The Russellville Democrat., 1893-09-14

| We did not have to wait long until all were on the ground and ready tor the hunt. We started out by the simmcn pond" the route usually picked, feeling sure of find ing both 'eoons and 'possums.
 After going about mile we sat down to wait and listen for the dogs, not knowing how long we would be compelled 10 wait before the dogs ''treed. We decided to make our selves comfortable as possible, so collecting some dry limbs we made good fire and seating ourselves around it felt easy enough. Con versation drifts into many channels, but on these hunts it is usually of light order.
 Good jokes, funny stories, riddles, etc., consumed our time, with now and then "Say, did you see that star falli" or Wasn't that a dog barkin'f' from some one of the company.
 One of the boys asked, elf dog runs up on a 'possum 'sulled' on the ground would it be proper to say the dog 'treed' the 'possum. H0f course," replied several.
 "Well, how could he be 'treed when there ain't no treef" came from John Mcknight.
 "Correct, go head" from chorus of voices.
 Say, did you see that star fallG"
 "Yes what is it a sign off
 "I don't know" said Jim Curry; Task Sam.
 "How do I know" said Sam Ask Oscar Donnelly. l bet be knows"
 Oscar kindly informed them that each star was a world larger than this earth, and that they did not fall.
 "I knowed that he knew" said John Mcknight with as much satis- faction as if he had given the an swer himself.
 Finally Jim Curry was asked to tell yarn, "All right, if the rest of the boys will tell one. :" It was agreed, and Jim Curry began: "Did you all know old man Greely' Well, were it not powerful odd and funny about the way he killed his favorite dogi The old man he had bad dog named Bounce. Bounce, he were terror to everybody that passed the place, but the old man would mt uv took COW and calf for that are dog. One day the old man heard bis pigs squealin', so grabbin' his rifle he hurried to the way he heard the pigs squall. Bounce started with ther old man, but ran in different route and was on the ground where the hog was layin' when the old gentleman come up. No sooner did he see the dog than he shot, an seein' the dog fall, walked proudly home, thinkin' he had killed some one else's dog. Late in the evenin' the old man boy says, Pap, says he, I don't know what's become of Bounce Next mornin' the boy says, Pap, l bet you have done gone and killed Bounce, fur he ain't cum home yet
 "sYou must think 1 am fool to kill my own dog said old man Greedy. The old man studied a while and says to his boy, Jim, less us go and see who's dog l shot yes terday. When they got there, sure huff there was Bounce, still and dead.'
 "I can tell as hard one on the old man Greedy as that, but half uv the joke falls on Uncle Billie Tay Tor, spoke up Sam Holder. "Well, it's your time, go ahead ,"
 'No one raised bigger and fatter hogs than old man Greedy, but bout the time he was countin' on a nice lot uv meat some uv the hogs begun to die. Now, there was a good deal uv 'riginality bout the old man you see he fit seven years in the Revolutionary war and had gone and cum through a heap of close places, so when his hogs begun to get sick he watched lem, and if he thought they wouldn't get well he would kill them, salt them down and make meat uy l them.
 "Well, one day he was tellin' Billie Taylor of his novel way of savin' his 'porkers,' when Uncle Billie was quick to tell him that he wouldn't eat a chaw uv that dis eased meat for thousand dollars.
 " Well, you have ct some uv it, anyhow, retorted the old man.
 " I'd like to know when
 " Why, brung you piece of it the day killed one of 'em, that's when
 "Uncle Billie Taylor then remem- bered how kind the old man was to bring them a piece of pork last month. "
 "Hush Listen l hear old Rip, and he's treed." " But after listen ing few minutes and nothing more from the dogs, it was decided to have another story.
 "Al correct, said John Rogers, but will have to tell you one on the same subject, or as the preacher would say, the subject of our discourse is Old Man Greedy"
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