Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-10-09

Then the squire hurried nome 70
git gun.
! Prudence SAYS he, 'fishin' don't
seem to be jest what it's cracked up
b be. Eels interferes with it and
makes it wearin' on the nerves. So
I'm goin''a-huntin',' says he.
"'Be you, squire? says Prudence
And what shall fix the oven up fer
20 cook? says she.
as roast crane anyways good%
says the squire.
1--WE heerd So says Prudence.
"Then git your oven ready to roast
a crane says the squire, and he went
a-huntin'.
When be got back TO the river,
where he seen the crane, there it
was yet, standin' on one leg, waitin'
fer n fish 70 come along and be took
It's goin' TO be onfortunit for
you that You didn't 60 a-huntin' in
std O. goin' a-fshin',' says the
squire, lookin' at the crane, but I'll
rid you Of your Disappointment, says
he, and for dom it III take my
thanks out in roastin' YOU says he.
''The squire sneaked up behind the
bushes till he was pretty close 10 the
crane, and he blazed away. The
CRIME turned round and looked to'rd
the bushes where the squire was
scoorchin'. 1t seemed TO be surprised
a little, and it riz up and sailed away
down the creek, slow and easy.
To make this huntin' life what |
il ought TO be- says the squire. paz-
in after the crane and griffin his
teeth, spose l ought to take up
the trall o. that crane and run down
and plug him, but I amt a-goin' 10.
I'm goin' home he says, and I'm 90
in to fine myself three dollars for
contempt O. court and stand com
nitted till it's paid!' he SAYS.
And the squire shouldered his gun
md started home. Before he rot
here he met Sile. sile was on his
way 10 put out a set line in the river.
I've an idee,' says sile to the
'quire, that l kin git mebbe a
couple or three snappin' tortles on IL
o-night' says he, and there amt
iothin' that grows that's better than
nappin' tortle stew, says he.
SO I've heerd,' says the squire.
nd he went home ponderin', and
onciuded 20 suspend sentence on
imself for awhile.
Prudence, says he, the sipn
ont seem TO be sot in the right
lace to-day for roast crane, and SO
m goin' TO see what l kin do bv
xhilaratin' sport o putin out a
ne
bright and early next mornin' he
OF up and went TO the river TO take I
the line and gether his snappin'
ortles He want expectin' to see /
nat he did see, so he was most b
noeked endways when he seen II. /
" Danl, says Ellis Sam. what the
quire seen was a big, long-lepred
'ane standing nigh the edge q the
alter, jest where the set line was Il
IT.
o you pshaw' says I 10 Els o
I'm. Not the same crane?' I saws f.
" WE'LL says Els Sam. IL ain,t me
iat says IL was or il wasn't Rpt
'u kin listen 20 what the Squire T..
Us, 'eordin' to what heerd. and =
EN- ledge fer YOURSELF saws he. "
Nv hen the Squire seen the bio
ng-legged crane standin' there. So -
rs Sam went on and told me. Con
IN you' he says TO the crane
mt you got enough Wit Of the W
saryin' disappointments o. fshin'q'
says Ia
The crane didn't say whether If ca
d or not, but II riz up as if il was
IN away, but came plunkin' hack
10 the water ag'in.
What's ailin' of you. anvhowg an
Us the Squire, gittin' mad Go
ly and let me pull in them snappip' 60
rites o mine,' he says. su
The crane riz up ap'in. bpt c,r.
lnkin' back into the water. ker. ]
lsel Then the Squire picked mn . me
b. He whacked the crane over he III,
al with it and laid the big bird Z
Well says the Squire. the sign
roast crane seems to be sot .
re better to-day than it was Wis so,
day, says he; but it's snannin, 'rq :
tie stew, not roast crane. that I'm
er now he says. =
But he took hold of the crane and Th
NJ TO pullin' 1t TO the shore and
n he was jest more than fabber-
ted. The crane had swallowed z
o the Squire's hooks. and tbe r,s,
son 1t had swallowed the bcol,
that two-pound eel was fast
the hook, -
And in the cells Jaw was the bool, TW
piece o. FISH line the eel had TOOL, w
y from the Squire the day before n
the reason the eel had pobbIad
set line hook that had give the :
'-legged crane the chance to pob-
the eel was that a big club had
bled the set line hook first and COM
2 the eel had gobbled the chub Ger
There right before the Sopira,s =
5, says Ellis sam. was the fool o,,s,