Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1876-09-08
JIM WOLF AND THE TOM CATS.

Il ciHoClOilal HuSu upon the StraWDefry
! on the end Of the old free iver's nose
that Simon Wheelers memory was
busy with the olden time. And SO
4 prepared to leave, because all. these
We're symptoms of a reminiscence-
i signs that he was going to be deliv
cred of another Of his tiresome person
/ al experiences-but | was too slow;
/ be got the start on me- AS nearly as
i | can recollect the intliction was
Touched in the following language:
Eve was all boys then, and didn't
care for nothing only how to shirk
school and keep up a revivin' state Of
deyilment all the time. This yah Jim
Wolf | was talking about was the
prentice, and he was the best hearted
feller, he was, and the most forgivin'
and on7sclfish | ever see-well there
couldn't be a more bullier boy than
what he was, take him how you would,
and sorry enough I was when l see
him for the last time.
"Me and Henry was always poster
ling him. plastering boss bills on his
back, and putting humble bees in his
bed, and so on, and sometimes we'd
=
crowd in and bunk with him, notwith-
standing his growing, and then we'd
let on to get mad and fight across him,
SO as to keep him stirred up like. He
was nineteen, he was, and long and
lank and bashful, and we was fifteen
and sixteen, tolerably1axy and worth
less.
$50, that night You know. that my
sister Mary gave the candy pullin',
they started us off to bed early, so as
the comp'ny could have full swing,
and we rung in on Jim to have some
fun.
"Our window looked out onto the
roof of the ell, and about 10 o'clock a
couple of old Tom cats got to rarin'
and chargin' around on it and carryin'
on like sin. There was four inches of
snow on the roof, and it was froze so
that there nas right smart crust of
ice ON it, and the moon was shining
bright, and we could see them cats
like daylight. First they'd stand of,
and e yow-yow-yow, just the same as
if they was cussin' one another, you
know, and bow up their backs and
push up their tails, and swell around
and spit, and then all of a sudden the
gray cat he'd snatch q handful of fur
off the yaller cats ham and spin him
around like button on a barn door.
But the yaller cat was game, and he'd
come and clinch, and the way they'd
gouge and bite and howl, and the
way they'd make the fur fly was pow
erful. 'As7e
"Well, Jim got disgusted with the
row and lowed he'd climb out there
and shake 'em of'n that roof. He
hadn't RELY no notion of doin' it, like
ly, but we everlastingly dogged him
and bullyraged him, and lowed he'd
always Dragged how he wouldn't take
a dare, and so on till bimeby he hist
ed the winder, and 10 and behold you,
he went-went exactly as he was
nothin' on but shirt, and it was
short. You ought to q seen hint
You ought to a seen him creepin over
that ice and diggin' his toe-ilails and
finger-nails in for to keep him from
slippin'; and, 'bove all, you ought tol
seen that shirt q fiappin' in the wind,
and them long, ridicklous shanks Of
his'n glistenin' in the moonlight.
''Them comp'ny folks was down
there under the caves, the whole
SQUAD of 'em under that ornry shed of
cJaad Wash,fon Bower vines -al sett'nl