The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-07
RIGHT in The NECK
Two Guileless Tenderfeet Get what
Is Coming to Them All
Right.
They Conclude the Farmer Is Not
Quite So Simple as He
Looks.
Whatever t Is there's sonip'ina sure all
lers hans a man what IS comm to him.
Philosophy Of Colonel Wheaton, A

This is the true story of two good,
but misguided, and none too&sophisti-'
Gated young men, who opened the deer
season in advance Of the due time, by
their lonesome and without the right
kind of openers. Which latter are
as important as jacks or better in the
national game. They came UP i'm
bued with the notion that success lay
in getting next" to some simple agri-
culturist, whose charges would be
moderate, knowledge of the country
profound, and Willingness to act as
landlord, guide and cicerone generally
ideal. And they found the farmer.
The: farmer. also found ething;
what will develop later, !. .>.:4...
:pAnyl1ow, they went off to his place
with rifles, shotguns, ammunition and
comforts of the most approved kinds,
eralt years stay in the wilderness, pro-
vide theya.were in competent hands.
Butathey only remained three days,
at the end .of which time they returned
Ito town, engaged a. regular guide. and
went off at the legally appointed time
with al profound conviction that the
farmer is not SO guileless as the comic
papers. represent him to be. And this
lis about what they did:
The. first day was consumed in
reaching the farm house; getting their
weapons in order; and sampling the
different brands they had; taken along
| in which latter operation the farmer
| lent. such efficient assistance that he
didn't feel. we'll enough to go out with
them in the afternoon. So they took
a little. stroll around the banks of q
good-sized lake near the house and
| presently We're aware of a nice bunch
Of, dueksrin a cove some distance away
Both had shotguns. and as the range
was atogethers too long for them, enc
Remained to keep watch. on the birds
while theother doubled back to The
house after an automatic twenty-tWl
he had Thought along for just sllcf
purposes. Returning with this weapon
| he found, that the ducks were still ii
the same place, and after sneaking VI
as close. as possible they opened fire.
! fly at the first shot, which knocked
| over one Of them, and the enthusiast
on shore kept: pumping lead into
them never, stopping to think Wha
sucn conduct on thespart Of the duck
portendedTE It'll the whole flock, min
in number, fioated. on the gentl
Weaves.= Then. they noticed q, hous
! Tins lay, had the sanity Simplicity t
| so there Ii. quest Of a boat to re
/ trieve their game withal.
= They got 1t, and aalso got a Yer;
/ warm welcome from another farmer
4 a. mar H:x feet.in the clear: and -ahou
three sideways Who "a d dressed d. then
1,y ALI Kinds of4petGnames, taxed thei
linteHectss with :. condemned itfirnlits
/ assured them that he Wouldn't hay
1 tax en- a, hundred dollars for that: foel
/ Of ducks which were of a very rar
| breed, and wound up by offering t
1 eonaone the murder for $780,, or. t.tak
! iteout of their hides land secuted "a
1.-THE idea of there being anything t
/ ar bitrate .*<4 u -
EslAs by that time ,the farmer ha
been reinforced by two big: sons. an
! a. hired man bigger than5any ofathen
! thee hunt el's: ...tsdug @up;3 and. SPENT tn
rest Of the afternoon getting;to >thei
farmers place.cb q circuitous route
which they: for1diy hoped-would biin
] he the dlIclzs-wll os.was : onto
their identity all 1.-The wfrile--knev
/ who they were, land Where7ethey cam
4 from. .sss+.;. ss :s*4r#,.s
H. TheX said nothing as TO their eS
Pic ION the lake WREN they -reache
tire farmers; -flaefe4y-re l1aarking- tina
\ they had been doing a little targeting
1 and after supper they took thei
/ host 81 adsices.to to- repair to- at~cloXe
4 patch about a mile away, and wal
for a deer; the bright moonlight be
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