Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-05-27
HOW FEB GAVE IN.
-.. rss1'- Of His Wife's Effort 20 Cure
Him of the 'PoSsum Habit.

Him Of the POSSum HaOlJ.
o0s evening when Zeb White, the
,-...gm hunter of Tennessee, anG l were
49,. m the moutains watching a hears
don and told me this story:
Ono mavnin' riz outer bed feelin'
mean an powerful low down. reck-
D., SIGH times come 20 everybody now
and them. It might hev worked off with
M, s~er a while but fur the old woman.
,o.,-ss like she wasn't feelin' very
- either. and when we got sot down
=. ,-,,kfsst she sez to me. SEE she:
azsb White. I'm wantin' snuff and
.....s7d new kaliker dress and you'd
Ser rrn to and git 'em or thar'n be
-,v raint gwine to stand this fussin'
around no mo-"
avbos a fussin'?" seq I. =
avo. 10 You hain't done hard
5.r's work in two years. It's Just
,,,+ir' arter 'possums till ives almost
3. the poor house
.Hain't selhn 'possum pelts Ter
frr cents apiece"
.Of co'se. but you's chawin' up the
-,,-sv i'm terbacker Jest the same or
s-s,dir' III fur cO'n-juice down al the
C,rer1 Things has got to change
around here or I don't stay
~Yo haint tied TO this CABIN oy no
rope" sen l.
-Nsbbe YOU dare me to go?" seq she.
% hain't coaxin' yo' to stay agin yor
tee'in's"
Then tn go"
-r didn't think she'd do it, said the
old man after a quiet laugh. but she
r,7 nm from the table with her cheeks
Is red as fire and put on her sun-bunnrt
and started off up the road. l was sor-
~ hut It wasn't for me 70 call her back:
had to let on that I didn't keer, yo.
know and when had finished my meal
started fur the woods l was arter
'r0ssums asin Things didn't 60 right
'-qu Instead OF beiu' glad and ready
IN 60 with me my ole dswg sneaked OF
and hid himself. Then | found 1 was
ont o. powder and lead. and when l
went ont % feed the meWel | diSkiyered
shat he had got out and wandered
away When I did make a start | felt
shat mean that was minded to sOt the
cabin afre TO spite somebody. i went
through the woods cussin and kickin',
and [ lest made up my mind that the
ole woman might stay away all the rest
o. her life befo I make il up with her.
Y0 remember the path We followed
over Panther Hill one day? Wall, l
rls takiD' that path. There was plen-
o. O. bars around we're then. and only
three DAYS befO' the fuss I'd set a big
trap on that path. I Orter have recOl-
'.si bout it as I went along but that
tsS with the ole woman driv it clean
crer my head Yes. sab, l walked
plumb into that trap befo' l knOwed it,
and what was WusS / kOtChed with both |
legs ies. below the knees. 1 was carry
+, my rife long down beside me. an
ko,ched too. If it hadn't bin the
teeth would have gone right to the
bone"
But YOU had your arms free and |
could ge- yourself out | said.
Ii like 70 hev YOU try it once" he
E-'mly replied The heft of that trap
was an man could lift. and / had to !
ass lever to- spring the jaws open
When [ sOt &C. I had the chain fast to
tree. and had cleared the ground |
around De- and thar wasn't so much as
eS,eS to helm myself with. Deed. sab. |
' I Jest fell right over and hOwled !
WIN -he pain Of t. Feared like my |
Nss was bein sawed off with a duh |
saw and I never come higher to faint !
H# 49, 80 er,rV Hes-a -
,s go' numb and the pain wasn't so
a~ su' D sweat till I hadn't a dry |
'e3d OBJ me- That spot was two miles |
n any house. and how l was gwiue |
S outer that scrape 7 couldn't tell |
-.'.eu and whC0ped till I could boot |
1' ont no one cum. That is. no |
'''A oen cum What did show M /
Bar Reckon he'd been slepin' |
t-., ..cNe, nigh at hand. and my Yell |
fl disturbed him. Anyway he was |
all my rifle was kotched in SIGH !
taf tnat couldn't use It, The |
larmnt knOwed I was in a fix !
, leok advantage of IL. He Jest |
AeI right mp TO me and smelt me up |
toNn. Then ne hauled of and hit |
NAack with his paw which rolled |
a.
s.. .oi.ed me back. couldn't do moth |
~, by. Jake It. and I reckon Z was half |
,-s 'ol. oeto' he got tired of the fun
t,r.,. ''ked off Thar was his chance
t,.., ana eat man. and a man as hadi
a5,.. over thirty Of his kind. but he /
'ahe advantage of it,"
/. ,aa What happened after the bear
s-,,.1. '.' mat was about noon. | rolled |
-l and 60, the chain free and then
t..t open the trap. but I couldn'
t--..- About three o'clock in the af-
Pr, ya, when I'd made up my mind |
nv vas a goner and was LAWN on
III. --'A and wsspin like a baby. nv
s,--. woman hove in sight. She'd got
n anu gone back to the cabin. but
's-,T nay she can't tell why she fol- |
s-,-. me into the woods. Reckon the
S Providence p'inted that way. |
r,,,,. e. over helm mad and She was |
bs-....li shocked to find me in that
sr sp but YOU know how wimen /
e7 ~, usE aoaa't want to pear to give
on gWck. She seed me a eocd wavs