Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1914 — HAD HIM ALL RIGHT, BUT [ARTICLE]

HAD HIM ALL RIGHT, BUT

It Was a Question Whether Hunter or Hunted Had the Best of a Bad Situation. A party of choice spirits from the Mount Ephraim section, where colored folk reside, had gone into the river bottom well provided with coon dawgs. It was not long before a trail was struck and soon after that the quarry was treed. The next move naturally was to climb the tree, so as to shake down the varmint—coon or ’possum as might happen. Lemon, a very black and venturesome youth, undertook the job, while the others—men and dogs—assembled under the tree. It was night time, of course, and Lemon swarming up was able to distinguish dimly the figure of an animal perched in the crotch where a large limb branched out. The tore feet embraced tho trunk, and Lemon was on the other side from the crotch. He grabbed the forelegs and held on so that the creature -eould neither escape nor hurt him. . But there proceedings stopped. The rash hunter was afraid to let go; the men, on the ground were- shouting their impatience, and the bob-cat (for that was what the varmint was), was yowling fearsomely and tearing viciously at the bark with its hind clawn. "What de matter up dart” called up a voice from below. "Is you got *im. Lemon?” The voice tn the tree replied, "Reckon I is got him—dat ain’t de trouble; what I wants is fo’ somebody to come up an* he’p me tu’n him loose for a leetle while."