The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-16

he. You know all that. don't your
says he, ., $50.
. Then there amt no use In my telhn'
you, says Uncle David; but one thing
you don't know, an that is that Squeezer
was the GROSS eyedest, crisscross sighted
est creetur that ever made you think 1t
was lookin' one way for week before last
an t'other way for week after next
i didn't know It till the day I called
him to me the fust time. an as he come !
thought he wal headin' for a rooster O.
mine that wa standin' way. Oh in one
neck, an I was jest Eoiu' 20 plug the dog
with a stone when ! SEQ he was comm to
me all right, but his eyes was seemingly
sot dead on the rooster. SO ] didn't
plug him with the stone. =.
II didn't want NJ setch q lookin' both
ways fer Sunday dog like that says
me euessin' which way he was travellin'
an I was conjurin' UP some scheme TO
git red Of him when I see one day that
he had p'ints that lifted him 90 far above
any straight edge eyed dog that ever
yelped that II some one had come along
an offered me q mule an a red wagon
fer him I'd "a larfed In his face.
Three other dogs O. mine he'd done
SAiOAI DOSJ W 8OtAASh ooS oboAA
as a grounding d see en- sneakin' along
lords 1t away It'd skitter fer its hole an
dive In. But Squeezer--
WELL says Uncle David. I seen
Squeezer M day walkin' along In this
here back medder, right in tho open an
bold as you please, an a grounding. in
Sa:nchss an s.rctchin' his neck an
lookin' behind him, like he was Jest dyin'
to see what was comm from that d'rec-
ton, an then I see Squeezer suddenly
give a dash an he had that groundhoR
BY the neck fore the onfortnit critter
had time to peep.
"'Arter I had see three or four other
groundhogs actin this way an .squeezer
the idee hit me. Rhadamanthus.' says
he, the combination Of overpowerin'
curiosity in them groundhogs with that
overlappin' couple Of eyes that Squeezer
had 'longside his nose was death to
groundhogs.
when a groqndhog ID see Squeeser
seemingly gain everywheres else but
lords It the grounding d git 80 ding
curious to know what Il could be that
the dog was p'intin' fer behind Il some
where's that it'd Jest turn an twist It's
neck to see what 1t was, an then-well.
then Saueezer jest had Mr.. Grounding
DY inc n6Ch.
'Groundhogs in this back medder,
Rhadamanthus,' says Uncle David. never
got on to ~Squeezer's p'ints, year in an
q out, an the tons an tons Of clover
he saved me would all . hoss barn. An
I'm goin' to be sorrier this year than ever
that ne amt with me no more says Uncle
David, heavin' another sigh,
"'Rbadamanthus''~f savs rJno,a David.
them p'ints o. his'n done It, says he.
'Onfortnitly I turned a new trick sheep
O. mine in the medder to pastur'.
Zone day SqueeSer was workin' his
p'ints on a grounding an the trick sheep.
of to one side. not bein' on to the idee
fer him. an he bumped hisself.. give q
tremendous bleat an socked his head
aR'in' Soueezer's 80 hard that It knocked
his eyes often that amaxin' s~queejee an
back into jest ordinary every day plumb.
Then Squeezer didn't have no more
p'ints than any other dog. an 1t worked
on him so that he went out an stood
hopin' it would knock his eyes back to
their squeejee ag'in, as there amt no
doubt about it. says Uncle David. but
the trick sheep didn't have the right
idee Of It yit an socked Squeezer so ire
mendous that he never seen nothin' no
more. either squeejeed or u~nsqueejeed.
an that's whv he amt with me no more
says Uncle David; an heavin' another
sigh he says to ne:
I'm sorTy you done it. Rhadamanthus,
says he, AMI hope you won't never do
1t ag'in.' SAYS he. 1T amt like you.
saws he. 'P'varication is tho thief o
time says he, an Squee1er want a
hired man: he was a dog says he.
Then. Aunt Sally havin' gone In with
the greens fer dinner. Uncle David shied
over lords the southwest corner o the
medder. which 10 a short cut fer the tAv-
ern. an II the temptation o HI Stryker's
stone frolio hadn't led me TO p'varicstin.
jaunted over to Hi's-an' I'm sorry as
dipgnation I didn't said the Pochuck