Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-04
THE OLD SETTLER.
HE'S VISITED BY HIS LIVELY GRANDSON,
LITTLE PELEG,
For Whose Amusement He Relates Story
About the Spikeail WOgglybOO-Pos-
lively His Lowest Price For Civ
ing Nriar Fits.
Id. Not n Neg Iork ssA

ing aI us BIahhathoA o Ma
recent warm days the Old Settler had been
busy for an hour or two watching his wife
getting . spot in the garden for early peas,
and finally sat down on the south side OF
the barn to rest. Little Peleg. the grand
son, who had failed, after persistent efforts,
to drive the family cat in under deadiall
he had rugged upout of the washtub behind
the woodshed, went over and sat down be-
side his grandfather. ''GrandpOp," said
he, ''did you ever kill an elephant?"
Tho Old Settler looked down over his
spectacles at the boy.
''No, 1 didn't"
''Well, " said Peleg, you've killed tigers
| hain't you, grandpop?"
''Taggers, y replied the Old Settler, refill
ing his pipe, and lOokiag at Peleg IN mild
arnazement, ''taggers is curious critters, an
to kill 'em il takes teller that's got plenty
| o. ammunition an a gun with bari Tits
very stout an very long. Tagger is a
most ez big ez the side O. that hen-hOuse
yender, Peleg, an so red th't We ken see
'em miled or more, so ez 'tain't no credit
to plug one on EN-" -,
tsTigers haiu't red, grandpop,' said
Peleg. They're streaky, and they hain't
much bigger than q pig. | seen tiger once
in II show"
Chem shows Wits gOin' bout the
country is bad things, Peleg," said the Old
Settler, with frown ofdisapprOval. They
give We wrong idees. Boys that goes to
shows don't think nOthin' o. CONTRADICTORY
their good OF gran'pOps, too, I've heard
| Mabbe that show yer speakin' on had
wOgglybOb with it, too, an mebbe they
were streaky. Wat kind of n critter did
they pass off on We fur w0gglyboh, PeIeg?D
''They didn't have none, grandpop, -
said Pcleg.
did we ever sec
! 4 PICTUR' OF 4 WOGGLYBOB
Peleg? But mowt know We didn't 'thOut
astin' We, fur the last one tn were in the
country were extinctcd long atOrc photy-
graphin' were ever thort OF, an tn WASH t
no pictures ever took o one. That's oniOrt-
nit, too, fur they'd be curious things to
| lool, at nowadays. \ full-growcd wogIly-
bob stood seven foot an an inch high, an
! unly two foot O that were legs But he
didn't mind it bit cause his legs was
short, fur he had two sets o 'cm, one set
| fur walkin' an one set fur Swimmln, bein'
/ eight in all. His body were ez square Us n
| shoe box, 'cept on the top an bottom, that
is. if VIC could that tn were any top or bot
tom to q wogglybOb, fur WIN he were
swimmin' the top o him Was the bottom,
an when he were walkin' the bottom OF
him were the top. The swimmin' side
run to q sharp pint, like the keel OF row
I boot. an the walkin' side OF HIM Wis kind
er roundup, like the bottom Ola say trough.
/ He was covered all over with stitf hair that
stuck straight out like a porkypne' quilts,
'cept on the tip o the keel side, an the
round o the soap trough side, which was
~ bare ez Il Telegraph polo. His four
swimmm' legs was like snappin' t0rkle.S
an when no were on his walkin' legs the
swimmin' ones laid down flat 'lOng-Slde
the keel, His four walkin' legs was like 4
painter's. and viii he were on his Swimmln
side his walkin legs laid down Hat long
side the sap trough. lie could raise the
four Ices no want usin', though, an GIN
er'lv did wen no were mad 50 that 10 see
n crazy OF wOgglybOb tearin' through the
woods like painter, witho four big snap
min torkle's claws riz in the air on his four
upper corners, wero n sight to do your
heart GOOD. The wOgglebob's head was a
p'int i'm nat'ral hist'ry th't mono o the
books hain't got nOthin' about, 1t were
sot ON top of q long neck, an were shaped
Just like big slcdge hammer The neck
were fastened on hinges where it j'ned the
shoulders, an the animal could swing the
Il n WI
that'd ha' made a Six-toOt blacksmith
helper 90 of an hang hissell. The only use
th'l the wogglybob had fur hammerin' was
10 fetch his head down agin projcctin'
I lump that stuck out u foot or more on his
Chist. That lump, sonny, were the
RUT EEND y THE wOGGLYBOB's TAIL
an nobody never see tho tip eend y the
tail till the lump was whackcd. The tail
were hid inside tine wogglybob an it were
the weapon he used in bringin' down his
zane. Ho only had one eye, an that was
a big un, sot right in the middlcO' his head
an cz long ez itwCre III his head he couldn't
turn it to look to neither one side Eol
t'othcr' But the eye were fastened onto
, the eend of a sinner th't were wound NY in
, the wogglybOb's skull like twisted spring,
, He could Ontwist that spring whenever he
. wanted to. an it'd shoot in the air, an
carry the eye up with it clean above the
trees. if the wOgglybOb wanted To take 4
GOOD look round the country. Wen the
eve was sent out on picket duty like that, il
could he turned an, twisted To see every
which way. Then the sinner could bC
, sprun" straight ahead o. tho wOgglybob,
SOS he could turn it around corners an see
, how the land laid fore he vcnturcd on his
way. The eve glittered an glarcd 80 th't
, the night time, wen it had sprung NJ
out'n the woods, it'd shine like house
: a-fre. Wull, with this kind of an eye tho
wogglyb0b didn't have no trouble spyln
out his game, an then he'd steal onter L
| like a cat. He'd back up to 1t fore tn,
, uome know'd it an wen he were cZ nigf
, ~ three SCOT to IL, whack! Il cOmd tho
r hammer head down on the lump on The
: kehist yIhere the butt eeud of the tail were
u an, that'd knock out tho Whole length o
, tail that were hid inside the glybob
, and il slid like fash Of hghtnin' inter Ia
! game. wuther Il were deer or wat it wcr
: an being ca hard "a iron, an sharp ez ;
xkesrer. it'd 80 through Mr. Deer like /
, buctShot through a bar o. soap.
; II ben a callin' the gwogslybeb be, bu
, it were unly the she done that done TIL
3 huntin'. The he one was lazy varmint
5 an laid in his den vile his mate went on
4 an fetched in the provender' Natur' hat
rugged up the wogglybob so curious tina
G the she one couldn't git ut the game sh
r ketched till she had carted it to the del
D whar tho he one were waitin' for her, an
thar's where the buck wogglybOb had tn
bulge on his wife.
''The sOap-trough side O. the she woggly
bob opened on the bend iiSt like q pcapOd
: or like hig clam she'll, The halves Q
g this trough was hone an inch thick, an
WEN THE wOGGLYBOB WERE HUNTIN',
: these laws was open. Soon ez she kille,
! hergame she seOOped it up in the trough
: an the jaws COMFY together with snap
A stout bone on one half o the trough
. slippod inter a slot on t'othcr side, jiSt lik
a bolt, an thar the game, whatever /
! mowt be, were locked up in the trough e
snug az if it had been slowed il spring
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