Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-10-15
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~ Type 81 Amer1aans RemarkAbls Fer
aThsar Ian = snd HABIT
WHen the railway was first opened
through thiis res ion ! young man es-=
tablished rs fruit store 1t one OF the
stations, and % part u his stock laid
"a, 4. bunch d bananas. One day ma.
tive lnountaineer entered. Arrange
1uaents GENERALLY struck him with SUR
.pfise, but every thing 8else was soon
iorgottensin a adhesive contemplation
:o6 the mighty aggregation of fruit
Finally he turned away with this note:
~ flame me II them amt the darnedast
beans 4 lever seenl''. .$:s#. .
While here we had occasion to ex-
tend onr acquaintance with native
types Two young men came to the
hotei, bringing = bag OF small, hard
peaches to sell Slim, slab-shed.
5stOnachless and serene, mild and mel
aancholy, they might have been lotus-,
3 caters a only the suggestion OF poetry
was wanting, and they had probably
never tasted any satisfYing plant what
soever. Their unntterable content
came not from opiates, but from their
souls. II they could sell their peaches
they would he happy. What they
could not sell they could as well eat,
and since no bargain was made on this
occasion they took chairs on the hotel
~esanda, opened the bag and fell to.
e.of Us tried to catch the. mental at
lnde OF the Benjamin of his tribe.
lie the other studied his bodily pose.
is that a good coon dogpo
II mighty good coon dog. I hain't
ever seed him whipped by varmint
,et''s a.%
fare there many 'coons in this coun-
tryp'' . Il. " e.
! y y Several 'ooonA"
Ks this good year tor 'coons?"
"a mighty good year for 'coons.
The woods is full O. varmints.'
'tDo 'coons eat cornp"
''Coons is bad as hogs ON corn,
when they git TUX to it.
Are there many wild turkeys in this
countryp''
Several wild turkeys"
Have you ever caught many
'cconsP''
= 1--WE cotchod high as five 'coons out
ao' one tree.'' q -
care there many foxes in this coun-
rtryp''. =. - >.s ~
Il Several foxes
! /, Whats the best way to cook a
Z 7coonP' ~ -.
i '.Ketoh him and: parbile him, and
then put him in cold water and soak
him, and then put him in and bake
him"
T. @4Are there many hounds In this
countryP" 49,
Several hounds"
Here, among other discoveries, was
linguistic one-the use of several
in the sense Of great many. probably
an innumerab]e multitude, as In the
case of the 'ooons.
It appears that in part they arc
. sprung from the early hunters who
came into the mountains when game
II was abundant, sport unfailing, living
h cheap. Among them now are still
} hunters, who know the haunts of bear
and deer, needing no dogs. They even
now prefer wild meat~even "'pos-
sum" and" coon and ground-hog--
e any other. In Bell County l spout
1 the day In the house Of an aged wom-
at,--eighty years old, In fact-who
was q lingering representative Of q
nearly extinct type, She had rcve1
been ont Of the neighborhood of her
4 birth, knew the mountains like gar
u den, had whipped men in single
handed encounter, brought down many
N q deer and wild turkey with hex own
rifle, and now, infirn, had but to sit in
n her cabin door and send, her trained
dogs into the depths Of the forests to
81 ;scoYer the wished-for game: a fercer
\, II woman never looked on.-Jumes
MI Lane Alien, IN Hasper's Magaz5ne.