Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1899 — Frogs as Bloodhounds. [ARTICLE]

Frogs as Bloodhounds.

“It's been ten years since I was in Washington last,” said the man from Boston, "and although I’ve been here now two weeks it wasn't until yesteiw day that I felt at home. I was born here, but when I came back this time the town was so changed I scarcely knew it. It wasn’t a bit like the Washington I remembered. Yesterday evening, though, I went out for a car ride—’way out into the country. A freckle-faced boy sat next me, and we struck up a conversation. He had a small rifle with him. “ ’What are you going to do with that?’ 1 asked after we had talked a while. “ ’Coin’ to shoot blood’n’ouuds.’ “Blood’n'ounds! My! but that one word made me feel at home. I hadn’t heard it since I was a boy, and the boys I know up in Boston wouldn’t know what I meant if I said it. ‘Blood’n’ounds!’ Why. it made me feel like a boy again. I haven’t an idea hovf 'you spell the word, but that’s the way we boys used to say it twenty years ago. I don’t know its derivation, nor anything about it. Washington has changed mightily since my day, but if the Washington boys still call bull frogs blood'n’ounds, I know It’s really the same old town that I was a boy in. The Washington boy is just what he used to be—Washington Post.