The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-10-14
Some Dogs and
Some Folks
By c. B. WHITFORD
&C, 1922, Western Newspaper Uniop.)

cunning hound In our pack until to-
day. I've lost my reputation, Doc,
and got the worst licking a big tim
Der wolf ever gave fOxhOund. Just
bandage me up the best you can and
when l get well enough to run again
with the pack, I'll promise you no
wolf will ever catch me alone anOth-
er time"
I've heard about your cunning,
HOwler. You're one OF those smart
hounds that let the other dog do
the work, then you rush in and get
the benefit OF his labor. You never
started fox in your life. You just
loaf around until the strike dogs Jump
the fox, then you cut in ahead of them
and make more fuss than any hound
In the pack. There are lots Of folks
just like you, Howler. They loaf
around waiting for someone to start
something, then they butt in and get
the benefit of the other fellows hard
work. But how come you to get such
q beating|
"Old Songster Is our main strike
dog and usually l watch him pretty
closely until he jumps u fox, then l
run in and take the trail with him.
Today he went into little thicket
and, just to be smart, | trotted up to
the other end of the thicket so could
cut In ahead of him II he jumped q
fox. Pretty soon he gave tongue and
l was out in the open field in no time,
more than a hundred yards ahead Of
him on the trail. I was so excited
and tickled at the way had got such
q good start on him that didn't no.
tice that l was on wolf trail until
l had made a dozen jumps. Mean
while old Songster had quit the trail
and had gone back to the rest Of the
hounds. There was out in the open,
all alone on that hot wolf trail. As
soon as / realized how things stood,
/ started back to the pack. But cum
ming old Mister Wolf saw was alone
and far from the pack, SO he cuts
around between me and the other
dogs and, well, this is what happened
before the pack got up"
SERVES you right, Howler. Still
you're no worse than some folks I
know. I've seen a man work like a
beaver looking over the best part Of 4
lake for fish, and then after trying a
dozen places without success, he
would find the right place. Just as
he began to pull them out, along
would come some cunning fellow, who
had been sitting around smoking his
pipe, and drop his line right next to
the good fellow who had worked 50
hard to find the fish. Then there's
the fellow who works hard getting up
q scheme to economic time and
money Before he gets chance to
put 1t into operation along comes
some cunning chap who appropriates
1t to his own use. All the hard-work-
ing honest people are at the mercy
Of cunning folks without conscience.
You are no better than these fel-
lows, Howler. You let someone do the
hard work and then you rush In to en-
Joy the benefits.
'There are lots Of cunning follows.
though, who get fooled just as you
did this morning. They grab on
something they know nothing about
and the first thing they know they get
their fingers burnt. One Of my neigh
bors went rabbit hunting the other
day. After working pretty hard In
the woods and swanps, his dog got 2
trail and followed 1t to a hole. When
he got up to the dog he found very
cunning fellow there who told him the
hole was very deep and 1t was more
than the rabbit was worth to dig him
out. As a matter Of fact, 1t was not
a deep hole and as the soil was chiefly
sand the bottom could be reached In
a few minutes with stick. My neigh
Dor said all right, took his hound and
went away. Our cunning fellow was
80 pleased at the idea Of getting a
rabbit so cheaply for his supper that
he patted himself on the back and
laughed merrily at the other fellows
lack OF good, hard business sense He
got a stick and soon scOOped enough
dirt away 80 that the end Of the hole
was only an arms length away. He
reached in, chuckling to himself, and
pulled out a skunk
"The awful odOr reached the hunter
with the hound and he came back to
see how his smart friend had Jared.
I'D no idea,' he said, that you
we're going to dig that thing out. BE-
cause you seemed to think 1t was q
long, deep hole. knew it was q
shallow hole and might have told
you what was In 1t. left 1t because
I knew from my dogs bark that he
had hOled skunk
"And you think I'm as mean az one
Of them kind Of folks, do you, Doc1
Perhaps I am; anyway l amt any
worse"
In the long run. Howler. It don't
pay to loaf around trying to get the
benefit of some one else's hard work.
1t is easy graft sometimes. but take
It year In and year out the fellow
that relies on himself and keeps on
hustling Is the fellow that succeeds.'
Il 'spose that goes fol me, too, see
Ing as we dogs are pretty much like
some folks. l guess I'll take your
tip, Doc, and learn to be a strike dog.
I'm young and ought to have little
trouble In reforming. I'll be laid up
,v~tSn II Twill