Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-10-15
BOTH BARRELS INTO EN-.

BOTH BARRELS INTO EN-.
If old Squire Price had any one bump OF
phrcDOlOgy developed more than another, it
was eoryicide, OF ll-crowativeness. Frem
complaining 10 husking- time, from dewy morn
until evening more than due, he might be- seen
lodging. behind fences. crawling around barns,
stalking along in the high grass, with a long
single barTeled old gun, trying 10 get a shot at
the black thieves OF crows that were forever 1T
work on his old. sandy farm.
aWhat cause have You, my aged frirnd,'
Brother Hornblower once said 10 him. What
cause have you TO modest these birds, toll
not, neither do they spin r''
81 tell Yer what" answered the Squire,
shaking his head with savage jerks, .c>me
down 10 my house airy mornin' airly, you'll
hear cars -
Brother Hornhlower smiled grimly and gen.
tly walked away, after that, 10 get the evening
paper at the grocery post-Ofice. He set his
face against Jokes-unless they We're serious
Whether il was Brother rnblowers words,
or more crows thar usual. the neighbors around
Squire Prices farm We're RECALLED for two days
after the above talk with such constant explo-
sions of gunpowder that it was surmsed the
Squire musthave bought 80 hull kag o. powder,
and got some feller to help him shoot The
consequence OF this energy was. that the perSP-
cuted DEVILS canaries flew away 10 other farms
where powder was scarce-first and foremost
descending in flocks on Brother Hornhlower's
lands, and digging up his young corn-it was
in the month of May-until even he found cause
TO go at these birds as don't SPIN for he found
ont that they toiled most laborionsly. Being
use of firearms, he thought over a plan by
which fire logs might BE- used 10 great advan-
tage TO his own benefit, by destroying large
number OF crows n one fell blow.
How he succeeded in this feH-blow, was told
few evenings afterward in the grocery post
office, by young Tyler. promising youth who
had not, as they say of other sad dogs. :. quite
got his set Yet, that is attained completion in
figure and carriage. Seated on the edge of 4
barrel half filed with corn. and cutting a piece
of pine 10 one sharp point only 10 be fol-
rH nv .h@rll inT ha f.llL L
To another youth i'll desultory MANNER about
his intentions - 10 20 by water. i'll old BIzzit'S
schooner, next trip she took when Squire Price
came i'll 10 get his daily newspaper, The Beam
tOrH Democrat.
You bin givn' them crows partl,ler hail,
haint yOu- Squire , asked Tyler The youthful.
WAL. about as much as they kin kerry
answered the Squire. They han't hin
squakin' round my premises hone 10 speak Of
lately
They bin round brother Hornblower's thick
Ak pisOn. though" said Tyler. He counted on
KILN bout milyon OH 'em yrsterday-on-ly
he didn't quite come it
Thought he wouldn't never fire nu guns
al cmr'
Put couple o barril> into EN- yesterday
why. how YOU talk, You don't mean it!''
Honor bright, He got big trayars on EN-,
Ieastwise thought he had. His brindle kaow
got pizened night afore last. down there III the
woods couldn't do nutnin with her. and she
died same night So he goes and skins her and
throws her out into that gully down there
back o BiZZles wood, and saws he 10 me-for
was over there workin for him-says he,
'Therell be power o. crows onto her t'mor-
row, and / calc'late I'll fix q few on 'em-I
willr So next morning'-that was vest rrday-
we went out bright and airly, and rugged up q
hind o. blind at The side of the gully. right over
the old corcass. Then We got our ammunishun
all ready-bOth barrils all loadid."
"By linge' said the Squire, rubbing his
hands, Il wish I'd bin there
ssGot all ready. Purity soon up comes one
crow, sails round and round, then two or three
more, then few more; they begun 70 smell
meat. Then they flew lower and lower: bine
by one settles onto an old dead cedar and begins
Gavin for dear life. Then down he comes.
then more and more of 'em. Round they come.
Gavin and fiappin' their wings, clouds of EN-.
Guess there was bout two hundred settled
onto that old kaOw."
wish I'D bin there with my gun - spoke the
Squire, intensely excited. "a TELLER could have
made the most biggest kind of a shot"
wal, we waited, and waited, Jill the old
kaow was black as pitch with 'em. Then
Hornblower ne nudges me. We got both bar
rils all ready-big loads i'm ZEN. Fire. says
ne. I braced my leg up agin my barril; he
braced his leg up agin his barril-
w what % said the Squire.
1--WE give the most all-fredest shoye-and
over we went, barrels, stones, dirt and Crawl.
head most, spang into them crows and dead
kaow! 1 tell you, for about five minutes /
calclate i never seed stitch fuss, feathers. dirt
and Crawl, and kaow-beef flynn as i did then.
Things was mixed up most promiscussedly,
you can bet yer life on it! Bime by / sort o.
come 10, and when raised up found / was
..
Hornblower, and kaow-meat gin raliy. so
dug ont and lifted upthe game-Brother Horn
blower first OF. When he cum round a little,
says he:
".T-T-Tyler. I eon-caiye somethin,s Civ WAY
bout these parts
"'You air about right in your supposishuns'
says i; the Crawl banks bustid, and it's marcy
We amt in kingdom KUN %
don't talk that way says he; slet's go M
and fire cupple barrels more into the blastd
rebbils, fur yengenZ.'
'''No yer don't, this mornin', rs knows on
said i; i've got enough shootin' crows your
fashun. Next time go shootin' crows long
any body. I'm goin 70 do IL Christian fashun,
with gun barrils. and not blastd old Hour bar
rils filed with Crawl. That kind o. shootin
don't suit my style o. bones-'speshalIy head
fo'most inter a dead kaowr ="
sOn-ly four crows kiltr' said the So uire. with
grOan. 10 think what a faller might have
dom, If he had only spred hisself judish sly As
ne came tumbim' onto EN- Siang, Wall (look-
ing Snerringly 10 young Tylcr.l 'syou couldn't
do morr'n fir both barrils into 'en ii they lgrs
flour barril>, could your oatiH. HtdI HGatLIg
SS~>-
(" The Court dresses which. IL seems the
Emperor and Empress of the French sent 10
the Hing of Madagascar and his daughters.
have created "A great sensation IN the capIral of
that Island The JOY OF tile Processes karlv no
oOund~ when the trunks Were opened contain
ing the CRIMSON trains and skirts rrSulau,l,nr
with embroidery, which her Imperial Majesty
sent 10 give them some idea of the atfir,. or
European ladies. The crmoliu.S which ,.ar..
Of Thompson most ENORMOUSLY couLrly.d
shape, and capable OF expanding IN ,irTrrn
ference far beyond the ordinary limit. of in.
worn III France or England. are objects ot
universal admiration among all IN" Malgacha
ladies who have been able 10 seq han A
French officer saws that one of Radama'~ dIugh-
ters has dc Iupd wearing the cage she
received from Paris over. instead ~ beneath.
her skirts. Her swartny HIghur-s thinks tna
the mechanism II too complex % b. concealed
and the whole thing too pretty ana TOO wonder