The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-26

again Bolivar didn't take Il, and for tho same
reason. IL had sought refuge In another tree,
a. me dog barking frantically up the tree told
Nov, 1t wasn't the idea that 1 cared .
nash Of powder for getting that, COON my re-
markeblo father used TO say, that made me
grit my teeth and cuss considerable, and go to
whacking away at the third tree, but IL was
the idea OF that ~aRgravating varmint perchinR
up there and laughing at me working like three
hired men to get hin, and then, when he ought
to come Hopping down and be got, taking a
having to do the work all over again. That's
what set mo on edge, Praxiteles,' Reuben Petit
yet that coon III had to v wear !" out the axe and
tire the dog TO death doing It.,
Remarkable man, Reuben Pettibone, Most
,ro And %d1 50 it WHIT ySGIntj A. 4. soon on, a, ,. he chopped , p the
ever played such mean tricks with Reuben
Pettibono before, and no didn't intend TO let
S this oo oGS 80 s i, and aSvt liyS; II i wa WAS s so dark hSt th hat
dog kept his eye out, and all father had to do
was to just chop and chop. 'Crishy te.crash
cane was sweeping through the timber father
said, and by and by IL began to get along
toward daylight. At last Reuben Pettibono
that one came tottorine down the dog Jumped
'"!' Then" fPS l.'s said nj MY rem rSmart H,SH f father, the all.
nredest scrinlmago set in that any one had ever
heard along the sinnemghono since the In:
dians used to cut NJ things there, and l
jumped in with my axe to have u little salts.
faction myself out OF that coon. The dog was
so kind o mixed UP in n whirling and tum-
bling tussel with She coon that | had hard
sent In q Few that settled tho varn,int at last,
as he lay twisted UP IN the branches
"Then my remarkable father sat down on a
stump and n,opped himself, and puffed. and
waited for daylight. As it came along. and he
the dog shifting and growing at the carcass.
he had to clap his hands over his eyes, as he
hnr1ursul IN ma many "a filnG IN kppn 'nrt from
popping right out OF their sockets. Then,
after n while, he beat himself on the head, and
"'Reuben Pettibonei' he cried. To think
that you should live to see the day that YOU
was a double-dycd, unfadinr idiot
And such. he always declared. he was.
boon leading him round in those woods all night
making more havoc than n windfall, but u
whopping big panther!
1.-THE last panther, by hockey he used to
say, that had been declaring up and down
was no such Il thing!
Reuben Pettibonc grabbed the panther by
tho tail, and as he dragged 1t through that
down timber on his way home, he actually
shuddcred at the destruction his hands had
wrought in the forest that night. for he never
field. that he had fcllcd every stick of timber
on the two acres the settler had been SO long
coaxing him to chop!
"Sinnemahone!' said the man in the red,
nav jacket, with a most aggrnvating sncer,
what n heft o disapp'intmen must Il sot on
your poor fathers breast, not to git that
uesky, aRgravatin' coon o his'n, arter ALL"
oh said the man from over Sinncinahon.
ing way, smiling swcctly, he got it,. Reuben
Pettibone got the coon all right! When he
skinned the panther he found the coon inside
Of 1t. snug as a cork in a jug!"