The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-18

today II it hadn't a been fer a accident
One daV i was out a-lOOkin' fer a rabbit
or a sagehen. and I strolled up to the
woods on the hills. I hadn't seed a thing
but prairie dogs to shoot at and /
wouldn't waste powder on EN- Finally
I seed a old eagle sOarin' around and 1
thouEht I'd take wing shot at him.
| but when 7 pulled the trigger the gun
wouldn't shoot I mOnkeyed with II until
/ got mad. though 7 amt much on gettin'
mad. / snapped it again and il didn't
go ana l lapped 1t around tree as hard
as I could belt.
Well sir, I'm a pretty strong man.
and that lick nearly bent the gun barrel
double. The gun went off when 7 hit IL
against the tree, but 7 didn't think any
Jhlng about Ii until about hour later
when I was waikiki back on the other
sldH o the hill, when I come plump acrost
tnat old buck a-layin' there in the last
agony OF death. Well, sir. I wllz puzzled
you bet and il took me a long time 70
figure out how the old buck come to his
tragic end / found out that when that
bullet shot oUten that curved gun barrel
II ctrcled around the hill and caught the
old buck while he was a-grazin'
II told the other fellers had a FIGHT
with the buck and that the gun barrel
WuZ bent in the tussel. fer I felt so sorry
Ter the old animal 7 didn't want no one
10 think he had died without a fight
Experiences With Mountain Trou4.
Now. jest cause you're from Texas
youI, don't seem to believe. what I'm a.
word, and I can tell YOU I've seen lots O.
peculiar things out west One Of the most
peculiar things 1 ever seed was along a
little crtck where the mountain trout slrz
as thick as wiggle-tails in a Chicago rain
barrel. wuz a fishin' one dav and I
caught a lot Of fine rainbows and "a few
suckers, fer the blamed suckers are ont
there jest as well as In the Wabash
Now, you take IL I'm the hungry season
and a trout will eat anything from a
minnow TO a hunk o. bear meat + yTtz
a-tishin'. as I said. and 7 landed a fine
trout that weighed about n pound and a
half. threw the fish out on a sand bar
and N Hoped around like iniuu-rllbber
ball fer about five minutes and then it
Iaiq sun Ter a minute. ] knowed it wuz
actin kind o strange. and wuz a.
watchin IT, when IL opened its mouth and
Ql&BorBed sucker that weighed three
pounds. I weighed both fish. and 7 know
believe me or not, it's fac
Il discovered a fine way OF fishin' ont
there that be1ts hook and line fer front
and it don't take much eXertion You
know a mountain trout it great Jumper
and he can clear cataract surprisin'
Well, sir, ] had watched EN- leapiu' ont
Of the crick and a landin' above the little
falls.
IT figured that IL them fish could he
fooled into believin' there was a water
fail where there WuZnt none ] could
save lot o bait. I got a white sheer
and hung IL on the bank o. the cricL ard
then got upon the bank with a Ola brass
Kettle and made a noise like a waterfall
Wen. sir. them fish took shoot fer chat
sheet and went 40 I'm the air like sky
rockets and landed on the bank
thought fer awhile they vuz an a-con1i7'
at onct, and I quit hammerin' on the
Aetue TO them fish that sheet looked
IKE fallin' water and the noise made EN-
think 10 was sure-nuff falls.
NO. sir that amt "A lie and Won can
20 the same thing yourself in any place
IN the country 'cept Texas.