The sun., 1908-04-26
7HE MEMORY OF UNCLE JASE
4 KNOB COUNTRY EPISODE AT
SOAR BOILING TINE.

a menn'ry sotoh as Uncle Jass's got said
the man from the Knob country. 'lt's
amazin', that mem'ry o. his'n.
'An it's a shame how trihn' store
hls wife, Perkiomon. seems to set by Il,
T'other day, havin' use fer the buoksaw
that Uncle Jass borried Of me a couple o.
months ago, meandered down TO Jase's
an sorty logged his memry a little as to
the bucksaw.
SWell, I'll he dumgimpcd,' says he
How in Sam Hill did ever come to fergit
about that saw says he. "Taint' often
that fergit anything Danl, says he,
''Fergit anything says Perkiomen,
outtln' In. With that memry O. Jases,
Dan1,' says she, you wouldn't think he
could fergit anything that ever was, an
yit-well Dan'l,' slys she, sometimes
when hear the things he kin reoomember
think he mus sartinly bo older yet than
Methusaler, says she, an theHag'in when
zee that hismem'ry don't reach fur enough
SOS he kin recomember that there's wood
10 cut seems TO me that he can't be hardly
old enough yet TO spank" says She.
so ! got the bucislw an come away,
thinkin' what a shame il was that Perkomen.
sot setch trhin store by UncIo Jase's
amazin memry. was settin' in Smon's
store over TO tho Eddy when Jaso come
In t'other day. He sat down onto the
wood box an says:
''Well, says he soap maxim is all over
Wunst more, an ! dunno whom mo an
Perklomen has turned out setch a proper
b'lln', An soap maxim somehow always
sorty ietches along with it a little circum-
stance that happened whom our folks lived
up lords the headwaters an | was jest
rarnin' how % squirm along on all fours,
comm five or six months old.
''That little circumstance was me bein'
swooped down onto an scared away with
by an eagle. rpsnortin' bald eagle
Dan'l, says Uncle Jase, sooin' that | give
toler'ble sized sort Of start on my cheer
an almost bit my pipe stom in two, An
eagle, says he, that had a spread o. wing
Dan'l,' says he. as fur as from here to the
pail o. loose chawin' on tho counter yonder
was goin 10 say, says ho, but II he had
a said 1t seems to mo Id "a wolloped
him one right thoro an then, fer from the
wood box whore he sot TO the pail o. loose
chawin' WAS all o nineteen feet-an Simon
knowed it, too, or he'd a put tho pail be-
hind the counter.
Jason, says ], little stern an waruin'
Ike, but he didn't wal, for me- to git no
iurder He give a swaller that made his
Adams apple jump almost up agin bis
palate an says
-'1he day this riy ysnortin' laId eagle
swooped down an scared away with mo,
says he, my Grandmother was doin' the
washin out al the creek, an Twas squrmin'
around on the grass, hayin plenty o. room
to Farm TO creep. The h'iier o hot soft
soap was handy by an gran'mothcr was
poundin' away at tho wash, now an then
castin' an eye around to see how ! was
gttin' along, when down from somer's
ewOoped this eagle an sockcd It's claws into
the thick part o. my clothes,
"Gran'mammy'" h5llors an
"Jasonr ri2 w an almost yelled You
hardly old enough to creep yit an calhn'
out fer your gran'motheIl' yels Jason,
when Gabriel blows an -
but Uncle JaSe cut me of aR'in.
81 hollered ont "GrdnnaTWy,' as II
were an 10 speak, 'Dan'l, says he 1 had
rant TO say somCthin' that sounded like
Google, google, or somcthin' like that
an our folks declared up an down that it
was 'Granmammy" was sayin, says Uncle ,
Jase, GRIMM as ho made his explanation. |
So says he, IL was "Gran NANNY" only !
as II we're an so 10 speak that | hollered !
when the eagle swooued down onto me-
says he, fer what | hollered was Google, !
google
whether the eagle saCe'cd il out Of me when |
he landed on me ! don't lest rpcomember /
at this time. but gran mother heerd il, an |
turnin' round she see the eagle tuggn' |
away at me an tryin' to lift me an sail away |
with me-
''GrjSn mother was n woman who thunk |
quick an grabbn' her soap ladle she dipped !
Il full o. hot soft soap an jumpin' fer that |
eagle she upset the ladle o soft soap on top |
Of his bald head The burnin stuff nun |
down into his eyes an blinded him, an the |
feelin's o. that eagle mebbe YOU kin i'm |
aglne, Dan'l says Uncle Jase They |
must "a been termenjou GUS. says he
''The eagle screamed an tried 10 cit |
away. but his claws was hooked fast in my |
clothes an he couldn't Grandmother she |
run hack fer another lad!e o soap but the |
eagle didn't want no more, an maxim one
all pervadin' surge he riz ire often the |
ground an away he went up in the air with I
me, him a-screechin' an shakin' his head |
an me a-reachin my hands back an hul- |
lerin' 'Gfan n'mammy'-that il, pan'l, as il
were an so to speak, says Uncle Jase,
seein' me a-scOwlin',
But the eagle was Hind ss bat. Dan1,'
says Uncle Jasc an went hyin 2igzag an
haphazard around amongst the trcetops
] dunno how he done It.. but somehow
he tangled mo up on the dead limb of a
tree by an by, as he wheeled an whired
an batted an banged an scratched an
screamed about. an the tangle held so good
that he tore loose from me an went on his
blind an screamin' way, an what become
Of him | never knowed.
But Dan'l, says Uncle Jase, there
was, hangin' at the end Of that limb, fifty
foot or 10 in the air, hollerin' fer gram
nanny. Gran'mother she come runnin'
TO the spot, but there amt no gran'mother
ss ever lived that could reach up fifty foot
an pick baby often a limb. an so there
KEEP a-hangin' 'fer all the world gram
mother Use 10 say, like a hornet s. nest
fast to the limb
III Id had some granmothers, Danl'
Eays Uncle Jase, t d been Jest as we'll
fer me II the eagle had gone on with me
En' found his nest somehow an let his
family have me- fer supper as the eavin'
OF me hangin 10 the limb was. but this
gran'mother wasn't the skeery kind.
''Shet up your hollerin', an quit your
wigglin' on that limb she hollers up 10
me. DO you want 10 break your holt
an come bangin' down here an sauashin'
yourself like a punkin slung agn a stone
wall?' she hollers. 1Shet up an quit
wigglinN'
-An' with that she goes scootn' away.
But back she come fore long carryin'
her big clothes basket full TO the top With
the clothes she'd been washing
''She set the basket o. clothes down
right under where | was hangin' 10 the
limb. Then she clim' that tree as fur as
the limb was fast to. and jumpin' up an
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