Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-12-11
A GREAT NIMROD

Mr. EDITOR
The biographical sketch of our good
friend Kiah Corley, as Walton"
took so we'll that at the request of his
admirers l will give you few of his
adventures as a Nimrod. Kiah, in his
younger days was very fleet of foot
as we'll as sensitive of smell. On one
occasion he said to his beloved wife;
Dora, | smell deer and / intend to
bag him before night or you will
never again look on the face of your
Darling Kiah." He buckled on his
shot-pouch, shouldered his trusty fowl
ing piece and HE'D himself away tow
ards the dense forest, while his loving
wife stood in the door looking after
him with a tear in her eye.
In about one hour he espied the OBJ
iect of his Smell" Then the race
for life began At the end of a forty
mile run, the deer dropped, exhaust
ed, while its tongue protruded from
it's mouth about two feet. He did
not have the heart to shoot the poor
thing, so he cut it's throat, threw it
over his shoulder and started for
home; where he arrived about IL M.
feeling as frisky as rabbit.
A few days before Thanksgiving he
was reading the proclamation of Gov
Bradford, when the thought struck
him, that he too should have feast
There was about three inches of snow
on the ground, so he started for the
woods. He soon came across tur-
key track about the size of large
dinner plate. He followed this to a
corn field When he reached the field
he saw the corn shaking. He thought
Presently he saw large black object
coming towards him, pressing the corn
over on each side. 1t was his turkey.
He hastily got into fence corner and
poked his gun through crack, but in
his excitement he failed to see large
hornet nest into which he ran his
gun When he looked about him the
gobbler was gone. "A queer mixture
of green corn, snow and hornets.)
On another occasion Kiah was hunt
ing cotton tails" He had a very
swift Bench legged, Beagle-Houn-
dog" Soon the dog "jumpt" rab-
bit and was pushing him so close that
Mr.. Rabbit was compelled to seek
refuge in thicket of greenbriers.
The dog attempted to follow but only
got in as far as his shoulders, when
he stuck fast. Kiah rushed up and
shot at what he supposed was the rab-
bit but when the smoke cleared away
he saw only pile Of fur and entrails.
He FASTENED around to the other side
and found the carcas Of the rabbit
completely skinned and Quilted, ready
for the pot
On another occasion, with some
friends he went out to chase Sly
Reynard. Soon the houns "jumpt" a
fox. Kiah with his five friends, sta
toned themselves at the crossing"
about one hundred yards apart. All
had good shot-guns except Kiah, who
had what he called Shotgun pistol.
This was an old Colts Navy AZ cal
iber fve-shot revolver, which Kiah
had converted into shotgun Pres
emily Reynard hove in sight. No. l
blazed away and missed the fox, fol-
lowed by 2, 3, A, and g., with the same
result. At last the fox reached Kiah
who sportsman like gave him a
! chance for his life When Reynard
was about two hundred yards away,
Kiah, "let CO., with his "SHOT-GUN
pistol" which made a report like the
explosion of a Magazine: All five
chambers had gone off at one time.
! When the smoke cleared away the un-
! derbrush was moved down like a
! ''Tank" had passed over them. There
1 lay Reynard and three of the dogs
dead. The owner of the dogs came
up and said, "Look what you have
done!" Kiah said, "Well l got the
fox"
Yours truly,