The Pulaskian., 1921-02-10

water hole nearby. I learned from him that he is my nearest neighbor. He only lives about three-quarters of a mile away and can plainly hear his dogs barking, his roosters crow- ing and the children playing; also I can hear him hammering and chop ping wood.
 Mir. Palmer told me that when his young son learned that I was living up here by myself he remarked, q wouldn't live up there for the whole place, and bet when the wolves turn loose and howl and the wild cats scream, like they do every once in awhile, he will run off and come down here" We'll, I can inform him I will do nothing of the kind for will be too badly scared to go outside of my house. Then Mir. Palmer and MT. Brooks both assured me that was right on the route of the wild cats from their dens in the mountain to the river valley, and Mir. Palmer assured me that before the wolves killed his two good hounds that every Bob cat they start ed would pass right through my woods on their way to their den in the big pasture. Mir. Palmer told me that when he was boy about sixteen years old bob cat jumped on his back. He turned his head to see what 1t was and looked right in- to the eyes of Mir. Cat. He was afraid of nothing then, so as he did not scare the cat did and jumped down, when his dog nabbed him. He was at the time returning alone from church. After this experience he waited for the crowd to catch up with him. Everywhere he went the dog went with him, and he consid- cred the dog a sufficient guard. After this 1 remarked that I had bet ter stop up some of the holes in my house, which were big enough for a cat to get in at. ''No," they both assured me, ''no cat will come in. while you are in there, but they might come in while you are away.' When my visitors took their depar- ture it was 1l:30. Time to get din- ner, but 1 just had to work little on my garden first. You see, I am just dead stuck on this work and love to be at 1t every minute, and when have other things out of my way I work at it until sun down or dark. For the life of me l don't see why all the people don't leave the cities and live in the hills, it's so much more fun. have an idea that this land should be cleared and put in cultivation without first burning it over. 1 am aware also that the chances are against its making crop the first year, but l am looking to the future and l am going to try my garden that way. On the Texas plains in putting in plains land I plowed very shallow, because every body said that was the way to sod. They were probably correct, but l did not make much the first year. As I cleared my garden and took the rock out of the ground realized 1 was stirring the earth too deep, for l was getting away down into the wet clay, so concluded that I would only take out the rock showing on top of the ground. After dinner went to MT. Bone's after milk, eggs and meat.
 Friday, February 4. I made ladder and repaired my roof and stopped all the holes in the walls big enough for bob cats to get through. In the afternoon l did a little more work on my garden. An owl hooted in my woods during the day so I looked for rain and at night it did rain. l was agreeably surprised to
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