The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-13

over here is tootems two is four, maxim
twelve, 'cording to Daboll. You take the
two balls on the nigh side, Sam. an I'll take
the two on the off side. When say three,
let her oiml"
1t seemed good while to Sam before Joe
said three but when the word came he "leu
her bim,n according to directions. Both
guns went off at once, and the four balls of
fire disappeared. But something else came
In sight The wild cats bounded out OF the
hole over the bodies of the two Joe and Sam
had shot, and while the report Of the guns
was sill bowling along the narrow passage
in booming echoes, and before the boys had
time to be surprised, they found themselves
mixed up on the rocky bottom of the Dew
IFS Rut with wild cats, grape vines guns
and stones in such a way that the impress of
1t on their minds will be fresh and vivid
long after the impressions made on their
bodies have healed up and disappeared.
Neither Joe nor Sam can recall Just how
they managed to bring the end about, but
the appearance of the wildcats heads con-
veys the impression that it was accom-
plshed principally by the US Of the butts
of guns. At any rate, when the rush aud
whirl and yelling was over, the boys found
themselves sitting on the bottom Of the
Rut, without much clothing on to speak of,
and scarcely a spot four inches square from
their shoulders down that didn't have the
marks of a wildcats claw imprinted on it.
As they sat there, wiping the blood with
such bits OF shirt ami things as still hung
TO them, Joe was the first to break the
silence.
MISSED 1T ON THE CALCULATION.
1.-THE hole" he said, twas leetle fuller
o. wild cat than l calkilated on. But them
last ones makes toetems four Is eight more
Sam"
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apt suggestion that they had better be dig
ginE out of there and making for home to
get patched up. So they agreed THAT they
had done their share, and concluded to go
home and send their paps back after the
guns and wild cats. They hauled them
selves out Of the Rut by the grapevine and
limped homewsrd.
Il happened that not long after Sam
Pomeroy had abandoned operations in the
potato field and joined Joe Crane in the
wild cat hunt, his father stroled over to the
field to see how he was getting along.
Finding the hoe there alone, Farmer
Pomeroy hurried home to see what had be-
come Of Sam. Not finding Sam, but
noticing that the gun was gone, he started
for the woods. In the course Of his recon
noitering he at last came upon Sam and
Joe as they were making the best time they
could homeward, tattered and disabled.
"Jist what 1 ben 'spectinp" exclaimed
Farmer Pomeroy. THAT gun has gone
and busted on you at lastl Serves ye right,
an I'll give yer hide good tannin' when l
git ye home!"
Don't know about that pap" said Sam.
"You won't find much hide left on me to
tan, I'm thnkin'"
Then the boys told the wild cat story, and
Farmer Pomeroy helped them home on the
double quick, turned them over to their
mothers, cent fer the doctor, and he and
Joe's father went to the DEVILS Rut and
brought in the wild cats and the guns.
Potato planting will all be over, Doc
Barnes says, when Sam and Joe get around
again.
but thenIl come the grass and the rye ~
says Sam POmer0y. II wisht me an
Joe could find another hole full o. wild
cats. That'd help over haydn and harvest,
toom