The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-12-14
SARGE PLUNKE1'I>.
Brown Relates Some Wonderful Stories
About His Hunts in Old Times.
Attamtu Constitution.

"uU uciu ~ young corn
Corn in winter? Gee, whillikinsr'
exclaimed all the children at once.
Bro~n scratched his head and look :
ed at me helplessly, but failed to
indorse his story and left with the re-.
mark
Whosoever starts out to lie must
have good memory to make sue
CESS
never saw my old friend for two
or three days after be closed his hunt
log story, but he is all right now. 1t
is hog killing time at our house, and
from where l write | can see my old
friend squatting out by che ire broil-
ing melts for himself and the children.
He has pone of cold corn bread in
his hand aud will make his breakfast
right there off Of the melts and would
not exchange it for breakfast at the
kimball. We are both too old to
take an active part in hog killing, but
we like to linger around the place
where it is going on, and you will al
ways find Brown with little bag oe
salt and o supply Of corn bread. He
is sprinkling broiling melt now with
salt and | think I will be excused for
hurrying out to where he is.
thought | had closed this letter,
but the impudence of Brown when
went out to where he was pro-
vokes me to reopen It. I never got
any melt-that is the most of my
grievance-but on top Of that, when I
arrived out at the fire what should my
old friend be doing but telling of a
great coon hunt he once had down on
Flint river. I soon discovered that
Dick Holland was with him this time,
too, and being that the children seem
ed 80 ell pleased between the melts
and the story, l let Brown spread him
self with somewhat of admiration for
his supreme impudence in Offering to
relate another hunting expedition SO
soon after his other nights experience.
[ don't know what he had told before,
but caught his tale just as ap-
preached as without break he pro-
ceeded:
"By this time we were at the edge
of Flint river bottoms, and Dick being
little in front Of me, yelled out that
the dogs had treed. We were soon at
the place, and sure enough, they had
treed, and we fully expected tc see a
first-class coon fight in very short
space Of time. Our game seemed to
have gone up tree which had fallen
from the bluff and caught in the top
Of big bottom white oak. By the
time we were there one of the hounds
had already started out on the tree,
and quicker than ! could tell it, theEs
was small scramble in the tree top
and the hound went numbering to the
ground in the bottom below US. /
told Dick that was no coon-I thought
it might he bear-but while we were
discussing this point another dog had
got up among the branches and met
the same fate Of the first one. and it
seemed to me that every bone in the
dog 8 boGy would be broken from the
way he hit the ground. Before we
had time tn consider what was best for
us to do Sulllog that Dick had
brought along YVES on his way out the
bending tses and we let him 60.
Quicker than could tell you, there
was little commotion in the tree top
and numbering to the ground went the
bulldog and our game It wasn't no
COON
"What was it 2" asked all the chill
dren.
'It wasn't thing" said Brown,
''but Bob Puckett's old butting billy
goat
"Gee-whillikinsl" exclaimed all the
children in chorus, while Brown
gulped down the last piece of melt
and went saunteribg toward the horse
lot. SARGE PLUNKETT.
What we need in this country
howled the political orator, sis an
elastic currency Right you arc
mister" interrupted man near the
door; "something that will stretch 9
mans income 40 as to make both ends
meet"
Two Pointed Questions Answered.
What Z. tLn naa oe rnaL;nn ha4Aa,