Warren sheaf., 1897-11-04

''base insinuat tion comes with ill grace
from 4 man who borrowsjall the tobac-
co he chews. : IasS
Thisiwas hard on the man in the many
hued Jacket. Heswasjust on the point
of asking the man next to him for bite
off his plug, and, although he wanted
the chew badly, he didn't dare give i'm
mediate corroboration to the man from
Sinnemahoning's remark, SO he post
poned asking for the chew and suffered.
The man from over rSinnemahoning way
grinned and resumed.
=" 'Praxiteles,' my remarkable father
used to say, never waste, pain or
mummix your game. Let anatomical
knowledge 60 hand in hand with know
ing how to shoot. Then, if you#keep
your powder dry, you'll tumble things
tremendous And I followed his ad.
vice, and have tumbled things, I take
IL. Indeed have. But of all the tum-
bling of things I ever did nothing ever
reflected more credit on my remark
able father than a neat bit of tumbling
l did once down on the lower Sinnema-
hone. claim no credit for it for N.Y.
self. It was neat, indeed; but far be it
from me to say that ever would have
thought of doing it if it had not been
for the precepts and example of Reuben
Pettibone.r Never! ". ..... ,,.~.-,s.,, ,e.s",
"Of all the multitudinous things
have tumbled I have seldom gone out
with vengeance in my heart to tumble
'em; but this time did. I did, indeed.
Good reason had for it, too, although
1 had been more than patient. When
the ninth sheep disappeared from my
pasture, though, I thought it was time
to call halt on the bear, and I took
my rifle and went out, vengeful and de-
termined. I got on the track of the bear
about a mile down the Sinnemahone
end followed it three miles, The stream
made a sudden bend right there, aud
as moved cautiously around the bend
came in sight of the sheep stealer,
stretched out on the bank sound asleep
hundred yards or so ahead of me.
He wasn't in a position for me to give
him dead shot, and vengeful as was
I could not bear to think of giving him
even moment of suffering. was on
the point of hollering at him to scare
him up and show me proper shot
when I happened to raise my eyes, and
there five rods ahead lay big buck
chewing his cud in sweet contentment.
Deer were uncommon scarce. that sea-
son, and I had use for just such buck
as that, SO concluded to postpone my
vengeance a moment, kill the deer and
then attend to the bear before he could
get into the brush, for knew he would
be up and off at the sound of my gun. I
was just about to run my eye over the
gun barrel and let the buck die with
the taste of his scud still in his mouth
when what should come strutting out
into the open side by side but big
cock pheasant and his hen. I had no
sooner seen them than comprehensive
idea struck me, and I proceededat once
to carry it out. I "7*
5"'This will be the neatest piece of
work have ever done,' said I to my
self. 4 wish father was here to see it,
l. "1was apprehensive of only one thing,
and that was that the bear might wake
up before things were in proper shape.
I watched the two pheasants as they
strutted on out side by side. I was
ready to act the instant they got to the
point my nice calculation had fixed on.
They got there at last. gave yell.
The bear woke up and sprang to his
rose like a flash at the same instant.
The birds got up neck and neck. fred.
The bear sank down and lay there as if
he had resumed his nap. The two
pkeasants dropped to the ground side
by side, just the same as they had got
up. = The buck tumbled where he was
lying when woke him. & ~ d
"'If you could see this, Reuben Pet
t;bone,' said 'it's pleased you'd be,
Pm sure, to know what an apt pupil
I have been, indeed, and to see how
deep your lessons did sink int ~
eyes. The bears spinal cord was sew:
cred at the neck, the bullet having
plowed there just deep enough to doit
and then gone on it's way. There wasn't
a mark on the pheasants.# The bullet
had SKINNED that bunch Of nerves on
each and shocked them to death. The
right ventricle of the deer's heart was
cut III TWO DIS IL IL ndu DeeH uOHc W1Lu
knife-so nice had been my"
The man in the red, blue, pink, yell
low, green and purple. .mackinaw jacket
got out of his chair, lifted one hand
and opened his mouth as if to speak.
"Here, Mackinaw," said the man from
over Sinnemahoning way, handing him
his plug of tobacco, stake chew with
mel" ~ $
Mackinaw took the plug, bit off
chew, put the plug into his pocket and
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