The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-24
Bill Arp Goes a Coor Hunting.

nho tney were gong down on the river tC
hunt rabbits. so concluded to 20 alona
| and tote the game. Mrs. Arp she said
she knew we wouldn't kill anything, aud
we asked her If she would cook all we
brought home, and she said, "yes. and
dress It too" About the time We go,
started the two little chaps came up aud
begged me go sweetly to let them gc
couldn't refuse, and so there were
six of us in all, and two guns
aud two dogs, aud in about an 6ouI
we had jumped six rabbits, and killed five
OF them, and they we're getting awful
heavy, when suddenly one Of the boyn
looked up in an elm tree that was in the
middle CT canebrake and said, IL
thought them things up there were
squirrels nests, but do believeI saw one
of 'em move" We all stopped and
looked, and sure enuf it did move, and
the other one moved, end we knew they
were coons. never saw boys get excited
60 quick. They called tho dogs and made
for the canebrake. The creek was to
croas and nary log in eight, 80 they Just
waded through and surrounded the tree
and held the dogs fast while one of the
boys got ready to fire. BY this time
wassgetting ready to be a boy again myself
and hollered to EN- to wait aud pulled
tho little chaps through The cain till /
founda log aud got them across and was
soon on the battle ground. Bang went q
gun and down came wounded coon, the
biggest old fellow ever saw, and never
saw such fight in my life. He wasent
hurt much with the small shot and he did
fight and growl and screech most amazin.
First one dogan then the other backed
out With howl and then set in on him
again until finally old Zip surrendered
and gave up tho ghost. Bang went an
other gun and the other coon let 20 and
fell into o fork and there be Icy for dead
for about fifteen minutes, when one of the
boys said he was going TO have him any
how. So he climbed tho tree and when
he had got about fifty feet up the coon
Strengthened up in the fork and looked
savagcly at him and = re growl.
wish you could have seen that boy slide.
He came down that tree like fireman
comes down O scaling ladder. He left
a right smart Of his breeches on the
bark and grape vines. Well, of course
they shot him and that tumbled
him, then we had another fight, and the
boys say they never had us much fun, and
they feel sorry for your town boys who
don't have any sport and are penped up
within brick walls, and the best they can
90 ID Go waste q few dollars on a Frer, n
actress, and not know u word she said.
and then 60 home, aud bully for Sara.
Well, 1 shouldered the biggest coon, and
think he weighed twenty pounds when
We started and about forty when 1 got
home, and laid him down suddenly in
Mrs. Arps lap and said "skin him and
cook him if you please" / oughtent to
not altogether calculated to promote our
conjugal felicity. Mrs. Arpis stately,
deliberate woman, but 1 think she got
up little quicker than l had ever Oh.
served her. She thought it was bear,
screamed accordingly. All that was lass
Monday aud think she has about re-.
covered from it now, but IL were to kill
little, joke again. It dident pay. l
cruel. My little girl was the only friend
those poor coons had and cannot tell
what made me take pleasure in their
DEATH Boys begin early 20 show their
love of cruelty and destruction. They
rock the birds and the cats and the chick.
ems, and rob the birds meats, and then
they hunt the rabbits and squirrels, and
shoot all sorts of wild animals just fol
sport There is an original sin about
them thnt don't belong TO girls. Girls
are tender and kind and sympathetic. I
reckon that is one reason why we love
'em but why they love us 1 dr:lL know
l knew boy once who caught q wild
ont ha hor ,,l -
rou.i his neck and tied tho other end to
q ring Lehind the saddle that was on the
old mare hitched to the fence and thcn
turned the old mare loose and pitched
the cat on her back and she run herself
to death in fifteen minutes, and the boys
all laughed and hollered and enjoyed il
splendid. That was mighty bad, bu
that boy married one OF the sweetest girls
in the country and made good husband
and o kind father. ] Ireekon its the deyi
that is in us for q while, and then he
quits us and goes into somebody else Of
into some hogs or mad dogs or something
The say that every boy must SOW hi
wild 'a' though I have noticed that i
takes some a heap longer than Others
TO do it, They love noise aud raket
They begin early to shoot fire cracker
tand little pistols an beat drums and tir
pans and tie things to the dogs toll,
and make EN- run and make EN- 6gh
and set on the cats and nigger cant go
along the road but what they whisper
sic him Cesar. When they get bigger
and have few bumps ON their chin they
want to do something more heroic
They want some girl to fall in The croeh
SO they can jump in and save her life, or
I'LL Il =
so tasf can jump to the rescue, Of The
ladies and seize the furious animals and
jerk en- oownjustin the nick oftime, or be
wants to whip another boy because be
bucked upto his girl, and what is cnriou,
about sneso b5y6 tho girls seem &c i;ks
that sort the best. If | hadent fought Q
felier who insulted me don't believe HRS
Arp would have surrendered. don't
May be she would have took the Other
:e!l6f, aid then what would have become
Of me and my children? It's melanchol
ly to think Of. Pm sorry we killed them
coong. for they don't do any harm te
speak Of, and they are lively varminti
and enjoy life. The boys have got fonl
coon skins now, and the girls have pom
ised to make q rug out of them with :
striped tail sticking out Mt every corner
and I'm going to put 1t down in Mrs
| Apps corner for her dainty little number
tvos to rest upon rs an atonement for my
rudeness. She always comes round righl
when show it sooner or later.
Well, I suppose the Inauguration il
over and We have got president a
last. Four years is long time 10 dt
without one, and I'm glad they made /
big fuss over the swearing in. Now, 4
Mr.. Garfield is going to be king over al
his subjects and wants 'em to love hin