The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-08-17
OHIO FARMERS THEORY.
HE WOULD FIT MAUMBE COON
TACTICS TO A WILDCAT.
"a Visitor to the Knob Country Who
Started to Teach the Natives Things
Subsequent Trouble in Being Identi-
fed at His Bank-Some Very Contrary
Minded Beasts.
TCOntinued from last week. !

''The ignorance and contrairiness
o. that wildcat made me ashamed,
for the consumed critter didn't
take the lift on down the tree that
Sniverly give it, but jest clum
back up into the tree ag'in, usin'
Sniverly for footin' in goin' back,
Jest the same as it had used him
in comm down, and leavin' him
with steamers a futterin' in the
wind all over him, like liberty
pole decorated for the Fourth O.
July, and patches O hide shown
here and there, putin me in mind
O. beefsteak jest pounded for
breakfast. The wildcat didn't stop
till he got to the top O. the tree,
and then it perched OF, limb and
glared back and spit and CATER
wauled at Sniverly most tre-
mendous. I had been keepin' my
eye on Sniverly and had learned
lot, and so [ hollers up to him:
az don't wont to presume [
says, but would it be out O. the
way for me to suggest that mebbe
it mowt be pleasin' thing if you
should come DOWN. [ says.
"'Oh, I'm a comm down! he
says. I'm to dam disguised to
stay up here any longerr he says.
whats the use O tryin' to hunt
setch game as this, that don't
know what's the right thing to
do?' he says. But I want to say
one thing he says. Out where
the old Muskingum rolls her yeller
tide he says, we'd soon make
crow-bait O. dogs that'd run setch
things as this up a tree instid O
coons,' he says
''Then he chucked his Maumee
coon-stabber to the grund and
started to foller it. [ hain't never
jest made up my mind yit whether
it was humiliatin' ignorance or the
thoughts O them two jags from
the coon stabber that made the
wildcat do it, but when it see
Sniverly retreatin' it jest bumped
itself and sprung from the limb
where it was layin' and landed
plumb and square on to Sniverly's
shoulders. That cat weighed
somethin' like sixty pounds, and
when it shot itself ag'in Sniverly,
Sniverly quit his holt on the tree
and kethumpy-te- thump him and
the wildcat come in a heap to the
ground and the next second he
was the centre Of the gnashlnest,
snarlinest, yelpinest combination
O wildcat and dog that I had ever
seen, and it was all [ could do to
keep my eye on him. [ hated like
blamenation to intrude on him,
but [ took the chances and pitched
in with a club. Before me and
the club and the dogs had settled
the inconsiderate and contrary
wildcat I had thought up a letter
that the situation kind O indicated
I'd have to send to Sniverlys wild
der notifyin' her where setch parts
of him as was left mowt be found,
and had picked out the fellers that
[ Thoughtful make tip top Cor
oners jury to set on 'em, but them
duties wasn't necessary. Sniverly
made somethin' like a hundred
and s1xty-eight revolusions to the
minute while the turmoil was
goin' on, and when it was all over,
as Sniverly got there and pondered,
if he had a-said to the government
that he wanted a pension on the
ground that he had been blowed up
on the Maine three months afore
and had jest come down, they'd
"a writ him out one to wunst and
no questions asked!
Lead me to the Giner'Ps, he
says. I'll let him pay me off and
I'll 60 back home,' he says, The
chances is he said, that mebbe 1