The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-24
EAGLE TOOK CHARGE OF BOAT
Hunter Brought Wounded Bird on Board and He Made Things Lively.

crest and stream.
 and lighted 1t with the coal from the campfire Say, Kurn1" said he. 1T reckin' I hain't never tole ye that ar grip story?' assured him that he had not. Wall, here at are." said he. One day tolde my ole woman that I'd go and get some ducks, so took Ole Bess and loaded her with three hans and started. l rode long bout half CT mile. Ole Bess loose inter 'em an killed four. started in sort O lazy like to load Ole Bess, and jes as got 'er loaded heard sort of a swish that ar way, an ez looked I seed biz grip jes' risin' out CT Ole Bess ter my shoulder and hangs in- ter him and down he cum. I pulls right over thar an picks up three ov the ducks UT grip"
 Here interrupted him and asked what He looked at me pityingly. Say. lows would call a bald-headed eagle As gaid afore. 1 begins payin' 'tention to that ar grip. He he'd fas Tened onter that ar duck like death ter a nigger. want ei the duck, but seed that had only broke their end ov his wing, so he couldn't fly. and 'ceptin the lame wing he was jest ez healthy as any bird round them parts. Say. Kurn'l. did yer ever nght CT grip? No; sorter thought not kurnl. them are cusses could lick ther best grizzly bar thet ever trotted, but ez l was sayin', I sorter wanted thet duck so gets up close and tries to shoo' him but he wouldn't shoo' wuth a euss Then l jabs at him with Ole Bess. but the grip just gripped my gun and jest friz onter It with one foot so I pulls him Htgr wth bI. the 5qa and he drug the duck in
 'I sez to myself: well. old man. I'll give yer ride home with me- I went ter get an oar outen the bottom ov ther Snoat; but the grip rig up and commenced hostile operations at onc't. I retreated ter the other end of their boat ter thinl. It over. Soon as I left him he com menced ter eat ther duck. That ar con him. but he spreads himself out and screeched, an he'd a sort of look in his eye that 1 didn't like, so I reconsidered the matter.
 rough water, an 1t was gettin' long to'rds night, an we ,wuz gettin' close to some breakers, an I fingered it out that the grip wuz in kermand of thet boat only he wouldn't let me steer I could see some one on ther shore, an takinp my slicker I stood up an waves ana yells loud ez cu'd. Say. KurnI durn outer the gunnel an flop his wings an screech t raise tn dead; an he looked ready ter fight an elephant. an he was too.
 hiiio tllllc l DeBln ter get mar vous, for we wuz right close ter the breakers an I dasn't try ter git an oar. Ter that cuss would hev clawed me all up, in no time. Ole Bess wasn't loaded an l he'd los my powder horn in the lust of the sklrmish, and beside. the grip he'd Ole Bess in his end ov the boat enyway, an 1t looked sort ov suuaily Ter yer Uncle Darius. Jest then looks toward home. an seed a boat startin' out. yelled. an the grip screamed an soon they come, an wuz powerful glad Ter see 'em. They lowed me an ther grin ln-or, l reckon. more kerectly, ther grio an me. By this time they was a big ex- citement on shore an all ther wlmen ttolks wuz thar. My woman hollers. Oar ius! what on airth hev yer gotr I hoI- lers back. I've got ther dey!l, an am oringin' him in. It being ~6out dark. an that are grip ov looked sorter odd like from the shore. an them fool wo- men tho't l he'd the devil sure nuf. an some run an some screamed an some tainted an in the excitement that ar eussed grip got away an 'scaped inter