Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1903-05-23
A WARNING
COnveyed&
Ad~scs % Knot County Native
Regarding Trapping OF
Chicken Tnas~os.

lucved il away. KNOWN IL was mine
and that he hadn't no more right 70
do IL than he had % shoot one O my
cows said the man from the Knob
country, land VIZ now he goes and
summonSes me 70 be defendant in a
lawsuit he's 6rin0in' acin me FOR
Islander, Hain's spoke "a him nor
mentioned his name in better than
four yer :. and here he goes sDd
summon-eS me 10 be the defendant
In a suit for slan6cri
Josiah come in s'othcr day snd he
Was considerable glum. asked him
what waS achin'. and he says;
Its them chickens O mine he
says. Half dozen O my best ones
was stole last night Half a dozen
was stole the night afore that, and
] s'poSe that half dozen II 50 ag'in
tonight. and then I won't have none
left he SAYS That's what the aiiin'
Is. Danl' says he.
Josiah IS sid JaSon's son-in-law.
and 4 consarned nice Young Teller
he is. too. for al o. shat And Jason
lives Deirhbor 10 Josiah
-,Tm goin' to put bar trap in
that hen coop tonight SAYS he. and
Jest find ous who 81 is that's unpop-
ulatin' Of H. SAWS he
Il sot and thunk awhile and then
! says;
josiah saws. before YOU set
trap for your chicken thief. Jet me
ten YOU = little recollection about
sor1efhin' that happened in the Knob
country somethin' Ike q good many
years ago Then says l. II YOU
want 70 set your trap. why set IL. II
won't make no difference 70 me-
SAYS
The time I'm referrin' to- saws
!. .Snckrider a Jupp was in Partner
ship in the shinvle splittin' and lad
der maxim business. over back o. the
Knob. Sackride- had daughter
Jimmy. she wsn'- more than Il when
this happened. but she could III ont
= calico dress ike surarcake dough
run INTO mould
-Saekri6er's pa-dner. Judd. was q
1iptup. st-appin' younEs-er q - OF SO.
de was al orphan on has mothers side.
but his poor old father. Abner. was
left 70 be q consolation and q comfort
50 him The ola u,Au lived on the boy.
and bed the rheumytik most O. the
time. with now and then a call from
plumbaEo IN the back. and similar
cheerful ailiu's.
.Ab1er was & fne old man. but
there vak folks mean enough 20 - v
1ha; though re was always sufferin'
terrible when has boy Wa around
which the yuunEster's name wa
Caieb-he wss clipper enough when
the boy was away in the woods shinCls
FpIit<in' and could walk three miles 20
The tavern and absorb more rum and
fGnrv that any other citizen o. that
1salliw5ck- That's what there Wa
folks mean enough 20 say about Ahuer
buf youIl And jest seteh medclin' folki
everywhere JOSIAH. eVeryw here
Caleb be never knowed q theii
fzzk. though. zuc was always worryin
about his poor old father, and feeHn
sorry Tor hizn. and saying that be ssai
sfearec ne WASN'T dom enough a
make TIE old man comfortable on III
way 10 t'other Shore.
The ground that saclri5er'
daughter jimmy walked OF was wortl
sonethin' Ike $4,000 q squire inch 1,
Caleb and TIE price marx that Jim,
puf on Blily was 80 high that the Queei
- Sbeby coulcn'- q carried enoug.
treasures and things in her chiTt Z,
pay T. and sefch bein~ che case. a
course. 81 was a settled thing. al owe
the cestrict that them TWO WAS g0ir
70 marry one another when the tim
come r5rh1.
There VAS considerable o. she's
stealth and chicken stealth. and Eetc
pastines as fhem going OF back Z
zbe Knob 81 them days. and nobod
zgas more dead sof ag'ln EN- thal
Sackrider's daughter Jinus.
Why, says Jiu1g 70 Caleb CD
day. y wouldn't thiEk 10 more
fA,0otin' 3 sheep tkief. /" zays she. -'tha
mad says he, every tine thiuk I
one"
Caleb he said that he cid. 600, an
that he didn't want nofkSn' 10 90 MI
any thai belonged 20 = sheep fhis
".aMe a~sther.~ says Jlnny. ~
as soon fetch p'ise1." ssys she.
Along early that spring q IA
came through 4bere buyin' up Eheel
Caleb nac sou.e q the choicest kind
sheep. bct acne - 'ern uas Tor sac.
~yrhe sheep buyer be sort o dep
tired Encie 'L1jer- a. the tavern. I
psek up al he could and forward ri
90 HIN az the E66y. Now. 1oneh0
or other. q az the sheep that IA
been stole I'D the ceestr5cs the most Z
'en had always been took Tor Gale
snd somehow when. chickens WAS leFis
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