The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-11-04

Jul BoAAC. s|~se uh"'OAAAiS"i
knowledge go hand in hand with know
ing how to shoot. Then. If you keep
yonr powder dry. you'll tumble things
tremendous And followed his nd
vice. aud have tumbled things. take
IT, Indeed have. But of all the tum-
bling Of things 1 ever did nothing ever
reflected more credit on my remark
able father than neat bit of tumbling
did once down on the lower Sinnema-
hone. I claim no credit for it for my
self II was neat, indeed; but far be 1t
iron, me TO say that ever would have
Thought of doing it If it had not been
for the precepts and example of Reuben
| pettibone. Never!
"Of all the multitudinous things
have tumblcd have seldom gone out
with vengeance in my heart to tumble
| EN-; but this time did. did, indeed.
Gcod reason had for it, too, although
| | had been more than patient When
the ninth sheep disappeared from my
pasture, though, thought 1t was time
to call halt on the bear, and I took
my rifle and went out, vengeful and de-
termined. got on the track of the bear
about a mile down the Sinnemahone
and followed it three miles. The stream
made sudden bend right there, and
as l mo ed cautiously around the bend
came in sight of the sheep stealer-
stretched out on the bank sound asleep
n hundred yards or so ahead of me.
He wasn't in a position for Inc to give
him dead shot. and vengcful as was
could not bear to think of giving him
even a 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 had use for just such buck
as that. so l 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.
was just about to run my eye over the
gun barrel and let the buck die with
the taste of his cud still in his mouth
when what should come strutting out
into the open side by side but big
cock pheasant and his hen. | had no
| SOOutI stSll lES'lll IMAM
idea struck me, and proceeded at once
to carry it out.
"'This will be the neatest piece of
work / have ever DONE said / to my
self. i wish father was here to see it.
81 was apprehensive of only one thing,
and that was that the bear might wake
up before things were in proper shape.
| watched the two pheasants as they
strutted on out side by side. ] was
ready to act the instant they got to the
point my nice calculation had fixed on.
They got there at last I gave yell.
The bear woke up and sprang to his
feet, broadside toward me. The buck
rose like flash at the same instant
The birds got up neck and neck. fired
The bear sank down and lay there as il
he had resumed his nap. The two
pheasants dropped to the ground side
! by side, just the same as they had got
! UP. The buck tumbled where he was
7 lying when I woke him.
7 eff you could see this, Reuben Pet
e tibone, said 1 its pleased you'd be
E I'm sure, to know what an apt pupi
t l have been, indeed, and to see how
deep your lessons did sink int
e Eyes. The bears spinal cord was sew
Y cred at the neck, the bullet having
plowed there just deep enough to do i
r ard then gone on its way. There wasn'
: a mark on the pheasants. The bulle
t had SKINNED that bunch of nerves OF
l each and shocked them to death. Th'
r right ventricle of the deer's heart wa
a cut in two as If it had been done will
u knife-so nice had been my"
8 The man in the red. blue. pink, vel
r low, green and purple mackinaw JACKIE
a got out Of his chair, lifted one hant
4 and opened his mouth as If to speak.
4 Here. Mackinaw," said the man from
a over Sinnemahoning way, handing hin
: his plug Of tobacco. ''take a chew witt
!, mel"
\ Macdnaw took the plug. bit of
? chew. put the plug into his pocket an
j. passed out slowly, looking dazed.
a The man from over Sinnemahonin
way unused q moment and then wen
homeward. grinning as II he had beel
! having fnn.-N. Y. Sun.
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