Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-01-18
HIs Eyes Went Back on Aim. |

His Eyes Went Back on Him.
doctor" said red faced and
wntery eyed man from Wayne town
snip, as ne came in DR.. Babeock's of
nee, in Hammondsport, the other
day, Pm afraid my eyes is goin.
back onme, and | dropped in to kind
Q see IT ! can find out where they're
lame"
"Ah!" said the doctor. "What
seems to be the matter with your
syes?"
That's what / don't know" re-
Piled the man, but they played me a
trick t'other day that don't leave NO
room for doubt but what there's
somethin' out o. gear with 'em some
how. Iii give you the symptoms.
Maybeyou don't know that Pm quite
u coon hunter, but am. Tother day
my boy bought one o. these britch
loadin' and repeatin' shotguns. and
! told him I'd go out and see how ii
q work on coon. / went out, and
hadn't gone more than mile up the
hill before i seen bigcoon pop on to
the limb of chestnut tree. He came
there so sudden that ] couldn't get
u 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, ofneyer
nissin' anything | shoot at. and OF
curse when | pulled up and whang-
ID away at that coon | expected TO
zee him tumble, but he didn't. When
she smoke cleared away he sot there
Jest us he was when seen him first.
was surprised, now, ! tell YOU.
thought II was the guns fault, but
biazed away again. The coon never
moved. ! happened to look, some
how or other. at tree off to the
right Of the one the coon was in, and
there sat another coon on limb.
] thought I'D try my luck on him,
and SO ] let him have a shot. He
never stirred.
II begun to git mad by this time,
and durin' little conversation was
havin' with myself about the gun
happened to glance at tree to the
left of the first tree, and there on q
limb was another coon. / tried my
luck on the third coon, and didn {
hit him no more than | did t'other
two. looked at the first tree; there
was thrt coon, sittin' right where he
was when first seen him. | looked
nt the second tree, and there was that
coon still on the limb. | turned my
head toward another tree, and there
! seen n fourth coon, and lookin'
around me whichever way | might,
every tree | had seen had a coon in
il, and all ms fat ms coons could be.
got wild.
Thunder" / hollered: here's the
woods full o'coons, and | hain't got
nothin' but this new tangled gun
that won't hit a barn.
Bnt began TO blaze awagns Inst
ms the gun could spita cartridge, fnst
az one coon and then at another, I'M
ileyery darn load was emptied out o.
that gunand / hadn't dropped coon.
Twas jist agoin to slat that gun 10 fin.
tersugainst n tree, whenl happened to
rub my eve, and when ! took my
hand down, there on my finger was a
nice, Jolly, int wood louise. looked
up. but every coon was gone The
fact o the matter is, Doc, that wood
louise had been hanging to one OF my
eye.winkers all the time. and |
Thought was SEEM coons. BE ! git
tin near-sighted, or is it the optic
nerve doublin' un on me2"
Neither one" said tine doctor.
"Haye the hind pocket in your hunt
Ing pants cut down from quart size
TO hnlt.pint, and you'll be all right. =
The man went out shaking his head
and said he'd think about it.-Ham-
mondsport Cor. New York Sun.