Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1888 — Au Amateur Sportsman. [ARTICLE]

Au Amateur Sportsman.

The meanest man on record lives in the Bappahannock Valley. When one of his children falls down stairs he whips it for crying. One day last summer a party of tourists stopped at his place, and he sent his boy 2. eph out to hunt squirrels to make them a squirrel pie. He gave Zeph twelve pebbles with which he was to kill the game. When the boy returned he had eleven squirrels tied in a bunch. “Whar’s t’other one of the dozen?” asked the old man. “Missed him.” “ Whar’s the pebble, you lazy son of a gun ?” “L-o-o-st it,” sobbed the boy, beginning to blubber. “I’ll gin ye suthin’ to remember it by,” said the old man, and he laid on till the company made him desist. The boy had his share of the potpie, notwithstanding.— Detroit Free Press.