The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-12-16
PLENTY OF THEM.
THESE HUNTERS ALSO FOUND LOTs
OF BEAR AND DEER.
A Friend OF All Parties ESpisIns WAY
None or the Game Was BrouEht Howe
He Says His story IL Easy 60 VerIrv.

W %A khNlnNhW NhW
None or the Game Was brought Howe
He Says His story II Easy 60 Verify.
o course" said a friend Of all the parties, II
only Know what | was told, but to verify what
say you have only To go To Doc. Bernhard or Bern
hard Kraft or John Quicker or Billy keiner or
Joe Ohineis, every one right In this city. and
ask them about II. They were there. They
were not only there, but they were in II. And,
besides, some folks who live upi Ia Calllcoon we're
In 1t. but | wouldn't ask you to go see en-. be-
cause they are residents OF sullivan county, and
you cant tell what they would say. They prol,-
ably wouldn't verify IL at all. sullivan county
folks arc queer. But Doc. Bernhard and all the
rest of those chaps were up In sullivan county
around Callicoon-and they've just got back. I
was down to the Erie ferry the night they got
in to meet en-.
Hello, fellows" I said. 'Backg'
"'Wcll' said Doc. Bernhard, we wouldn't be
here, would we, IL we weren't back p
The minute he spoke up that way I know
things hadn't gone exactly right, but I didn't
let on, and | said: Have a good timer .
Picked out the best lot Of time that was
lying loose around Callicoon!' said the Doctor.
This was rather m but still I
didn't let on. and so | said: Any peary'
More bear than you could stun into .
twenty-ton box carr said the Doctor.
MOI I said. Where are they p
W III iiN COunty, bHu Jne DOCLOT.
"'YetT asked. @,
"'This minute replied the Doctor.
Then | paused for q moment, and said: on.
you didn't get any bear
Good guesser!' said the Doctor. You ought
to go down on Long Island and guess on fat hogs.
You'd win every time!'
Not wanting to obtrude too much on the evil
dent feelings Of the Doctor, I corked up for n few
minutes, and then said: How about deer2'
psntl -, .,.a. II n Ia.- !, -. A. -
response.
NO. | said.
ibid you ever shoot at a deer p asked he.
mo | said.
"'Then what are you 80 damn anxious about
deer for ? said he.
well. OF course, I saw the Doctor was at
least tepid about something, and l didn't press
my cordiality on him. but went and talked with
John Quicker.
John I said, did your powder run out
NO. said John. ri tell you how It was.
1t was this way. We went up to Callicoon to
shoot birds. When I say birds I don't mean
robins. or woodpeckers. or b~luejays. OF chez
winks, or sapsuckers. They amt birds. They
are only robins, and woodpeckers. and b~luejays.
and c~heewinks. and sapsuckers. Birds are
cartridges. And that's what we went up TO
Callicoon to shoot. Birds. Consequently, the hrst
day we went out we were simply loaded for
orus' wen, eIr, nrst Weu jump up n deer;
then we'd jump up a bear; then we'd jump up
another deer; then another bear-but not a bird
nor the sign of n bird. OF course. being loaded
only for birds, we were of no more use in tho
woods thar a fiddler at a funeral.
N ,.mAA an J Sishtm SAYS Doc: Bernhard. I'm on
well come out loaded for deer and bear"
n Ca looked reasonable, and We came back
and buckshot, and went out ready to NOV down
Hui. saw What do Won fhipk Nnt an lI,,ns
bear o: deer showed w. but birds wiinacd and
buzaed and doomed and whirrea from under
weren't going to lombard 'em with buck shot and
ball and tear EN- n. into hash, and there we we're,
But know a trick or two. Tomorrow weiIfI
EN-. Wen come out some of us loaded for birds
Wen gather in fur, hide and feather"
=" So next day Doc. told KRAFT and me to load
Tor birds ohmeis and keiner to load for deer
".Irll load for the big game in one barrel"
." And that's the way we loaded and started
loaded for birds. and I haunt gone more than
half a mile when a siamming big buck got up.
snorted at me. I wasn't any good. but was so
mad that banged away at him with both bar
smoke OF my gun hadn't cleared away yet when
out OF the brush strntted nine big cartridges.
boiling. and I threw S my gun at th mnne te f ]"s;
like a clap Of Thunder, aud at the
instant Doc. poked his head through
the brush. He heard and saw the birds. but he
forgot which OF his barrels was loaied for bear
and, deer and which was loaded for birds. and
for big game. There were fourteen buckshot in
hat barrel. and they intercepted one Of, the
and flesh, and all the blood u partridge has.
i2ated and tnmbIed and battered tothe ground.
tremendous big bear pranccd out OF the
brush. just "A good shot distant for buck
Doc. banged at him with his barrel loaded for
The bear got up on his launches. cooked
heard something. / t6ink What was it?'
Then he actually danced in mockery OF us.
/. a buckshot cartridge, but before he got il in
John" says the Doc. the sign amt right
$50 We went back. and learned at Callicoon
. ,aa , thS r fGs@ Sf that the 'a neSs hf had met eo sSms rome 9ns who Tho
side OF the river that a big Wild
"a had been raising The dickens with sheep and
"FAh - says, Doc, THAT sounds something
ike Let's go show 'em how TO kill wildcats :"
$50 we went across the Delaware, got on the
racks OF the other hunters, and came up TO
""Hay!"' Iiiey shouted. Ills hoied up in
hese rocks! II can't get away"
how plainly that the animal had gone into tho
'ayern; Doc. went TO the opening and peered in.
I'VE all took a peek in, There we're rs eyes
'lain enough, two bright spots shining like
90" Well all shoot i'm says Doc.
And We, all shot two barrels apiece into tho
Then We peeked in. The two shining
"'.W We've done him - Saws Doc.
1.-THE native who had put Keiner and Kraft
nd Ohmeis on TO the wildcat said he'd GO into
he cave and drag the yarmint out, and he did,
: rd men wf,b cS Sim ,1 M s H. Iig ag"' =: grSss ~ ne
I Il and yooped.
49," JpinPiR' grasshopPers.r says he; ,
er all over the township ter m0re'n n week -