The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-03-02
His Eyes Went Back on LIZ

his Eyes went sack on Him
doctor" said red faced a.,
watery eyed man from Wayne town
ship. as he came in DR.. Babcoek,s -
fee, in Hammondsport, the 9TH
day, 'I'm afraid my eyes is pon
back on me, and l dropped in to kind
o see if l can find out where thew,
lame"
| "Ah!" said the doctor. "Wbo.
seems to be the matter with Won,
eyes,"
That's what / don't know" TO-
piled the man. but they played me
trick t'other day that don't leave no
room for doubt but what thers,s
somethin out o gear with EN- soma
how. I'll give you the symptoms
Maybe you don't know that I'm opito
coon hunter, but am. T'other dov
my boy bought one o. these bri.cb
loadin' and repeatin' shotguns. and
told him I'd go out and see how IL
d work on coon. went out, end
hadn't gone more than mile no thu
hill before | seen a big coonpoponto
the limb of a chestnut tree. He cana
there SO sudden that ! couldn't oat
it through me where he had coma
from or how he got there. But |
didn't stop to ask no questions. but
up and blazed away. Now I've GOT
the name over our way, Doc, ofnever
missin anything | shoot at, and Of
course when | pulled up and whang.
ed away ut that coon | expected 70
see him tumble, but he didn't. When
the smoke cleared away he sot there
jest as he was when | seen him first
was surprised, now, | tell YOU.
thought it WAS the guns fault, but
blazed away again. The coon never
moved. happened to look, some.
how or other, at tree off to the
right of the one the coon was in, and
there sat another coon on II limb
thought I'd try my luck on him.
and so let him have shot. He
never stirred.
81 begun to Git mad by this time,
and durin' a little conversation was
havin' with myself about the gun
happened to glance at a tree to the
left of the first tree, and there ona
limb was another coon. | tried my
luck on the third coon, and didn't
hit him no more than | did t'other
two. looked at the first tree there
was that coon, sittin right where he
was when first seen him. | looked
at the second tree, and there was that
coon still on the limb. turned my
! head toward another tree, and there
l seen q fourth coon, and lookin'
around me whichever way might,
every tree | had seen had n coon in
/ it, and all as tat as coons could be-
got wild.
Thunder" | holered: here's The
| woods full o'coons, and | hain't got
nothin' but this new tangled gun
that won't hit barn
But began to blaze awayas fast
as the gun could spit a cartridge, fust
at one coon and then at another, IN.
til every darn load was emptied out o
that gun and hadn't dropped accom-.
Twas jist agoin to slat that gun Tin.
ters against n tree, whenl happenedtc
rub my eye, and when | took my
hand down, there on my finger was a
nice, jolly, fat wood louise. ! looked
up, but every coon was gone. The
fact o the matter is, Doc, that wood
louise had been hanging to one OF my
eye-winkers all the time. and
thought was seem coons. Be ! GIT
tin near-sighted, or is it the optic
nerve doublin' up on me-"
Neither one" said the doctor
"Have the hind pocket in your hunt
ing pants cut down from quart size
to half-pint, and you'll be all right
The man went out shaking his head
and said he'd think about it.-Ham
mondsport Cor. New York Sun.
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