The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-30
LIE QUAIL OF THE BIG JAG;
a BOSTON NAN VINO WOULD READ
BROWNING ~ THE WOODS.
leap OF Ferry the Guide Prom a Fried Ham
Hotel TO q NatursIist's ~ConveT-
sion Wrought by a Ten. Gallon Jug - The Tran
Of the Big BIRD That Objected 70 Poetry

Of the Big Bird That Objected TO Poetry
TIFIELD. Wis. Sept. 27.-At the noon hour Of
Lower Price Lake the other man. having take
three muskallonges OF six pounds each an,
feeling himself at peace withthc world. eStracte,
q half-pint flask from one Of the man.
pockets In his fishing coat, poured out a fa4
allowanc and rendered II to Fergy the guide.
Nav. " was the response. with a strong shak,
Of the head, Il knows my limit. ! had som,
drinks SIX months ago. Wen tn feeshin' sea.
sons over an jus before the loggin' season
begins. I'll 20 inter Fifel' an make them bar
keeps think or Man Blznis Is got back to town
Right now I'm stump suckin'."
right. " said the other man, having tilted
the cup slowly and wired his mustache. In
these matters every chap must be his own law
yer. II you can't take a drink without sand
bagging your cnormous Intelligence. let II alone.
"Yass." Fcrgy said. IAN ef you CANT talk
Thout maxim n temp'runce %lect'rer O. yourself
you better buy two poun' o. chewin' gum. melt
Il. pour II down you an let It set. ono time I
were over in IN country they call the Fall Hills.
a hundred miles ives o. here. It's a speckled
trout country an a man built a log house over
there an called II a hotel. lie had four rooms
an a FIRE place an pine beds an a lot O. Of deer
horns stuck up aroun' an city fellers useter
COM there an pay him SIS a week SOS they
could sit IN IN big room an freeze their backs
III N''h Nv VI ~ ~. Fl NufN NhlNfu any lllHs
90 eat they went out an ketched it, an ef they
didn't ketch 1t they got fried ham an soggy
pertaters twenty-one times ia seven days.
"Guidln' were purity good an | stsid all tn
summer In Angus a chap bowed In with a
liv'ry Vaughn all to hlsse'f 1t we're a big wag-
gin an he needed It. They was tn driver an
him an Jus boxes. thinks TO myself. Here's
q shore good teller TO git inter tn woods with.
fr he's got things 10 eat rom alfybct 10 L.
- ~ N-- - n
an he says: Is Fergy IN guide here2' says
he. an | says: L be- lie says: I heerd o
you a many times, says he. They tells me-
Gays he, that you're q good. careful. sober
truthful man. he says, an / say. L be- lie
says. L need you fr thirty days. he says. We
wanter Git out inter IN woods right away
Gays he jus pick out n camp an take my
things to IL an you'll have the happies' mont
o your life.' says he
Il looked at tn boxes an ! smiles an | hires
III Vaughn an drives II down on Peach Crick,
twentv-four mile eight HUNDRED an thirty
,yard rom IN Fried Ham House. This Teller
he broke open his boxes that night an | stood
'roun' waitin' TO stick a tooth inter som'p'n
wuth r~ememberin'. Well. sir. he had butterfly
nets an nets weaved like spider webs an paste
board cases with glue in 'em an books with
funny names an III Jim Hin knows wat he
didn' have, 'cep' som'p'n to eat. says to
him: How do you cook them slashin's?' an
he says. says he: Them amt 10 cook. them's
90 use, lie says. To use fr w'at?' says ], an
he says. To ketch specimens. I'm a natral-
ist. he says. 'W'at'd you bring f'om tn hotel?'
an | says: Ham an pertaters an coffee
an he says: That's food mos too good fr
sngils,' says he. Damn himi
He were a pale Teller. with his breas' sunk
In. He had a long face an his forrid stuck
out SOS Il made his haid look like a lopsided
Ehnnk IA n Ia mo nay PRAFntYf .IA....t |
ham This IS glorious. IN doctors ordered
me to come out here cause | been studyin
eric Entomology; ur III Divine Thisne-s o.
Tn Other. In eight vollums. | got tn flst
ting SHs "s says he TsN! ah' we We e eSys. on.v n bl r2m ba B@s.
IT thirty days after a death in tn family says
he Then he took of his goggles an wiped
This feller's name were Wentworth Emerson
Bogys, lie had q bamboo rod wat cost money
an. four poun' o arufeGshul hlos mebbc four
an a quarter. poun' | laid out we'd eat feesh
anyhow, but didn' know Boeg,. Ho were one
2 these here humane .peepul wat CANT bear To-
paws he That's Wat you. wanter do study
EN- an take !fotygraphs Of ON an write thing
'em as you do, but don murder EN- foun'
out Sl this a%tnterward That m9oEnin' We went
trout hi at l. t: onst an he hauled IN q i beaapGt
20 mysel here's a chanst fr dinner anyhow. bur
te took It ~, n The hook an l- eyes got So Wet
it, back fins an its belly fins an coanted the
sPois on y aud 5ql!nted into it, gills an SAYS:
o. N SG@%!Eul6 Pr s6Iend IL tn a,S T0niGe # / wog5,R%p
o eHerlooshunl | hope, these here croul barb~
sin, hurt you nome says he, an nung Il back.
i says - myself. say, |: III this hero shy-poke
sits any yIss, rs him inter Ia groun', an
Man, that sort Q thing KEEP up all that day
an ~ nov day en- I ncN,, day, an FRA week {
bug an ohloroioruin' EN-, lie we're kntahm J
IN latteS. trout you ever see an THROWN 'em
look at him acro~t m fire at night, vile he were :
wlpin his goggles an tAikln' bout his blamed !
finerly | couldu' stan IT no longer, so ibogc.d I
on ir ha'f a day an trotted thirty-thrre mile }
on stoaE' an w''sn I hi, n S''S cnmp ,S i"aGea lu up :
down hadder pint bottle o. two-wceks-on-th'- 4
r"9rddt ia Sn PIP porkit an a quart Were it !
Have some I says, pullin' out tn cork I
never see a foller change 50. A. light come I
a bal|am to,G9 III. face got witer an, he
|, back NO, says he, let bc, let be-. let he,
w should a man pg,t g cn.my inter nj. mouth !
y MAKE nm dr9nkt ihey ain uotlin' I'm It I
We'll! says, hor tn cork. vile | throw. ]
HE took tn cork an wen tilted m bottle
I gee BIN smell y To keep YOU fom maxim
2 bees o your-ei says he. 70 keep you rom
a-.A .N'. f'hA 'NtNe lNAlllAiNRA Nl
ehis here rock wat has sent 81 many down TO I
khanded him III bottle an wen he put 1t down
they weren't no danger o. me wreCkin' myself
opess were a gla~--Chower, a
Fs1 morninI .ithout Sayin' nothin' to mo. \
he bikes inter III hotel an starts a boy e. town }
With q telegraph. Three days arterward We 0
SO 70 NJ hotel an git a tong llou jar covered /
with wick er. an I lug- IL To Canp BogEs \
Gays N me IL preserV'tiv Z keen hi, bug, :
rom sp1in', takes him NJ his word Twenty a
three tmes That night he git out'u his blanket, p
an goes wanderin, rom. ia IA dark, an don't a
git much sleep. NeN' day he LAYS 'rOun' an "
says he thinks he's got som'p'n he calls pen "
derceeters. an he ain goin' Z fecSh none. y
takes IN rod an gifts back with eighteen spock- \
lers an squats down by IN fire an cooks m /
las one o EN- lie git, "A win an rolls over an .
eroans. eats nino an lays m other nine u
cost by him. Then ! SAYS. u
seryin'. says ]. an | goes over an pulls IA !.
cork outn that wicker jar. You never smelt u
po smell Ike that smell. II were roses an
honey, with a snap q ginger To IT,, an -om'p'n n
else. wat made. you think o. wide yeller nrl4 y
In th' fail an fst-cheeked gals an ~omchodv J.
play in III fiddle an 'Wuther somebody siugIu' q
0 good song ! poured out a coffee cup iull o
an downed II Bogg~ turned over an grinned !!
q green sickly griu an he says, k
say q
cup an hlushin, deeply, he surroun's them d
nine SUrCklers. That ended IL He rZ m IN