The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-06-06
SHOTAT!
Hank DsWbsrry Was Mlstook for a
Thief & Nearly Killed as you
Might say---Hls Own Dog Wsnl
Back On Hlm.--Hank LsaTn a Les
son by This

Hank Dewberry comes in for free
advertisement in this issue OF the
BugIe. Hank had. q experience last
Thursday night which we calkilate ne
will remember for some time to come
unless his memory goes back on nim'
and this experience entities Hank to De
wrote up in the Bugle as tollers:
Last Thursday p. m. sometime IN the
P. M, Hank left home telling his wife
that he was agoing to walk over to
Snake Bend to see IL he couldn't bor-
row a few dollars If possible from his
Uncle Caleb Winslow, who lives there,
to purchase the bare necessities OF life
as you might say. Hank told Mrs.
Dewberry that he would be back by
supper time sure. Well. when ssHank
reached his Uncle Caleb's and asst him
for the loan of S. Caleb refused to
give Hank any money, but he give him
something just as good and which
cheered Hank up almost as much as
money, which was hard cider. BY the
time Hank had absorbed few pints OF
hard cider he forgot about telling his
wife that he would be back for supper
by supper time-in fact, Hank didn't
care much then when he got back, so
he stayed to supper with Caleb and
didn't start to walk back to Bingville
until most 8 p. m.
Now Snake Bend is only FIVE miles
from Bingviile for sober man, bat
for Hank it proved TO be several times
that far and Hank he wandered around
so nuch that by the time he arrived
home it was nearly midnight. In the
meantime Hanks wife, Almira, had got
tired and disguised waiting up for
Hank and being as she thought he had
decided to stay with his Uncle over
night she locked up and went to bed
about o'clock, and when Hank arrove
home she was doubtless sound asleep.
When Hank went to step up on his
piazzer low growl come from Hanks
old hound, who was alying outside the
front door. This dog is nearly fifteen
years of old and is def and can't see
very well, but he is powerful good
watch dog.
Howsumever Hank didn't pay no at
tenshion to Nero" which is the
hounds name but walked right on the
piazzer and said, cit out, you ornery
mans dog" and was about to open the
door when the hound jumped at Hank
and sunk its teeth in the calf of his
leg. Hank was so tux by surprise that
he fell and him and the dog rolled over
and over on the piazzer until the dog
finally realized who Hank was and
snuk of around the house turrible
ashamed of hisself because he had went
and bit his master.
Hank then tried the door, but to his
awful disgust he found it locked. He
listened for spell and decided because
he heerd no noise in the house that Al
mira had slept through all the racket.
and Hank he didn't think it was advis-
able for several reasons to wake her I'D
to let him in, being as she would prob
ably detect the fumes of hard cider on
his breath, and he knowed she would
give him turrible tongue flashing il
she did. Besides he had promised her
he would be home by supper time and
he had not did so and he knowed she
wouldn't like that either. so Hank he
took off his boots and decided he would
climb on the PLAYER roof and sneak
into the house through the upstairs hall
winder.
Well, he elm up on the PLAYER roof
all right and had jest got inside the