The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-09

within ten mile / say. lie larfed and says he:
This here's llm-buEser SAY : he. an any law nU
Gated up to Il. says he. Win that he took a
spoon an ct haf q it an lei tn other MAJ III
Fergy's pipe having gone out, he, put on an
other coal and ncditatively. sucked Tor I'VE
minutes TIL" other mar, chtNlng amdd srnnIHd
never u word The guide glanced AZ HIM SIDE
ways several times and once hHli-turhtd low
ard him as II expecting him 20 speak, put nis
only reward was continued silence. Heavihg
At 10 O'Clock | was lyin' awake an heard
a long. sad miaouw ] looked IN time 70 see
tn cat hot-footin' IL away rom tn FIRE Fifteen
times he come back an went away ~ IN before
he c2qId FL close ,noisR TO , ia 7' 1n, 10 iam SSnSsf
his nose inter N can an brought II out agiin
with a hunk % that cheese stlckln' 10, it, he
reminded me o a oil booze fighter waits got
10 kick hi-sef 90 make hissct take a drink m
IN mornin' Wen he got his nose outn "
can an mebbe a taS' Q, n Lim.bHgger IN nus
one. ait'r m other. an they nev'r were no
such eoun's as them soun'5 w Coma out u nun
coushed, mIaouwed. sobbcd or %chokedi
II ,im% he, Ty@re goin' or an qy'r liEe
N night % m Fourth o. July. or Blundon he
set up in his blankets an, prayed IA, rs !
geo o That cat he was q reTolwin' bundle o
feet 'bove grouq' an gittin' swifter with eyry
turn. lhadder laugh.
or Blandon went back TO InJyanny aftr
aw lie, an IN grOun' 'ro1n' here looked ike
II had showed em'ty cheesecans. Now, this
here cat, afore he struck that Kom-em-bare
on IN fatil night. was ius' a plain Urinary wild
cat, purity biz fr his size, but with nothin'
much m matter with him, but that fall We
heered o him in more ways than one; HIS
in human kin were undermined. his morality
were n wreck, an he started OUT 10 gu even
with us all because "a irresponsible Of set o
w'iskers-on-a-bone had come in here, an led
him astray He gottcr be- a rogue. lNln by
hisself a an not 'sOciatin' with no othr cats.
We begin To I'm fawns dead aruun' In the woods
with they th'uHts cut. f'om lawns he, went
10 calves an killed six tr Hugh BOYD IN SN
nights. Wen he couldn't III calves h"d Iaha
lambs an tull-grpWrd sheep, an then ne startru
in on colts. an ho killed a lot % en-. ~ 10
this time he hadn't nev'rtastcd no hu,uan t!1nd'
zone day, howsorneyer. Aleck McWhir'sr,
trail on q sixtc"n-mile lope To Fitiel To- gu hun
a drink, cause he were, Dry. Con. iohg ne
took ont n blk spring knife some body ~
him an. tried TO open i. lie heered a yo/l9.
benin him an sence he hadn' had m (ruk
yit. he we're a leete skeerY lie en- hi1r4fGGss
han on a bush an then begin 10, eat up IN
groun' like he we're dom a hundred-mile stunt
settled II. Mex week n leetle boy wandered
out'n FihGl' an he ain ney.r been herfd oi
no exclamation Of wonder or horror or alarm
nor any indication Of Interest whatever Mex,
week. a little gal wandered out'n Fiiiel an,
a Ieetle boz, wandered out'n Fifcl. and he ain,
ney'r been heerd Of sence, Mex week a IeetIe
gal Wandered outn FlheI an"
"Gct along Get along" said the other
man When did you become a census emu
This kep' up" said Fergy undisturbed,
-untell ev'body in Price county was a%-huutin'
that cat, but they never seen no sign o hun.
Tn snow were ON tn, groun, two inches CcrP
wen BaptiSte Lacroix come down the trail
hea lin wes' Baptiste had been drunk fr two
weeks e Fife, patronizln Nike HennG.sy,s
tol' him they were "A luInbeT-Cainp "ighty-lhr"e
mile away were he could work hard an git
some more Which were proper, cause no.
body tol, him "a go inter HenneSSy's IN IN nus
place Baptistc, bcin' drunk. liz out thout
mother word, an MS he come long he we're
he we're French an not irish nur English uur
scotch. this scheme come to him: He stop,
IN ~ N ot tT1 81. a EG pullet Sfo ff Se ' T%ga@ an sGGk .s avn
lie I weel cut OF ze lar-r-rge toe an hang
Get on "a bush, Some day some time-2at
Al h-h, I hal done wr:r,ronE Il. re 20 Bar-
tiste he good ~fellalre, ar b all. weel let 2"m
know ze Fr;r-rainchmon eos not to 6e zen,
II on a saplin' an limpet on with. his right slIoe
fun o blood an wen he got TO Boyd,s. We put
him in the suiaes' house an, kep, n blue.
That cav come long half a hour a~rterward',
beer, w'iskey. brandy. rum, absinthe, wine an
wood alkyhoi m,"sly wood aikyhol That cat
Slkin1' W oat II tkr avs n" SLOW f-e deer, 'iHhcerd
tn Of songs. soundin' out ov'r tn Stint wastes
They was III same, an, yet they vas not he
runnin' long under 'em an | couldn't un'er-
stan II Wen ] got closter seen w~'atth'mat-
ter we're m cat had the iim,ams It w9s
up together. m now an then nd stop an
throw NY we somersets 5aSkHTd ana fT1[r;
OF nights in Blandon's camp was thronGln'
thick, upon II, an II were, mtNin' In IT'S song de-
mpandi r. all sorts o, chsrseS. one mini, i
throsh cv'r singt 10th moon like wat that cat
sinGt Then it'd run all th' way. down through
bugseri an then n handspring act,d start.
stood II all Tighht wtlcth, concert were eoin,
TIL las sight O. it | got Il were goln' tail fns'
atwecn tn hemlocks an maxim good time at
Vow. this cat had chnrickter an staminy an
9th things ] ,'eerd a tempIunce l%ec,rer talk
bout onst You mayn't biieye, me. but II got
human blood an colts an sheep n 'calves an
fawns usotcr horny cheescs. all sorts %
oTpooun' in ii" woods ami wouldn't ie;ch EN-
1took a. much pride In thai cats goodness asif
had a been my own chile toI ev'body
bout IL an arsked en- not to hurt II II Il ONE
They said they wouldn't
They come a Teller up here rom ChicarRer,
a long pale Teller with curls and knock knees,
He had on a bike SCOT with yeller s%toCkin's an
he luCged a o. bunler gun, some body'd give
him fr a Joke The cal'ber o this gun
we're 50 an 1t made . roar like 200 hyp-
nertized bulls, He writ his name on the reg
ist'r-this Teller an ! mem'rized it in two
days. 1t were T. Campbell Wordsworth Cole
ridge Percy Bysshs Shelley Beach an the
wimmin guests they thort a heep o. him an
said he were a poick. This Beach useter Z
gt in a leetle boat on Dog Lake, clost TO tn
hotel an float aroun' with his bunrler gun an
a stub o. pencil an a piece O. paper an make
rhymes wat he read 10 tn vimmin at supper.
ono day, wen he were foatin' roun' an scrih-
hin tn cat Come down to III lake TO git wHttuh.
Now remember it hadn't drunk no Ticker an
ct no cheese fr pretty near q year. jus plain
food an col wattuh an regler hours was good
'nough fr il. This Beach he glanced up an
seen II an, helm skeered 10 death, he flung M
hi, butler gun an shet both eyes an pulled
m trigger. Nat'rally, under them circumi
Fergy. rising and pointing a gnarled fore
finger at hi companion, waits tn moril q
that" The moral said the other man.
y~awning, is: Never steal from an Indiana
banker"
lit Amt" said Fergy. The moral Ia: Lake
wattuh amt no good fr nothin' cep' feesh.