The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-02-08

duck, Ond used TO be IN JnClo JOhnH mill
pond along with his Stephen half the time.
Uncle John he always used 10 keep scald.
ing at us and telling oi us we should got
sucked into the noomo himc by, and break
our plaguy nocks under tho water-wheol
But We knew better. We'd triod Il so
much VIC could tell Just how near We could
go TO the gate and get away again with.
out being drawn through. But ono day
Sleeve, just to plague me. threw my straw
hat into the pond between mo and the
cato. | was swimming about two rods
from the gate, aud tho hat was almostas
near as dared to so, and tho stream was
smoking Il down pretty fist; so I sprung
with all my might to catch tho hat before
il ahould go through aud get smashed I'M.
der tho watcr.whecl. When got within
about bali my length OF It, found | was
as near the gate as We ever dared TO go.
But I hated to loose tho hat aud thought
| might venture TO go littlo nearer, so |
fetchod spring with all my might, aud
grabbed the hat aud put it on my head
and pulled back, aud pulled for my life.
At first thought gained littlc, aud
made my hands and foot fly as tight aa
could spring. In about minute | found
didn't gain bit one way nor t'other; and
then | sprung as IL would tore my
arms off; and il seemed as 1t could
teol tho sweat start all over mo right there
in the water. begun to feel all at once
us if death had me 10y tho heels, and
screamed for help. Stephen was ON the
shore watching me. When he see couldn't
gain any aud heard me scream, he was
about as scared as was aud turned and
run toward the mill, and screamed tor
uncle as loud as he could bawl. In n min
u,o uncle como running to tho millpond
and got thero jest timo enough to- sec me
going through tho gate feet foremost.
Uncle said if ho should live 20 DO as old ~
Methpseloh he should never forget what u
boseeching look my eyes had rs | lifted
up my hands toward him aud then sunk
guggling Into tho toome. llo knew |
should be smashed ali to pieces under the
great, water-whoel, but he run round as
fast as he could to tho tail of the mill to
be ready to pick up my mangled body
when it got through, so | might be car.
ried home and buried. Presently no sec
mo drifting along in the white foam that
oame out from under the mill, and he got
pole with hook to it, aud drawed me
to the shore. He found was not jammed
all to pieces as he expected, though ho
couldn't see any signs of life. But hay-
ing considerable doctor skill, ho went to
work upon ne, and rolled me over, and
rubbed me, and worked upon me, till
bmc by | began to breathe and groan,
and ut last come too so | could speak.
They carried mo homo and sent for doc
tor to examine mo. My left foot and leg
was terribly bruised, and one OF the
bones broke, and that was all the hurt
there was on me. | must have gone
lengthways right in between two buckets
of tho wlter-whcel, and that saved my
life. But this poor leg aud foot got such
bruising | wasn't able to go n step on
it for three mon,h', and never got entirely
over it to this day. e.-irrt.-. .,...s ada
Then your lameress Is in tho leg and
foot both. is it not?' said Major Grant, hop
ling at this favorable point to get an an
swer to ahis question. .-...t... ..s....
oh, it wasn't that bruising undor the
mill wheel said Mr., Jack Robinson, 'that
caused this lameness, though I've no doubt
it caused part of it aud helps to make
it worse; but II want the principal cause
! I've had tougher scraps tlian that in my
day, and was going oil to tell you what
[ s'spose hurt my leg more than anything
else ever happered to it. When was
about eighteen years old was the great.
est hunter there was within twenty milos
round. / had lirst-rate little fOwlmg.
| piece; she would carry as true as hair
coulI hit squirrel fifty yards, twenty
times running. And at all the thankssv-
ing shooting matches used to pop OF
4 the geese and turkeys so fast, il spoilt oil
their fun; and they got so at last
they wouldn't let me fire till vii tue rest
had fired round threo times apiece. And
! when all of 'em had iirod ut "A turkey throe
times and couldn't hit 1t, they would say,
swell that turkey belongs To Jack Robin
son." SO would up and fire aud pop it
over. Well used to be almost eycrlast-
ingly a cunning; aud father would frot
and scold, because Whenever there was
any work to do, Jack was always oft in
the woods One day started to go over
| Bear Mountain, about two miles from home
to sec If coul Int kill some raccoonsi and
took my brother Ned, who was three
years younger than iRyselI with inc Ia
! help bring home my game. We took
some bread and cheese aud doughnuts in
our pockets, for we calculated 10 DO gone
all day, and shouldercd my little towling,
piece, and took a plenty Of powder and
shot aud small bullets, and OF we started
through tie woods. When we got
round the other side of Bear Mountam,
| where had always had the best luck IN
hunting it was about nooA. On tho way
| had killed u couple Of gray squirrels, a
largo Eat racoon, aud a hedgehog. We
sol DOWN under large beecl. tree to eat our
! bread and cheese. As we sOt eating
we looked up into the tree, and
il was very full0f bceeh-uuts. Ehey were
about ripe, but there had not been frost
enough to make them drop from the
| tree. So says | to Ned, let us take some
| sticks and climb this tree and beat of some
nuts to carry home. So we got sOme
sticks and up we went We hadn't but
Jest got cleverly mp into the body of the
| tree before we heard something cracking
among the bushes a few rods off. We
looked and listened, aud heard it again
! louder aud nearer. In miuute we sec
! the bushes moving, not three rods oil fon
I the tree, and scmsthirg black stirring
about among Them Then out como an aw-
ful great black bear, tho ngliest-lookins
| feller that ever laid my eyes on. lie
| looked up towards the tree we was on, and
| turned np liis nose as though ho was snnit-
| ing, | begun to feel pretty streaked; ]
| [ l<ney hbearn was terrible climbers, aud III
a gin MI the world il I'D only had my gun
/ in my nand well loaded. But there Was
no timo 30 go down after It now, and J
thought the only way was 10 keep as still
| as possible, and perhaps ho might go OF
again about his bus Hess. 20 We didn't
! stir nor hardly breathe, Whether the old
f,ller smelt u.s. or whether lio was looking
for beech nuts. I don't lrnols; but he rear
OIL right up on his hind legs and walked IA