The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-06-25
A Warning
COnveyed%
Advice Of Knob County Native
Reaarding Trapping OF
Chicken Thieves.

HAIN'T spoke to old Jason not
since he shot the big tame deer
o. mine right in it's own pastur' and
lugged it away, KNOWN it was mine
and that he hadn't no more right to
do it than he had to shoot one O. my
cows" said the man from the Knob
country, land yit now he goes and
summonses me to be defendant in
lawsuit he's bringin' ag'in me for
slander! Hain't spoke to him nor
mentioned his name in better than
four years, and here he goes and
summonses me to be the defendant
in s,it for SANDER!
Josiah come in t'other day and he
was considerable glum. 1 asked him
what was aehin', and he says:
"It's them chickens O. mine,' he
says. Half dozen O my best ones
was stole last night. Half dozen
was stole the night afore that, and
] s'pose that half dozen II go ag'in
tonight, and then / won't have none
left he says. That's what the ailin'
is, Danl,' says he.
"Josiah is old Jason's son-in-law,
and a consarned nice young feller
he is, too, for all o. that. And Jason
lives neighbor to Josiah.
"'Tm goin' to put bar trap in
that hen coop tonight says he. and
jest find out who it is that's unpop-
ulatin' Of it, says he.
Il sot and thunk awhile, and then
] says:
. Josiah says. before you set .
trap for your chicken thief, let me
tell you a little recollection about
somethin' that happened in the Knob
country somethin' like a good many
years ago. Then says I, if you
want to set your trap, why set it. 1t
won't make no difference to me-
] says.
The time I'm referrin' to- says
I, 'Sackrider & Jupp was in pardner-
ship in the shingle splittin' and lad
der maxim business, over back o. the
Knob. Sackrider had daughter
jimmy. She want more than is when
this happened, but she could fill out
. calico dress like sugarcake dough
IuR into a mould.
'Sackrider's pardner, Judd, was a
tiptop, strappin' youngster of 90 or so.
He was an orphan on his mothers side,
but his poor old father, Abner, was
to him. The old man lived on the boy,
and had the rheumytis most O. the
time, with now and then call from
plumbago in the back, and similar
cheerful ailin's
Abner was fine old man, but
there was folks mean enough to saw
that though he was always sufferin'
terrible when his boy was around
which the youngsters name was
Caleb-he was clipper enough when
The boy was away in the woods, shingle
spiittin' and could walk three miles to
the tavern and absorb more rum and
tanzy that any other citizen o. that
hailiwick. That's what there was
folks mean enough to say about Abner
but you'll find jest setch meddlin' folks
sverywheres, Josiah, everywhere
Caleb, he never knowed of their
TAX, though, and was always worryin
about his poor old father, and feeIin
sorry for him, and saying that he was
sfeared he wasn't doin' enough to
make the old man comfortable on his
way to t'other shore.
The ground that Sackrider's
daughter jimmy walked on was worth
somstEin' like $4,000 a SQUIRE inch to
caleb and the price mark that jimmy
put on Billy was so high that the Queen
oheby couldn't carried enough
treasures and things in her chist to
pay it, and setch bein" the case, OF
SIS course, 1t was settled thing. all owe,
the destrict that them two was poin
20 marry one another when the time
come right.
There was considerable o. sheer
steahn' and chicken stealin', and setcf
pasflmes as them going on back Q
tne Knob N them days, and nobod,
vas more dead cot ag'in 'em thar
oaekrlder's daughter jimmy.
Why, says jimmy to Caleb ono
say, Il wouldn't think no more o
snootln' sheep thief" says she, thar
wonld o shootin' skunk, and | oil
mae, says she, every time / think 0
one. :
Caleb ne said that he did, too. ant
mat ne didn't want nothin' to do will
enyone that belonged to sheep thief