Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-06-02

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chap was 10 cute that be sized BIZ
gait right down to Uncle Spitser'i
and KEEP that consumed tail O hisi
Jest ahead O his nose with mot an
other speck O. fox carcass 10 DO Been.
Findin' that he couldn't GIT sigh
at nothin' but the fox's tail BY fol
lerin' Of It that way. Uncle Splitter
all Of student stopped square in hi
tracks, turned round and started bach
in fother direction, thinkin', O course
that he'd take the willy chicken-stealel
on his guard and come face to face
with him. But he didn't. When Uncle
Splitter turned and took the back
track, all he could see when he swung
round the circle was that same old
bushy tail trailin' along, and Jest
roundin' the corner ahead Of him. as
usual.
"'Now. Uncle Splitter had been cir
cleatin' the grit O. that tree fer goin'
on to 20 minutes. and. havin' tramped
somethin' like 20 mile over the hills
besides, he begun to feel his wind git
tin leetle skeerce. Consistently. he
wasn't as gentle in his mind as lamb
on the hillside. and he said that II he
could only q got his hands on to that
fox Jest at that minute he'd a. treated
him worse than Samson did that little
flock O. foxes he ketched wunst on a
time, as you mowt a. heerd about
Danl, and tied blazin' pine knots to
their tails. While Uncle Splitter stood
there a.cussin' like sojers will, he see
fer the first time Q big holler place in
the tree, nigh the ground. He got an
idee In second.
"'Chasin' the fox round the tree two
or three times as fast as he could jump,
Uncle Splitter Topped down and crep'
into that boiler place. The fox came
on, and as he was passin' the boiler,
Uncle Splitter showed his gun bar'l out
like fash, ketched the fox under the
belly, and give It sweep up that sent
1t tiyin' clean amongst the branches
O. the tree. Uncle Splitter was out on
his feet in second. and had dead
aim on TO the fox before he had time
to turn and drop back lords the
ground.
GAS he drawed bead on the fox In
the air, he sees tremendous big
wildcat scroochin' on the limb Of
tree, right in range Of his gun, and
not 20 foot away. The varmint was
Ill ready to spring on Uncle Splitter.
Uncle Splitter had an idee that his bull
ct would slosh clean through the fox
md pink into the wildcat, too, and
led git EN- both without putin his
|elf out any, and he whanged away.
"'Down come the fox. deader than
gate post, but the bullet missed the
Wildcat. Before Uncle Splitter could
AXE his gun down to get another load
INTO 1t, the wildcat sprung for him. 1t
truck the end O. his gun bar'l with its
avs wide open, and 1t was goin' so
asst that the bar'l slid clean through
t, like stringin' bead on thread,
nd Uncle Splitter fetched 1t in strung
hat way, draggin' the fox along by
Is big brush. So II anyone ever had
ny idee O. sayin' anythin' ag'in I'm
lie Splitter wearin' that Britisher sojer
oat o. his'n they never said It after he
etched in that wildcat and that fox.
"'Then by and by Uncle Splitter took
, sayin' that there wasn't nothin' In
ur woods no more that was worth any
ody's while to tackle. and he swore
sg'lar every fall that he'd never be
appy till he could git som'rs where
Q could run ag'n lions or tigers or
,methin' O. that sort. So. one fall,
hen he didn't come home from goin'
1T a-huntin', pap and all Of 'em
fought, Of COURSE. that he had pulled
1t and gone to seek country where
, could tackle lions and tigers. II
The next spring, though, pap
rocked over a big bear down back o.
ark swamp. 30 fur as anything
lowed on the outside there wasn't
thin about that bear any different
ON any other bear Just like It, but
bear that ever was killed In the
mob country or any other country q
yer had the somethin' In It's inside I
te this bear that pap killed that day I
d. 6
" When that bear was dressed they
sked IL brass buttons out Of Its NAV.
velve brass sojer buttons. Uncle
itzer hadn't gone away to the lion l
d tiger country, after all. He had q
killed. this bear, and bit OF more than v
could chaw. But the bear hadn't. Il
lcle Splitter and his sojer coat had i
rested all right, but them buttons 1,
dn't, and there they was. And this r
ton here IL one Of them. Here 1t r,
and II It Amt primy fishy evidence O.
It bears II do 1t, Dan1. then produce 7
ar evidence that Uncle Splitter went Il
az to git lions and tigers and wasn't u
By the bear my pap killed. says II
Gle Jase. b
That primy fishy evidence looked n
all the world like the buttons that p
) on the old blue army overcoat that tc
wore wunst and | says to Uncle "a
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Why says. How's this. Uncle q
ef This old Britisher button has b
o. 8. on to II, in big letters says.
sCoursa n hast says Uncle Jasa. 81