The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1895-12-22

all the saddles"
ride out Of the yard the negro lunch
bearer bringing up the rear. The physician
goes to see a patient out in the country
and plants both rifle and shotgun beside
him in his buggy. He takes his dog along.
stopping more than once on the road 10
XIII a brace Of doves, go after the .coNey
or try for the big hawk outlined so tempt
ingly ON the tiptor of ar Isolated pine.
stay for the ducks this evening urges
the master of the household, the profess
sional visit being over; and not needing
second invitation. the two trudge of TO
bag partridge or two while waiting for
the sun to decline.
Better go in the boat. the banks up at
the head Of the pond are nearly inaccessl-
hle," II is advised and. with the add
tional freight of small boy or two, whose
eagerness to go is so pronounced that the
hunters have not the heart to refuse thelni
the battcau starts OH its way up stream.
Two dogs go, along, two intelligent tiers
but the bullet headed black man IN the
loaky boat that glides out from the NIL
lows is a better retriever than the dogs
and better guide than the. sport loving
master of the plantation. There is noth-
ing that this negro does not know anoui
the habits OF ducks, and the habits OF all
other sentient creatures that winter IN
that pond He has pillaged tho secret
haunt of bird and beast in those thickiy
grown places eyer since ne was as , h,s
straw by his lightwood fire until mid
night, SO as to he early on the GROUND
discovered the fish beds hidden among the
bonnet leaves, and stolen UP IN the pale
light OF dawn on some befuddled owl or
willy hawk, roosting confidently N the
thicket. That impenetranIe place x, khp 9'y,,,
as the head OF the pond is open to MN
and his confidants
FOX hunting through pine barren. oak
thicket and swamp. over diteheSI, ,ehcs ,o
avoid the dangling moose OF q stSptNnne,
now swerving suddenly to evade the giant
trunk that looms up n me nam men l,'a out
NJ their beds until the small hours ana
,empts the old men to get up ana m , l0,iow
when they bear ne ,, eia mon OF i'ou'''S
"siy men 10 supper. Kinda. and they
don't want to wait a minute They're 60
country house to tho warden OF the ovens
ai,I .p pS"S sates. Miss Georgia! And my
supper all done cook. list now READY 10
'9 Tben N the reioubtabe Kinda rises TO the
emergency and brols bakcs' frleS @il1
stews. cuffs the cat ana ne aoS p ,ick a.
ninrieS M one and the same time;
when dis time o. de year come ae nm nm
folks is crazy" she m hu,,,in, termorrer.
an dove hun;in' de day after dat. Nevsi I've,
home to meals, and de gals foliering rlgII d
benin en- trapsin through cS he w Saisr p b,
un ,,,r oa Tor cripple deyse'f fore dey know
| |" Win, aroun' arter deinen, an ueh
devil he hollerin' for Kinda TO ~aI on
rnn,s an ,nuscadlne vine amt no place
| ,or gals In de night time. III.
The cracker listens at the door ., IL, IL
| sban,v 10 the horn. the hounds anu 'he
gallnnning hoofs of the hunt. 90
| s"i calculate there amt mucn Tdins
hn got when there's such a NOSE ~
savs squattlng before the NE ana iu rl ser
| inS out a coal to apply to ms plpe NSn ~
! hunts | goes for the game anu ~,
1art no such ou,landish uproar ahyMm s,.s
about. Desc here young o'ooHs
| must have a frolic. A., a,,o ~ the
The cracker lives on the edge Gl ,r1I
s,iamp a swamp as dense ana p,i,liler va, az
| ~ Inv that Simms peopied Win u'' 49,,
a. hravados. The cracker mas no IA
| a. nav, and nothing TO pay with u ~ ~ ~
70 M sSv one should decide 10 clea, ne
n,a mn no will have TO move nu' ,,a,
| i~0v,s that nobody ever VIII, anu 10, suh
~, 49, IN that case he would hays .V nv, 10
~ ,nove Having no fixed hantation 10 ~ ~
70 mooe ,ayes 10 pay. no ballots 10 cas y,
m no comnulsory obligations OF any hn' ne
no lie resembles the flowers o. ns
11eia IN that he tolls not, anu ,- ne nir
~, ~ the world q progeny az ~ lT',,o
ssih,a and philosophical as ninlS,,i ~, ,,a,
siuiy an might have hunted al s'tI, .,i's,
l-Sad be listed, but the autu,nl'"i "A he
has entered into his blood ALL, NV zAsl
s nnl s"' the woods with additional 1eN'