The Bossier banner., 1904-02-18
BENTON LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 19O4


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.
What" l says. 'You don't mean
to say that you kill 'em. do you?"
says. "Jumpin' Jim Jaggers!" l says.
I've heerd O. folks that killed EN-
| says, "but never 'spected to live to
see none of 'em," says.
Whats your idee O. not tappin'
it yit, Danl?' 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.
81 know it, Uncle Jase,' says l. 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 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. I says to the New
York feller, "Jumpin' Jim Jaggers'
says, 1--we heerd of folks that killed
EN-" l says, "but l 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, Dan'l!'
said Uncle Jase.
Then l begun to git an inklin', fer
I'd often heerd Uncle Jase tell about
Bartholomew, though l hadn't never
seen him, nor heerd of anyone that
had seen him.
"'Oh!' says It's rattlers that's
weighin' you down. is 1t, Uncle Jase?
"'Rattlers? says he. OF course! What
else would it be? And it 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 feller
'pologized, and me and Bartholomew went
home, in the dumps, though, tell you.
Danl, to think that we had found that
there was folks that killed 'em.
"'Well, Danl, 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 I, 't'other day
, diskivered that there was them that
killed 'em, and now" says l, 1--WE dis
kivered somethin' that l didn't think
lived!" says.
"."What kin it be?" says Evander
"'"A bad one!" says l. "Evander,'
J says l, '1've actu'lly diskivered that
there's bad one! Come here!" says
and l took Evander over to corner oi
, the yard, and showed him big one lay
in there, all swelled up, nigh as big as 9
= stove pipe It's too bad you haint go'
, it tapped, Dan1,' says Uncle Jase, kick
! in another chip to'rds the cider barl
: 1T helps it amazin', putin the spiggot
= in before you roll it in the cellar" say'
. he.
!. "T know it, Uncle Jase,' says l, shak
in my head as if l was more disap
p'inted than if my bailiwick had gon'
. ag'in me fer constable.
THAT one was all swelled up, Uncl,
|, Jase says, an l says to Evander. "Se'
that swellin'?" ?" says /. Evander says h
did. What is it," says he. THAT swell
lin" says I, 'is my pet coon Absalom
:, and that rattler knowed it jest as well a
: knowed it myself" saysI. But l don
care SO much fer the coon, though he wa
!, worth all O. $4O," says I, "but to diskive
that there's bad ones! That knocks me!
says l. Dan'l, l shouldn't wonder bu
: what you're leetle sorry yourself tha
: it amt tapped says Uncle Jase, kickir
a chip plumb on top o. the cider bar'l.
!. ".Well, l should say SOL says l.
could shirt a good quart of it and neve
/, wink! Consarn that Ellis Sam!' says
!, Uncle Jase looked up the road an
.. down the road, and then says, by and by
: "T was comm along the swan
road this mornin', and, hearin' some on
hail me, turned and see it was Eli
Sam.
""Where you pikin' fer?" says he.
".''Down to DanTs," says l.
"."Wish you'd take this along wit
YOU and tell Danl I'm much obleeged,
: says he.
"T said l would, and dern glad an
. too. that kin 'commodate neighbo
Here it is, Dan1,' says Uncle Jase, and b
handed over the auger that Ellis Sal
had borried!
. "'Yes, SIR says he, that pet coon wa
" worth $40, but it amt that that's weigh
in me down, Danr says he. It's the di:
kivery that there's bad ones-actu'll
- bad ones-that put me in the dumps
says he. Some folks taps it on the sid
= but see you sock the hole in the EN-
= DanI. That's right. 1t always draw
= frcer when you tap it in the end say
!, Uncle Jase; and when he went home \
= : one would ever a s'pected that he'd bee
SO powerful deep in the dumps as he We
= when he come in and sot on the woos
:, pile. IN. Y. Sun.
IL The Close Season Now.
* Gayiord-Nice reputation you've sc
X Wildairs-What's the matter with i
le Gaylord-Well, Mrs. Freckledby WI
- telling me how glad she is you dor
l0 call on her daughters.
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