The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-05-18

Brown had been advertising in the |
New York and Boston papers to bag |
the leftoEers,'' as he called it. Besides |
the reglar gush about the breath of
old ocean" and the simple, cleanly |
living of the bygone days we dream
about there was some new froth con-
corning hunting and fishing. You'd |
think the wild geese roasted on the |
fagpole nights and the bluetish clog
ged up the bay SOS you could walk on
their back fins without wetting your
feet-that is, if you Wore rubbers and
trod light.
'"Therer' says Peter T., waving the
advertisement and growing gladstone.
They'll take to that like your temp'r
ance aunt to brandy cough drops.
Well have to put up barbed wire to
keep 'em off"
"Humphw grunts Cap'n Jonadab.
Anybody but a born fool III know
there amt any shooting down here
this time of year."
Peter looked at him sorrowful.
Pop" says he, did you ever hear
that Solomon answered summer no.
tel adj? You set back and count the
clock ticks"
Well, that's bout all we had to do.
We got boarders enough from that RI
diculous advertisement to fill every
spare room we had, including Jona-
dab's and mine. Me and the cap'n had
to bunk in the barn loft, but there
was some satisfaction In that 1t give
US an excuse to get away from the
sports in the smoking room.
The Todds was part of the haul. He
was a little, dried up man, single and
a minister. Nigh IS / could find out,
he'd given up preaching by the re-
| quest of the doctor and his last congre
| cation. He had a notion that he was
mighty hunter afore the Lord, like
Nimrod in the Bible, and he'd come to
the Old Home to bag a few gross of
geese and ducks.
His sister was an old maid and
| slim, neither of which failings was
from choice, cal'late. She wore eye
| glasses and a veil to preserve her
complexion" and her idee seemed to
Il
trees and ate cocoanuts. She called
'em "barbarians, utter barbarians."
Whenever she piped Games" her
brother had to drop everything and re-
port on deck. She was skipper of the
Todd craft.
Them Todds was what Peter I. call
ed 1.-THE limit and chip or two over"
| l. nd Ash
ermen were satisfied to slam shot
after sandpeeps or hook stray soul
pin or a bake. But 'twa'n't so with
brother James Todd and sister Claris-
sa. Ducks" it was in the advertising
and nothing but ducks they wanted
Clarissa, she commenced to hint mid
. ding p'inted concerning fraud
Finally we lost patience, and Peter
T. he said they'd got to be quoted
somehow or he'd do some shooting on
his own hook; said too much Teddy
was going to his head. Then suggest
ed taking 'em down the beach some
where on the chance Of seeing stray
coot or loon or something anything
: that could be shot at. Jonadab anC
Peter agreed twas good plan, ant
| we matched to see who'd be guide
And I got stuck, Of course. My lucl
again
So the next morning we started, mi
and the Rev. James and Clarissa il
> the Creased Lightning, Peters new
motor launch. Clarissa set aroun'
doing the heavy contemptuous ant
turning up her nose at creation gener
? ally. 1t must have its drawbacks
2 this roosting SO fur above the common
Q flock
: Well, by and by Lonesome Huckle
] berries shanty hove in sight, and
: was glad to see 1t, although / had t
answer a million questions about Lone
q some and his history.
G / told the Todds that, SO fur as ma
! tionality was concerned, he was a lii
tie Of everything, like picked up dir
ner-principally Eyetalian and Portu
q gee, / caTlate, with a streak Of Ga
: Head Injun. He lives in the patel
a work shanty on the beach down there
he is deaf and dumb, drives liver co
: ored, balky mare that no one but hin
!. self and his daughter Becky can har
n die, and he has love for bad ruI
q and temper that's landed him in tn
Wellmouth lookup more than once c
twice. He's one of the best gunner
! alongshore, and at this time he oWne
J. flock OF live decoys that he'd refuse
) as high as SIS apiece for. ] told O
fhic and q 1nf more
When we struck the beach Clar1ss
= she took her paint box and umbrel
a. and mosquito 'intment and the rest
,e her cargo and went Off by herself
= sketch"
James and me went perusing up ar
: down that beach In the blazing 81
4 looking for something to shoot. "
ID went way beyond Lonesome's shant
If but there want nobody. to home. Tot
: was d cheerful talker, but limited. ii
!, favorite remark was, "Oh, say, y
th deah man!' That's what he kept ca
a. ING me. ssny deah man." Now. n