Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-08-08
HlisftIlarreuus.


He dropped into the Office the other day,
an uncou.h. raw-looking granger from the
Blandford hills. with : wilted standing
dickey that originally must have been tall
enough to keep his ears erect. .sAir ye
the feller that writes things for the moose
papers ?'' was his saluta;ion. The soft
Impeachment admitted and he went on
i've bin reading in my weekly paper
lately abaout snaixs, and haow one Of the
critters when a little gal fell into the pond.
wiggled up to her house and got the gals
mar 10 60 aid pull her out. Naow we've
got some snaixs up our way which ought
70 be written abaut. Ye want ter hear Of
'em, do yes Well. we've got snaix on
our place that il the most knowingest crit
ter ever saw Before he did me a good
turn used ter git mad when the eggs
were missing and one Of the kaows would
come from pasture dry as a bone rom be-
ing MIXED by the pesky varmint- tried
lots Of ways to catch him, bat he was too
cute for me. One day was in the pastur
back Of the barn. drawing water for the
kaows from deep well. with bucket
tied on the end of rope. In trying To
drop the bucket 40 as u scoop the water
right. tumbled IN, takin' rope and buck
ct with me. ! kept my head outer the
water by braciDg my feet agin the wall.
Ye may Just bet, mister, hollered and
hollered hopin' some one would hear me,
but nobody came. Purity soon see that
darncd snaix come and look down at me,
and, after taking one glance. he just wop-
ped his tail around and began coming
down too. BY jehosophat. / couldn't help
laughing to see him work it, although !
fhrnrrbt Ln oft sn rH for
my laying so many times tor him.
He'd let his tail down a ways and
stick the point in atween the bricks, then
let his body drop and stick his tongue in
just above his tail. Then he'd loosen his
until he could find new place for grip.
When be got within reaching distance he
held on to the wall by his tongue and
stuck out his tail toward me. but ! didn't
tumble Mt once until that snaix kept wrig-
Cling it kinder appealingly. Then
guessed what he meant. and. making a
slipper-noose In the bucket-rope. put it
over the tail and tightened it little dis
tance up his body. BY gosh. it was a
sight the way that snaix scooted up the
well in the same fashion he came down.
As soon as felt the rope tight climbed
up hand-over- and sure as / live.
mister. that consumed snaix had wound
the rope round young sapling near the
well-curb. and was holding on to the end
like sfeam-engine for fear it might slip
and drop me back into the water. Another
timc-Whate Ye think that'll do tor this
time. All right, then. was only agoin'
to tell ye how that snaix catches birds by
getting up in tree and sticking a piece
of apple on his tongue as bait for them to
pick at, and the way he whops pickerel
out'n our pond by layin' on the bank and
wrigglng his tail in the water until the
fish bites. o.. he's the boss creeper, mis-
ter, and no mistake. and if you'll write
something about him for the noOsepapers
and put in my name and sling in little
about the beautiful scenery. it'll do me
lots ofgood. Ye see mar and are taking
summer boarders. and we can scoop folks
all round us If people know about our
snaix. Put il in. mister. an ye may come
up and board with us week for nothing,
an I'll tell ye some more about that snaix
OF ourn."