The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-08-02
TIE KIMBALL GRAPHIC.
Official Paper Of The City and County.
tn moa spefhs auaat but his honest
eoafietiohs, pray. ,oheac is his 1oa6qfy9.
AS this is the season Of the year w,e
BY c. z. TlNAN.

'H'9 10 tIe $Ga'ou u the year when
the average friend IN to YOU and
wants to borrow yout gun or doe-pos.
slhly botb-we want to define our posi.
ton, as it were, and keep from hurting
SEINE fellows feelings. Now. We
wouldn't lend our gun or dog TO
our dearly beloved friend, benjamin
Harrison. If Ben should come to us for
either VIC should be compelled to gently
but firmly say, Ben, old boy, we are
willing to lend you money, but we can't
lend yon a gun or dog because it's Gi-
rectly agin our principles Now there
is q vast difference between lending .
gun and lending q dollar. You can lend
Il man a dollar and he can kno k around
with it all he wants to and 1t don't hurt
it. lie can't let ii ~fallsout of the wagon
on a heap OF stone and dent the barrels.
He cant get dirt in the mpzzle and sill
over the fancy work GA the stock. If be-
lets it lie a week without cleaning It il
don't hurt it. He can't take ii and try
to force shells a size toe large into the
breech and then try to close IL by main
strength and a~wkwardness. lie can't
try the locks forty times a day to see if
theyss work well and to hear how loud
they snap, and he can't get tired and lie
down under the wagon aud give the dol
lar TO some farmers boy who never saw
a breech-loadcr and LEI him GO over IA
section of land shooting at lalks and
getting shells fast in it aud trying to dig
them out with a spike, No, you cant
do all these things with u dollar. but
you can with a nice breech-loader and
that's the difference. That is why we
would rather lend u d~oiIar-when we
have it-and that is why ii is that when
a friend we would like to oblige comes
IN, we always look him directly in the
eye and tell him that all our guns arc in
Chicago for repairs. Yes. We tell him
a good square lie and it doesn't strain
our conscience a bit, for we believe a
man gets forgiveness for a little thing
But when it N to lending d dog We
just swear slap up and down thut we
wouldn't lend him-or her, as the case
may be, to our grandfather, and wedon't
offer any excuses. Now LOIS of people
can't see why one man can't work a dog
as well as another. They don't know
much about dogs anyway and think they
work by machinery and.so ont and point
BIRDS by a mninspriug that connects with
the tail. They suppose that this is why
the tail s%titiens when u dog points. Tue
average amateur gets his dog talk from
books and says ''To,ho," Down Sir, ''
Down Charge" Retrieve" Hi. Sir"
Bring to Bag, To Heel Sir" etc. If
we ever forget ourself and lend our
dog to any amateur and he goes through
this lingo the dog would come In ut
night and try to say, Say, pard, that
man you lent me to this morning must
have been full for he called me a lot of
worse names than you did when you
licked me for being too fresh and run
ming over 1--WE or three birds early in The
day And we wouldn't blame the poor
dog. We don't hold any long converse
tons with our dog, it takes a dog mind
away from business. When we go into
the field we say "Iup'' and wave our
hand N he direction we want lin to 90.
When he comes to a point, if he seems
to be nervous We say ''Whoa-u-a,''
just as we would to a nervous horse and
If by any accident we manage TO kin II
bird when the covey rises we merely see
that he stays Whoa II he rups over
a bird we yell, Hey there. you darncd
fool!' and he drops down and remembers
that if he does it again he will get
spanked. And so we go on and lifelong
ef in the day he hunts the less we have
TO say to HIM, except to invariably pat
his head and call ltim Il good old
s%noozer'' every time he does good work.
Now in all fairness VIZ ask what would
that poor dog know about Ito ho," ITO
heel down charge and the rest?
Absolutely nothing, and his mind would
get so broken up that he would act
worse than n of those quarter bred,
s~nipe-headed pups that cant do any
thing bit chew W birds after some other
dog has pointed them.
Now, boys, don't come arouni and try
TO borrow from us or we shall be
compelled to pull out this paper, hand
you a cigar. and tell you to sit down and
read this article CTbe handing a
cigar part IS a wild flight of fancy; the
rest of this article is 13 karat truth. based
on years of ezperiencc.)
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