The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-02

where tumbIed HIM knowed IL, I'v'
been licked like n tramp tinker fer KILN
that snOopin' hog an now IN goin' TO II
IN nted all my life by his spOokr
/ Then Jen broke for the HOUSE as fas
49, his feet would carry him.
u soon recovered from my scare anc
began to do a little thinking. After q
white ! climbed tho fence and sneakeo
4 up to whore tho dead critter was lying
I Z hadn't any more than got there befors
saw that II I had only Just stepped oul
that way before Jen and | went down "a
CHS 10 break tho news gently To HIM h
would have been saved from that licking
and Glib would have escaped a tolera bly,
fair to middling sort Of MINIMIZING az
hlmsalf
IL wasn't Old Blacky that lay Their,
dead II was one ~ the biggest and
blackest hears ! ever saw. jerry had
mistaken ~ in the dark for the big. black
PIG aud had plugged IL for certain. NOT
having intended To do IL.
Almost bursting with laughter over
III" mistakes of the night and expecting
I"f and Criliy to do the same when ! got
~ tho house with the news. | hurried in
JrT WIS living on the wash bench grooming
and CrIllv was rubbing him down with
coon Vr'as" and doing him up in rags
log slidI Rrinning. your old BlaCkv
out ther" " tremendous big hear. with
5p rounds Of meat on him easy and a
prt worth $40
-Jen got the matter through his head
in n FASH hut h" didn't burst out laughing
quit" ~ free and boisterous a. had
counted on his doing He sprang up.
scattering Crilly and the rags and the coon
grease.
-Pefore Glib could say a word one wav
or the other Ooo-o-o-o-r Ooo-o-o-o-f.
something RrlInted slow, deliberate, and
contenied. "a in the direction ~ the harm
"" lnoked over that way.
The moon was shining bright a. dav.
N having come uD since Jef and ] came
DOWN 20 break he news gently n Oh.
and In the name 10 all things, we Ssw Old
BlRrkv himself slnuChinR along fIOn.
behind he harm odd Pla"kv hig m life
And vet JET Mum had killed. hin. lead
up in his orchard not more than an hour
before
Glib Wiv and his wife elapsed their
hands and Jumped with iov but JeH
was sight 90 ace He cooked :he eye
that wasn't swollen shut NJ the h'g Dix
and The two ewes Couldn't have held more
.care IN en- than thai single one Of his
I'D
John. said he grabbing me nv the
arm. Old Rlackv iS lawn dead up in nv
orchard. dead ~ a dornick' This here IL
his sDook aha 'ntin o me-
Then he dropped my arm and weut
tearingt1wari home az fas' a. beiuE short
an eve for seeing his wav would j.; hin;
followed al his heels lie stumbled
along. headed ne straight as couldbe for
his orchard
John. saii he. stopping az We got near
the orchard fence, II that Jestiferous hog
ain' LAWN there where ! dropped him
then he's come 20 life an snuck back home
II he - lawn there then what Ne seen
down ~ Gib's - his spook. an I'll lie
Ia 'nted al my lite
We got to'the fence JET. although
AID saw What he Jaw lust "a quick as
saw 10. ALTHOUGH having two eyes And
confess that I telt that moment about "a
ScsTv a. lei did
It's a hear IL it'' he yelled 'Tain't
Old Blacky arter all. amt IL Then Vim
goin 20 walk all over that Glib Nix! IN
goin' hack. an LIN Roln to give lib Mix
the completest an propere~t wollOpin'
that ever fell on man sence Samson walked
into the Phllistines an smote 'eru hip an
thigh,
Before We could stop him out he went
heller skelter. But he didn't get to GIBBS
The first thing he ran against right In
ms front yard was Sam Nelson poking
round again
-Jeh had steam all up. and he didn't
wait Ia waste any 81 it. He yoked sam
and in less than a little while he mad
scraped up quite lot of the yard with
him Sam hollered enough and swore he
wouldn't come poking round Jeh's any
more so JET let him up and sam struck
out for home on the double quick
There said JET. returning prom pity
10 the house and putting himself IN the
hands % Crilly and the coon grease and
tho raRr again That saved Ciib's skin
an we'll let IL GO at that We've got
hear Crilly We've fixed Sam Nelson
an h" won Vcome pokin round here no
more
YOU amt gnin tn he a widder with
or without standin in the deestric'. not
lee, Wit An when We sell the skin o
that bear we'll invest some 81
u in the best WALLER. green, red. purple.
blue or a maroon color~d dress fer
Won the Rocky Run store has got. or the
huh cahoOdls o them shades mixed IN
one n YOU want n.
An John the cider harris IN the
cellar jest tapped fresh. an the pitchers
right yender on the shelf
All ~ which found 70 be true. and
cant look hack 90 any occasion IN the
whole hsmlock belt country when there
wer. 80 many unexpected and edlfying
numbers on the programmes az there were
that evening in Rocky Run