The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-24

EN- changed the whisky jug fer one
full o. ker 'sene, m ketched me W ZEN I
took quiet pull at it. I was sicker n
a dog all night, but it was all right.
The Old Man he played little joke on
the rest when his folks sent him up
demijohn full o. milk. He sneaked it
somebody ID see him, m took it off m
hid it, m sure's you re born Hall m
Grimm laid in that afternoon m
hunted all over till they found it.
"They didn't know the Old Man
never teches no liquor, n they thought
he'd something extry good, M wanted
ter hog it all himself. I couldn It begin
ter tell you what all them fellers didn It
do fer the fun Of it, but there was one
good one on Hall all right. The cook
billed up some cabbage one day fer din
ner, n Hall had a bad cold in his
head SOS he couldn It smell nothin
hardly, m that give Grimm an. idee
how to play joke on him. Grimm
sneaked the vinegar bottle which was
quart whisky flask, n W EN- Hall asked
fer vinegar to put on his cabbage, he
passed him one nearly full Of whisky.
Hall soused lots Of it over his cabbage,
m ct the mess nearly all up fore he
ketched on. Then he throwed the rest
out ON the slop pile, m told Grimm that
he might be all right with the scatter
gun, but he warn It no better with the
rifle than he was with jokes; said he
wasted lead same way he did whisky,
m wouldn It learn how to handle either
in seventeen years.
"That afternoon Hall put it up he ID
go after moose, m there warn't no
stoppin him. There was moose 'other
side Of a big muskeg near the camp,
| but the blame muskeg was bout two
miles and half cross, m longs the
world, sides bein' only froze enough to
bout half bear a man up, m [ tried to
stop him, but he wouldn It have it, n
off he piked. He didn It git back tell
nearly midnight, n he was so plum
tuckered that Mr.. Block made him strip
m rubbed him all over with linement
he'd fetched along, while the Old Man
made him strong hot toddy m Grimm
wanted to know if Hall would learn
enough in, seventeen years not to try
to cross muskeg where rabbit d bog
in five minutes.
Got Bear.
cit was the next mornin that Block
got the bear, but I'd left fore day tc
look at my traps, m WASH It there to
see just how he got him. Don't you
never believe the fool yarn they we got
bout town that Block set down on the
log where the bear was denned up N
squashed it in, m killed him that way
Block may weigh $50, but no bear vii
den up in no log that won t hold up {
whole lot bigger weight than that
Grimm he told me that Henry had JUS
started his fire in the morning. n
looked up at the winder N see tn
bear with his head on the sill, n fas
asleep. He said the bear d been PROV
lin round m found the whisky soaked
cabbage Hall throwed out, n ct it, N
soon 8 it thawed out in his belly it wen!
to his head, m put him asleep jest :
he "a red up to look in the winder.
z"Then he said Henry let out a: yell
m Block come a runnin N shot Nj
Bear. Anyway that s how Grimm tell
it; dunno how twas, but the
log-squashin story's plum reedic 'lous
That same day Hall got buck, bob
cat, and mink, m he was way up il
G., I tell you. Grimm went two mile
outer his way to git to the place wher
Hall IS buck was, IN he swore Hall 20
the first shot at fifteen yards, m. pu
fifteen bullets into the buck fore h
downed him. Block he'd whale Of
buck hung up before, IN nothing'd
Hall but he must measure 'em bot
cause he was sure his was the biggest
: .''But when he got thru he said h
4 would admit Block had a leetle mite tn
!. best of him. Said, Hall did, at Block
J buck weighed nine ounces more n his y
N was seven inches longer from nos
I to tail. All this time the Old Man wa
!. dom IS he alters does, lettin Other fe
lers have all the best chances, m neve
e hoggin nothin fer himself. Course
: didn It lose nothin by dom it, fer b
L got his share, same's he alters does, br
/ it's mighty few men would play it HI
;, way, you bet your life on that. The
g all got the limit, N they'd a got
= whole lot more f they d a wanted t
= But they had bully time, all the Will
:. they was out, N they never quit ii
s the big storm made 'em. Then the
l packed up n left, M the last heer
$ of 'em was Hall N Grimm a chewir
J the rag as they went down the road. =
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