Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1899-10-14

eATNHE night o. town meetin', after
the votes was counted" said the J
man from the Knob country, ELI !,
came in
"'DanI.' says he. 1T was the piclSerl :
that done it. L know'd ii would. You'd
sorto said you speared it, says he. The
lxicker'ls what done it. says he.
There mowt been bigger picker1
lketched in the Knob country some time
,or other than that one was, but never
.heerd on II. Leastways, I'll bet farm
n tougher or ferociouser or voraciouser
ipicl1erl never was ketched nowhere.
When 1 seen it, more'n a hundred foot
lup in the air, n wigglin and a squirmin'
and fightin', by JOSH says, you're
an amazin' fish, but I'm thinkin' that
your sands of life is runnin' tol'able
iskeerce at lasti' says. 1T amt In
inatur', you know!' says. But that
lpicler'l must had sands G. life enough
TO fill peck measure
"'Dan1,' says young Eph, over 10 the
Eddy, one day, there's a Teller here
from New York or some'rs that's pinin'
for a few poun's or so o. frogs legs.
Is the frog crop promisin' in the Knob
country waters2'
"'Never better says. How many
tpoun's does he want2' I says.
"'Oh, fetch over eight or ten poun's,
says Eph-
-L--..So Invent over to the pont and gath.
cred in a couple o. dozen o frogs and
slxun their saddles out. i strung 'em
up nice, and darned IL they didn't size
up like n ten-pound hunk o pork !
was givin' 'em a dip or two in the wa
ter, 'longside the boat, to kind o clean
Gem up, when suddenly sl-l-l-woshl
,came something again 'em, and the
water few around so that couldn't
have been any wetter if I'd tumbled in
the pond. The big lot o frogs legs was
snatched away from me so quick
couldn't think, and / seen 'em going
on into the weeds nigh the shore in the
Jaws of a big picler'l The water was
smaller, and the picker'l stopped at the
edge of the weeds, turned his amazing
xnout square around so could see the
hull performance, and then gobbled
them frogs legs In less time than il
would take me to swaller a jigger Of
apple, and that's a dom of things about
as hasty as they kin be did. And glarel
Why, darn If that pickerTs eyes didn'r
look like n couple o. blazin Goals, dowI
there 'mongst them weedsi
"'By Joshi' says. Guess III &
home and rig up for pieker1l' I says
rrd ruther git that Teller than Wagon
load o. frogs legs I says.
$50 I rowed away and went home.
rugged up for piciSerl.
az must land that picleer'l fore tow
lmeetin' day. / says. Cause then II
he elected constable, and 1 won't hav
mo time for picker'l, even fer as amazir
"A one as that ferocious and voraciou
teller that snatched and gobbled my tei
pound o. frogs legs says. 'Consta
lbles is bein' KEEP consarned busy in tn
Knob country these days says.
''My Teller citizens had put the up fe
constable and was rallyin' round me a
one man. Beezer was runnin' ag'in mt
and Beezer, so folks said, had bee
weighed in the balance and foun
wantin', OWN to a few boss trades
had made and to an idee that had too
hold o. folks that three loads o. raj
road ties Beezer got out and sold, owe
to the Eddy, had growed on land
didn't hold the deed fer
att won't never, never do!' my-fell,
citizens said. 1T won't never do TO i
Beezer' git in as constablel We mu
rally roun' Danl as one man. the
says, and give Beezer belixi'
$50 they was raIiyin', and as cons
kently I wouldn't have no time f
picker1 after town meetin', OWN
bein' elected constable, I sot out
land that amazin' chap somehow, TO
that day came round. tried all Il
ways I knowed, but that picker
wouldn't be landed. I knowed he W
there, cause 1 could see him. Tow
meetin' was only three days off, a
something had to be did if I got tn
picker'l, so lodged I'd better take i
gun over and see how a dose o le
mowt set on him. loaded her hea
and rowed over to where the pickle
KEEP himself 'mongst the weeds. The
he was, and when he sees me com
YOU otto see him 1larel pulled up a
whanged away at him. The water "
lhisted up as If a rock had fell in
When It quoted down, up riz the phi
er'l to the top, with his belly turned
the sun, and he lay there as stiff a
postl just riz one yoop.
'HOorayp yooped. Now let to
meetin' come and gol This'n be sol
as constablel'
'Irowed over, scooped the carcass
chucked it in the boat and started
home, 1 hadn't gone more'n ten
when I heerd a tremendous rumpui