The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-01

all to wunst. hain't hep says
"'How so?' says M'riar.
wy I says, he's stopped at the
gate more'n dozen times this week.
saws, an asst p'tie'lar how you was
I saws, an how yer lard tried out, I
saws. an how my roomytiz were |
saws, an If my Eaters was rOttin' any
I saws. an If we wouldn't like 20 try
a roastin' o. his spare ribs I says, an
seemed terrible anxious | says, about
how things Tsas turnin' out round our
premises in ginerl, says It's Den
year an better says, 'sence the
Squire has ben so uncommon social BILE
an anxious Wat do Y s'pose has
struck him. Mriar?' ! says
'Mebbe he's heerd.' says Mriar,
bout them three bari o cider we've
rolled inter the cellar says she.
"'B'gosh" says / That's itr
The Sources response 70 this sally Of
the Old Settler vas lost in the burst of
laughter that the latter called forth,
and when quiet was restored he was
serene and good-natured. aud the Old
Settler was beam!ng again But he
was not to be diverted from what ne
had set out to narrate, AMI he immedi-
ateiy resumed:
"Lippy Coukright. he says to me one
day, he says: 'Sile, tha's a siammin'
big buck list achin' fer dose o lead
over on Wild Gauder, he says. Less
60 an plug some inter it. he says.
That list suited me clean through, an
we went"
"'Win y drive the ridRe?' says Lip
py. Or will V stan on the runway"
"'Wull Lippy,' says, 'bein's it's
cold an squaIly day an the runway is
the toughest job I says, you kin
drive
$50 Lippy took the dogs an went off
back on the ridge 70 start out the big
buck put myself on the Of red oak
runway an waited for the uDfort'nit
deer TO cou.e along. ! hadn't ben there
ten minutes fore of on the scrub oak
barren I see a golthumpin' big bar
come out and go to feedin' on the
acorns. Ny gun were loaded heavy,
kin tell re, an | says to myself:
See here, bar SAYS, You come
Ieetle higher, b'sosh, an I'll hef to har-
vest ye"
"WuH. the bar. not SEEM or gittin'
scent O. me, KEEP on feedin' higher an
higher. an / could "a bored him ez
easy ez borin' hole inter sap tree,
but it come over me, ez the bar fed
along, that " at | wanted to do were
TO hev patience.
We haiu't out arter bar I says.
Wen arter deer, an if I plug that
bar. l says, the buck is liable to hear
it an shy of fer some other runway,
an we won't git him. l says. But l
says, If I hev patience. tha's future
right here on this red oak runway, L
says, that'u make comm ginerations
hor UP their hands an wonder, | says.
$50. hevin' my gun loaded heavy, an
hevin' patience, I stood thar IN the
blusterin' cold an waited fer the future
The bar fed higher an higher, an
come so close, b'gosh, that l could "a
twisted fur outen him with a ten-fOot
pole Then he fed away ag'in, till ne
got most out O. range, an then 'spose
hadn't "a had patience? I'd "a drawed
head an plugged that bar, spilled the
future, an nv gray hairs d a gone down
in sorrer to the grave ev'ry time I'd
thort of it.
VILE the bar were feedin' away
from me two great big white swamp
rabbits come a-lopin' out o the bushes
an went to grass almost where | could
touch EN-. Them kind o rabbits was
sca'cer than money IN Sugar Swamp
deestric' list then, an money were so
sca'ce that folks usety come twenty
miles TO git look at a silver shll'n'
my pap brought with him from Jersey.
If I'd a had nv chico I'd ruther
gathered in them two big white rab-
bits than the buck or the b ar, an if
hadn't had patience an my eve on the
future Id "a banged away an got EN-
But let EN- feed an said nuthin'. Ez
the rabbits fed around flock o pleas
ants come pecAin' an peckin' out inter
the orenin' right in front o me. NV
NANNY were coIsid' rable low with
fever in them days an had been
cravia' fer a hunk o pheasant I'd
been out ey'ry day fer week, an l
couldn't git pheasant to save my gig
EaEG. al mere " d. d AAeAA NSNN - : ~
more, an all ! had to do were TO pep
per EN- over! I come pooty nigh raIsin'
nv gun an baugin' EN- wen my eye
got outer the future ag'in, an l stood
still in the cold wind an waited.
.'Or ledge Suiffets, at the county
seat, had a standin' offer o sixty dol
lars for the skin of silver gray fox,
II - FAUaz har
seen in the deestric' fer ten year. Ez l
stood there waitin' fer the future, with
the big bar feedin' IL lords me ag'in,
an the white rabbits nippin' the grass
around me. an the Pheasants peckln'
right in front o. me, l heerd sumpin'
in the brush, of 70 my right, an peek
in out O the corner o my eve, wat
should l see but a shiny silver gray
fox.
" Gosh" thinks !, an thunk it
so hard it's a wonder the bar an the
rabbits an the pheasants an the fox
didn't all hear it. Gosh! This futures
gointer be with whilen
The bar fed higher an higher. l
know'd wat the fox were arter. He
had his eve on them white rab-
bits The rabbits nipped around till
they was right behind me. The fox
sneaked around higher TO EN- The
pheasarts KEEP pecSin away an wal
lerin right IN front o ne. Poorly soon
l heerd the dogs, an kuoved the buck
were comm
Now, says. II this here gun is
only loaded heavy enough. b'Eosh. the
future is mace-
The bar got higher, an see the
deer creakiu' over The ridge