The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-07-18
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| "a few rc.:'- ago. sad az cid gentle
man, Il was l-cuttiEe and piling DRIFT
wood on the axe shore when IL party
| from the village came down to fish
| through the ice. 1t was a cold. raw
| day They told me if Id let them use
my fishing shanty and they had any
luck they would give me some fish
Well, at il they went. just as | was
a-pcking up at night to go home they
fetched me a piclerel that would
a-pulled down six pounds good and
strong. | brought him home and put
HIM up in the crotch of that apple tree
over there. Then | done my chores,
eat my supper, got the picllerel, and
thought 10 clean him; but he was froze
hard as a brick, so | run a string
through his gills and hung Linn up back
of the stove to thaw out.
I'D got a good grip on the sleep that
night, and was a-plOWing ahead on the
gallOp, when my wife woke me up and
said there was some one at the door.
| listened bit nd heard a noise Jest
like some Teller was aknOcl1ing on
the door with mittens on his hand.
/ were a bit vexed, slid out of bed,
pulled on my pants and boots but
did not strike light, grabbe a big
cane which stood at the head of my
bed, hurried to the door, opened it and
jumped out ready to knock the stuffin'
out of anything. But, my dear sir,
there weren't anything to knock. run
round the house; not a living critter
could | see, nor even any tracks in the
SHOW.
$40 bed | went ag'in, and was Just
dropping off, when the old woman, she
nudged me hard, and whispered: Hear
that. jest listen! there it goes ag'inn
Il sat up in bed, and jest as plain as
day | could hear dull sort Of thump.
thump. | begun to feel agerish like;
mOught have trembled a bit; then hol-
lored: who's there?' No answer
Il kinder shivered for bout half a
minute, when there was the darndest
racket out in the kitchen you ever
heard; sounded as if some one was
tin pan all around the room;
and my dog; he came a-yelpin' and |
hoWlln' in the bedroom and crawled |
clear under the bed, where he kept up |
a~whinin' and a-yelpin'. My wife |
and crawled down under the |
bed clothes. l had not only the ager, |
bat the chills-sweating chills good |
and strong. | was ratified; badly rat
tied; jest had sense enough to crawl out
OF bed, grab my gun, which was loaded,
and creep carefully to the kitchen
door. There was certainly some fellow |
out there barefOOted, and he was hav-
ing hull dancing school all to hisself
| located him as near as | could in the
dark, then, without making any noise,
brought my gun to my shoulder and
let her go.
The flash Of the gun was just long
enough to let me see what the trouble
was. went back, lit candle. and
then went back to the Kitchen There.
light in the middle of the floor, was
hat are cussed pickcrel having the
lveheSt kind of a circus all by hisself.
tie was a-cutting up in great shape
With his t1ipity-fOp. hipity-hop. Jest as
lively as if he had jest been pulled out
out of the water. With stick of fire
wood busted that are show quicker n
'ou could say shoe
~ on see, | hung him up in a good,
warm place to thaw out. directly over
he old woman's dishpan. right under
he pan being good. warm. out-of-
he-way place the dog used to sleep.
Is that Internal picllereI began to
haW out his old cu>SednesS crept back
nto him. Between the tiappinrs of
lis tail and the workings of his laws
lie broke the string, then dropped onto
hN ti~h l. c,I1 |
crest and Stream.