The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-04-20
A car THAT BATS BIRDS.

Office the other day, just after dinner, to
wait for the mail, when the conversation
turned on cats. Budd Davis, who lives
over at Wheelertown, had had hunting
cat that he said could beat anything in
Herkimer county catching game. Al
almost incredible number of chipmunks,
red squirrels and birds had been brought
in by ii, he said. IG had, in fact, CON
trary to cat nature, killed more game than
it could possibly eat, and, by leaving the
carcasses about the woodshed and IN the
woodbox, in the kitchen, had made itself
nuisance to Mrs. Davis.
But the earnest thing about that cat
is the way it ketches snowbirds-I never
heard of such cat. You know how
snowbirds likes hay seed. The cat
seems to have caught on to it. The
SHOWS all trampled down in front of the
barn where the cows stand around, and
it's a great place for snowbirds. too.
cause when the wind blows it rattles
the seed out the timothy sticking out
the windows over the barn floor.
but | should think the hay would
get all covered with snow. so the seed
couldn' rattle, objected listener.
Nav, it don't. The barn faces the
South, and the caves shed it off. AS | was
saying, the seed rattles down there. and
the snowbirds come in the biggest flock
1 ever see. 1t was the softest snap for
that cat-humph. Any OF Ter cat would
have been tickled to death with that
snap. But not mine. No, stree! She
can wait for the wind to rattle down
the seed, but has to go up on. the hay
and claw around there till els got the
seed scattered over the ground. Then
she gets around the corner and sits
there like man on runaway, and
waits till the birds come. Now, that S
what | call reasoning powers -
THAT reminds me of Dan Maginnis'
cat over at White Lake Corners" said
the drummer for Utica grocery house,
who happened to be present. "You
black and white fellow regular jim
slicker. It's dead now. Couple of
weeks ago Jim's boy caught big buck
rabbit. He was out with the dog, and
the dog chased the rabbit into a brush
heap. The boy skipped around on the
other side, and the dog began to claw it's
n 10 hn1 = l,
bit on the kids side, and he grabbed it
by the nap of the neck and it's hind legs
and brought it in. Made him sweat,
though, it was so strong.
'Well, he took it out to the barn and
putt in the empty grain bin. Say, that
boys got sporting blood in him, h, has.
Ever see him? His names Dan, too
He put the rabbit in the grain bin, and
then went and got the cat and took il
out there. Big Dan, he saw him, and
went along to see the capers. He offered
to bet quarter the cat couldn't catch
the rabbit in ten minutes and the boy
took him up, willing to back his own
fighter sees
$50 they put the cat in the further
corner and turned it loose, and then Dan
saw he'd loose his bet That rabbit
just turned round half facing the cat
and gritted his teeth. They both said
so, or wouldn't have believed it, The
cat began creeping up with its belly
dragging on the floor until about three
feet from the rabbit, when it gathered
itself together and sprang at the rabbit
-ker biff! yeow! What do you think
happened? I'll tell you The rabbit
just ducked his head and the cat got
hold of his shoulder instead of the back
of his neck, as he had aimed to, and then
the rabbit reached around, bit the cat
on the front leg, Topped over on it's
back, and, with one swoop of those hind
legs, kicked the innards all out of the
cat and knocked it half way across the
bin. AS it lay there kicking, the rabbit
got on his launches again and began
splitting out cat hairs and looking as un-
conscious as if he had been chewing
birch buds instead"
The deep silence that followed this
was broken after little by Uncle jim
mic Keyes.
Il don't remember to ha' heard of
that ere afore," he said, NOR any sch
doin's; though, as I've said many time,
l don't have no truck with hunlin', and
couldn' expect to express any opinion.
But you know there's, some mighty big
trout up in Mud Toms hole, near my