Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06

By ED M OF T

season that was ever hung up in the Nebo Swamp
deestric?' the caller asked me.
l had to own up that this still another item
that correspondent had missed.
And is he the teller that don't let you ergit that
Betty Jaggers called on Jimmy Pergenkamp Tuesday?
Nor that our pushn young friend, Joe Slocum, has
accepted luker tive position at the sawmil SHOW
elm sawdust? Nor that Squire Coons speared
sucker in the creek that weighed nigh pound?"
asked the caller.
Il want to know!' said my nquistor. Then if
he hadn't sot it down in none O the Nubbins from
Nebo' about Abner Groat harvestin' that bar an
that catamount an that big fat doe, O course it
amt ways likely that he has sot it down that
Abner got that b'ar an that catamount an that doe
all at one shot, is it,
Not at all likely, replied, beginning to wonder.
Must be, then, that he didn't do it., said the in
terviewer. My eyesght amt as scoopin it
to be, so l thought mebbe nowt be mistook but
in the paper from Nebo Swamp till he's got leaky
hen house roof, daughter that gads all the
country visitn, unless he's scrub candidate fer
thin setch as that But Abner done the best he
could. 1t want nothin' but getherin' in bar an
cataount an fat doe an all at one shot; but it
up his feed bag and started to go.
l stopped him Here" l said, If our Nebo
reporter has missed anything that should have
had will find out about it. Tell what there is
about this Groat exploit"
why, there ain nothn about it, said the man.
turning back and placing his bag on the floor again.
Cept thaC aDnel went out one Gay IIS season Ter
gether in b ar an as he didn want but jest
b'ar he only took along load in his gun. AS he
sot on log nigh the edge o an openin in the woods
out bounced a TREMENDOUS big doe, fat as butter
Abner could dropped the doe in her tracks, but he
want out after deer; an besides if he had done it.
he wouldn't had the load in his gun to gether in
the bar he had gone out to git, Then ag in, Abner
Groat knowed Natur', an seem that the doe
follered by TREMENDOUS big catamount he knowed
that Natur' was workin', an SO he let her work
Out o sight one side O the openin' went the
doe the catamount after her. They hadn't
than got out O sight when Abner seen a fair to
rlliddn' sized bar sneaking out O the woods
an hide himself in bunch o laurels that stood in
the middle O. the openin'. Abner could gethered
in his ar then an gone home; but he knowed Natur
an he sot still an let Natur work. Then, by by,
the doe havin circed around, 'cordin' to Natur
back she comes ag in, the catamount only jump
two behind her The doe smelt the ar in the aurels
There amt nothin that knows Natur better
than deer an when that doe smelt the bar, she
swerved out O her course an jumped clean over the
TOD @ the laurels where the b ar hidn The
catamount was follerin' her, when up riz the bar
betwixt the doe an the catamount, jest Abner
knowed he'd do, and jest the doe knowed he'd do.
The catamount sprung into the oars clutch,
an the doe went There was sound like the
snappn off O. limbs O trees, after another. 1t
was the bones o that catamount givin' way under
the hug O that bar. At the same second though,
the fangs O the catamount tapped the ars jug lar,
an the blood spurted like pu1lin the spigot outen
bar1 full O. cider Then the b ar an the catamount
tumbled to the ground together. There all
pervadin' howl from the bar, an one hair raisin'
screech from the catamount, an then neither of EN-