Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-25

pick up the T. D. and throw it at him.
He seems to enjoy this, for he picks up his
| heels, canters around some, and stops
again Isseize the half-crownless derby
| and throw it at him. This actually
amuses the quadruped, and haven't the
| slightest doubt that he would laugh out
loud, if it were possible. Shoe you mule,
won't you never tumble? He dances
around like professional, not in the least
alarmed. 1t is my turn to stare now; but
finally | collect my scattered senses, and
deliberately fish up box of caps from the
mysterious depths of my trousers pocket
The BANKED cover seems to have grown
fast to the box, but l succeed at last in
getting new cap on, look up, and behold
the rabbit has fed, leaving behind him a
long, narrow, vapory trail, having evil
dontiy gone so fast that the water of the
little puddles through which he passed
has been converted into steam.
now steal cautiously along with a
quail shot "ready" on, the gun-stock close
up to my right shoulder, left hand well
forward on the barrels, for fully quarter
of a mile; but the rabbits all seem to have
taken similar position, for they always
anticipate me by about one hundred and
fifty yards; and so l tire of the "ready"
position, throw the gun over my left
shoulder take chaw of "peaeh brand"
and again fall into meditative mood:
eyes, Gregory he's all right, and so is
jee-whiZ lcok at that big hoosier, will
you bounced right out from under my
feet, too; but I'll give the old boy benefit,
for luek-bang well, Of all the squealing
/ pvar baorI-l 1T on f1oyU IN baf tom.
rehearsal of Mongoliau opera Take that,
and that, and that, and that" as, coming
W, l thump him over the head with the
butt of my gun.
Let me now introduce my faithful COM
panion, a worthy ''frog-sticker," in earlier
parlance yclept a pen or pocket knife.
Observe me run a slit with the keen edge
and tapering blade down the inside of one
hind leg from near the paw, across the
body and up the inside of the other hind
leg, cut around or tear off the skin near
the paws, pull the skin down to the root
of the tail, strip off the tail and gracefully
haul the animal out of his jacket and
trousers clear to the tip of his nose, paus-
ing only at his forelegs and ears. Next
cut off the beasts head, drop it with the
the feet into my improvised game sack,
and, after re-loading, carry the remaining
carcass to a neighboring trap. Hey, now,
here comes one full tilt, with an eagle in
pursuit Bang bang and razzle dazzle
He doesn't seem to realize that he is dead,
but keeps on turning somersaults in the
air; one, two, three, four, five, six, seven
somersaults, and gone gosling Another
fur and good skeleton.
IalIn bara. 4. IL 1-,1,, e,,,.,,,.r c-o.,, .
/ must have struck bonanza. Up Jumps
another old buck, and-kerchunkl Well,
blank the internal luck, / might have
known that gun wasn't loaded. Reload
ing, soon start up another fine fellow, and
bang he falls like sack of wheat,
never to rise more; but oh, my shoulder
Oh, oh, o-oh Great Jehovah what a
kicker that gun is. I'll put pad on my
shoulder next trip. That's fine rabbit,
though, and I'll have taxiderm on that
specimen. Great Scott there goes an
other one This patch of weeds seems to
be all rabbits-bang bang whoopl Come
back there, you old sinner; don't you
know that you are "kilt intirely?' Never
theless, he slows up eventually, limps a
a short distance, stops, lowers his head to
the ground over his. forepaws drops his
ears, and falls to sleep to awaken never.
more.
Recharging my shooting-iron, I soon
stumbled onto double shot. One lights
out to the right, the other. to the left, and
bang bang!-dead rabbit on the right
there, scratching the air with his legs,
belly upward crippled rabbit on the left,
and away we go for chase. There, l
thought he would leap that ravine, but
am leaper myself, and backing of for
running jump, over / go, gun, game-sack,
derby, Prince Albert and all my number
elevens striking the earth firmly on the
other side, but the earth having been I'M
dermined by the water, caves of, and down
goes McGinty to the bottom, kerchough
Oh, Lord how cold this water seems, nay,
is. Blank the rabbit Blank a fool
Blank the bank Swearing necessarily,
I at length scramble up to terra frma, and
discern the rabbit in the distant mirage
lodging an eagle. Thank heaven the eagle
won't let him off so easily as l did.
But now | must retrace my steps. Ar
rived home, l drop the skull and carcass
into a barrel half filed with water; run
TWO tapering, rounded boards or stakes
through each one of the skins, fur side in
ward, fasten them with couple of tacks,
and stretching them at the bottom, stand
them up, under cover, somewhere to dry,
for future use or experiment. The better
rabbit may await my leisure in the art of
taxidermy, as the skin must be removed
in different manner, and with greater
care than those intended only for drying.
Some of the dried skins 1 will render soft
and pliable by means of scraping and rub
bing into them some brains and warm
water, after having thoroughly cleansed
them in strong suds; or if the brains are
not at hand, will use the yolks of eggs
and some prepared chalk or whiting. The
hunt is over and feeding" is in order, for
the WORKOUT spots in my stomach bristle
up like darky's curls on election day.
P. D.
Whiskey Diggins, Jan. IS, 1889.