The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-01-08

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hardly become reconciled again when
! asked him what sort Of looking
bird snipe was. he didn't seem to
hear the question, and put it again.
Then be looked up. with q red face,
7 and said that some folks called them
partridges- some folks who didn't
know anything. had my suspicious,
but said nothing further. When we
got ready for bed Mr.. Bowser charged
me as follows:
Not to let him oversleep.
Not to let him forget the gun.
To see that he took some ammonia
along In case snipe bit him.
Not to let him forget to kiss me ere
he departed. he didn't look for any
accident but. a fHse might possibly
blow outsomewhere.
Not to let anything that the cook
might say disturb me. The cook didn't
know snipe from a Goldfish.
TO remind him TO telephone me
whenever he had opportunity during
the day.
+ 10 remind him the very last thing
before his departure that he was no
dray horse and that II he slaughtered
more than two dozen snipe hewas' not
to try to- bring them home on Ills back.
MI. Bowser woke up at midnight
and got up to find that the. weather
was all right FOR. snipe; again at !
o'clock. at 2, at 8. at 4. The weather
continued all right, and he was
thrashing around ii bed and killing
snipe by the cart load when I woke
him at 3. he dressed, hurried down
1 and devoured q piece Of bread and
butter and was out OF the house with
that long gun on his shoulder before
I was fairly awake. he hadn't waited
to be reminded Of anything. The milk
man was at the door, and I heard him
ask if there were grizzly bears around
and II they had teeth, but his inqai-
ries remained unanswered. When I
finally went down to my breakfast I
found the cook IN tears. and when I
asked the cause she replieds
II weeps for .you. ma'am.s and I don't
charge you ANYTHING extra fos It"
sBatfwhy4we .fot me z, i
4 Because Mr.. Bowser viii be knock
ing trees and fences down with the
end Of that long gun and get himself
killed i.
An hour had passed when the tele-
phone rang, and I we9t to It to be.
greeted hg Mr.. BowseTs, voice. he
said:
II have reached the country. Am
teieph honinG you from b brickyard. All
the brick men say that there are snlpe
BY the million aboata mile farther on.
II IS a good thing that brought 500
cartridges. I am n the best Of spirits.
Goodby
snaps7 5sstiens u Emit
Forty minutes later I heard from
him again. Hesaid:
.Hella g,riy.. / am at a farmhouse.
Have been inquhing all about buck
wheat and cabbages. They are q big
chop. The farmer says the snipe must
have got wind Of my coming. as they
all few away just before my arrival.
He estimates the number 70 the flock
ct 100000 am about TO push On
after them. Wish I had brought a
Thousand cartridges and q gun thirty
s two reet long / feel all the exhilafa-
: ton I anticipated. Have arranged with
the farmer Cor the use Of his two horse
wagon 10 bring my snipe home. BE is
really Intelligent man. he doesn't
think the Standard OH company will
pay that fine f6r two or, three weeks
yet. Goodby."
Once more I heard from him. Il was
two hours later, and I had begun to
worry. It was needless, for he said:
ia II am on the trail OF the snipe.
There are billions and billions OF them,
and they cannot escape me. Wish l
had brought 1900 cartridges. Wish
the gun was fifty feet long. Am tele.
phoning from another farmhouse.
/ Farmer says that the bumblebee is
preparing to retire to his lair for the
season. One more effort and / am
among the isn1pe. Never felt SO ex-
hilarated In my life. By John, but this
is seeing lie, this is! Goodby."
! That was the last from him. Hours
: and hours later the telephone called
me again, and the voice OF a stranger
said:
.sIf that is Mrs. Bowser I want to
SAY TO her that there IS q short, pudgy
man with bald head roaming around
out here and talking about snipe and
J iexhilaration he claims to be your
husband. VIII you send for him be-
fore the farmers gather and run him
of and lock him up for q looneyY
sent for him and brought him
home, gun and all, and as write this
he lies asleep on the lounge. The doc
tor says be will probably live through
1t, but all depends on the nursing. He
must have been bitten by at least
twenty sntpe and dozen farmers.
NJ. QUAD.
Not Near ENOUGH.