Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-02-19
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AcsusrA. MAIZE, Feb. ,, 1891.
DKAs JACK:
stage TO come % this sSes. big city. you
asked me 70 write 70 yoa al about the leg
isisture. Before / cay one word about
that. let me tell you there ass mors dogs 10
Angnsta than the Turks have in Constaa-
linopie. Every man, boy. girl and old
maid keeps mere dogs than town psu
per owns. They 80 hunting with them
Mr. Silver. Ginny. and lots Of other big
feIleys; AID then they come home all tired
cut 81 night, with their faces all blood
red because they run 20 hard the wind
blows agsinst il. and sit around and tell
how near they come to shooting three or
four foxes. Sometimes Silver brings fox
home with him, but the other felIess all
say he buys Them OF hoy on Cross Hill.
who pizens them foxes on IN old dead hos,
In his fathers field. SEINE fellows came
down here from Lewiston the other day
and wanted to raise pigeons to shoot At
from box traps. They wanted the Lsgis-
Isture to let them do IL real bad. They ssid
il was lots Of fun To do is. don't believe
the pigeons think that way. They said poo.
people would raise pigeons for them, and
Keep on The town. and get lots of money
for their birds, and poor people would
have more pigeon pies thxa they had seen
since our great grandfathers died. Some
Of us boys heard them talk, and we are GO
ing 20 ask the Legislature to Give us the
right to raise frogs In the puddle back Of
the State House. and give Us the right to
stone them for tua. Bob Jones says after
frosa are killed we can sell them in New
York and get lots of money, and
the poor people who get soup and such
things 1t Delmonieo's soup house can
have frogs la Franchise. Bob Is scholar
with big head on him. He says frogs are
scarce in the market just as pigeons are,
and that there is as much fun for boys to
stone frogs and cats and things as there i.
for men to shoot pigeon. He says il
wouldn't DO to let men get ahead Of US
boys in having fun with animals. He
says animals was made for US to have
fun with, and they can't talk rei-
Their and tell & felIer's mother. il we boys
do throw stones ut them and shoot them
with slings and guns and hurt them. He
Gays his old man came home one day from
shooting pigeons out of . trap box and
gave him An awful licking because be tied
Il tin pan to the dogs tail just for fun.
Then his old man set down in the house
and told Jim Smith Who keeps . fighting
dog 70 chaw up all the little dogs tina, come
round) what fun he had shooting
pigeons. He said be killed fifty and four
got away, but he hurt them so they could
not go far or live long. He said the birds
were scared almost to death when they let
them out, so that ii was real easy 10 kill
them. Bob told little Ben Smith, the old
man no business to lick him for soaring
nothing but deg, when he had been
soaring aud killing and hurting IS much -
fifty pigeons all the afternoon. The old
man heard Bob, and he give him another
licking for being SASSY to his father. We
boys have agreed to help them Lewiston
sports on their pigeon law. il they will help
US on QUE frog law. Thst is The way. Bob
says, to get things through the Legislature
From your cousin,
SAN GREEN.