The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-01

ne cOuld TURF IL around corners an see
how the land laid fore he ventured on
his way. The v glittered an glared
SO th't in the night time. wen it were
sprung up out'n the woods, it'd shine
like a house a-fire. Wull, with this
kind of an eye the wogglybob didn't
have no trouble to spy out his game,
an then he'd steal onter it like a cat.
He'd back up to it fore the game
know'd it, an wen he were ez nigh ez
three foot to it, whacki d come the
hammer head down on the hump on
the chist whar the but eend o. the tail
were, an th~t'd knock out the hull
length O. tail that were hid inside the
wogglybob, an it'd slide like a flash O.
lightnin' inter the game, wuther it were
a deer or wat it were, an, bein' ez
hard ez iron an sharp ez a skewer, it'd
go through Mr.. Deer like a buckshot
through a bar O. soap.
81 ben a calm the wogglybob he, but
it were unly the she one that done the
huntin'. The he one were a lazy var
mint, an laid in his den vile his mate
went out an fetched in the provender.
Natur' had rugged up the wogglybob so
curious 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 a
pea-pod, or like a big clam shell. The
halves O. this trough was bone an inch
thick, an wen the wogglybob were
huntin', these jaws was OPEN. Soon ez
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 a bolt, an
thar the game, whatever it mowt be,
were locked up in the trough ez snug ez
if it had been slowed in a 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 a 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 she
| 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, 1 tackled my fust wog-
glybob wen l were unly fourteen years
old. We lived forty miled back in the
woods, an one day my pop tot me to
cut sticks fur ~one-legged Jake Coolies,
three miled an a quarter away, an
borry his acknowledgements auger, an
to look out fur wogglybobs.
""If We let a wogglybob git away with
ye,' said pop, I'll tan we within an inch
o. yer life,' said he, an, l 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 1 thort I'd lay down
under a tree an rest. Vile / were
layin' thar a sneekin' OF wogglybob
sneaked up, an fore 1 know'dit scoop
ed me inter its trough, and snap went
the lock onter me. The fust thing !
thort of were the lickin' I'd git if that
animal got away with me, an I begun
to heller. had plenty o. room inside
the wogglybob, but it were darker than
midnight in a thunder storm. I knowed
by the churnin' I were gittin' th't !
were bein' lugged to the wogglybob's
den, an th't 4 I didn't git out q thar
somehow I'd hef to heve-a fight when
| bllc bIOu2u W0tO uu1OChCo budb u &c a
leetle more'n / could handle. All
of a student l thort of the auger,
an that very second 1 begun to bore in
the bony bottom o that trough. 1 soon
got a hole through, but 1 couldn't tell
whar the lock were, SOS to git a hole
down to the bolt and slide it. / KEEP on
borin' an borin' till I got a hole three
inches big. an 1 had hopes O. gittin' one
big enough to crawl out of an give the
animal the slip. Purity soon the wog-
| glybob stopped. Then l see a light
streakin' through the hole 1 had made,
an the mex second a regular blaze O. fire
popped up through it, and the
inside O. that animal were lighter thin
the Fourth O. July at noon. Ye see,
sonny, the wogglybob had begun to no
tice th't 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 I see the
spot whar the bolt were by the light OF
the eye; but another scheme struck me,
an with one slosh o. my jack-knife
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. I were in the dark
agin, an now the wogglybob, havin' nc
eve to see, tumbled an rolled an
bounced around like a ton O. rock
slidin' down a mountain, an howled,
Jeewhiz, Peleg, How hat wogglybot
did howl. In the tumblin' an pitchin'
the lock on the. trough broke. The
jaws flied open, an out 1 rolled. II
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 1 didn't git nc
lickin'."
Little. Peleg's eyes were bigger
than the button on his grandfather.
old coat when the old settler finished
he was plainly loaded with, his grand
father said:
"Yender goes Bill Simpson, Peleg.
think he's goin' out to look at them rob
bins nests long the creek. 1 guess tn
hain't no objection to yer goin' witt
him, sonny"
Peleg started. The old settler called
him back. "An' say. Peleg," said he
whatever we do, don't mention an,
thing to yer gran'mammy bout wat
ben tellin' We. She were skeert mos
to death by a wogglybob wen she wer
a gal, an to mention the name O. on
to her now would throw her into fits, an
l wouldn't hev M'riar get a fit fur tw'
dollars, Peleg."-Ed Mott, IN N. Y. Sun
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