The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-06-09

l
prietor of a Jersey COW
and a gasoline goodwill. 1t was the
latter / was aiming for. but. as it was
darker thar a stack of negro coal
beavers at midnight. l mingled with
the COW. AS soon as I discovered her
proximity | made a grab for 1t, out
was thrown lightly across several
stalls into a far corner Of the barn
At this point, however. the rank odor
of gasoline In a terribly rundown con-
dition of health smote upon me. l
reached out my hand tenderly and
patted the goodwill on the brow.
At about this time of night kidder's
back door opened, allowing a HOOD OF
light to pour forth. In the doorway
was silhouetted the figure OF b man
hurriedly getting outside of a huge
bowl of breakfast food. He was &C
countred in all the habiliments OF
war. Finally. with a last. despalrlhg
glance into the BOWL he cast it from
him and seized a steaming ~tea-kettle
from the stove.
With this he came forth and by the
Pickering light Of a weak-kneed IAN
tern he cautiously poured the no wa
ter I'D and down the go-devil's spinal
column. Having done this. he seized
the p~ersuader. gave 1t a Viilalnous
twist and the thing commenced a vlo-
lent. hacking cough that caused great
chunks of sympathy to well up under
my sweater.
After turning on the binacle lights,
Kidder grasped the handle-bars and
we backed out till we hit the chicken
park across the alley. By some dex-
ferrous ~manoeuvring WI got the thing
pointed right and cut her loose.
II was early. No one was abroad.
The family cats were all peacefully
curled up in the bread pan. Only a
few weary citizens were up taking a
look at the meter to see II 1t had slid
any In the night. We hummed along
merrily-rolled up in our big fur coats
getting quite wideawake by the time
we had covered a couple of miles.
Suddenly a surprised rabbit sat VI
IN the glare Of the headlights, blinKeo
q couple of times and made a brilliant
lean lOT Tue ldll IiIOO
took my cue and got my artillery II
trim. Rabbit after rabbit appeared
NV ammunition wavered and ran low
No sankuinary results were noticed
although I am positive ! succeeded II
winging the left fender several times
II must be borne in mind. however
thai my poor shooting was the natura
result of poor ammunition, cheap gur
worry and insomnia. from which wa
suffering so bad that 1t kept me awaK
nights.
Daylight was Just cracking In tn
east when we pulled briskly into
earmvard and anchored in front of
badly irritated dog OF the hound VI
riety. The farmer was out in the co
barn husking the milk crop. He cam
out and told us that between seve
and nine thousand ducks had gor
over the evening before and. 1udg1r
from their looks, they had a date Wi
q cornfeld about two miles to the sol
by-sou'west. He informed us that Il
ducks exhibited a marked PARTIAL
for the cornfields which had been G
Grated on by husking machines
stead of the old-fashioned Armstrol
method used by our forefathers. !
said this fact, combined with the 10
dry season and the Iowa habit
planting a game warden on every alt
nate section Of land, was working m
acles for the ducks and chickens.
In a bashful maner he told us Il
II we felt equal to shooting twenty
thirty prairie chickens as a mere sta
er we could find them down in
cornfeld at the right Of the hoghou
He said the chickens were getting
tame that some OF them had the ne
IN sneak in and board with the fan
poultry.
We looked at our license from
state and saw that the prairie
could not be legally shot In such Oh
weather. With a sigh, we thereu
loaded our guns and started for
cornfield.
We curried and cr~oss-curried that
thoroughly and finally strolled out {
a forty-acre field OF fresh plowin,
rest our legs. We had not gone
when something about the looks
size Of a clean white tablecloth a
In front of Kidder and started 81
at a beautiful clip. It was a Jack
bit. Neither of US shot, and XII
mumbled something about thinkir
was a sheep.
BY this time daylight had bee
entirely broken in the east, and
could see how nervous each other
After crossing the blowing we sto