The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-07-09

down his game. He only had one eye
an that were q big un, sot right in thu
middle o. his head, an ez long ez il
were in his head he couldn't turn it t.
look to neither one side nor t'other
But the eye wee fastened onto the ecnd
of sinner th't were wound up in ths
wOggly bob's skull like twisted spring
He could ontwist that spring Whenever
he wanted to, an it'd shoot in the ail
an carry the eye up with it clean above
the trees. If the wogglybob wanted to
take good look round the country.
Wen the eye were sent out on picket
duty like that, it could be turned
an twisted to see every web way.
Then the sinner could be sprung
straight ahead o. the wogglybOb, SOS
he could turn it around corners an see
how the land laid fore he ventured on
his way. The eye glittered an glared
80 TIT in the night time. wen it were
sprung up outs the woods, it'd shine
like q house a-fire. Wull, with this
kind of an eye the wogglybob didn' =
have no trouble to spy out his game,
an then he'd steal onter it like q cat
He'd back up to it fore the game
know'd it. an wen he were ez nigh ez
three foot b it, whack! d come the
hammer head down on the hump on
the chist whar the but eend O. the tail
were, an that'd knock out the hull
length O. tail that were hid inside the
wogglybob, an it'd slide like flash o
lightnin' inter the game, wuther it were
deer or wat it were, an, bein' ez
hard ez iron an sharp ez skewer, it'd
60 through Mr.. Deer like a buckshot
through bar o. soap.
Il ben calm the wogglybob he, but
it were unly the she one that done tho
huntin'. The he one were q lazy var
mint, an laid in his den vile his mate
went out an fetched in the provender.
Natur' had rugged up the wogglybo 50
cur GUS that the she one couldn't git at
the game she ketched till she had
carted it to the den whar the he one
were waitin' fur hur, an thar's whar
the buck wOgglybob had the bulge on
his wife.
1.-The sap-trough side o. the she wog-
glybob opened on the bend jist like q
pea-pod, or like big clam shell. The
halves O. this trough was bone an inch
thick, an wen the wogglybob were
huntin', these jaws was open. Soon ca
she killed her game she scooped it up
in the trough, an the jaws come to-
gether with a snap. A stout bone on
one half O. the trough slipped inter o
slot on t'other side, jist like bolt, an
thar the game, w'atever it mowt be,
were locked up in the trough ez snug ez
if it had been slowed in spring-lock
trunk. An the beauty of it were, tn
want nothin' could unlock that trough
an get the game out, 'ceptin' one Of
the wogglybob at hum in the den. On
the eend o. his snout were thin bone
th't stuck up like a hogs tusk. That
bone fitted inter a keyhole in one side O.
the huntin' wogglybob's game trough,
jist over the bolt, an ez soon ez sha
got hum with her load the Teller that
carried the key'd slip it in the lock, an
the bolt'd fly back ez slick ez could be.
"Wull, sonny, l tackled my fust wog7
glybob wen were unly fourteen years
old. We lived forty miled back in the
woods, an one day my pop toll me to
cut sticks fur onelegged Jake Coolies,
three miled an quarter away, an
borry his inch-an'-a-quarter anger, an
to look out fur wogglybobs.
".If We let a wogglybob git away with
ye,' said pop, IN tan We within an inch
o. yer life, said he, an I knowed he'd
do it.
Il got over to Jake's all right, bor-
ried the auger, an were nigh on to half
way hum, we'en l thort I'd lay down
under a tree an rest. Vile were
layin' thar sneekin' OF wogglybob
sneaked up, an fore know it SCOOP
ed me inter its trough, and snap went
the lock onter me. The fust thing l
thort of were the lickin' I'd git if that
animal got away with me, an begun
to oeller. had plenty O. room inside
the wogglybob, but it were darker than
midnight in a thunder storm. knowed
by the churnin' I were gittin' th't
were bein' lugged to the wogglybob's
den. an th't if didn't git out O. thar
somehow I'd hef to heve fight when
the trough were unlocked that'd be
leetle more'n I could handle. All
of a student l thort of the auger.
an that very second begun to bore in
the bony bottom o that trough. 1 soon
got hole through, but couldn't tell
whar the lock were. SOS to git hole
down to the bolt and slide it. KEEP on
borin' an borin' till got a hole three
inches big, an l had hopes O. gittin' one
big enough to crawl out of an give tho
animal the slip. Purity soon the wog-
glybob stopped. Then I see a light
streakin' through the hole I had made,
an the mex second reg'lar blaze o. fire
popped up through it, and the
inside O. that animal were lighter tn n
the Fourth o July at noon. Ye see,
sonny. the wogglybob had begun to no
tice TIT sumpin were goin' on out O.
common, an had shot its eye down
around thar to see wat the circus were.
The eye found the hole. an popped up
inside. Quicker'n lightnin 1 see the
spot whar the bolt were by the light of
the eve; but another scheme struck me,
an with one slosh O. my jack-knife I
cut the sinner that held the eye plumb
in two. an the eye dropped on the bot
tom O the trough an went out like a
candle in the wind. / were in the dark
agin, an now the wogglybob, havin' NO
eye to see. tumbled an rolled an
bounced around like q ton O. rock
slidin' down a mountain, an howled!
Jeewhiz, Peleg. how that wogglybob
did howl. In the tumblin' an pitchin'
the lock on the trough broke. The
jaws flied open, an out rolled. 1t
didn't take me long. sonny, to hammer
the life out'n that critter with stuns an
clubs. an got hum all safe an sound
with the augur. an didn't git no