Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-12

The man with the latest from Pc.
chuck paused, and seemed disappoint-
Led not to hear any remarks.
''Thes fall O. '33 was the year that
amazin' snappin' torkle licked Sne-
delser's shorthorn BULL he continued
after awhile, land that fight was
quite interestin', accordin' to the way
Uncle David remembers it.
~ couldn't fgger out why in Sam
Hill that snappin' torkle had pitched
in and licked Snedeker's BULL says
Uncle David Beckendarter, mot till
found him in my orchard the next
fall, shakin' down a barl or more O
my chcest fall pippins; then got the
idee, an I've had it ever sence,' says
Uncle David, that he had them pip
pins on his mind when he took n hand
in that fight and licked Snedeker's
bull, on purpose to save my bull from
a ickin' jest to git on the right side
o. me, SOS I wouldn't say nothin'
when he snivvled on them apples that
he'd sot his mind on says Uncle
David; and if there's anybody here
that wants to call Uncle David liar
it'll be toler'ble safe for him to do
it now, for Uncle David's comm So,
and is all bowed down over the pass
in away o that amazin' Drownded
Lands snapipn' torkle.'
II hain't got time to tell yam how
cheerin' that amazin' snappin' 'torkle
has been to Uncle David and Aunt
Sally ever sence the fall he licked
Snedeker's shorthorn BULL" he said.
''The pelts O. the mushrats that he
has ketched winters and give TO
Uncle David more than rig the mort
gage IN the farm, and Aunt Sally
jest sets down and weeps bitter tears
when she thinks O the time the churn
dog took sick and died, and Aunt Sal
~ didn't know what in all creation
she was goin' to do. She couldn't
a'done nothin' if that snappin' torkle
hadn't took pity on her and come NJ
and run that churnin' machine for
her every churnin' day for a month.
"And he's been comm up every fall
and pullin' turnips and diggin' taters
and shakin' down apples on Uncle
David's place, enough SO last him
through winter, and every Fourth Of
July he fetched Uncle David and Auns
Sally three-pound trout for their
dinner. Every single Fourth.
He was on his way back from
tal<in' 'em their trout last Fourth
when Murphy's bulldog pitched in
and tackled him. Murphy was there,
and so was Uncle David, and Uncle
David see by the look the torkle give
him that the torkle was willin' to
give Murphy time enough to call his
dog off, and Uncle David told Murphy
50.
"But Murphy said no. The torkle
had the dog gripped by the tail, and
the dog had the same hold on the
torkle.
":And, David says Murphy, I'll bet
you fifty that the torkle let's 60 first
"Unclc David looked at the torkle
and the torkle looked at Uncle David.
"'Ill double the bet!' says Uncle
David, and they doubled the bet.
1.-THE dog and the torkle hung on
to one another and didn't say word.
T'rds night the torkle give Uncle
David another look and Uncle David
wanted to raise the bet fifty, but
Murphy said NO. ~ ,,r
"Then the torkle riz up and walked
for the river, holdin' his grip onto tho
dogs tail, and the dog holdin' his
grip onto the torklo's tail. The torklo
clumb into the river. Murphy's dog
give a SILVER, but he held his grip.
1.-THE torkle stayed on top spell.
but the dog didn't let 60. Then the
torkle went under and took the dog
with MIN, and everybody but Uncle
David said that Murphy ought to-
called his dog off, but Uncle David
said no: the dog'd let go O. the torkle
now, and come back, he said, and he'd
win the bet.
"But the dog didn't come back, nor
the torkle didn't come back, and by
and by Murphy wanted to draw the
bet, but Uncle David said no unless
that torklc didn't show up this: fall
at 'tater-diggin' or turnip-pullin' time
he wouldn't draw the bet; no, sir:
"And it begun to look as if the
torkle: wasn't goin' to show up, when
t'other day Uncle David seen him tot
term along to'rd the 'tater field, but
he was so thin and wobbly that Uncle
David hardly reco'nized him. And he
was carryin' a white bone In his
mouth and draggin' another one
along that was fast to his tail. -
"Uncle David most busted into
tears and sent for Murphy.
""There you be!' says he to MUIR
ply. The torkle has got the bone
o your bulldogs taA' in his mouth,
and there's the jawbones o your bull
dog clutchin' on to the torlkle's tail!
Eyes, sir: Neither one O. them crit
tiers had letSgo, and the bulldog had
been eat up by the fishes, all but his
jawbones that kept their clutch, and
the torkle had held onto the bone @
the doris tail rather than let 60 and
get !somethin' to eat.
'Uncle David took hold o the bon.
to pull it out o. the torkle's mouth
SO he could get some victuals. into
him, but the torkle wouldn't let 60
He tottered ahead a couple o. steps.
"Then somethin't clicked. The jaw
bones o. the: dog had cracked, and. il
let 20 the torkle's tail and fell OF
Then the torkle give. Uncle David a
look and spit out the dogs tail bone!
He had won the bet for Uncle David
but" -. ~. g.
Don't dwell on the ; rest" said
H1dv. the landlord, holding up bot!