The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-19
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That's What Was Did to Cy Hoskins by a Whole PasseI of Wild Beasts Bit by a Wild Cat-lt Nearly Turned Gy's Hair White

Cy Hosllins made a trip to the co. seat last week on business & pleashure and while he was there he attended stuffed menagerie. Cy said he was walkin along the streets seeing the sights when he come to a hall which had been rented for a week lby,a feller who had exhibishion of stuffed wild animiles inside and told Cy it was the most wonderful colleckshion of stuffed wild animiles in captivity. Being as the admishion was only 10 cts. Cy thort he would take chance on 1t, so he pulls out his wallet and handed the feller a silver half dollar piece and got back 5 cts in change (but Cy didn't discuvver this until he got clean back to Bing- vile that night) and went in.
 Cy says that what he seen was won derful. There was big glass case labelled the Happy Family" This case Cy says contained a big black bear which at some time or other had been alive, also a stuffed wildcat, a coon and a fox, all dead of course, but as nach- eral as life. Cy says if he had of met them animiles out alone in the woods stuffed though they might of been he would of swC they was all alive, be- ing as they looked that nacheral He says the bear was standing up on its hind legs jest as if it had been eating blueberries on the top of some noun taing and had heerd a noise and then rared up on its hind legs to lissen. As for the wild cat it was all crouched ready to jump. The coon was np tree and the fox was slinkin along in the back part of the glass case.
 Cy he stayed and looked at them ani- miles for nearly hour so that he could firmly fix them in his mind and when he got back home tell his wife Sary Jane what she missed. When Cy passed out he told the feller who he paid to git in that he had more than got the worth of his money, but of course when Cy said that he didn't know that the feller didn't give him back enuff change by five cts.
 We'll, Cy he driv home, thinkin about them animiles and could scarsely wait until he got his horse unhitched so as to git to the house and tell Sary Jane all about 1t, which he done.
 Next day for dinner Sary Jane had hot biskits and cheese and apple pie and some new sauer kraut, which she made some time ago, concerning all of which Cy ct hearty, and after dinner he set down in a old arm chair to smoke. Bye and bye Cy he laid down his pipe and got up and went out to the kitchen and quietly took down his old muzzle loader shot gun and went off into the woods back of his house to see if he couldn't shoot gray squirl. Cy didn't say anythink to Sary Jane as to where he was going. Well Cy didn't see no gray squirls in the woods near town so he kep a going on and on, and by graschious 1t wasn't no time until he found hisself on top of Saw ridge Mountaing, 13 miles from Bing- vile Cy he hunted around on top of the mountaing until it begin to git late and then started home, but the dark ketched him before he got half way down the mountaing and he got lost and desided he would haft to sleep out all night. so he bilt fire and was settin there when student out of the woods back of him there was turrible crashin and he looked around and his hair rig up on end when he seen big black bear and a wildcat and coon and fox all coming right straight for him. Cy he sprung to his feet and started to run, but suddintly the wild. cat with awful screech jumped and