The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-15
S%INNEMAHONE VENGEANCE
GREAT EXECUTION DONE M REU-
BEN PETTIBONE'S SON.
Eate or the MAN In the vnricrnted Machinaw
jacket when About TO Criticize . story OF
the Sudden and simultaneous Death or
n Hear, q Back. and Two PheaSantS.

the Sudden ana HlmuINhutOuh hIthtn OF
n bear, q Buck. and Two PheaSantS.
ROULETTE, Pa, Aug. l4.-"The peculiar sue
cess that attended my remarkable father. Rcu-
bon Pcttibone, as a hunter said tho man from
over Slnnemahoning way. was duo to his mar.
vellous knowledge OF tho anatomical structure
of wild beasts as much as to his uncrring skill
as a marksman.
"'It isn't enough to know no used to say,
Just where a deer's heart Is located in the AMI.
mails body, or the exact spot In the interior ofa
boar where the kidneys lilo snugly ensconced,
and then to DO able to sock n bullet thcrc IL you
want to be sure OF your game. Not by my
means. A deer will go a mile easy enough with
q bullet in Its heart before 1t will drop. and
you may plug n hole clear through .
bears kidneys, and yet he will hump himself
and get far out OF your reach in n laurel patch
before he finds out that he Is n goner. You may
get the deer, after n good dcal OF trouble and
suspense, but you'll never get the bear. Tho
safest and only profitable way to hunt, to say
nothing of being morciful to your beast. is to
kill your game dead whore 1t stands or whcro ID
runs. Thus, always sever n v~ontriclc of a decr's
heart when you shoot, and all you have to do
then Is to walk up and skin the deer. Never
skirmish around to draw bead on a bears kid
ncys. Separate the spinal cord at the neck
with your bullet, and tho bear will die
In the middle Of O breath. Everybody
knows my remarkable father used TO say.
that IL you shoot tho head Off n pheasant rs ID
swoops like the wind through the thickct, tho
pheasant will drop dead. OF course It will. but
then sec what a shocking blocking thing the
dead bird Is, with its ragged. bloody, hoadless
neck. Bcheading your pheasant thus is cruel.
Just at the base OF the birds bill, below the
eyes. IL a bunch of nerves. A sudden shock to
those nerves will kill the bird instantly. Direct
your rifle ball, as the bird takes wing. SO that
1t will whiz over that bunch Of nerves 30 close
that II 1t was a hair closer it would break the
skin. A stroke of lightning couldn't drop that
bird any quicker than tho conclusion of that
passing bullet will. Remember this, my son.
Reuben Pettibone used to say, and never waste,
pain, or mummix your game
"Of course, you all have heard how my re-
markable father used to bring in his scores and
scores OF birds, fat. plump. and not one mutt
lated. but you never knew before, l guess, by
what marvel he was able to do It,"
I'VE didn't, hey r. said the man in the red.
blue, yellow, green. pink. and purple Mackinaw
Jacket. well. 1 know'd 1t, by guns! An l kin
fetch 'em in list the same way he done it -
what |" exclaimed the man from over SHINE
mahoning way. do you moan to say that you
can paralyze-'
Don't moan to say nothin' O. the kind - in.
terrupted the man in the variegated jacket.
But I kin snare. by guns!'
"Mackinaw," said the man from over Sinne-
mahoning way, after q pause. base insinua-
ton comes with ~ill-grace from a man who Dor
rows all the tobacco he chews.'
This was hard on the man in the many.hued
jacket. He was just on the point of asking the
man next to him for q bite off his plug, and. al
though he wanted the chew badly, he didn't
dare give immediate confederation to the man
from Sinnemahoning's remark. so he postponed
asking for the chew and suffered. The man
from over sinnemahoning way grinned and re-
sumed:
say. mover waste, pain, or mummix your game.
with knowing how to shoot. Them il you keep
your powder dry, you'll tumble things tEemen.
OF all the tumSling Of things / ever did nothing
father fV than a, in1SS BIT sfee OF Climbing 1% @K Ee 1 aid ones
down on the lower ~Sinnemahone. 1 claim no
but far be It from me to say that ever would
have thought Of doing it i il had not been for
The pre,cept and example of Reuben Pettibone.
o all the multitudinou things II have tumbled.
heart to amb9lee'' en; 'Sbs but ~ this tiSnsf / did. n I d mL
in dee h.. Good reason JASON had for Il, too. although
sheep disappeared from my pasture, though. I
thought tho ffdd It was I'll time to call a halt on the boar,
des 1GOe my / F sos on ond ih g traeH 9o oft t%E EePbs ssr ab sna
q mile down the sinnemahone, and followed it
riTSt m,les. a nhe as stream mov made dc q sudden I'D bend
the bend l came In sight of the sheep stcaler,
bIretCneu out on the bank sound asleep n huns
dred yards or 80 ahead Of me. He wasn't in q
position for me to give him a dead shot, and
y%engeful as | was could not bear to think
OF giving him even q moment of suffering.
was on the point OF hollcring at him to Scare
him up and show mo a proper shot, when l hap
ahead lay q big buck chewing his cud in
sweet eontentment. Deer were uncommon
such a buck as that, SO I concluded to postpone
my vengeance a moment, kill the deer, and then
brush. for l knew he would be up and off at the
sound of my gun. l was just about to run my
With ihe taste 81 his cud still ii in III his inc mou afcK wh %lS
what should come s%trutting ont into the open.
hen. l had no sooner seen them than a conpre-
hensiye Idea struck me. and l proceeded at once
This viii be the ncatest piece of work I
have h ever :, done, said I to myself. I wish father
y was apprehensive of only one thing. and
that was that tho bear might wake up before
pheasants as they strutted on out, side by sifoc.
was ready to act the instant they got 10 the
got there at last. /! gave a yell, The bear woke
up RS and nd sprans to his feet, broadside toward me.
The birds got up neck and neck. I : hrcd 18Th The
bear sank down and lay there as II he had re-
s sSn sfo ns ns sRIdo b by si tTo ,a nhG tSo ssm SF0 1s fhe 70 l.,
hSd got b up; The The buck pfR tumbled where he was
"'ff you could see this, Reuben Pcttibone,'
s what J. an aat sp Ple pseil YSSn aTo be- sca am snFS; to a kHo "
see how deep your lessons did sink i'm
Yea; The bears spinal cord was severed no
the neck, the bullet having ploughcd there just
deep enough to do It. and then gone on its wnw
There wasn't a mark on the phcnsants. Tie
bullet had skimmed that bunch OF nerves on
each and shocked them to death. The right
yontrcle of the deer's heart was cut in two, az
Il 1t had been done with n knife-so nice had
been my
The man In the red. blue, pink, yellow. green,
ana purple Mackinaw jacket got out of his
chair. lifted one hand, and opened his mouth as
II TO speak.
Here, Mackinaw!" said tho man from over
Sinnemahonlng way, handing him his plug OF
tobacco. Take n chew with moi"
Mackinaw took the plug, bit off a chew. put
me plug into his pocket, and passed out slowly.
looking dazcd.
Tho man from over Sinncmahoning way muscd
q moment and then went homcward, grinning Us
II he had been having fun.
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