The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-07
STRIKE WRONG Man

~ MlAL III ltUVu MAN
Tom and Dick Size Harry Up for an
Easy Mark, but He Is
Not So.
Silent Man Shows the Good When
the Time Comes "A Game Of
Poker.
Test we forget = will take the lib
erty of again rendering a little advice
/ to those Journal readers who are
going after deer this fall. Learn this
/ by heart, = or cut it out and take 1t
i with you. I've tried it and know it's
good. Always carry a lunch, a COM
pass, plenty of matches, and your lit
tie Ratchet, when you leave camp. If
4 you get lOst-and YOU may at any
minute-build q fire and stay right
there, firing your gun at intervals, till
/. your guide comes after you. He'll
/ come.
Never, under any consideration, fire
a gun at random, or up into the air.
/ The bullet must stop somewhere, and
must fall-and it might hit somebody.
/ Fire into stump, and pick out big
one. And do not shoot at anything
unless you can swear it is a deer, or
/ other wild game; And take as little
whisky as possible with you. Whisky
4 has engineered a vast majority of the
i ''lamentable accidents" that have TAX
en- place i'll the woods since Eblis
lorewed the first jorum. Do not shoot
from overhaste in shooting. When you
!, do shoot be sure that you can see
three things before you pull the trig-
! ger: The deer, the front sight, and
the rear sight-and see the deer thru
the two sights. If you do not, don't
fire. You'll only miss.
, And don't make this mistake of Tom
and Dick and do the supercilious act.
There's always the audible sound of
super silly" in ESPECIALLY in this
northern country of real men. But
Tom and Dick were not aware of that
truth, and suffered accordingly. They
came up for duck and grouse, and
after obtaining a guide and other es-
sentials, left for some indefinite point
ION the reservation" expecting to be
: away week. While here they made
the acquaintance of Harry, who had
: preceded them, and somehow the three
, Joined forces and went off together.
! Tom and Dick were both young men
;. Who had nothing in particular to say
: and took a deal of time to say it
! had the price," and were none too
:, reticent about that fact; had a fair
: working knowledge of the sport they
= We're seeking, and the most approved
: things in. guns. Harry had but little
:. to say and was evidently not at all
: up in shooting lore, but wise enough
= to keep his tongue between his
> teeth, and use his eyes and ears to
= 1the1best advantage. One shotgun was
= tas-aay- other to him, and he went off
# armed with an old gas pipe that
= Colonel Powers keeps to let out. to
y the secret joy of Tom and Dick, who
= proposed to have a lot of fun with
y him, as they did later.
Well, the week passed. Harry re-
turned with his gas pipe, half dozen
ducks which he gave away, and as in
!, vincible silence as he took away
!. with him. OF Tom and Dick he mere
lily remarked that they went home the
= other way, and as they owed no one
]. here. there Were no more, questions
3 asked about them. But last. week the
2 guide showed up in town and had
% tale worth hearing to unfold CON
4 corning that trip. Said this Child OF
IS Nature:
. I'D a sized that still duck UP fer
= tn :rankest kinder tenderfoot f there
j: hadn't been kinder spark in his eye
y you never seen in no tenderfoot's
= lamps yit, IN. never won't But then,
+ other two fellers they didn't ketch
. on tall, n they was always at him
= n, ,guyed him scandlou He never
~ talked back none, but he'd look al
them sometimes like an old bulldog
looks at pups foolin round him too
fresh, Jes like he's a sayin' 'Jes a
3 little more, pup, ,jes' a little more, N
3 III nail YOU Well. jes' IS the pups
sure to do, them felers done. They
3 went too fun he nailed EN- N
wouldn't missed it for no hundred
dollar bill It ever was printed.
This quiet chap he used to sneak
8 OF by his lonesome to a little pug
3 hole where ducks come sometimes
8 n there he'd stay all day.. awaitin
fer a shot. Sometimes he'd git a
duck, N sometimes he wouldn't but
s@ it was all samee to him. Well, there's
Il an lnjun graveyard, a old one, nigh
where we was camped, N one night
.. them other two they gifts whole lot
3 o bones outer it, digs EN- up, n lays
s EN- out on the bank o the pughole
where the quiet cuss d find 'em, N
to be awful smart. they fastens n old
rusty muskrat trap I had to the lee
bones, like the Injun d been caught
. in it, n starved to death.
3 Well he finds it all right? N first
4
e not catchin on right off. But he
didn't say nothin when they jumped
OH him about it that night but took
it all good natured. an first thing |
knowed he was talkin'. tellin' stories,
singin and acting like mother man al
together. While, was out lookin'
after the team the three gifts playin'
he poker n playin fer blood too. Fore
-. long one goes broke, n the other
&c want fur behind him Then the still
= i man offers to put up all he Won an
~ he had the whole pile, ginst their
id guns N outfit, n let the hull thing go
is on one hand. And they greed, n he
us win.
he
he Then they got mad n cused him
or O. cheating. He gifts UP quiet, N
Tx asks them will they back it one at a
tn time, m me will / see fair play.
tn says Sure Mike! fer he's gittin' right
next me, n I see he's all right An
say! The Lansy. Old I'm never puts
e up finer scrap. Wy he'd a licked
ne them two dubs- both to Wonst, n done
&c it too easy. You never see men SO
done UP in your life. There warn t
es half an eye that would see tween the
, two when he finished with EN-.
=, N next day. he gives their guns N
~ ~ money back, N hauled him out to
-. the railroad. NJ they had to stay in
II camp two weeks fore they was fit to
e look at, IN then they was ashamed to
10. go back by way of the Rapids"
IL And if tllev ever discovered the
ic identity of the silent man they tried
r. to make game of, we are not yet
aware of it here.