Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-01-03
THE MAN-EATER.
How Tom Rescued His Little
Brother From Certain
Doatn.

cOmc Ol uic luuEitt5 WIN Hufo oF
tered tho Adirondack wilderness by the
road that follows the northerly bank Of
the West Canada crock viii remember
q cottage. now going TO ruin. that
stands on tho lolt sidc Of tho road on
tho iablclnnd just above Little Deer
Lake. It's queor. pcakcd-up roof which
plungos down from tho rldGe-pole. and
rambles OF toward tho road rs the cover
OF wide veranda, Is enough TO impress
is strange appearance on tho In!nd Of
q stranger.
A few years ago this cottage was
owned by Now York man. named
Jerome Lambcrson. who occupied II as
summer homo. 10 II no was accus-
toned 10 come oyery spring. bcforo
tho snow had disappeared from the
dooryard, aud stay till the hunting sea-
son Was over -Four years ngo hc went
10 his cottage ns usual. but owing TO u
fright which his fnmlly and himself rc-
colyod from n panther. he moved away
In May and did not return At tho
time Of which write Mr.. Lambcrson
had threo children; Tom. an athletic
young fellow seventeen years of age,
daughter OF twelve. and Villa. boy
four years old,
From tho corner OF Lambcrson's yard
O logging road ran north about four
miles 10 Little Black creek. the waters
OF which have since been damned by
/, lnmbcrmen. and II Is nov known as tho
! reservoir Tho crock was famous
place for trout Of moderate sizo.
In their Inst visit TO tho woods. when
tho Lambersons reached their home In
April. they found that man named
Wallace. wood chopper. had recently
moved with his family into an old log
house on his logging-road. Without
apparent cause. the Wallucos took a
dislike 70 Tom. the elder OF tho Lam
berson boys. and the children yelled
out dorisivc remarks Whenever hc pass
cd tho log-housc. Tom cared little for
their gIbcs; but when one day one oil
tho children hit him with n SNOWFALL,
he went TO tho door OF tho log-housc TO
rcmonstrato, and Mrs Wallace, a stout.
red-haircd. red-facod person, laughed
impudently. Then Tom threatened to
spank the offending youngstcr at tho
FIRST opportunity. whercupon Mrs. Wal
lace picked up stick OF stoye-wood,
ana s.ariea 70 h,' io,n' ""o i'',' nv.
vescu !" me ,,. D.e.,s"as.' .s.,,' - ~ na,on
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