Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-02-06

4 DOZEN BULLETS WERE IN HER HIDE,
circle round the house, comm back in
the road on the other side.
EVERY kind NV scheme wuz tried to
ketch that pair NV robbers, but it didn't
work. They went right on stealin' an
KILN, stealin' an KILN, ez eff they
wuz never goin' to stop. After the bell
wuz put on the dog he got scary tew,
an wudn't come round the house when
eny men folks wuz there. 1t seemed ez
though he cud tell, fer he never made
mistake. Ef the men folks wuz all away
the old dog wud come Ground ez nice ez
you please, an beg fer suthin' to eat.
He acted so perlite the wimmen didn't
hev heart to shoot him, even ef they
he'd nerve enuff to hold q gun. But the
dog fin1y cum to his end becuz he mis-
calculated In dealin' with one woman.
"One Sunday he come to Sam Grams
toms house when all the family, 'ceptin'
Sans growcd-up darter Celindy, wuz
away at church. Celindy knowed the
dog all right, an though she wuz afraid
NV him some, she made up her mind to
trap him ef she cud.
Right in front Nv the house stood
the big well sweep. 1t wuz pulled down
an held with a lletch, an the rope from
the long end wuz hangin' down to the
ground. Celindy KEEP the dog around
by THROWN him bone to pick. Then
she made slippin' moose in the end NV
the rope an laid the coil on the ground,
Then she set plate Nv the incest kind
NV vittuls inside tibet coil. She sed
afterwards thet she wuz SO excited an
nervous she cud hardly stand, but the
dog didn't suspect nuthin' wrong,
When he put his head down to eat,
Celindy unfastened the ketch an ez
quick ez wink there wuz Mr., Dog
a-hangin' bout four feet in the air, He
wuz hangin' there when the folks come
home frum church, an tell you they
wuz some surprised.
After the dog wuz gone the folks
made up their minds to git rid NV his
wife, SO they sent a rider round to give
notice NV huntin' bee. More'n hun
dred men an boys turned out, an they
he'd a regular beatin' in fer thet old
wolf. They wuz ez many dogs ez men.
a-barkin'to beat all. They wudn'tnever
track the old boy, but, when he wuz
out Nv the way they took the VOLTS trail
I'll right. Well, the old wolf wuz
hemmed in on all sides, an fin'ly she
wuzlocated on the edge NV big swamp.
She wuz full NV fight to the last, an
after she he'd laid out couple NV the
dogs the others backed away. But thet
settled her fate, cuz ez soon ez she wuz
clear NV the dogs dozen bullets wuz
in her hide an she dropped in her
tracks, leavin' behind her the record
Nv hevin' killed the most sheep NV any
wolf ever seen in western New York.
"She left four Nv the funniest-lookin'
little whelps you ever see, too. Some NV
the men wanted to keep 'em, but bein'
neither wolf ner dog, they wuz uglier
than either, an he'd to be killed ez soon
ez they began to growup.
They wuz some discushun ez to who
should git the $25 bounty fer the old
wolf, cus ct wuz hard to say who he'd
killed her, but It wuz fin'ly settled thet
ct should go to Celindy Cranston fer
gittin' the old dog out NV the way.
Everybody wuz pleased with thet
speshully me, cuz Celindy wuz my girl,
I'M thet $25 went part NV the way to
settin' us up Mt Housekeeping IN. Y.
Sun.
"A great man may be the personifica-