The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-01-15
ALL AT ONE FELL sWooP.
How q Wild Cat, n Fox, Marten. .
Weasel and Mouse Were Caught.

Speaking about pot luck" said a
veteran hunter and story-teller one
day this week to the Bangor NeUs
Man About Town" Il suppose l
have had some of the darndest streaks
of luck ever had in the state of Maine.
Everybody knows how / once drove
bear up tree and then felled the tree
into the pond. where the bear was
drowned, ut the same time soaring
thirty or forty trout to death, which
rose to the top of the water; and the
way | sat bear trap and caught fell
low who was there to steal sheep; an
other time when | sot Il trap for crit
tiers what was after turkeys, and
ketched a young fellow that was hang
in round to see my darter Mary. And
the story bout my going TO the courts
TO prove that ] hadn't ketched trout IN
close time by shown that the line an
hook that trout was on had been left
dangling IN the brook one day in the
legal season when | was fishin' an got
called away all of ii student to drive
the COWS outer the corn. In the ex-
element 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 bad captured
trout weighin' fourteen pounds and
seven ounces. | reCkoned by the APP
pearance of things as the fish was on
commonly spry he had been hooked
that very mornin', but as Ii couldn't
be proved | got off.
Yes all these and more, too, are
we'll known doin's on my part, but. as
| said. the darndest thing of all hap
pened not long ago. | took down the
old rifle one day and told the old
woman as long as there was nothing
dom round the place | guessed /
would take walk. Wal. as luck
would have il, hadn't gone far when
| spied what | surmsed to be a Wild
me- for he cut and run Il little ways in
about the direction | came from, and
then took a sneak along a messy bank
and hove in sight. only to disappear
round a large stump at the edge of my
clealin'. | didn't wait a second l
just up and let 90, just as the cat got
out of sight The ball. | was pretty
sure, hit him in the hind quarters |
went forward to secure him if possible
and then and there | found out that he
hadn't got wind of me arter all, but
was on a still hunt himself, and he got
his game just as my ball hit HIM.
That cat had fox. holden him with
his teeth, and you may believe or not.
the fox had ketched marten. |
could hardly believe my eyes, and
looked again, and blowed if the marten
didn't have weasel. Hold on, |
dana ,-at Tho yvaaCal haH
mouse by the hind leg and the mouse
was trying to escape through little
hole in the fence of my back yard
where he had been and robbed my
hens Of kernel of corn, which stuck
out of the little mouth.
"One of the young roosters was try
inc to get the corn away from him.
not that there wasn't plenty more, but
that is Il ROSTERS nature you know.
Now, | had hound pup, and the an
tics of the young rooster made him
caper round arter him. and this stirred
up the old cat and she joined the
dance by roundup up her back aud
spilten at the hound pup. Meanwhile
the youngest kid was trying to harness
up the old cat and the ole woman
came out with broom to see what all
the racket meant. She had heard the
gun 90 off, too, and didn't know by
the rumpus but had gone crazy and
begun shooter the children and other
domestic animals. While she was out
the fire in the kitchen went out, but
my lucky shot broke up the combina-
ton, besides loading me with game,
and the only serious consequence was
supper being about fifteen minutes
laten