another branch here"
"Name-o sense whar is WEI" SEE Bill. !
''If this isn't a fency country. dad fetch
my buttons"
"Yes, and branehy one, too" seq
Tom, "and the highest and deepest and |
lhickest that l ever seed in all my born
days"
(Which way is you ?"
"Here, right over the branch"
Cum ahead" SEE Tom, "let's go
home"
Cum thunder, never was in such a
place as this, whar a man 'aint got his
coat tail unhitched from a fence, fore
hes over head and ears in water
After gettin' out and feelin' about in
he dark, they got together agin. After
.aking another drink, they sot out for
home, denouncin' the fences and branch
IS, and helpin' one another up now and
hen /; but they hadn't gone more'n twen-
y yards fore they brung to a halt by
mother fence.
dad blame my picter," seq Bill, elf
don't think we is bewitched. Who
lpon airth would build fences all over
,reation this way 2"
1t was about an hours job to get over
his one but after they got on the top
hey found the ground on the other side
without much trouble. This time the
bottle was broke, and they cum monstrous
lear having fight over the catastrophe.
But it was a very good thing, it was for,
lfter crossin' two or three branches, and
,limbin' as many more fences, it got to
De daylight, and they found that they bod
'een clim6in' tie same fence all night, not
nore'n hundred yards from whar they
irst cum to it.
Bill Sweeney seq he can't account for
{ in no other way but that the Ticker !
ort O. turned their heads and he SEE he
loes raaly believe If it hadn't gin out,
hey'd been climbin' the same fence and |
Vadin' the same branch till now. Bill
'romised his wife to jine the Temperance
society, if she wouldn't never say no I
more about that coon hunt.