The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-07-10

MS WalKln legs, Jne SWlmmln ones ldlu
down fiat 'longside the keel. His four
walkin' legs was like painters, and
wen he were on his swimmin' side his
walkin' legs laid down fiat 'longside the
sap trough. He could raise the four
legs he want usin', though; an gin
erily did wen he were mad, so that
to see crazy OF wogglybob tear
in through the woods like a
painter, with four big snappin torkle's
claws riz in the air on his four upper
corners, were a sight to do yer heart
good. The wogglybob's head were &
pint in nat'ral hist'ry th't none O. the
books hain't got nothin' about. 1twere
sot on top of long neck, an were
shaped Just like big sledge hammer.
The neck were fastened on hinges where
it lined the shoulders, an the animal
could swing the head up an down an
give a whack with it that d ha' made a
six-foot blacksmith's helper 60 off an
hang hisself. The only use th't the
wogglybob had fur hammerin' was to
fetch his head down agin periectin'
lump that stuck out foot or more on
his chist. That lump, sonny, were the
butt eend O. the wogglybobs tail, an
nobody never see the tip eend o the tail
till the lump were whacked. The tail
were hid inside the wogglybob, an it
were the weapon he used in bringin
down his game. He only had one eye,
an that were big un, sot right in the
middle o his head, an ez long ez it
were in his head he couldn't turn it to
look to neither one side nor t'other.
But the eye we've fastened onto the eend
of sinner th't were wound up in the
wogglybobs 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 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 w'ch 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
so th't in the night time, wen it were
sprung up out'n the woods, it'd shine
like a house a-fre. 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 cat
He'd back up to it fore the game
know'd it, an wen he were ez nigh ez
three foot to it, whack! d come the
hammer head down on the hump on
the chist whar the but eend O. the tail
were, an thatd 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 W at it were, an, bein' ez
hard ez iron an sharp ez skewer, it'd
90 through Mr.. Deer like a buckshot
through bar o soap.
81 ben calm the wogglybob he, but
it were unlv the she one that done the
huntin. The he one were lazy var
mint, an laid in his den vile his mate
went out an fetched in the provender.
Natur had rugged up the wogglybob SC
cur GUS that the she one couldn't git 4
the game she ketched till she had
carted it to the den whar the he one
J were waitin' fur hur, an thar's whal
the buck wogglybob had the bulge OF
his wife.
THE sap-trough side O. the she wog
glvbob opened on the bend iist like {
pea-pod.-or like big clam shell. ThC
halves O. this trough was bone an incl
thick, an wen the wogglybob wer'
huntin', these jaws was open. Soon e.
she killed her game she Scooped it VI
:, in the trough, an the jaws come to
gether with a snap. A stout bone OF
: one half O. the trough slipped inter
! slot on t'other side, jist like bolt, an
: thar the game, whatever it mowt be
=, were locked up in the trough ez snug e
if it had been slowed in a spring-loc
!, trunk. An the beauty of it were, tn
! want nOthin' could unlock that troug
an get the game out, 'ceptin one c
! the wogglybob at hum in the den. D
u the eend o his snout were thin bon
y th't stuck up like hogs tusk Tha
Il bone fitted inter a keyhole in one side {
the huntin' wogglybob's game trough
- list over the bolt, an en- soon ez sh
y got hum with her load the Teller thi
l.. carried the key d slip it in the lock, al
- the bolt'd fly back ez slick ez could b,
: "Wull, sonny, l tackled my fust wo!
,r glybob W en- were unly fourteen yea
+ old We lived forty miled back in Il
,t woods, an one day my pop toll me
70 cut sticks fur one-legged Jake Goble
three miled an a quarter away, a
~ borry his inch-an' -a-quarter auger, a
to look out fur wogglybobs.
o. "If We let a wogglybob git away wi
5e We, said pop, III tan We within an in
ne O. yer life, said he, an l knowed he
ed do it.
er Il got over to Jake's all right, be
er ried the auger, an were nigh on to h;
mr. way hum, we'en thort I'd lay doy
W. under a tree an rest. Vile l we
cd lawn thar sneekin' OF wogglyb
ly sneaked up, an fore l know dit scoC
IT ed me inter its trough, and snap we
#. the lock onter me. The fust thin,
mr. thort of were the lickin' I'd git If Il
ms animal got away with me, an l beg
-. 20 hollar Tbad plentv o. room ms