Wichita eagle., 1888-02-03

NO. The doe were dead; deadern plzeneu
dog, But she want hurt Sile. The catty-
mount hadn't sca'cely started the blood on
her yit. Hadn't sca'cely started it, Eb. So
cut her throat an hung her UP. Yes, hung
her up. So that's the way 1 hung up four,
Sile. That's the way it were, Eb. Hung up
four, we see, but unly killed three: unly killed
| three. Three nice uns.n
"That ruther 'splains it, Squire squeaked
Uncle Eb. "But durn me eff l don't think
Id claim number four, too. Ef I'd ha'
fetched in four deer. even ef the fourth one
were under sech circumstances ez them o
your'n, I'm g,lnlmed Of I'd be SO scrup'lous ez
TO unly claim three on 'el1 ez my KILN. I'd
lie leetle fust, fore I'd let any varmint OF
cattvnlount git the best O. me. Wouldn't
you. Sile!'
.sB-e-e-y1lt Yer b-o-o-uts I w-o-o-udm said
Sile, with his drawl and his twang.
.'But, Eb," said the Squire, deprecatingly,
"'twere unly doe 'Twa'n't nothin' but 4
doe, Size That were all An the saddles
were uncommon light-lightest saddles l ever
see Eff it had been a buck, row, O course
tlat'd ha' made Difference. But 'twere unly
doe with light saddles, Sile That's all it
were, Eb. Yes"
'!Lcmme see" said Uncle Eb in MS shrill-
est treble. Seems 70 me Tom Gilpin top
me, Squire. th't ye didn't fetch the doe hum,
an wen Tom told me bout yer hangin' UP
four deer he didn't say nothin' bout no catty
mount helpin' on We with number four"
"Ye heerd Tom Gilpin say tht didn't
fetch the doe hum, hay!" said the Squire,
talking very fast, and very much nettled.
Ye heerd him say so, hay? Well, probably
We did. Ye did, moren likely. Tom Gilpiu
is alluz noSin' round whar he haint got no
business. He's alluz q nosin', Tom is. Ez
fer the cattymount, how could Tom ha' said
anything bout it wen he didn't know
nothH' bout it! Tom didn't know nothin'
bout the castymount. How could he tell Eb
bout it, Sile, wen he don't know nothin'
bout it hisseif! How could he ha' toll Ed!
He couldn'tI | know didn't fetch the doe
hum. | know Iurn well l didn't! S'pose'n [
didn't? / don't hef to fetch hum no doe nor
no buck, nor no nothin hum eff [ don't
wanter, do T. Not eff | don't wanter, don't
hef to! An it hain't none o Tom Gilpin's
business anyhow, is it? Well, no."
''W-a-d'd ye do-o-o 18th the doe,
'S-q-u-i-ur?n drawled Silc, who saw that Uncle
Ed had worked the Squire into deep water
and that he would be likely TO founder about
before he got ouJ. Did y-e se-e-yul it!'
"Wall, no, didn't sell it," exclaimed the
Squire. mo, didn't! l kin 'splain how
that doe We're 'sposed of, come to think on it,
This here's the way it were, Sile This
here's the way it were. an it's funny l
forgot to merton it wen were telln' We
bout hangin' tho doe up. Yes, it is Durn
funny. Ye see, jest ez got the doe hung up
couple O. strange fellers tht 1 didn't know
kim along. They was hunters, but I didn't
know 'em, an they kim along jest ez / were
hangin' up the doe. TIL was lots O. hunters
in the woods, Sile More hunters, Eb, thin
deer. These two fellers kim along.
"'Hullo' says they. Guess you hung up
our deer says they.
''They said they guessed had hung up
their deer. l said guessed not.
"'Guess not, says l. Guess | bain't hung
up no deer o yourn, says l. Il jist saved
this here dear's carcase by sluggin' catty-
mount says l. Guess I'll keep the deer
says.
Il said guessed I'd keep the deer. Guessed
I'd keep the deer. Then one o. the fcllers said
he had shot the deer.
SO. shot that deer says he 4 shot it,
saysh he, AN we don't want no foolip' bout it,
''They said they didn't want no foolin'
bout it, an laughed. laughed an said
guessed hadn't ben born in the woods to he
skeert by no owls. That's what said, Sile
The fellows they said that they guessed
they didn't keer w'uther | couldn't be skeert
by owls or hawks or crows, they said. That's
wat they said, Eb. They didn't keer a cuss,
they said. That were their deer, they said,
an they were gointer hev it. Then L
said th't eff they could jist show me place
in that deer whar tn were ball hole, | said,
they could lug her eff an he burned to 'em, l
said.
'''Jist show me ball hole says /, AN ye
kin shoulder the deer an git says |.
Il tor 'em they could shoulder the deer an
git eff they'd show me a ball hole. Wall, one
O the fellers he kinder swung the deer arour'
an put his finger plumb inter q hole in her
side big enough fer mouse to nest in, Sile,
an / hadn't never seen it, Ed. hadn't never
seen it Never wunst. No
'''Gents, says ], the doe is yournl The
doe is yourn.' says |, AN I'm sold. Gents
says /, its your deern
81 toll EN- th't it were their deer, an th't it
were theirs an welcome, an that l We're
sold. That's wat l tot 'enl, an they tuck
her, an mosied off with her. II mowt be,
Ed, TIL meb5y that's wat Tom Gilpin were
hintn' at. Wonder eff that mustn't ha' ben
il. Silcl Mebby. Its duI,l funny didn't
think Of it afore. Durn funny! Yes"
Just then Old Sol announced supper, and
the three old friends went inn. Y. Sun.