The state herald., 1889-12-20
TOO MANY GLASSES.
The Reason Why His Eyes Went
Back on Him.

Z WY TITS Eyes W0uS
Back on Him.
"Doctor," said red-faced and Wa
tery-eyed man from Wayne township,
Ms he came into DR.. Babcock's Office,
in hammondsport the other day, "rm
afraid my eyes are goin' back on me,
and dropped in to kind o. see II can
find out where they're lame"
"Ah!" said tho doctor. "What
seems to be the matter with your
eyesp"
That's what don't know" replied
tho man, "but they played me trick
rother day that don't leave no room
for doubt but what there's somethin'
out o gear with lem somehow. I'll
glvo You the symptoms. Maybe you
don't know that l am quite u coon
hunter. but l am. Tother day my
hoy bought ono o these britch-loadin'
and icpeatin' shotguns, and I told him
I'd go out and see how it'd work on a
coon. went out and hadn't gone
more than u mile up the hill before |
scena big coon pop onto the limb Of u
chesnut troe He came there 90 sud
den that couldn't get 1t through me
where he had come from or how he got
there. But didn't stop to ask no
Questions but up and blazed away
Now, I've got the name over our way,
Doc.' OF never mlssin' anything shot
ut, and OF course when Ipulled up and
whanged away at that coon l expected
to see him tumble, but he didn't When
the smoke cleared away he sot there
just as he.was when seen him nrst. l
was surprised. now, tell you |
thought 1t was the guns fault but
5|u1ad away again. The coon never
moved. happened TO look, somehow
or Other, at u tree OFT to tho right OF
the one the coon was In, and there sot
another coon on limb. Thought I'd
try my luck on him. and 81 i,set him
have shot. lie. sser stirred. Milo.
gun To eov mad by this time, and
durin' n little conversation was hayin'
wisil myself about tho gun happened
to glance ut tree to the left OF the
first tree, and there on IL limb was an
other coon. / tried my duck on the
third coon, and didn't hit him no more
than | did Z other two. looked at
the first tree; there was that. coon set
tin right where he was when first
seen him. looked ut tho second tree.
and there was the coon still on the
limb. i turned my head toward an
other tree and there l seen n fourth
coon, and looking around me. which
ever way l might, every trec l seen
had coon in II, and all rs fet as coons
could be. got wild.
80 Thunder!' l hollered; .herc's the
woods full o. coons. and han't pot
nothiu' but this new-fangled gun tina,
won't hit barn.
'But begun to blaze away rs fast
ms the gun could spit cartridge, fus,
at one coon and then at another, until
every darn load was cmptiei out o.
that gun. and hadn't dropped u coon.
was jlst agoin' TO slat that gun TO
flinders against Il tree, when happen
ed to rub my eye, and when took my
hand down, there on my finger was II
nice, jolly. fat tick. l looked up, but
every coon was gone. The fact o. the
matter is, Doc, that wood tick had been
hangin' on TO one OF my winlfers
pll the time and thought was se,iu'
coons. BE gl,tin' ncar-sightcd or is
the optic nerve doublin' U on me'"
"Nelthcr one" said I've doctor.
Have tho hind pocket In our hunting
pants cut down from quart size to half
pint. and you'll be all right"
The nun went out shaking his head
and said he'd think about it-iiam.
mondsport Letter 10 New York Sun.