St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-20

Yes, sir! True as set here and tell
you! Actu1y goin' 20 drop the stons
on to it's head!
"'Well, I want to know il didn't
git a swat alongside O. that feller's
head that made things ring! Why. l
could hear 'em myself, almost as plain
as cowbell in the woods! The Teller
dropped the stone as if it had been hot,
and staggered around to see what had
stung him.
What" l says "You don't mean
to say that you kill em, dc ..cu?"
says. "Jumpin' Jim Jaggers!" l says.
| 1--WE heerd O. folks that killed EN-"
says, "but never 'spected to live to
see none of EN-" says.
"'What's your idee O. not tappin'
it yit, Dan'l?' says Uncle Jase, kickin'
chip over lords the cider bar'l. It's
better to spiggot it before you put it
in the cellar says he.
I know it, Uncle Jase,' says I. but
Ellis Sam borried my auger and he
hain't fetched It back yit,' says; that
bein' the truth, too, but not the rea-
son hadn't tapped the bar1.
+ 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. I says to the New
York feller, "Jumpin' Jim Jaggers!'
says, 'I've heerd of folks that killed
| EN-" says, "but I never 'spected to
live to see none of 'em!" i says. And
!, it was Bartholomew that he was goin'
said Uncle Jase
Then I begun to git an inklin', fer
I'd often herd Uncle Jase tell about
Bartholomew. though l hadn't never
seen him, nor heerd of anyone that
had seen him.
"'Oh!' l says. It's rattlers that's
weighin' you down. is it, Uncle Jase?
'Rattlers? says he. OF course! What
else would it be? And 1t was Bartholo-
new, too, that laid there. He had glided
over there to, do some digestin' after
swallerin' couple O. goslin's, and not
dreamin' that he'd run ag'in any one
that killed 'em. But the New York Teller
'pologized, and me and Bartholomew went
home, in the dumps, though, tell you.
DanI, to think that we had found that
there was folks that killed 'em.
"'Well, Dan1, Evander come to my
place Yesterday, and he found me on the
pint o. sheddin' tears.
"'"Uncle Jase," say he. what under
the canopy is it?"
( "Evander," says 1, '.t'other day
diskivered that there was them that
killed 'em, and now" says I. 1--WE dis.
kivered somethin' that didn't think
lived!' says.
'''"What kin 1t be-" says Evander.
"'"A bad one!" says l. "Evander,"
says I, 1--WE actu'lly diskivered that
there's bad one! Come here!" says.
the yard, and showed him big one lay
In there, all swelled up, nigh as big as a
stove pipe It's too bad you hain't got |
1t tapped, DAHL says Uncle Jase, kick
in another chip lords the cider bar'l. |
1T helps it amazin', putin the spiggot
In before you roll it in the cellar" says |
he
81 know it. Uncle Jass,' says I, shak-
IN my head as II l was more digap-
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 1. Evander says he
did What is it?" sayshe. That swell
lin'," says l. lis my pet coon Absalom,
and that RATHER knowcd it jest as well as
l knowed it myself" saysI. 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 ones! That knocks mel"
says l. Danl, I shouldn't wonder but
what you're leetle sorry yourself that
1t amt tapped says Uncle Jase, kickin'
a chip plumb on top O. the cider barI.
Well, should say SOL says I. I
could shirt good quar-. OF 1t and never
wink! Consarn that ELS Sam!' says I.
Uncle Jase looked up the road and
down the road, and then says, by and by:
81 was comm along the swamp
road this mornin', and, hearin' some one
hail me, turned and see 1t was Eli's
Sam.
Where you p1kin' fer? says h.
"''Down to Danl's," says l.
Jewish you'd take this along with
you and tell Danl I'm much obleeged."
says he.
I said l would. and dern glad am,
too, that kin 'commodate neighbor.
Here It Is, DAHL says Uncle Jase. and he
handed over the anger that Ellis Sam
had borried!
"'Yes. SIR says he, that pet coon was
worth $40, but it amt that that's weight
In me down, DanI' 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 cid:
Dan1. 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 I
so powerful deep in the dumps as he was
when he come in and sot on the wood
pile. IN. Y. Sun.