Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1883 — Honey, Hunter and Wild Cat in One Log. [ARTICLE]

Honey, Hunter and Wild Cat in One Log.

“No bobcats (wild cats) for me,” said a Maine hunter. “I’ve been clawed myself; one dose is enough to last all the year around. I guided it up here four or five years ago, and one season I had a young feller come clean ever from Liverpool, but makin’ his stay at Gaspe—one o’ these ’ere fancy sportin’ fellers. He was a powerful sot on shootin’ a bobcat, and from the way he talked I reckon he kind o’ thought; ye had to fire at short range, draw yer bowie-knife, and rush in. Anyway, we was on the lookout for bobcats, and one afternoon we come to a big hollow pine that was across the trail, and I see in a minute there was honey inside. ‘FU crawl in,’ he says, ‘and fetch it aout,* and in he went, and I off intew the bushes to git a piece o’ wood for a scraper. As I come back I cast my eye on the hole where he’d gone in, an’ I see a big-bobcat goin’ in. My gun waa lyin’ right near her and I made a jump, and she commenced to back aout, probably havin’ met him, and I grabbed her by the tail and began to pull, o’ course makin’her scratch. He thought it was me at first, but when she let on ter squallin’ I’ll swanney to swan, there was a circus there for one while, yhou 1 I found I could’nt hang on, so I knifed her and hauled her out dead. And, Lord bless ye, if he’d a seen the Liverpool chap when he come aout ye’d a laughed yer eyes aout. He was honey from head tew foot, but he had a young bobcat, which explained the hull thing, and if I hadn’t been araound he’d been chawed up, sure. ” The Rev. A. P- Happer, D. D., figures out a steady decrease in the population of China. He says the present number of inhabitants cannot exceed 300,000,000. Chief among the pauses of the diminution is opium. He believes that the population of India prill soon exceed that of Chin, athe latter ceasing to be the most populous country on the globe. Capt. Eads has thus far received $4,000,000 for his work at the mouth of the Mississippi