Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-20

you! Actu'ly goin' to drop the stone on to it's head!
 Well, want to know if didn't git swat alongside O that feller's head that made things ring! Why, I could hear 'ern myself, almost as plain as a cowbell in the woods! The feller dropped the stone as if it had been hot, and staggered around to see what had stung him. 4 .... '..
 "What!" says. "You don't mean to say that you kill 'em, do you?' ! says. "Jumpin', Jim Jaggers!'' I says. i've heerd O folks that killed 'em," says, "but never 'spected to live to see none of 'em,'' says.
 Whats your idee O not tappin' it yit, Dan1?' says Uncle Jase, kickin' a chip over to'rds the cider bar1 It's better to spiggot it before you put it in the cellar says he.
 "T know it, Uncle Jase' says I, but Ellis Sam borried my auger and he hain't fetched 1t back yit,' says; that bein' the truth, too, but not the req son hadn't tapped the bar'l.
 "'He did, eh?' says Uncle Jase; but he didn't seem to be any more discour- aged than he was before. Ellis Sam Is always borryin' things, consarn him!' says he. T says to the New York feller, "Jumpin' Jim Jaggersl' ! says, "I've heerd of folks that killed 'em," says, "but never 'spected to live to see none of 'em!' says And it was Bartholomew that he was goin' to drop that stone on to. too, Danl!' said Uncle Jase.
 Then I begun to git an inklin', fer I'd often heerd Uncle Jase tell about Bartholomew. though I hadn't never seen him, nor heerd of anyone that had seen him.
 "Oh!' says. It's rattlers that's weighfn' you down, Is it, Uncle Jase?
 'Rattlers?' says he. Of courseI What else would it be? And 1t was Earth olo- new, too, that laid there. He had glided over there to do some digestin' after swallerin' g couple O goslin's, and not dreamin' that he'd run ag'in any one that killed 'em. But the, New York feller 'pologized, and me and Bartholomew went home, in the dumps, though, I tell you. DanI, to think that we had found that there was folks that killed 'em.
 Well, DanI, Nvander come to my place yisterday, and he found me on the pint O sheddin' tears. >-.
 Uncle Jase," say he, "what under the canopy is it?" -...
 Evander," says I, 't'other day I diskivered that there was them that killed 'em. and now," says I, 'T've dis kivered somethin' that I didn't think Hved!" I says.
 What kin it be?" says Evander.
 "'"A bad one!" says I. "Evander," says I, 'I've actu'lly diskivered that there's a bad one! Come here!" I says, and I took Evander over to a corner of the yard, and showed him a big one lay in there. all swelled up, nigh as big as stove pipe. It's too bad you hain't got in' another chip to'rds the cider barr. It helps 1t amazin', putin the spiggot in before you roll 1t in the cellar" says h0.
 "I know it, Uncle Jase,' says I, shak- in my head as if was more disap- p'inted than if my bailiwick had gone ag'in me fer constable.
 "That one was all swelled up,' Uncle Jase says, 'an' says to Evander, See that swellin'?" says I. Evander says he did. What Is it?" says he That swell lin'," says I, ''is my pet coon Absalom, and that rattler knowed 1t jest as we'll as l knowed 1t myself" saysT. But don't care so much fer the coon, though he was worth all O $40," says I, but to diskiver that there's bad onesI That knocks mel" says I. DanI, I shouldn't wonder but what you're a 1eetle sorry yourself that 1t ain't tapped says Uncle Jase, kickin' a chip plumb on top O the cider bar'l.
 We'll, I should say sol says l. T could shirt good quart of it and never wink! Consarn that Ellis Sam!' says I. - Uncle Jase looked up the road and down the road, and then says, b. and by:
 CT was comin' along the swamp road this mornin', and, hearin' some enc hail me, turned and see it was Ellis Sam.
 ""Where you pikin' fer?" says he.
 Down to 'DanIs," says l.
 ":"Wish you'd take this along with you and tell Dahl I'm much obleeged," :" says he.
 I said I would, and dern glad am, too, that kin 'commodate a neighbor. Here it is. Dan1,' says Uncle Jase, and he handed over the auger that Ellis Sam had borried! ... ~.
 Yes, sir.' says he, that pet coon was worth $40 but 1t ain't that that's weight in me down, Danp says he. It's the dIs- kivery that there's bad ones-actu'lly bad ones-that put me in the dumps,' says he. Some folks taps it on the side, but see you sock the hole in the end, Danl. That's right. It always draws freer when you tap 1t in the end says Uncle Jase; and when he went home no one would ever s'pected that he'd been 30 powerful deep in the dumps as he was when he come in and sot on the wood pile "-N. Y Sun
 
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