The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-12-03
SMALL GAME "REMINISCENCES.
The Ola settler the sheriff, and the County
Clerk Rausack Memory's etorehouses
with Most Interesting Results.

Clerk Ransnck Memory's etorehO
with Most Interesting Resuits
MILFORD Pa Nov. To-" They amt a
brush lot nor n scrub-oak cearin' fur twenty
mile round here that amt moren bilin' over
with rabbits an sduir'ls Is thickern seeds In
cowcumber." said tho Old Settler. Yit.
b. gosh. ev'ry other fellor you SEQ with gun is
goin' out arter them pesky thieves Of tho val
Icy tho ring tailed cooni A huntin' coons.
when they mowt be havin' 0iniwine sport
'mong the squirls an rabbits b gosh boys. 1t
INTERCHANGEABLE
1t seems that there must DO something all
the while to worry the Old Settler. Job and
Mag Streeter. the seven young Streoters. and
the yaller dog had only just finished thoir visit
at his house. and he had 80 far recovered his
wonted good nature as to insist on having
some one line" him whom he "sluDg his
apple juice under his surcingle." when one OF
the boys. with q gun on his shoulder. came into
the Crissman House and let out that he was
going after coons 1t Is a we-known maxim
Of the Old Settlers that any one or II hunt
coons II steal chickens from blind Niger"
and even to mention coon sets him going.
Go an hunt yer coons dod rot vol" he con-
tinued. Go bring 'em in by the cart load. II
ye wantcrl Git all the fun ye kin out'n
huntin, EN-. for I tell We, b'gosh. that whe1,
Watin to o sSe w III ' Place les gon to Kit
pass to. it'd ben better fur. the coon hunter II
ad MIL ssan tbs b ns tSe Ssn
SILT sea, that no couldn't heerd the trumpet.
The ve SneTri iii being an old coon hunter him.
self and having been out only tho night before
and brought IN three. changed the subject. A,
5a nhsd hRs s So pS6s s as hs
az s Sns the
from tho trees then / rather think the album
dance of squir'ls is worth, mentioning, That's
th h WY It Was up along tho Lackawack In the
:, They must u ben durn good huntin. long
settler, am II you kin shoot as we'll as you kin
S |sS. ssS into sen-asre lot with no
dE ihas s4 ssms shs Sheriff qHb M% sS
wa bsss shRs @ dan INC get sve
aitsr sauirls but ones. ana that was WY ne
and the squir'ls had nearly all gone. went UP
IN piece Of woods back OF Lackawack and sat
Tsd an sho tS exeep, into 90 one % tree which was
about thirty, feet from where ] sat. Well:
M rss s aS fsq s.e Se e as S ns
over S '% up felt patS Of myself AND got
long was out. but i left the house in the
m2Tnips as our Rfsd man M, was was gons out to
we. only had three cows, and the best one was
oH Seems to ,G %e a hat was the same fall saw
Ssansy Ssss = Ps Sesas
made up their minds to forage on t'other side.
y bank, swimming across. There had been
ri left II be ss Swcy and Epps
PLACED hob with the business along the river.
for people couldn't get their lumber nor sup
and and ono or two men thought they d have to fail.
The day the squir'ls were moving. peddler's
ger, and he drove right along to where a bridge
had gone away, and never noticed II, but Just
ksp. right on across the river ON the backs OF
them squir'ls. 1t took the squir'ls three hours
to MI get over. but by, that time more than n
hundred wagons had crossed. and business
Went h on b23m n:t nGain' That must have been
They amt consumed doubt Of t. bgosh !"
year that they was only one, rabbit in this hull
durn county. my smart roosters, That's some-
thu ye d?n rsme sn none zee, w. Tint was "a,
that bob-tailed little, cSss. They never had
ben season afore but what rabbits was
! that fall you couldn't start one any moren you
could start bears tooth with pail, o tweez-
best rabbit deestrlcks they was, but nary a
rabbit did soc. The lirs, trackin snow that
lived back o Dingmans then. Over on the
5S d track Ls dSs rsrq RSna .ss tFGS
he'd to set down for ten minits fore could
start an foller. the trail. an, when did start
lonesome little scrub oak mule il II took mo till
spring. The track led me more'n four milo
sarndest hills that ever l clum. Suddintly. b.
goshtl ighty, the track stopped plumb IN tho
90 III 3 Ss eS r9a r on nh ts
openn'. an that were thirty foot from whar
the track ended. 'Twa'n't nothin' but rabbit
ecnd in plain open sight. ten mile back in the
wood ; from no place; an nigh: comm, on. kin
says to myself. 'B'Gosl, says t. ia a durn
SIGHT rgt T. tina, track were big he bar
n dd Tsay to s sS Is up that
IND out Whar that tras begun nGn but
an begun to wish were. back 10 hum. gittin'
spooKs. but never spec,ed to have ANYTHING
rotted po.talIed rabbit; BH'. spooS Or no
woods; ana nTsd things to stay al nlEht;
new snow, Soon as It got fair daylight in tho
morniG was up to iny ,na Nov if
clean gumswzzlcd that mornin,, when SEQ tho
SbSSt trqc ox sart les, , as sHaa as i had
gosh. on the double Quick. Two mile on i
hold mo. an SO had to so clean around. moron
mile. When got to whar, the trnck come
out on tothrr side. i found b. Gosht'lmighty.
that the rabbit had changed his mind arer git
BY this time begun to git mad cusscd an
tore awhile. au then took my back track
around the pond. The rabbit were maxim
plumb back lords the op,enin' whaT he PLAYED
hide nor hair o, the little cuss yit an cussed
myself from A to lizard fur not fotchin' Il dog
along. Well, sir. b. gosh that track led right
to that orenin in the woods agin, an eended
lest ms suddnt rs nfore.
So That durn rabbits charmed says l. an
I'm gummed II I'm goin' to waste any more
shoe leather ON him. b. gosh!
An 50 p'ints my nose fur hum. bad Jest
turned an looked behind me dumped moron
ten foot fur goin' heliytchoot back lords the
pond agin were that cussed rabbit; lpulled
an, whangel away. an, though. b gosh, no
wa mt more'n half u shot away. / never fetched
him. an fore | could git in on him with my
left barl no were out o all kind o range. an
lookin' no biggcr'n SNOWFALL.
Now. | know'd rabbits oncet in n while were
durn cute. so Jest made up my mind that this
I'M had some reason or other Eur Spekin' this