The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-21


Victor Hugo, in that wonderful de-
scription Of the battle of Waterloo in
Lies Miserables,'' gives several rea,-
sons for Napoleons failure to win the
day. But one, which was no fault OF
lNapoleon's, would have sufficed. His
what he might, he was "up against it,
and had to take his medicine" I'm
| the course of human events, a similar
catastrophe has overtaken my friend.
The Kid, and. as he says, he is up
against it hard. :"
ST had been bereaved Of the young
ones society since the deer season
opened, the last occasion on which he
favored me with his company being
Nov. 8, when he paid me visit with
| q view Of obtaining a cartridge-pur-
chasing loan; but a day, or two ago he
called again, and had to- look twice
to recognize him. He bore one deep
~, darkly beautiful black eye, and
| his face was crisis with bruises
and contusions as If he had been run
thru the hopper OF q threshfng ma
chine. Not that hand-painted decor
atoms of the Kids countenance are by
way Of a novelty. He often carries
them as earnest Of the strenuous life
! he leads. But these were of such an
unusual number and depth as to excite
special wonder how he acquired them,
i and IA curiosity to learn, which latter
| he soon satisfied.
s.say." he begaa, "ain't it hard luck
| g. fellers got to stay home an go to
don't the fool school board have sense
an give us a holiday now when we
can do something with 1T, stead of
waitin' till Christmas when you das-
my father'd let me go, did you? Well
/ he won't. He says he'll skin me alive
If don't go to school ev'ry day this
session, an he's fixed it SOS mothers
! to tell him if I don't. An he's went
to see the principal, too, an put him
ey'ry day.
Whats put the old man on? Oh.
nothin'. Only some bad luck of mine
an Billy's. How did get the mug?
"Oh, that amt nohtin' to kick about.
. won out; that is men Billy did. I'll
tell YOU how that was. You know the
10th come on Tuesday Well, my
father, he went off Monday with his
gun, an didn't say nothin' bout where
he was goin', an Monday night men
Billy we stole two \ dipth'eria cards
outer docs office. an that night we
n EBilly's, too We put 'em where
our folks wouldn't see 'em easy, but
t we knew the principal would come
snoopin' round to see why we didn't
.COHl6 TO SClOOl, all -la0A he q see the
lcards an be fraid to come in. Billy's
father he was gone huntin', too, an
I knew mother'd never look to see the
card on our door lest some Of the
ineighbors asked her bout it.
h t'Then Tuesday mornin' we got a
q big baiony, an a hunk Of bread apiece,
s an piked out up the Prairie Lake
: road. Well, sir, we hadn't gone a
t mile out Of town when we jumped a
: big deer in the woods just outside
: Sherry's old field.
4 1--WE both cut loose an emptied our
4 guns at him, an we hit him hard. too.
- There wasn't any snow then, you
: know, SOS we could track him by
n the blood, an we soon lost the
e trail. But we run back to Harry
o Prices an called Niger out. You
f know Niger? Then you know he
e can do anything but talk, an that
: he took us right to that deer. We
s put string on his collar, ami he
S smelled round awhile till he found the
t tract, an then he took us thru the
e woods most to Prairie Lake, till we
comesto open in popple grove, an
r there was a big Teller tryin' to dress
r our deer. He had on red clo'es coat,
: i brooches, cap, an all, and he hadn't
o the first idea how to dress the deer,
g so we seen at once he was a tender
: foot.
n 1--WE told him 1t was our deer, an
he laughed at us. IIe said he'd shot
a him way back in the woods, an fol-
d Tered him five miles. an he was his'n,
e an if we didn't go away he'd spank
d us. He'd set his gun down where
r. he couldn't reach 1t, an O. course we
4 wasn't goin' to be bluffed outer our
h own deer. SO we jumped him just like
% them two drummer boys in that
) Fore an Aft story. He handed US
h some good hard punches. an we had
" a hard time Of 1t to down him. but
= we did down him, an punch him good
r. an plenty. But we couldn't hold him
down, an there's no tellin' how it
te might've come out after all, but a tote
st team come along the road which was
r close by.
st THE teanster he heard the noise,
II an come over. All the tote team
IS sters knows us, an this one he pulled
m us Off, an was goin' to lick the man
for fghtin' boys. But we told him
r wanted was our deer. An the
+ teamster he told him if he didn't give
8. it up he'd have to fight him, an just
then Niger, he'd bit the man lots
!, while the fight was goin' on, he set
IL up barkin' from a little thicket right
close, an Billy went over to see, an
there was our deer deader'n ham
mer. An the other deer was the
mans, after all.
"The teamster he says to the man:
~ w Gil, p1A uiASA5 w - II L 1A,ioes
what to do. But. say! Let's call ii
&c &c standoff,. you set EN- up. an peace
- all aroun'.' The man he pulled out
~ ~ a. bottle. him an the teamster took a
"a =. drink, an then the teamster dressed
=, "a the deer for him. we all hung it up,
~ ~ an the man went off. Then the
" = teamster helped us dress ourn, an
~ put it on his wagon, an hauled us to
sd Clark's, where we could easy get a
DC chance to ride home. And by Gum!
=, when we got to Clark's the first man
III we seen was my father an Billy
ag father They was lluntin' there, an
ne hadn't killed nothin' yet.
an 1.-THE teamster told 'em all about II
re an don't ask me any more. They
re hitched up an brouf1ht us home again
us an when we got there wesgot another
lts lickin' about them dip'theria cards
al An my father, an Billy's father, they
o. took our guns an cartridges away. an
III locked 'em up, an the principal he
a. give us another lickin' when we come
or back to school. An amt we up
lg against it for fair?''
IS, &C. g. Kelly.
IL ~ so
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