The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04
JOHNNY BUMPER GOES QUAIL
HUNTING AT WEST POINT


day, Tor Just as we got Ill the pasture
| saw rabbit sitting in sum grass
and tuck careful aim with my
| twenty-too and shot The bullet went
little too high and zipt n peecc out
of the rabbits ear and 1t wasent
rabbit at all; 1t was big gray tom.
cat, that belongd up to the house He
must have been asleep and when that
bullet nipt his ear he woke up an
iumpt about fore feet into the air
and cum down with his claws out
spred and his tale as big as n rolling
pin. He whirld round time or too
and then lit out for the barn like
gray streak. He run under corn
crib and hasent cum out yet.
Uncle Oscar sed ought to look be-
fore | leapt and Herman sed that wud
spoil our luck for all day as 1t was
awful unlucky to shoot at cat
Ennyway we had the wurst luck
you ever hurd Of. | thot both Her
man and Uncle Oscar was experts
from what they sed, but | found out
they neither one cud hit flock of
ar-ships on the fly Herman tuck his
Gully Jug dlOuB W sCdlt uU luc
and they banged away at quails all
forenoon and never hit one, until
even the dog got disguised and start
ed for home, saying as plain as dog
cud say that there wasent emmy use
Of his snuffing round for burds sins
they cudent hit them when he did
scare them up; but Herman calld him
back
kept a pecking away with my
twenty-too, but | amt no Buffalo Bill
with rifle and think even Bill wud
have to do sum pretty fine shooting
to get "a quail on the fly with twenty
too. | only nad three cartridges left
out of too boxes of fifty when | got
home.
Finally Herman got one. He had
an old bubble barrel ten gage that
was worn so that If you raised both
hammers and pulld the left one first
the right barrel wud go off at the
same time. He happened to see
quail run into a bunch of grass and
hide and he let drive at 1t and forgot
and pulld the left trigger first and
both barrels went Off 1t sounded like
cannon and kickt so that Herman
had to step back quick SOS to catch
hisself, but insted of catching hsself
he caught his foot in a grape vine
and fell back into a guse-berry bush.
He sed sumthing in German that
cudent understand, but you ought to
have seen that quail. There wasent
a peece as big as a grasshopper. The
old ten gage had just blowd it all to
peceS.
That disguised Herman and he ses
Lets go home!" Him and Uncle
Oscar started home together and I
was ollering and the dog was going
ahed and all to onct he started up a
big cuvvy of quails and they both up
and let drive at the same time and
the next minnit | hurd the awfulest
yelping and bowling and the dog was
spinning round like a top, and he fell
down and rolld over and over a claw
ing and biting and yowling and after
minnit or too he lay still, ded.
Herman and Uncle Oscar stood
looking at each luther and neither cud
say a word for minnit. Then Her.
man sed "Ach, Oscar you have dun
it,"
Uncle Oscar ses "No, Herman
't-t-twasent mel"
They both declared 1t wasent them
that shot the dog, but there lay the
dog, ded.
At last Herman sed, well Oscar, we
will not quarrel just about Won lit
tie dog. But what will we tell
Annie?"
We were sorry lot Of looking hunt
ers when we got to the house. |
don't know what they told Mrs. Her
man about the dog, ennyhow she
cride about it.
| wud like to tell you about the din
ner we had but it wud take too long,
| never ct so much before and never
will agen, for | dreamed that a turkey
as big as an elefant was going to
eat me and he had just got hold Of
me by the stumak when l woke up
with the wurst pain | ever felt. I'm
Gle Oscar got Mrs. Herman to make
of me a mustard plaster and they put
that on my stumak but it dident
make it emmy better and | was sick
all mite and we cudent go home this
morning like we intended to. But I'm
feeling better tonight and we can
start in the morning and I thot I'd
write and tell you what a corkin'
Thanksgiving we had. Yours,
Johnny Bumper.