The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Editor of The News. Uncle Oscar
and mes bin hunting quail. An old
friend of his invited Uncle and me up
to eat Thanksgiving dinner and go
quail hunting on his big farm. He has
lots of pastur land with plumb-brush
on 1t and that's where you find the
most quais Is in pumb-brush. They
seem to like plumbs bettern emmy
luther fruit
| got out my twenty-too repeater
that's bin in my trunk ever sins
came to Omaha and Uncle bot new
Winchester pump gun, becaws he sold
his old doube-barrel when he had his
public SAIL and we tuck the three
o'clock train Wednesday afternoon and
got to West Point after dark. 1t tuck
about an our to ride out to the farm
and tell you supper tasted good when
we got there. This friend of Uncle
Oscars ulster batch with him together
up in Pierce County thurty years ago,
and he traded his farm for one down
by West Point when he got married,
so his children cud tend German
school,
He calls Uncle oscar" and he calls
him Herman" | don't remember
what the rest of his name is; it's about
a foot long and ends with schmitt. He
SEES its one of the few things he brot
with him from the old country that he
didn't hat to pay duty on: Sed If he
had it wud a broke him up.
He don't allow hunters from town
on his place so there's lot of quals
there and they're quite tame.
After supper, Mrs. Herman brot out
some grape wine she made herself.
They wanted me to take sum but |
wudent. Uncle Oscar sed it was per-
fectly harmless and the same kind
they used in the Bible and they all
three drank sum of 1t and sat there
and talkt about old times. Uncle
Oscar seemed to talk better after he
had sum wine and he scarsly slut
tered a bit.
They told about how they ulster
hunt, and Herman told about killing
three prairie chickens at one shot
'SS.
Uncle Oscar tuck anuther swallar
and told how he shot too cyotes thru
the hart with one rifle bullet that
same winter.
Herman tuck anuther and told
how he one time let go both barrels
into a flock of black-birds in his corn
field and killed a bushel basket full.
Uncle Oscar told about a bulldog he
ulster own that killed the biggest wild
cat that was ever shot in Pierce coun-
ty.
Herman pointed to a Scotch-Irish
colly dog lying back of the stove and
sed that was the smartest dog in the
United States. He sed his mother
was exported direct from Germany
at cost of SIS. He sed that dog wud
bring up his seventeen cows from the
pastur and wud stand at the gate of
the yard and count them as they
went in and if there wasent seventeen
he wud go hunt up the stray without
ennybody saying a word to him. He
sed one mite a nayber's COW cum up
with the bunch The dog counted
eighteen, turned and started off into
the pastur. Then he stopped and sat
down to think. Then he walkt back
to the Tense and counted the COWS
agen. He stood and thot a while
and then went in among the cows and
pickt out that stray and drov her out.
To show us what a smart dog he
was, Herman turned to his wife
while he was talking and sed, Annie,
the pigs is Quit" Then he went
rite on talking but up jumpt the dog
from where he'd bin asleep and ran
to the door and barkt to get out. l
let him out and stood at the window
and | cud see him run strate for the
pig-pen. After a while he cum back
and whined to get in and when I let
him in he walkt up to Herman and
lookt up at him as If to say, you're
mistaken, the pigs is all rite" After
he'd got to asleep, Herman sed agen,
THE pigs is out" Up jumpt the
dog agen and went out to the pen to
see. He cum back this time and
went and laid down without looking
at ennybody. Herman tride it agen
after a while. The dog got up, waged
his tale and lookt at Herman with a
twinkle in his eye, and then turned
round and laid down agen. Herman
sed he wudent take a hundred dollars
for that dog.
Thanksgiving morning we got the
chores dun and started quail hunt
ing. | guess | spoilt the luck for all