Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-08-06

Sept. 10, and never swore an oath never
tested intoxicating liquors never chew
ed tobacco, bat is an inyeterate smoker.
lie never rode on steamboat or rail-
way train, and has not been three miles
from home since 1861. He was the
father of Gye children. three BOYS and
two girls. Both daughters are dead.
He listened with the profoundest inter-
est to the story of Bocardus and. Car
yer. and with a smile he shrugged his
shoulders saving.
sThar stranger. you,re comm, to the
p;nt now Whv when 7. was vonno,
and he stopned To think: .when T was
vouno ahout % 7 cuess I could ont S
shoot any man In the valley. we naed
to swing an annie ! an n string an,
mountin, our horses gallo. like mad
and fire at II could hit II every time
7 could knock An aople off post nina
times out,n ten fittv wards awav an,T
could t.ka tha hi,l off bird Il . traa a.
clear as whistle an, never d,strrb
feather That's n fact,
.Wbat do Won regard as tle most skiI-
fu, shot Won ever made ,, WE asked
.Yon mean the hest one ever made
YES AN, I might saw the bappiest %, nv
life,
We nodded in the Affirmative.
sWeII strangers, he began. tI,Il tell
vou all ahout r. tn, was years arn
tbougn. 7 was 81, then an, hut few neo.
nIe lived bereabont AN, what did war
GOOD wav anart Down IN t,fber enr
of tho vaIlev lived .John Anglefard who
had a darter. and I loved her like mad Z
bnt some way or tother she didu,t
kinder want to hitch TO me. About
three. miles away lived another man
who had a SON an, she tuk to that how
This made me kind ar ijealons like am
him An, me used "a firht often But T
didn,t olive, in. I'd made nm INV mind
10 cet that ual IL + ,could ONE. dav .in
the fall o, the year--I,II never forget
that dav-I shouldered uflld Faifhfnls,
that's nv mnsket. and went np inter
the Mountains To see what kind o. game.
was abroad. Well.I i reckon ia been
trudgin, around in the thicket for nigh
on three hours. without seein' OF a
thing when all of a sudden Il heard m |.
scream that almost f,oze nv blood. r.
heard il arin. and + .knowed it wal. M
u vwoman,s holler. so II jes. cucks sOld !,
Faithful, an, starts through the bush
ies. But afore I rot to the opening
heard horses, hoofs aclankin and aclat-
term over the stones. i hurried right
on IN the ioDanin,.s an, Thar fI seed what
it war All about. I seed II at a glance.
old Anrleford,s horse ,rs,e was a tearing A.
long as If the old how war arter him an
thar war, Sary Jane her face as white
"a chalk n clinqftlp I'd his back for dear
fife an, right betwix'hor an, the horses
head his claws driven into the flesh of
the horses, neck. atryin,l to reach the
cal. war the biggest catanaoant T ever
saed. f,s-
4 |. .your ti,ae,s come John ,,says r "a
n, n,vsalf .staa,,v ,,oxc. a n, r;sbt an ua,,,ll.
win tha cal, Jes,asthat ar horse with
the screaming lasoo,t opposite. 90 me
blauad awav for the catamount,s head
Thnew + war liza or death IA one IL
tha thrsa ON au.-.nut + d;dn, d m;sca,cn.
iste.sT newer aid The Load 'tvpi't into
that ar lcata MOUNTS bpaa a., n. rolIe,l
over s,ssd nn Aha gropnd the hoss
stun,rls5 and as he disannaared over / /
thesprecit,ice eotched the faintin' cal
in INV INV arms an. hurried down the road
wifi her ~ her home For d lonr time
she ha j q rapln, fever,and,kept : callin'
s.Is he come p rs he come Pr Nobody
conld tell what II, meant. You see men
| them days wouId -ro off an, stay for
,days huntin., 80 the absenceso' old
strutherss boy didn't make ANYBODY
think strange. Wen one day she cum
to. an, tha first thing she asked about
war if AL, Struthers had cum home.
Thinks i. there's somethin, quar- =
somethin, wrong about this. so f,lt see.
Away up thar war the catamounts had
jumped on Sary Jane's boss II found
him-uch Y what sight Iseed Thar
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