The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-20

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the time but that don't cut no ice, no
how. But it was in the winter all
right, I know, fer old man Jarvis was
gittin' out shingle bolts off'n piece
of land that belonged to big Chi,
cago lumber company, that time, m
he'd made hat full of money outer outer
it, too, f he hadn't a come to town
one Saturday, m got jagged. m talked
bout it right in the hearin' of
cruiser, m then got ketched.
Nobody hadn't oughter ever git
jagged when he knows anything ne
don't want nobody else to know,
'less'n he locks himself up with thee
whisky, m stays there till he gifts:
sober. But that winter was mighty
mild one, anyway. l remember tnat
mighty WE'LL, cause one of them Mil
waukee sports that used to come uptto
hunt n fish with us, come up after
deer. He couldn't git away In the
i season, but he didn't see why that was
any reason he shouldn' have his hunt,
m then smuggle his ven'son home Ter
Chris mus. Anyway, he come, n ne
come right to our house. He had ms
gun packed away in a trunk, N give
himself out as lookin' over some Land
he wanted to buy, which excuse alters
went in them times. -
.ewell, I took him out to old. man
Jarvis camp, which used to be. log
gers. m, was plenty big huff fer twice
as many mems old Jarvis he'd, n: cali cal
c'lated we'd easy git a deer or tWoaln
a couple O. days. m then git nome
'thout risin' no spicion.s Second. day
we was there we did git one n huns
him IN, calc'latin' to finish up mex
dav hut We was misfort'nit that time
right from the jump.
'"There mus a been a natnal con-
yention er bob cats, n lynxes S,round
there SOM ers, fer they got wind O
our deer, N ct ev'ry. bit o II, mea.;;
hide m hair, that night. We foun'
that out mex day, fer this MllWau-
kee sport he jest had to have another
look at the deer where it hung, N !
took him 'roun' that way to git IT,
One way was S good s mother TO me-
but he didn't see no deer When we go,
there. Nothin' but big cat tracks, n
deer hair scattered over the snow
N he was wild. Nothin' 'ud do him
but we mus try to hunt up N XII
It them cats, m T SEE: All right, you're
e the DOCTOR N we put off afterFiem. r
$, Course I knowd we wouldn't gil
r thin a mile of one but I did hope we
might pick up a deer; but we didn't
l. ner anythin' else. Well, we got bach
n at night mad, err the sport was,
a warn't, m old Jarvis asked me VIII!
e didn't try the hide-out. BY gum!
is 7 sez, T forgot all bout it, but to-mor
Is row we will m fore day mex morn
% in we was pikin' right there: VIVA
S. was the hide-out? Oh, yes, / forgot
nj There was Teller come up there year
4. ago, m built it. He dug it right dow
thru the top O. a little knoll with tree
N ali over it., m if you didn't know wher
N it was, you'd walk all over it, n no
find it in a month O. Sundays.
"He sided it with hewed sticks, n
S rooted it over with poles, N covere'
. the poles with dirt, n he built hin
> a chimley with stones, n mud,
he had a piece O. stove pipe ftted I
= the chimley-top to use nights, Ter n
= never had nothin' but powder-dr
20 wood burnin in the daytime, SOS Their
e wouldn't be no smoke. N when n
We went away he had a. patch Q, Oil
~ fxedsup on a board SOS to lay 1t owe
al the chimley-top, n NOBODY 90 eouiorl
ne see there was any chimley there.
I'D "He had a door to his shanty Z
ss course. But it was fixed UP with dir
Ar. with brush in 1T like it was grown
m you'd never a n1istrusted it warn.
r He lived there five year er more, Tor
he he was got on to-, n then dtectlv
at hopin' to nail him, n git big re
he ward, mos LIKELY. But he didn't, fe
nv this ,hide-outer he ketched on to
ed quick, IN they shot each other
lit DEATH. They was took away, N "
nd never heerd nothin' more bout tn
n whole shootin' match. 60; SIX
.sWell,- me n the sport we got owe
an to the hide-out, m foun': it looki1
.at all right, tho the snow on the ru
Use m all over. hid it up pritty mucl
re We'd fetched a couple O. blankets 'lon
,ot m got busy to once cleanln, Out, tf
nd old shack sos we could sleep the1
he that night comfortable. I got woo
nd 'nough to last US, n then we pike
m off after deer.
ne 1--WE got one longer, bout four 3:
J, the afternoon, N I; dressed him, prlt
~ good buck he was, N then slung nj
IT on a pole, m we lugged him over
on' the fiide-out The sport was prit
gess, much tuckered by the carry, N soon
nls we had a good fire goin' n the o
~, ~ hole het up good, m d ct our su
iAe per, we. rolled in, m went to slice
We'd lef' the deer layin' top o II
ruff, m didn't think nothin was goi
re-. to happen no more than nothin, s
.r's guess $ ginrally the way with ev'
TX man when things does happen to hi
rec t'Well, s said, we went to slee
n slep like bear in his winter q
fer a. long while, m then I woke
feelin' like the sky'd caved in on |
Ri Bout that time the sport he woke
ay. m begun to want to know what
rch Texas was the matter, n, told hi
ate I'd be d--n glad to know, fer my w
,ity was stillIsleep, m my thinker out
We gear.
.sBut r tumbled bine by.
- "The poles atop of the blame shan
was rotted mos off, but still he'll
the bresh N dirt atop Of EN-, spec
as the dirt was froze. But us Pill
the deer top o. the dirt, N then hes
In up the whole bizness with Q
III fire brought the whole thing doN
on us's soon's lit got thawed out.
~ there we was Hit down tights
we was nailed, not able to roll ov
m not able to help ourselves a lit
bit We couldn't move a han er TO
couldn't do nothin' but lay there
sweat ice water, N cuss, m wait
day.
mo, II didn't git scared mu,
Neither didn't the sport but only or
when he got to prayin' under
breath, but I soon cussed him ou
that. When a man goes to pray
In a pinch it's a bad sign. Sign
nerves quittin', m he won't try
help himself much longer. But
knowed old Jarvisd look us up SO
err late, m the wust we had to 10
fer was goin' hungry a day OF two
I'VE TOUCHED it out till bout
Z O. clock, n then my brother Bob
lcome along. The sports folks had
have him home D. d. q. n was tie