Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1898 — Shot at Two Stars. [ARTICLE]

Shot at Two Stars.

Bob Cunningham and two compan ions recently went coon hunting neai Pulaski. Coons can be found only a' night, and they are usually seen nea a cornfield. The trio, with their dogs had wandered about half the night when Bob suddenly pulled up witi “Hist! I see a big one.” lie became afflicted with a touch of the buck fev er, and danced about in a strange anti weird manner. “Do you see his eyes?” he asked. “I’m going to shoot.” The gun went off, and Bob said with many an adjective, "I’ve missed him.’ He loaded up again and blazed away and still he declared he saw the eyes None of the other parties could see thf first symptom of eyes, neither could they hear Mr. Coon rustling among thf trees. Bob declared that he could, anc he shot once more, but the “eyes” wen still there. He is a pretty good shot, and firing three times at so large an animal a< a coon made him think; so he walked over to the three where he saw thf coon and took a good look and then discovered that he bad been shooting al two stars that were peeping from between the limbs of the tree.—New Castle Courant-Guardian.