San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-06
SILE REEVES GRIT.

Reeves, y don't meant Not SHE Reeves,
him th't q sloshed the woods for better'n fifty
year. an kim out on top IN more painter
fights an bar tusseis with cattaymounts thin
any Other chap es eva rsmmod ball inter a
riHe' Y don't meanter to tell me th't Sile
Reeves has gone an got killed a huntin'
coons--a sneakin'. thievin', ring tailed var
mint rht amt no good tsr anybody cept a
hungry nigger' An a Niger, even, ez'd
hunt a coon b'gosh, Mess he we're so hungry
th't he were treadin' on the sooburbs o.
starvation, oughtn't ter be let cut bait for a
mink trapI Sile ReevesI Did he go back on
hisself in the days O. his old age an git killed
a coonin'a Gittin' killed's bad enough, but to
go coonin'-l'm burned # b'lieve itr'
The Old Settler was moved man from
Sugar Swamp had brought news of the death
Of Sile Reeves, famous hunter, who, &C
cording to report, war cutting down a tree
in which coon was hu'ed, when the tree
fell Unexpectedly and crt~led him to death
why, boys" continued the Old Settler,
"Sile Reeves didn't take no back seat fer
Eothin mr. nobody. When he were only q
ten year Of he had more grit thin hunk o.
sandpaper uwicet his size His folks lived
over on tn north edge o. the swamp, whar
his Of man were tryin to pry farm outen
from under the stratty o. pebbles th't were
the predOmineerin' outcroppin' o. tn sile
tharabouts, an hed diskivered enough dirt
TO make pastur' lot Tw'an't but ten rod
square, but you k'd ha' built a new wall
around Jericho with the stun it shed In this
medder, as Sies pap called the clearin', tn
Of man started tn stockin'so' his farm with
a six months old calf, which he fetched all
tn way from Lost Crow barren One morn.
III he went out TO chuck some tater peelins
over the wall inter the pastur, e kinder help
the calf through the day, when 10 an behold
vel the calf were goneI Sile's father thought,
o course the calf'd jumped the wall an tuck
to the woods, an he cuSSed it from Dan to
Beersheby fer durn wuthless, britchy crit
ter th't didn't know which side its bread
were buttered on. Sile was busy in another
clearin' tryin' to find room here and there
for hill o. beans, witch it were a tol'able
tough job to do, cause the pro raty o. stun to
dirt were in tn vicinity o two ton O. stun to
half pint O. dirt. Sile's father called him an
toll him to go an hunt up the calf, an not to
be all day about it, nuther, an not to come
hum without it, fe didn't want the hide
tuckeD often him. The OF man, even when
he were in a good humor, were crosser'n a
bar, an when he were mad, J-e-e-e-r1lsaIem
but wouldn't he make things bounced But to
go arter the calf were just OF persimmons fer
Sile, fer he were durn tired O pursuin' agri-
cultur with crowbar Th' youngster felt
pretty clus to sartin th't the calf d ben in,
flooenced to leave its pastur' by either a
painter OF bar both O which want no
ways sca'ce in them precincts. So he sneaked
lol lie ,,l, a.
1t hung on i'll tn cabin an skedaddled fur tn
woods
Mind ye, Sile were unly ten year OF an
want big o his age nuther.
We'll, when supper time kim, Sile want
back yit, an his OF man b'gun to sw'ar, an |
think Of Bunny Reeves KID put better cuss
words en- more Nv 'em inter a squar' inch O.
talk thin any man It ever shifted tn air O.
heaven About bed time he zee fur tn flst
I tn Of fintlock were gone, an then he begun
t let hisself loose Tn c1Isses got e. comm so
thick an powerful ut Bumpy's OF woman
which she KID hold her own pooty well her
self with ordinary ev'ry day run O. c,lssin'-
got skeert an left the cabin Siles dad
swore t he'd bet his farm agin a last years
crows nest-which were bout an even bet
twixt uS--tht SHE were followin' some chip
munk track all over tn swamp, an d f'got
all about tue calf. Mex mornin' SHE hadn't
showed up yit, an tn OIL man went out t.
look for him long with Sam Ward an my
self which | were a boy then ez he'd knocked
over my fust deer, an he'd sent BAH arter a
bar. Sam an me we're a drivin' tn ridges
fer deer, an happened long b. Reeves Just ez
be we're goin' ont ter look up Sile. So we
went long Bout noon me an Sam came
outer tn boy He were five mile I'm hum,
settin' long side o. one o. tn biggest bar car
cases ever see His clos was all feared
tatters, an his face were all streaked with
blood, zif he were an lnjin painted fer tn
warpath.
"Op man Reeves KEN up by this time, an
when he see Sile settin by tn dead bar, an
tn OF flint lock standin' up agin a tree, an
Sile all scratched an bloody, an his clos
bout right fer gun wipers, he were so mad
he couldn't say a word fer upards of min
ute, an then b'gun t. give tn cuss words a
chance Twere quite a spell fore Bumpy
got down t hard pan, an then he went al
Sile.
ISIS this tn way ye go out + hunt up "a cali,
ye d'rotted little impl Here ye ben the best
part O. two days foolin' yer time away a
follerin' Internal OF bar round tn kentry,
right in the busiest time o bean plantin', an
a tearin' tn unly suit o. K'ntucky jane they
is in the hull township of7n yer backI
Whars tn calf9 Vile yev ben fooliu' aI'ter
th't bar, what's become o. tn calf, We young
wheIp o. the hoIlerl Whar's th' calfl An
why hain't ye fetched it HUMP
at were a refreShiR' sight T. see Sile cock
r.n his at the OBJ man.. One eye wers