The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1889-12-12
'GHOSTS GALORE,
The Remedy For a Man Who Saw
The Woods Full of Spooks.
Strange Ha1lucination of a Country
GaIoot-His Eyes Behold queer Sights
He Consults II Doctor-How The
Treatment Was Applied.

doctor" said red faced and watery
eyed man from Wayne township, as he
came in DR.. l}Abcock's Office, in Ham
mondsport, the other day, tim afraid
my eyes is goin' back on me, and drop
ped in to kind O see if I can find out
where they're lame
"Ahl" said the doctor. what seems
to be the matter with your cyes?"
That's what | don't know" replied
I the man, but they played ME a trick
t'other day that don't leave no room for
doubt but what there's sonethin' out o
gear with EN-. somehow. I'll give you
4 the symptoms. Maybe you don't know
4 that I'm quite a coon hunter, but am.
/ T'other day my boy bought one O these
bcitch loadin' and repeatin' shotguns, and
! [ told him id go out and see how it d
work on coon. I went out, and hadn't
gone more than a mile up the hill before
seen big coon pop on to the limb Of
ches: nut tree He came there so sudden
Z that couldn't get it through me where
I he had come from or how he got there.
But didn't stop TO ask no questions, but
up and biazcd away. Now l've got the
3 name over oar way. Doc, of never missin'
anything shoot at. and of course when
& pulled up and whangcd away at that
y coon | expected to see him tumble, but
. he didn't. When the smoke cleared away
! he SGT there jest US he was when seen
4 him first. | was surprised. now | tell
8 you, | Thought it was the guns fault,
I but blazed away again. The coon never
I moved. / happened to look, somehow or
Il other, at 4 tree of to the right OF the one
8 the coon WAS in, and there sot another
\ coon Oh a limb. | thought I'd try my
i luck on him, and so let him have a shot.
! He never stirred.
4 Il begun to git mad by this time, and
& durin' a little conversation was havin'
Z with myself about the gun | happened
3 to glance 1T a tree to the left of the first
4 tree, and there on a limb was another
a coon. tried my luck on the third coon,
B and didn't hit him no more than l did
Il t'other two. looked at the first tree;
y there was that coon, sittin' right where
4 he was wbeu first seen linn. l looked
i at the sec0nu tree, and there was that
3 coon still ON the limb. | turned my
4 head toward another tree. and there l
q seen fourth coon, and lookin' around
I me whichever way might, every tree I
q seen had a coon in it, and all as fat as
q coons could be. got wild.
s "'Thunder! I hollered; heres the
4 woods full o coon, and hain't got moth
I IN but this new tangled gun that won't
s hit barn..
! But l begun to blaze away as fast as
q the gun could spit a cartridge, fust at
one coon and then at another, until
! every darn load WAS emptied out O thu5
: gun, and hadn't dropped a coon. 1
Z vas j;sJ agoin' to Stat that gun to flinders
i against a tree, when l happened to rub
q ny eye, and when l took my hand dow,
3 there on my finger was nice, Jolly, fat
s wood louise. looked up, but every coon
q was gone. The fact O the matter is,
{ Doe, that wood louise had been hangin'
Z on to one Of my eye-winlers all the
time, and thought was seein' coons.
4 Sc Gittin' nearsighted. OR is the optic
9 nerve doublin' up on lne?"
q Neither one. said The doctor. "Have
( he hind pocket in your hunting panrs
j cut down from quart size to half-pint,
and you'll be all right"
u The man went out shaking his head
and said he'd think about it.-Han-
mondsport Cor. New York Sun.