, 1890-11-20
A -FlNEqGAME REGION!
The Man From the Big Bend
Takes the Stand.
SOME REMARKABLE STORIES
Bear, Trout. and Honey at One
Fell Swoop--A Wild
cat Yarn.
Written for the sunday REVIEW. |

Written for the sunday REVIEW
In addition to its other varied in
dustries, enterprises and advance
ments, this city has some very en-
thusiastic sportsmen whose ability
to spin yarns of their experiences Is
unequaled in any city or country.
Among the many is one man who
has had varied experiences all over
the world. In talking the other day
on the subject of luck he settled back
and with his first expression OBJ
tained the earnest attention of every
one present.
"SpealSing about pot luck" said
he, ~ suppose | have had some of
the darnedest streal<s OF luck ever
had by anyone. When | lived up
in the Big Bend country, not long
ago, l drove a bear up tree and
then felled the tree into the pond,
where the bear was drow ned, at the
same time soaring thirty or forty
trout to death, which rose to the top
of the water. From the hollow
trunk of the tree took 1000 pounds
of honey, which | sold NJ Water
vile.
"Another time | was brought into
the courts to prove that l hadn't
ketched n trout in close time, by
showin' that the line and hook the
trout was on had been left dauglin'
I'm the brook one day in the legal
season, when | was hshin' and left
all of a suddent to drive the cows
outer ther wheat In the excite
ment of the moment / forgot the
hook and line, and when one day
arter the law was on | was passing
that way | found that the hook had
captured trout weighin' fourteen
pounds and ten ounces. / rcckoned
by the appearance of things as the
fish was uncommonly spry. He
had been hooked that very mornin',
but rs 1t couldn't be proved l got oil.
"Ges, all these aud more too are
well-known doin's OH my part; but
us l said, darnedest thing of all hap
pened not long ago. One day |
took down my old rifle, and as there
was nothin' doing round the house,
| started out To- take II walk. What,
as luck would have it, | hadn',
gone far when | spied what | first
thought was wildcat. The Critter
probably got wind of me, for he
cut and run n little ways in about
the direction | came from, and then
took IA sneak along u messy bank !
and hove in sight only to disap- |
pear round large stump ut the |
edge of my ranch. | didn't wait a |
second. | Just up aud let go, Just |
.a 4 hn .I sia,ltf flha ]
ball, | was pretty sure, hit him in !
to secure him If possible, aud then |
hadn't got wind of me, but was |
chasing game, and he got his game |
just as had hit him.
THAT cat had u fox n holdin' him |
with his teeth, and you may believe |
it or not, the foX had ketcheda mar |
ten. | could hardly believe my
eyes and looked again, and blowed |
/ the marteu didn't have u weasel. |
Hold on! | haint done yet. The |
measel had a mouse by the hind leg !
and the mouse was trying to escape |
through II little hole in the fence of |
my back yard, where he had been .
and robbed my hens of II kernel OF |
corn. Wnlcn SUCK out OF MS little ]
One of the young roosters .
was trying to get the corn away /
from him, not that there was not |
plenty OF corn, but, you know, it's N |
rOoster's nature.
Nov, | had hound pup, and /
the antics of the rooster made him /
capcr around arter him, and this .
stirred up the old cat, and she .
joined the dance by roundup up her
back aud spittin' at the hound pup. /
Meanwhile the youngest Kid was .
harnessin' up the old cat or tryin'
10, when the old woman came out .
to see what all the racket was about.
She heard my gun 90 Oft and |
didn't know by the racket but what
| had began to kill oil the children
and ull the domestic animals. /
While she was out the fire went out |
IN the kitchen, but my lucky shot
broke up the combination besides .
me with game. The only |
serious consequence of the whole .
business was that supper was about
fifteen minutes lateb