The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-01-17

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~y,2.son Seton book that tells |
-out everything from field
,~gorrillys.
WfNye're troubled q heap with coyotes
kshem days, and finally this party sends
Yhome for some Rooshian wolfhounds.
I'm fer pizenin' sheep carcass, but he
says:
":No, no. me deah man: that's not
sportsmanlIke. Wei hunt 'em-aye.
hunt 'em. Only fawncy the sport Wen
have ridin' to houndsl'
I've Will not says I. 4 amt goln'
to do no Simon Legree stunts. 1t amt
mans size. Beln' English, you don't
count, but I'm growed up
"Nothiri' would do him but those
Uncle Toms. Cabin dogs. however,
and be had 'em imported clean from
Berkshire or Sibeery or thereabouts,
four OF 'em, great big blue ones. They
was as handsome and imposin' as a set
OF solid gold teeth. but somehow they
didn't seem TO savvy our play none.
One day the cook rolled a rain BARI
downhill from the kitchen. and when
them blooded critters saw 1t comm
they throwed down their tails and tore
out like rabbits. After that couldn't
see no good in 'em with spyglass.
l"'They amt got no grit. What
makes you think they can ightr
asked one day.
"'Fightr says H'Anglish. My deah
man. they're full blooded. Cost seven
ty pun each. They're dreadful crea-
lures when they're reused. They'll
tear a wolf TO pieces Ike a rag. kill
bears. anything, oh. rully, perfectly
DREADFUL te-f
We'll. 1t wasn't week later that he
went over to the east line with me to
mend a barb wire. | had my pliers
and Ratchet aud some staples About
n mile from the house We Jumped up
little brown bear that scampered OF
when ne seen us. but, bein' agin bluff
where he couldn't get away, he climb
ed a cottonwood. HADgllsh was sim.
ply frothin' with excitement.
"'What misfortune! Neyther gun
nor hounds
"I'll scratch his back and talk pref
ty to him. says !. while you run back
and get a Winchester and them Zero
cious bulldogs
"'Wolf hounds says he, with dig
nifty, full blooded, seventy pun each.
They'll rend the poor beast limb from
limb I hate to do 1t, but it'll be good
practice for them
They may be good renders says
, I. but don't forgit the gun
1 a.
when he tried to unclimb the tree till
finally the boss got back with his
: ldogs. They set up an awful boiler
when they see the bear-frst one
I They'd ever smeled, | reckon-nnd
Z 1.-THE little feiler crawied up In some
forks and watched things, cautious,
while they leaped about, bayin' most
] Iferce and blood curdlin'.
"'How you goin' to get him DOWN.
says /.
"I'll shoot him In the lower jaw
4 Isays the Britisher. so he cawn't bite
: 1.-THE dogs. tn give 'em cawnfdence.'
1 HE takes aim at Mr.. Bears chin
land misses 1t three times runnin'. he's
4 THAT excited.
"'Settle down, H'Angllsh.' says i.
llHe amt got no double chins. How
1 Imany shells left in your gum
when he looks he finds there's only
Z lone more, for he hadn't stopped to fill
the magazine. so cautious him.
YOU'RE shootin' too low. Raise
her
"He raised her all right and caught
Mr.. Bruin In the snout What follow
ed thereafter was most too quick TO
lnotice, for the poor bear let out
Z Ibawl, dropped off his limb into the
midst Of them ragin', tur'ble seventy
Ipun hounds an Rugged 'em to death.
one after another, like he was dom
system Of health exercises. He took
: EN- to his bosom as II he'd just got
back of a long trip, then. droppin' the
last one, he made at that younger SOD
an put gold filling In his leg. Yes,
Z sir; most chewed It of HAnglish let
4 out Siberian wolf boiler hisself, an
had to step in with the Ratchet and
kill the brute, though ! was most dead
: from laughin'.
THAT'S how It Is with me an Glen
lster,"y the old man concluded. when
he gets tired experimental with this
J new law game Of hIsn, I'll step In an
m do business on a common sense basis
"You talk as II you wouldn't get fair
play" said Helen.
: 1--WE won't" said he. with conviction.
II look on all lawyers with suspicion.
even TO old baldface - your uncle.
askin' your pardon an gettin' II, bein'
= as I'm friend an he amt no real
4 relation of yours. anyhow. No. sir.
They're all crooked"
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