Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-02-11


i get over the ground as
II Then your lameness is in your leg
rather than in the foot?' said Major
Grant, taking advantage ola short pause
IN Mr.. Robinson's speech.
well, / was going OH to tell you al
the particulars said Mr. Robinson
i You've no idea Fwhab terrible narrow
chances I've gone through with this
Leg p
.7sThen the dificultysiis in the leg,2is il
not 2 said Major Grant yia
i well, after tell you theparticulars,
said Mr.. Robinson, you can Judge fol
yourself The way it first got hurt was
going in swimming, whenI was about
twelve years old, | could swim like Z
duck, and used to be in Uncle Johns
nllll pond along with his Stephen halt
the time. Uncle John, he always used
to keep scolding at us and telling of us
1--we should get sucked into the floome
bime-by, and break our plaguy necks I'M
der the water. wheel. But we knew bet
1 ter. We'd tried ii so much we could
tell jest how near we could go 10 the
gate and get away again without being
drawn through. But one day Sleeve,
| jest to plague me, threw my straw hat
into the pond between me and the gate.
| Twas swimming about two rods from
the gate, and the hat was almost as near
as we dared to go, and the stream was
sucking it down pretty, fast; so sprung
with all my might to catch the hat be-
fore it should go through and get smash
ed under the water wheel. Nv hem got
within about halfmy length oft, | found
| was as near the gates as we ever dared
to 60. But hated to lose the hat, and
| thought might venture to 90 little
nesrer, so / fetched spring with all my
might, and grappled the hat put it on
my head, and turned back and pulled
for my life. AT first thought / gained
"a little, and made my hands and feet
| fly as tight as could spring. In about
a minute l found didn't gain bit one
way nor t'other; and then i sprung as if
would tore my arms of; and it seem
| ed as if could feel the sweat start all
over me right there in the water. be-
gun to feel all at once as if death had me
by theaa heels, and l screamed for help.
Stephen was on the shore watching me
but he couldn't get near enough to help
me. When he see couldn't gain any,
and heard me scream, he was about as
as scared as was, and turned and run
towards the mill, and screamed for I'M
Gle as loud as he could bawl. In amin
ute uncle come running to the millpond
and 60 there jest time enough to see
me go through the gate feet foremost.
Uncle said, he should live to be as old
as Methuselah, he should never forget
what beseeching look my eyes had
as | lifted up my hands towards him
and than sunk gugging into the
foome. He knew | should be smashed
all to pieces under the great water
wheel; but he run round as fast as
4 he c3uld to the tail of the mill to be rea-
dy to pick up my lnangled body when
] il got through, so | might be carried
home and buried. Presently he see me
drifting along in the white foam that
came out from under the mill, and he got
pole with a hook to it and drawed me
to the shore. He found / was not Jam
med all to pieces as he expected, though
he couldn't see any signs of life. But
having considerable doctor skill, he
went to work upon me, and rolled me
over, and rubbed me, and worked upon
me, till bime- by / began to groan and
breathe. And at last | come to; so |
could speak. They carried me home
and sent for doctor to examine me-
My left foot and leg was terribly bruised
and one Of my bones broke, and that
was all the hurt there was on me. /
must have gone lengthways right be,
tween two buckets of the water whee
, and that saved my life. But this poor
leg and foot got such a bruising / wasn't
able to go step on it for three months
and never got entirely over it to this
day .
'Then your lameness is in the leg and
foot both, is it not?' said Major Grant
[ hoping at this favorable point to get al
an answer to this question.
ooh, it wasn't that bruising under tho
5 mill-wheel,' said Mr.. Jack Robinson
that caused this lameness, though ",
no doubt it caused part of it and helps
to make it worse; but it WASH t the prin
cipal cause. I've had tougher scrapes
: than that in my day, and / was going
on to tell you what s'pose hurt my les
| more than anything else that ever hap
: pened to it.
= when was about eighteen years ole
| was the greatest hunter there wa
t within twenty miles round. had n frs
e rate little fowliug- piece; she would car
t ry as true as hair. | could hit squlr
e ril fifty yards twenty times running
: And at all the thanksgiving shooting
/ matches used to pop off the geese ant
| turkeys 50 fast, it spoilt all their fun
1 and they got so at last they wouldn't le
d me fire till all the rest had fred roun'
G three times piece. And when all o
t 'em had fired at aturkey three times ant
+ couldn't hit it, they would say, well
u that turkey belongs to Jack Robinson,
r So would up and fire and pop it over
o Wen, | used to be almost everlastingl,
i a cunning; and father would fret an,
X scold, because whenever there was an,
work to do, Jack was always off in tn
/: woods. One day / started to go owe
Bear Mountain, about two miles from
0 home, to see if | couldn't kill some rae
: coons: and took my brother Ned, VIII,
t was three years younger than myself
1 with me to help bring home the game
G We took some bread and cheese AM
t doughnuts in our pockets, for we calcu
( lated to be gone all day, and | shoulder
: ed my little fowling- piece, and tool
I plenty of powder and shot and small bul
: lets, and off we started through tn
{ woods. When we got round the othe
: side of Bear Mountain, where / had al
: ways had the best luck in hunting,it wa
Il about noon. On the way / had killet
a couple of grey squirrels, large fla
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