Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-10-14
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neutrality-suspicious.
/ SHORTER, SON
OF A HURRICANE.
The End of His Cyclonfc Career
Brought Grief to the Hem
! lock Belt.
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'ON ONE of my trips through the
" Passadanky country, up in the
henlIock belt" said John Gilbert, the
travelling groceryman, "a disconsolate-
looking native came out on a barn near
the roadside and hailed me. stopped.
Did you come through Jinlcins' Hol-
ler?' he asked.
Yes L said.
WAS folks gethered poorly plentyat
the tavern, Iooktn' glum2' he asked.
Not that noticed, replied
Wasn't the store ehet up?'
".No.'
Business goin' ON about IS usual.
hayT
1T appeared 70 be-
Then they hatn't heerd on it down
to the Holler yet said the native.
Guess / better lope down there an
break It to 'em myself, kind o gentle.
If the news hits EN- student they 1nowt
shet down the tavern
What's happened? 2 asked. my Gu
riosity excited.
Why. snorter's eisadi' was the re-
ply.
Who's Shorter p I inquired.
Guess you must live Pooty flr
about here said the native, if you
never heerd o. Snorterl'
Il had 70 admit that did not live
thereabout. The big barn door was
open and swung back against the side
Of the barn. The native stepped back
and closed it
There said he. pointing to mis-
cellaneous collection of things hanging
10 that side of the door. sThe1n's the
latest assortment, Of Snorter's scalps!.'
Il counted % rafskins, q weasel skin
and chicken hawk.
'Thems Snorter's scaips,' said the
native. an you bet you gloo1nll foIler
when the news gifts round that Snort
er's deadl'
g Son OF yours? said I.
Son o. minel' exclaimed the ma
tive. 'Puhl There amt no son O. mine
nor no son O. nobody else on the or
Passadanky could hung up q passed. O
scalps like theml No. sir! Shorter
want my son. He was the son of a
hurricane, Shorter was! lie was a
rooster, an the son of hurricane! No
one never see the likes o. him afore
j an won't never see the Hikes o. him
agin!
Four years ago hurricane eetch
as we never heerd on afore come swoop-
in through this deestric'. Itcome from
the southeast an fetched all sorts o.
truck along with il, droppin' of It here
an there, an pickin' up more in place
/ of il, SOS we had things that belonged
mebbe way down in Eirginny, tor all
/ know, an things that belonged to
/ US was mebbe lugged off an dropped
down way up in Michigan, jes' as like
| as not, ii the hurricane wind held out
that fur-an' from the way IL was goin'
1 when it slid over the OF Passadankv
I've an idee it had wind enough to car
ry it on to AlasIy, easy enough, before
it give it's dyin' yoop. After the Lurri-
| cane got by I went out To take d look
around, an 'morgst other things u
found was q red hen, settln' da2cd-hle
under a thorn bush, There never had
been q hen like that in the hull hem
lock belt. How fur she had rid on the
bosom o that cyclone no1body'u never
know. / picked her up an found an
egg where she sot. The egg want no
higger'n the everyday run o hens
eggs, but It was redr-almost rs red as
the hen. ! brung the hen an the egg
in, but the hen never seemed TO Git
herself together arin, an give a couple
q kind o homesick signs an kicked
the bucket / had an Of do,niniek hen
that was pinin' 70 ser, an sot her.
| Amongst her settia' i eggs was that