The Grenada sentinel., 1906-04-21
TWO REMARKABLE THINGS
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81 wilkins and Jose Gilpin and also
Jim KelSOe'S rejOinder, as follows:
We went over into a clump of
trees just above tn town an wuz ad-
mirin' the scenery when Josh tapped
on tree near by an seys: What a
fine stick o. timber!''
AS he tapped, lot of bees came
out of hole in the tree an seys:
There's honey In there sure-let's
get it"
SO we hustled back to the house,
got an AK, an commenced to chop. l
never see bees so thick i'm all my life.
III bet there wuz solid line of bees
comm out of that hole three miles
long. After taking a few strokes
with the AK we found the tree wuz
hollow an when we got hole to the
inside the honey began to run out.
The tree must hey been nearly full of
the stuff cause it ran out for about
half an hour lickety splinter an we
he'd to dodge arOun' to keep out O 1.-The
way. Then we cut the tree down an
found that the stump was filled with
honey, too, an we dipped out all we
could with pals But still there wuz
honey lelt. 1t not only filled the
stump, but under the stump there
was reg lar lake of it. We got all
the people that wuz left in Sum-
NIT Center up there with pals to car
ry it away, but there wuz tons of hon.
ey an the few folks that wuz left in
the town simply couldn't take care of
it, so we had to give her up. We
found out that knoll on which the
town wuz built wuz only a big mound
O. beeSwaX over the honey an thet
wuz the reason the crops raised around
ther wuZ all SO sticky.
. l sent word to all the people thet |
had gone from Summit Center, but |
they all thought it wuz simply a |
scheme for booming up a good-fer-
nOthin' locality an nobody would re-
turn, and that's why | had to quit
Summit Center
That story made me mad" said
Jim, Slapping his hand on his knees.
Il didn't object to being challenged
by any man on earth, but to think
that any one would come to my town,
an spring such meek, commonplace
yarn as that an expect to win the
championship of Tuscola county made
me hot an there that he wuz monkey
in with the wrong rooster an so l
Seys calmly:
That reminds me of Doc. Bundy'S
cow. Doc. used t., be the milkman
Of this town years ago when first
come here. He furnished every one
with milk fer miles around an though
he had but the one COW he wuz
never out Of milk no matter now much
.yuz ordered. He used to brag that
the COW couldn't be MIXED dry an
thet wuz all there wuz to it. She
wuz blinger an no mistake. But
lne day Joe Hitchings accused Doc. of
his milk an sed he would
oct $40 he could milk tn crittcr dry.
He told the boys that Doc. filled his
milk cans from the little lake back of
jhe bnrn an he knew it cause he had
jeSted the milk an it want pure.
Well, Doc. took the bet, an we
Ill went out to the barn one after
noon to see tn fun. Joe brought
slong couple - pals an began to
milk. He filled one pail, then 10th
,r, but the milk kept a comm in a
steady stream. Then he sent for
more pals, first a dozen, then two
lozen. There wuz no more pals to
De had so he let the milk run on the
)arn floor. In little while it cover I
'd the floor, then ran out o. tn door
IN started fer the lowlands near the
house. The milk was rising to an
Ilarming height an Doc. got excited
m shouted to Joe to hold on, as he
lidn't want his family to get drown
ID out; he said he wuz willin' to pay
he ten dollars if Joe would quit. But
zoe wanted to win tn bet fair an
quare an he kept right on with
h milkin'. We wuz all agreed thet
With such wonderful critter as that
oe couldn't possibly win and he'd
'etter quit, when suddenly he give
ump, made a grab an threw a small
bject over where the judges we're
tandm'. One o. them stopped an
licked it up and exclaimed: I'M be
if it amt a fish,"
Then Joe gets up, goes to tn head OF
he COW, peeks around a little AMI
ulls tn end Of small garden hose
ut OF her mouth. II knew it," says
Oe; then he darted out o. tn door an
an back o. th' barn.
I'VE rushed out o. the door an Joe
ointed to large hollow place.
Sure enough tn lake had diSap.
cared an not a darn bit o. water
Tuz left. Doc he'd made a kind Of
yphon out OF a piece Of hose, one end
{ which he inserted in the lake an
'other in the cows mouth, an Joe
ed MIXED the entire contents out
( that lake from one locality to an
ther. The lake an consequently the
ow would have been dryer'n a bone
q few more minutes, an Joe would
ev won the bet without KNOWN
tho ro q n tho noilk bod ccvoo from I II