The Red Cloud chief., 1888-10-19
INTERESTING STORIES.
Onclo Jacob Relates a Few Thrill.
ing Incidents.
\ Green Dutchmsn's Coon Hunt Trap
plas y 8os.rsuWa ssesr-Au Ia.
pleasant nUcoaater with
C~ataWnOunt.

Catsmosst.
When the writer drove on, 10 Uncl,
Jacob Grise' place on the Drinkcr turn.
pike the other day to have another
talk with the white y hiskeru1 oceoge.
marian. the active and jovisl I'D gentle.
man was patching up some rail- fence
by the roadside. II Il a quiet country
psaap out ehcre, cd Whescver any body
wh0slike6 top11Af Interesting nara.
Aives aAout ~ b ths wilAvscds comes
along. unsas Jacob willingly drops
As: work and accompanies his callers
% his reaidence near by. which WAS
once the famous old Buck Horn Tavern.
After they had been seated and n dish
Of tall pippins had hcen passed around.
Uncle Jacob leaned on his crooked
csne and said:
"let me SEQ. Did ! tell you, when you
wcre here before about the green Dutch.
man who smoked the 1901 out Of the
hollow trces No. Wen. then. nj tell
IL 70 you now. One winter We werc cut
ting down some very large poplar trees
over the ridge yonder toward Tamn-
rsck Swamp. Many of the trees were
fve and six fect in diameter, and 1t
toDk y keod deal OF 'oh0pping and saw-
ing to get one Of them TO the mill.
Among the party Of choppers there
was a stout and tough young Dutch
man who hadn't been In the country
but . few months. and he ~ med "a lit
tie dog that he Ind fetched into the
nefyAhorAOod with him. The dog
tagged the woodchoppers wherever
they went. End remained out In the
woods from nor till night. The axe
Inst No let the young Dutchman work
with was . two-blxded one. and. as II
.wns the first Axe Of that kind that no
had ever o he felt very proud OF II
and took great care Of it,
'On one OF the coolest days Of the
winter The DulnhmAa's little dog won
dered away fkpm the choppers and set
up . continual yelplhg near the foot Of
an immense poplar tree twenty or
thirty rods from where the men were
working. After the cur had howlcd
for half q day the young Dutchman
tramped over to the tree through the
deep snow to e II he could find out
what the dog WAS yelping ut, and when
he got back he told Us In the plainest
way he knew how that thore WAS n
coon In the tree and that along toward
aight he would smoke che coon out.
kill II, and give II to me. then went
near enough TO the tire to see that Il
loaned = good bit out Of the perpendic.
Slsr and came 70 tho conclusion that
II tho tree was hollow there was room
enough In II for u whole family of
CoOns. About twelve feet from the
ground there was u curve In the trunk,
and ] could o that II would be an
easy thing for animals TO nest In Il.
The Dutchman's cur continued 10 yelp.
end didn't bother him. but went back
TO work without saying any thing.
"A little after shutdown the younk
Dutchman sh0uldered his axe and said
he would then 60 and smoke tho coon
out. told the other wOrkmen 10 fol.
low mo. and We went 70 y spot within
good sight Of the l)utchmsn and not
behind trees IN zoe how he was going
operate ON the coon The cur kent
yelplug and hopping about ~ though
10 was ready to tear the animal all "a
pieces when II came out, and the
OutchmHn soon started u little smoke
Ere In the hole At the base Of tho tree,
He put on some bark and leaves And
made u smudgs, and then he stood
opposite tho hole with his axe IN ov.r
bis hcad and waited for the coon 70
jump out. expectiag 70 split the coon.
head open Ut the first clip. The coon
didn't mike its appearance rs soon A.
the Dutchman had calculated TINT 4,
would. and while he stood there, with
his feet braced In tho snow and his axe
held slOft. the fire worked up into a
blaze. hardly any smoke floating up tn.
troe rtas nt.
"Thcn The Dutchman. whose little
dog sto0dseR and barked. put down hi
axe ands began 70 pile on stun "a
smother the Are. He had hardly piled
on the first handful when out of the
hole plunged Y 25O-pound bear. The
smoke had rolled him, aud he had go,
yinged . little on his way out. and h,
wss 90 thoroughly mad over being dis
turbed that he pitched ri the Dutch
man aud partly knocked him down,
When the Dutchmau saw what an enor
nous coon he had smoked out hi
started 70 run. and the wsy he yelled
Tor help. with the bear almost on hi,
heels, was comicsl enough To make I
tackass laugh. He roarsd aud beloved
agood deal louder than the mad bea,
az. and hts little dog put his tail be'
tween bis D9s and got eut of sight Ii
oetipa. One Of my mea rushsd dowu
- 6plit TIE beas's heed ofsn before
= ~ dess tAs DutohnAa my Injury.