Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-11-10
FELLOW Jackets.

from the New Orleans Times-Dcmocrat
A prominent New Orleans man.
while on n visit to his family at
Biloxi last Sunday. concluded to
take turn through the woods with
his dog and gun, and see il he could
not shoot q bag tull of birds. The
more he thought about the matter
the stronger became his desire To
have good days sport, so he got
his hunting traps ready and went
out on the back gallery and whis-
tied Tor his dog. An animal shaped
like fiddle and a small piece of
tail, which always looked as IL it
was pointing away back to the drea-
ry past, trOtted from under the
house and began to manifest his
/ delight at the idea Of having hunt
by barking and wagging his tail.
The tail was so short, snd the effort
to wag ii so great, that every time
the dog attempted to move it, his
hind legs were lifted from the
ground with jerk that gave his
hustle end a spasm.
As the New Orleans man stood
with his gun under his arm and
watched the back part OF his dog
working up and down like a pump
handle, he became thoroughly CON
WINGED that the animal would new
er make steady and reliable point
er. He concluded, however TO take
the dog with him, and giving the
canine an encouraging whistle, star
ted for the woods.
When he got TO the woods he or
dered the dog to hunt, and the dog
obeyed by hunting a nice, shady
place and lying down and enjoying
himself.
"Hell's full of such bird dogs, and
I've notion to kill him." muttered
the perspiring sportsman as he no.
ticed the actions of the animal.
"Get up, you rascal, and hunt"
he yelled, as he mopped the per-
spiration from his face, but the dog
did nothing of the kind. He mere
ly trotted off short distance and
laid down under a persimmon bush,
and just rs the sportsman was look
ing around for a suitable CLUB to
Wallop the dog with he noticed that
the animal commenced to turn
handsprings, to twist and writhe
in the grass, and yelp for all he was
worth. The sportsman saw that
the dog had placed his basement on
top of yellow jackets nest, and
that the insects had declared war.
The sportsman laughed at the dog
until the tears rolled down his
checks and his sides ached. "Now
you're getting it, d-n you ~ he
yelled, as he rolled with delight.
"Stick il to him, d--n his old skin,
stick ii to him ~
Poor foolish mortal he did not
understand the nature of yellow
jackets. He did not know that the
yellow jackets are born mad, and
that you never have TO spit in their
eye 20 make them fight. He was
ignorant of the fact that they des-
pissed levity, and that whenever
they emerged from their hole it
was for the purpose of seeking a
chance TO whip the entire universe.
He knew nothing of this, and while
he was bowling with laughter at
the dog, four yellow jackets doing
outpost duty crawled up his pants
leg and kicked him very hard on q
spot just abaft the pinnacle and
raised him six feet into the air. He
ull6TCu Il IOiIR nOAiOW MIlOODs anu
when he landed on the ground he
beating his coattails
with both hands in "A queer sort of
way. Other yellow jackets rushed
to the fray and got clean shoulder
hits in on both eyes, lips, and nose,
and made him howl like a maniac,
and work one hand in front OF him
and the other behind him like a
More yellow jackets
intrenched themselves In his pants,
and in less than two minntes he
them TO the enemy,
He fought desperately, but the odds
were too great. The yellow jack
ets got under his shirt and flanked
him and bombarded him from be-
hind, and then he gallOped over
logs and through brier patches and
like wild mountain
deer.
When the enemy had Withdrawn
lis forces, and the sportsman had Sc
cured his pants and gun, he return
ad home; and now he and his dog
ton't speak to each other any more.