The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-06-08

g AROSE hastily at 6oss.
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put o. three suits o(
clothes. threw eleven
u large. favn-colored dap
Jacks unAsr ny bslt.
and hit the skyline for
" KiAdsrs. Kiddsr 10 .
sportsman sig days In
Tie week. but on San-
~ DAY stops to rest and
preach three Or four
VW ssrn0as.
He 10 also ths pro
DrisGos of . Jsrssy Gov
aAA . easolias co-Asvil. II vss tAs
latAss ! vas si1iag for. but. - Il vas
darker thaa Q stack q negro coal
hsavess at midnight. I mingled With
tAs COW. A. sooa - discovered bsS
psoginity I made . srab for It. but
vas thrown Aghtly across several
stalls into Q far corner of the earn.
At this point. however. the Faak odos
of gasoline In . terribly rundown con-
1ttioa Of health smots upon ~. !
reached out my hand tsn6sriy and
At about this time Of night Kiddsrs
back door opened. allowing food Of
light to pour forth. In the doorway
was silhouetted the figure Of . man
hurriedly getting outside Of . huge
bowl Of breakfast food. He was &C
countred In all the habilimsnts Of
war. Finally. With . last. despairing
glance into The bowl he cast 1t from
him and seised stsaming tea-kettls
from the stove.
With this he came forth and By the
aicksring light Of = wsak-knsed Ian
tern he cautiously poured the hot wa
ter up and down the godevil's spinal
column. Having done this. he setsed
the porsuadsr. gave It . villainous
twist and the thing commenced vio-
Isn't. hacking cough that caused great
chunks Of sympathy to well up under
my sweater.
After turning on the binacls lights.
Kidder grasped the handle-bars and
we backed out till We hit the chicken
park across the alley. BY some dex-
ferrous manoeuvring We got the thing
pointed right and cut her loose.
It was early. No one was abroad.
The family cats were all peacefully
curled up In the bread pan. Only .
few weary citizens we're up taking .
look at the meter to SEQ 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 . surprised rabbit sat up
in the glare Of the headlights. blinked
q couple Of times and made brilliant
leap for the tall timber. promptly
took my cue and got my artillery In
trim. Rabbit after rabbit appeared.
My ammunition wavered and ran low.
No sankuinary results were noticed,
although am positive succeeded In
winging tho left fender several times.
II must be borne In mind. however.
that my poor shooting was the natural
result Of poor ammunition. cheap gun.
worry and insomnia, from which was
suffering 20 bad that It kept me awake
nights.
Daylight was Just cracking in the
east when We pulled briskly into Z
farmyard and anchored in front Of =
badly irritated dog Of the hound va
riety. The farmer was out In the COW
barn husking the milk crop. He came
out and told US that between seven
and nine thousand ducks had gone
over the evening before and. Judging
from their looks. they had date with
. cornfield about two miles to the SOU
by-sou'west. He informed us that the
ducks exhibited marked partiality
for the cornfields which had been op,
Grated on by husking machines in.
stead of the old-fashioned Armstrong
method used by our forefathers: He
said this fact. combined with the long
dry season and the Iowa habit OF
planting game warden on every alter.
nate section Of land. was working mir
acles for the ducks and chickens.
In a bashful maner he told lis that
II we felt equal to shooting twenty OF
thirty prairie chickens as a mere start
er we could find them down in the
cornfield at the right of the hoghouse
He said the chickens were getting &C
tame that some Of them had the nerve
to sneak in and board with the family
poultry.
We looked at our license from the
state and saw that the prairie her
could not be legally shot in such chilly
weather. With a sigh. we thereupor
loaded our guns and started for ths
cornfield.
We curried and cross-curried that fielt
thoroughly and finally strolled out onte
forty-acre field of fresh plowing t.
rest our legs We had not gone fal
when something about the looks ant
size of clean white tablecloth aros,
in front Of Kidder and started soutl
At . beautiful clip 1t was a Jack rab
bit. Neither of us shot. and Kidde
mumbled something about thinking 1
was a sheep.
BY this time daylight had becom,
entirely broken in the east. and ",
could SEQ how nervous each other was