The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-08-10
OHIO FARMERS THEORY.
lie WOULD FIT MAUMBE COON
TACTICS TO A WILDCAT.
Visitor to the. Knob Country Who
Started to Teach the Natives Things
Subsequent Trouble I'm Being Identi-
fed at His Bank-Some Very Contrary
: Minded Beasts. I - ~
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".Good enoughp says Sniveriyy,
thinkin' about his bein' from Ohio.
They've freed a coon for me- he
says. -
'sWith the idea that I was only
a sort Of a victim O the ignorance
that was stalkin' through the Knob
country, 'cordin' to the idees o
the. fellertha -had@the advantage
o5,beiin1ffroE0fhiio;--o Yjest
give my opinion in the case a
Ieetle timid Ike, and I says
! .-sH1t sounds to me, Sniverly,
1 says, as if they had freed a Wild
cat,' I says. ..~.... ........
| "'Poofp says Sniverly, glarin at
me with a look that seemed to ask
me if I had forgot that he was
from Ohio. Come on with me,
he says. I'll show you somethin'
you don't know he says .,.: 81.
"Willin' to learn, I went along.
We came to where r the dogs was
gethered under a big chestnut
tree, and they was crazy wild. I
shot my eye up in the tree, and
up nigh the top I g see. a wildcat,
scroochin', sure enough. Sniverly
he looks at it a while and he says:
"'I'll have to say that it amt a
coon,' he says. Does anybody in
this country know what it is?' he
says. .. ...-.-... '..,-
eyes, I says. It's only jest. a
wildcat. I'll go over to Ben's
and git a gun and fetch the critter
down. [ says, zezzr-:1-
"'Poof! says Sniverly.. Waste
O time. Keep your eye on me-
he says. :! sc-@-@-a T.. = S.: -1qr@ S-'c@- -
"Of course, bein' there and
wantin' to learn things, / KEEP my
eye on him. n He cut somethin'
like hoop-pole, mebbe six. foot
long, and took out his jackknife,
opened the biggest blade in it, and
strapped it onto the end o. the
pole, with the blade p'intin'
up'ard. ----s"---
Now says he, keep your. eye
on me and the..,..Maumee COON
shbberp he says. I'll climb the
tree and shove the stabber in what
you have an idee is a wildcat.
He'll see at wunst where I hail
from, and he'll tumble out O. that
tree so amazin' quick that unless
your dogs is wide awake you'd
never believe he could "a been in
the tree. If your dogs is wide
awake he says, they'll snatch
him when he lands, and I'll come
down and help 'em finish him.
That's the way he says, that we
gether in coons out where I come
from -,. --r.~...... .-.-.....-.. - ...,--,.
80 g But, Sniverly,' says I, have.
you considered that this amt a
coon and that this amt the place
where you come from? This is.
the Knob country I says, and
this Knob country wildcat
These Knob country wildcats I
says, don't have habits exactly
like coons, not that I ever heard
on I says. .-.
But Sniverly he only grinned,
KNOWN as could be, and made me
feel how durn little we must know
in the Knob county.
"'Jest keep your eye on me- he
says. I'll show you somethin' you
don't know. But if you don't care
about stayin' here and keepin'
your eye on me- he says, and amt
anxious to learn, you kin scamper
over to Ben's. TIL lug in this
thing you think is wildcat he
says. I'D 9~ s.'.@.4 ~. 1" l-@i1,--o
But I was pinin' to learn, and.
50 7 thought !: I'd Z stay q and and keep,
my eye on Sniverly, He eelum
the tree.w Fheawldcat seemed to
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