Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-08-10

these mountain men ind this out on
them, is to pay for this wind-splitteI
and get rid of these fellows right here
before we get so far into it we can't
get rid of them, so now is the time "
SO John thumped and beat the deuce
out of those bear dogs and we made a
drive straight to the camp, and as we
went down the right hand prong of the
gulch. we decided to put Jack and B.
right down in the roughs, and punish
them little for their bad conduct, so
we hadn't gone more than two miles
until we heard about 10 shots as fast
as lightning. John said to me, Hush,
listen, there they have got him now, so
come in haste and be in a hurry, and
run down to the bottom of the gulch
and see what they have killed this
pop" / said to John. tell you right
here again, there is nothing in those
fellows. and let's go on. :" But John
insisted on me to go this time only
and if it proves to be failure we
will close this hunt So / ran a
straight mile again, and when we ar
rived they were washing the game
down in the creek and it proved to be
a poor old ground hog. and just such
hollering and screaming across the
gulch by j. W. l never heard before,
and after he found out what they had
killed, and had wasted all those shots
in one little ground hog. John said
''Let's go, those darned fellows won t
do on land or'water. They came out
of the creek and as far as bear or
deer hunt was concerned it was now
over. We landed at camps at 2 o'clock
and Jack and B. cooked their ground
hog and it was really up to date, but j.
w. was SO mad he refused to eat
bite of it, so landed on it and they
always we've my favorite dish. After
dinner we spent the rest of the day in
local squirrel hunt and huckleberry
hunt Jack and B. were banging at
every woodchuck and yellow hammer
they saw, and by sun down they were
out of shells, out Of grub and they de-
cided to leave camp and go over to
Mr.. Laymaf's. l said to John,
"That's the best move those fellows
ever made since we left the valley"
We stayed until next day, killed sew
eral squirrels, picked 70 gallons of
huckleberries, and IS gallons Of fine
blackberries. and came home swearing
we had made the last hunt with Jack
and B. It did't make any difference
what other hunters said of those two
characters as being up to date and no
ted hunters, and to whom it may con-
Germ: This is to certify that l and my
partner, J. w.. have forever dissolved
any connection whatever with Jack
and B., the two gentlemen that were
so highly recommended by other hunt
ers to us.
When we got back home our heads
were sight to look at. There was
straw, leaves and hay all waxed up in
our hair, SO my wife said, and every
hair standing straight up, and fire
black and grease mixed up on our fac
es and hands. 1t made combination
that was hard to remove We used
considerable amount of soap and some
coal oil for chiggers. We are slight
ly disfigured but still in the ring,
and the last heard from Jack and B.
had landed at home. Their wiz es
told me they were considerably
weather beaten, and their eyes were
all sunk in their heads. They had
good success after they left me and j.
w.. and swore they had made their
last trip to the mountain on bunting
expedition with me and J. W.. that
we would stop "a fellow huntsman light
plum in the time when he was in the
act of doing land Office business. All
they seemed to want to hunt for was
deer or bear, and we wanted to take it
as we came to it, . and make clean
sweep from top to bottom.
We had good deal of fun out of
Jack and B. Some of the devilish boys
that belonged to the crew as shack
rousters that stayed in the camp and
did the cooking, played clever trick
off on Jack and B. while they were
out on squirrel hunt the evening they
did all that big shooting at the ground
hog. The cooks were somewhat roust-
abouts themselves. They had succeed
ed in catching half grown skunk
while down under the hill after water.
and they dressed it. and put it on to
cook. OF course they already had ON
Jack and BIS. ground hog to cook, so
they perpared their skunk in separ-
ate kettle, and about 5 o'clock Jack
and B. came in very hungry. Isno-
ticed the two cooks bad an extra
broad smile all over their faces. They
took up two big kettles of supposed
ground hog kind of winked at me and
J. W., and pointed at the head of the
table for us to get to keep from dip
ping into the dish of skunk. They
said, "Come to supper. boys" and
Jack and B. conferred right in front of
big dish of that skunk and / could
see those cooks swell up like toads
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