Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-06-01

convinced us we were wasting our loads.
SO Bill agreed to climb the tree and shake
the coon down providing we would stand
on guard with the dogs and do the coon up
when he fell We afterwards learned we
both undertook q good deal more than we
had bargained for, as will be subsequently,
seen. When Bill got to the top of the tree
and crawled out to a slender limb on which
Mr.. Coon had taken refuge the coon showed
fight, which Bill was not expecting and for
the space of a minute things looked serious
for Bill. The coon kept coming inspite of
his yells and just as he was about to spring
Bill gave the limb sudden jerk and the
coon lost his footing and came sailing to the
ground from hundred feet up. The fall
did not seem to hurt him and he was up
and ready for fight as soon as he hit the
ground. He made dive at us and would
have had picknic had not the two dogs
made dive at him. After brief fight
the coon got away and plunged head long
into a deep hole of water where he defied
both dogs and boys. In our excitement we
forgot our guns and when it looked as the
coon was certain Of getting away we
thought Of our gun and calling the dogs
off, let him have load full in the face
which so disabled him that we soon had
him dangling at our sides We learned to
be careful about tackling coon.
Say Brer Brown do you believe in the
efficacy of prayer" said one colored deacon
to another. No Brer Jones I can't say
do" ''You sho mus be jokn Brer Brown
when you say you do not believe in the
efficacy Of prayer and you bein deacon of
de church. Ode reason | do not believe in
de efficacy Of prayer is dis: Las week I
DraVpd fur do UOO1 Lord tO can1 mo ono
NV Farmer Thomson's turkeys, kos l wus
skeered to go aftah it, as Farmer Thomson
had don sed he would shoot any one he
found aftah his turkeys, but no turkey
comes dat night, and l prayed de same way
de mex night and yet no turkey comes. On
de third night | gifts up and Cos aftah
dat turkey and de mex day had ros turkey
fur dinnah.' Praying for impossible Things
is fool hardy and so when the Christian
Scientist prays for the Lord to heal his
bodily ailments without medicine treat
ment he or she is praying foolishly.
Perhaps what we are about to relate is a
bit shy of the TRUTH but it is a fish story
and if any fish Or snake story is true, being
from Missouri, "yOu have to show me- In
the state of Louisiana there are almost in
Vulnerable lakes and lagoons and all of
them are just teeming with fish and often
with alligaters well. Now allegators live
on fish, frogs and other things Of an aquatic
nature and they will frequently crawl
ashore and lay in the sun with their mouths
open until the fys and gnats fill them up
and then they shut down on them as a part
of meal The aligators will hurd the
fish in corner Of lake and then catch all
they want to eat Evidently such had been
done just prior to Tom Tucker falling into
a lagoon some ten feet deep. He worked
fast and furious to get out for he knew
it was full Of allegators. Willing hands
helped to pull him out, but to the surprise
of all (they were at fish fry the frighten-
ed fish had taken refuge in Toms pockets
and under his clothes and when he got up he
was loaded down with bass and perch. The
boys wanted to throw him back for more,
but he objected
Brer Nancy lost. That's all.