The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-06-04

| to tell about Tusay goin' homo VITA
wan car gone an his eye black cd. an
sellin' his wife that he'd Just about
managed 10 put wan over that stopped
another wolf. That's what usdEliy
happens up this way an IL ain't very
good readin'- When I want 70 tell
story thatfI iathrest ma friends I
give II to THIN good Whin / desrrt5-
ed me fey'rite hay-o. Dock Ha9g gorSy.
] tell about him THROWN wan man
out iv tn window en- usin' another as
a club 70 bate tn renainin' twelve
into submission. But II had 10 swear
70 IT. an wasn't on good terms with
tn Judge, / wuddenr say that I liver
see Dock fiaggerty lick more thin
wan nlan--at time. At a time. minl
ye- Ee might take care iv process
sion or Jefrreya- But he'd be In
throuble with a couple iv members IL
TIA Ethical Culture Society that came
10 him at tn same moment Tf tyer
more thin wan cones at wan9t,' says
tn Dock. I'm licked he sayn
But that amt what 1 tel la;a at
night, an II amt what | want to
read Ye bat It amt If 1 wint over
to a book store an blew in me good
thirty nine cints fr dollar-,au'-a-
half book. I'd want some kind iv
hayro that l naver soc around these
corners TIL. best day / liver knew
Jawn l. Sullivan had n little some
thing on me I won't say II was
much, bat now that we're both re
tired, III say that I'm glad l nsver
challenged him. But I wudden't hook
at a book. an / wudden't anyway
but I wudcen't let Hogan tell me about
u hayro that cudden't wear an over
coat an rubber boots. have wan arm
done up IN sling, an something tn
matther with tn other. blue spec
tacies on his eyes, a plug hat on his
head f1' lfrIapnne fhrnvy;Y1s hyspl-x
him, ar tn referee usin' a croas-cut
saw on his neck, an thin make two
hundheTd an fifty Jawn L. Sullivans
establish tn new record f'r tn leap
through tn window Whin I want a
hayro, / want a good wan / don'r
care whether It's wolf. sojer. or
President. IT all comes to tn same
thfng-whether it's Hogan's frind, tn
Wolf that he's been talkin' FIR a year.
or that other old frind iv his that he
used to talk about-what dye call
him ?-2h, where's me mind goin' ?
Ivanhoe.
But Tiddy Roxenfeit don't reeT tnat
way about it. He's chilled down thin
nature writers just tn same way he'd
call me down If l wint befure tn fifth
grade at tn Brothers school an told
thin what I thought wud inthreet
thin about Dock Hageerty. What
does he say? I'll tell We. I do not
III
wanted to charackterize these here
nature writers, I wud use a much
shorter an uglier wurrud thin liar, if
| cud think fv wan which / cannot
Ye take f'r example, what's his
name. Has this man iver been out
side iv an aviary? I doubt it. Here
he has a guinea pig KILN a moose be
bitin' 1t in tn ear. Now 1t is nortory-
Gus to amy lover iv tn wild, amy
man with a fondness FIR these mon
archs iv tn forests that no moose can
be kilt be a wound in tn ear.
have shot q thousand in tn ear with
no bad effects beyond possibly maxim
thin hard ~ hearin'.'
Here is a book befure me be wan
iv these alleged nature writer's. This
IS q man whose name is a housei7 old
Wurrud In Connecticut. His books
are in tn schools. An what does this
man. who got his knowledge iv wild
beasts apparently firm mistreatin'
hens fr tn pip, say, what is his mes
sage to tn little babblin' childher iv
Connecticut 1t Is thin that I've got
to think iv. Instead iv tellin' thin
tn blessed truth. instead iv leadin'
thin up be thurly Christyan teachins
to an undherstandin' iv what Is right
an what Is ideel in life. he poisons
their innocent minds with tn malici-
ous, premeditated faLsehood-I can't
think " an uglier or shorter wurrud
that wud go with prerneditated-ti1at
tn wolf kills tn grizzly bear be sink
in its hidyous fangs into tn gapin'
throat iv its prey. How can honest
citizens an good women be brought I'D
on such infacyOus docthrine? Sup
posin' bear shud attack Connecticut
an tn bells shud ring f'r tn citizens
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