The Pulaskian., 1919-08-22

and Mary Wallen said She would
find them for a dollar, if l would let
her, and l said I would. She and
Charlotte said they would get dinner
first. but Charles said he would go
right now, so they said they would
too. SO / took the three of them and
showed them where to hunt On the
way | thought. well, | have got three
good hands for a month to look for
my glasses, and there is no telling
how many more I would have before
night, and al for a dollar Who said
something about the high price of
labor? | took them over the ground
to the yellow jackets nest and do
you believe me, none Of those kidt
would believe I had run five miles
in so short a time. They wanted to
know where my tracks were l told
them made so many tracks that
the tracks blotted out each other.
Then l got Charles across the
branch to show himN nice place for
bear den, All at once Mary remark
ed, | have your glasses and. sure
enough, she had, for she was holding
them up to my view. l said all right,
come over her and look at this bear
den and get your dollar At the
sound of bear den, she said, mo,
will give them to you up on the road"
and with that, both these girls start
ed for the road. Evidently they were
scared. and l had trouble reaching
the road in time to get them to stop
their mad flight there Then another
fear overcame Mary, whc is quite
contrary anyway, as she had not
looked for those glasses, just picked
them up at the very spot [ showed
her. [ had commenced running from
the yellow jackets. she was afraid l
would think she had not earned the
COLLAR, so she refused to stop lang
enought to give me the glasses. l
took new dollar bill out of my
pocket book and held it up to her
and she said give it to George and
will give the glasses to him." and
we arranged it that way.
In cleaning out the spring, had
found turtle in it, for the second
time riling up the water so I cut his
head off and intended eating him,
hut while I was not locking, he ran
back into the branch 1 suppose and
got away from me- We had eaten up
all the erawfish which We're keeping
the boys out of the spring and l
suppose he was the reincarnation of
the spirit of Old Chief Lu-a-kin, who
was watching over the spring and
surroundings, to prevent me from
digging i'll his mound, which for all
l know, may be his grave too. That's
not all. How I came to have to clean
my spring out again, something had
been in it. 1t pulled a rock away
from the well and reached in for
drink and maybe for a talk or in
struction from old Lu-a-kin, the rein
carnated Indian Chiefs spirit in the
old turtle, and there were tracks
around there which looked like bear
tracks. I guess Lua-kin told him 10
do me up for dinner, but when he
saw me cut Lu-a-kin's head off, he
got scared and left, so the spirit of
Lu-a-kin went into the yellow jack
cts and put them up to singing me.
That's not all. I then got letter
from man in Oklahoma, telling me
he had bought my farm and wanted
to know all about it so. he could
move on it right away. Well, I guess
Lu-a-kfn has won, and I will not dig
in his ole mound, but will have to
move again
bet he was tough old fellow,
and there is lots of evidence Of
his meanness in that mound which
he didn't want shown up in the Pu-
laskian.
You may think my story untrue. If
you don't believe it, ask Tommie