The Washington herald., 1907-06-16
HELD UP!
Enoeh Weathersby Thought He Was
Goin' to Be Murdered by a Pie
rate but Was no'-Bravery Of
Constubble Dewberry-ThriII-
Ing Details

As editor and prop. Of the Bugle We
persume that Enoch weathersby brother
to Hen Weathersby, prop. Of our general
store, IS one Of the most absent mindedest
persons in Bingville or for many miles
around for that matter and some Of the
things Enoch does at times nearly bor-
ders on the ridiculous, as YOU might say.
As everybody knows Enoch has a farm
mile Vest Of Bingyille and soon as
the frost was outen the ground last
spring he plowed a parcel OF ground and
planted corn In g. but he hadn't no more
than got the corn planted until the tarna-
shion crows come along and rooted most
OF # up and ct II and so Enoch he had to
plant # all over. After he had planted
It the second time he set ~ the edge Of
the woods with loaded shotgun all day
long from sunrise 20 sunset day after day
having his wife bring out something for
him TO eat at noon and in all that time
he didn't see a solitary crow and begin
to conclude that they had left the coun-
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didn't come up as It orter. so he investi-
gated and found that most of II had been
dug UP a second time Enoch was almost
nabbergasted at this being as he had been
there by the corn patch from daylight TO
dark. so the next day he slept all day
and went out 20 the edge OF the woods al
dark and you can believe II or not. but
Enooh saws that about o'clock in the
morning when he was powerful weary
with his will blamed If them crows
didn't come soaring over the cornfeld
in crowd without making a squawk and
each crow had a lightning bug or a glow
worm in his bill and they 1T on the corn
patch and walked around and the glow
worms and lightnin bugs shed enough
light for them TO locate the corn hills
with so as they could see TO dig up what
corn they was left. Enoch concluded
that he would haft 70 git up pretty early
in the morning to beat out them crows.
but he planted the patch again and fixed
up at the edge Of the woods what was
probably one Of the most horibeilest look
ing skeer crows that a crow OF a person
ever looked at. Enoch took a old pillow
and painted eyes and nose and mouth
with ugly teeth on It and this was the
head-on the head he put on a old black
hat then he stuffed one Of his old coats
with straw and also a pair Of his pants
which was so wore out In the seat that
they wasn't no further use to him and
fixed the whole thing onto steak druv
into the ground with a cross piece near
the top so that the arms of the coat stuck
out and from the end Of one arm he hung
a wooden gun and from the other a old
powder horn. Then he left it there think
ing 1t would skeer any crow into hister-
icks that ever come near that corn patch
again.
After that for few days Enoch didn't
see a sign on the crows, and as the corn
hadn't been disturbed he caIkllated he
had at last discovered a preventive to the
crows stealing his corn and forgot all
about it. A few evenings after that Enoch
walked to Bingville to see If there wasn't
any mail for him. There was nothing in
his P. 0. box but a copy of the Hard
scrabble Banner, which Enoch has been
a subscriber TO for the past nine years.
and being as he has only paid two dollars
and owes SIS, he decided he could get
along without the Banner and Of late has
been refusing to take it outen the post