The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-08-25
A SENSATIONAL SHOT.
Parson Anderson Was Little on ths
Shoof Iffmaeff.


bout here" replied Deacon AL Puter
baugh, looking about him for evidences
of approval from those gathered In Sy
Perrigo's grocery store.
What be yo hintin' on, Alp asked
Deacon nseter, bristling up. 'Ye bin
slurrin' round here fur sum time back.
] reckon old Nancy hes bin straighten-
In things round in tn Puterbaugh
shanty ov late. Peers like Nancy bull
lies Al D. hum an he takes & bullyin'
his frien's TO git squar',' continued the
Deacon, addressing the others
tut, tut, brethren admonished
Parson Joshua Anderson IN o soothing
voice, ''they amt no use bringin' in
family matters Ye all know Nancy,
an We all know AL, an he don't git rode
over rough-shod Z hum no morn most
folks as lives round Harvey's Lake.
But Deacon Deeter is bout right wen
he seq that foxes is cunnin critters"
II reckon Deter knows more bout
hard cider than he do bout foxes" re-
marked AL, still unpacifled. -
II amt maxim no claim Z KNOWN
morn other folks bout foxes nor moth
in else, but sum folks is coaxin' scabs
on their nose, b. jinks by talkin' too
much with their mouth" holly replied
Deacon Deter, between wild gesticu-
lations and splitting of tobacco juice.
Eyes, an sum folks better stick Z
peelin' bark off'n hemlock logs, b.
jinks, then Z try peelin' bark off'n Their
neighbors' noses" was Deacon Puter-
baugh's wrathtul answer, as ne stood
up as though expecting an attack.
"Friens', I'm s'prised t see tn spirit
ov Satan risin' up yer BOSOM" quietly
remarked Parson Anderson, in an In
jured tone, IAN wen tn church pill
lars is shakin' each others foundation,
b. ginger, tn amt no use fur yer
b'lov'd parson preachin' agin sin. Foxes
is cunnin' an bars is fighters, but they
amt no more fighters then tn pillars
ov tn church, b. ginger. beers Is cum
min, too" continued the parson, IAN
hard to shoot, onless ye know how t.
go bout it. don't take no credit fur
KILN deer nur bar wen I'm facing
'em, but wen We kin shoot deer with
yer back turned to him, call that good
shootin'."
WHO has been killing a deer with (
his back toward it?" asked Grocery
man Perrigo.
II hev, b. ginger" replied the parson.
AN did 1t no later'n last Saturday." /
Sum folks kin do powerful an
amazin' shootin' when Their out lone"
was sarcastically INTERCEPTED by Dea- t
con Puterbaugh, who prides himself on
being the best rife shot on the lake
shore. =
Yes, an sum folks here'bouts thinks
they're tn only ones kin shoot rife,
out they amt, b. ginger, not by long II
hot, replied the parson, considerably /
lettled, as he took a big chew of fine a
ut
ut do seem impossible to kill deer
ven We amt lOokin at him at all, par
on, but eff ye say we done it, why, !"
course We done it, thet's all they is
oout it," said Deacon Deeter. d
'Of course, parson, we don't doubt g,
our having killed the deer. just as you
ay, and we would like to hear Just
ow you did it" encouraged Perrigo.
II don't mind tellin' we how killed =
deer wen my back were turned to
i'm, an the doubtin' Thomases needn't
.op here to listen eff they don't want If
>" said the parson, looking hard at A.
eacon Puterbaugh, who didn't move
a eyelash, and then continued:
II were huntin' over to Bowman's p.
eek last Friday, an didn't see no
Ger sign, so started back hum Satur-
~ mornin, comm round by Beaver Sa
I'm an KEN in jist back ov Jim Io,
thirty-f acre lot Wen re
I'M to tn shore ov Harvey's Lake KIN
ent round by Albert Lewis saw mill de
tn east shore, an didn't see no deer in
IN. Wen got to tn rock ridge tibet 81
'es up perpendic'ler at Willer Pint. I an
d give up SEEM deer, an thought tina
ct mebbe could shoot hump back res
ke er two, hevin' often shot 'em there orc
ore. snuck long tn water edge ua'
low tn ledge, quiet like, lookin' fur W., WI
h in tn smaller water. didn't see o oso
fish, but could see all tn tree. an, onI
shes on tn top ov tn ledge in tn, Stc
Doth water ov tn lake, lest like at
kin In lookin'-glasS Iwere lool,in, thi,
on tn lake, thinlsin' mebbe some teri
Ter he'd driv deer into tn lake. but
mt see none. Wen looked down
N, there, right in tn lookin.elass
tur ov trees an rocks on tn water BuL
zee big buck standin'. Ibad INV -
ON my right shoulder, but knowed
L turned round tn deer would seq I,
an turn tail, an wouldn't git no of n
t at him. An right there is wen Aug
IMMUNITY cum into play-hunters Tho
to hev injinuity eff they want To
OF deer an bar. jest let tn stock
my rifle slide down SOS tn barrel Edu
rested onto my shoulder, an usin'
water fur lookin'glass sighted n
g tn barrel till 1 got a bead ON clerI
deer's head, jest where knowed TO 81
ears were, till could see tn deer's Sign
plain long tn sights, then I lest book
lily put tn toe ov my right boot he \
7 tn heel ov my left boot an, to +
ped tn left boot off. Then took cow
fui sight agin an pulled tn trigger ',g,'
my big toe, and / knowed. b. s"uI
"a lxem trrhI;u, pnAeu .net Duck, Polly
not ,,,ouo,- ~. eown Tn ledge an resid
, st,nS;N, ok 1901 from where order
standin'; was 'fraid, b. ginger, tiftee
-, nc u iaii onto me" and {
id ye hit him in tn ear, parson?n their
Deacon Puterbaugh. furth
es, l did, b. ginger: nm, vho... publ
J. hit him in 4hSLi the b