Show FROM ALABAMA ELTER BLUER ALLM AI IBI OF LAKETOWN G 0 F S HUNTING editor ROUND UPI up having detusel your your valuable paper even the advert advertisements ise with much interest I 1 thought a lew few lines from this part of tho the world might be oi of interest inte roBt to your readers the extremely hot r has passed duriez which tile the thermo thermometer metor reached log deg in the shade and all nature begins to call to our minds the tha fact that winter is drawing nigh a season winch which ians with gladness glad laJ neLS my companion elder james P and I 1 met two new elders from utah our julure traveling companions about the first of the month and nc ie concluded to spend a few days daya together visiting tins friends friend holding me betings and participating in some of th the e southern sports before duty bade us pal rait t after visiting friends and holding meetings for a few days day we parted with the understanding that we were to meet the next day at mr john Surg iners for a possum hunt that night elder lewis and I 1 reached mr sur biners the next day and before dinner mr surginer i incited nn altet us to go 90 with hita him and family to a bee tree cutting which wass was to come off immediately after dinner the bee tree N w as located about a 1 mile irom mr Surg Sur ginera iners house at and ill the road lay through the iha woods when w e reached the tree we found mr jno ino maness mane s family and grandpa surginer waiting for us they proceeded at once to cut the tree ree which s ft as a large hickory about ninety lee t high I 1 held the do dog so that the tree would not fall on him lie he was lery ery anxious for lie thought he was going to 10 nave have the tun fun of catching a po possum shurn As I 1 turned him loose soon as the tree fell but he soon eoon came back while we all went through the woods wooda like a stampeded herd of cattle with our hats in our lands hands fighting lees for all i we e were worth after thu the bees settled down grandpa surginer flipped up and stopped the hole bole up to prevent the bees getting out then mr maness cut a block out of the tree to esposa the tha honey boney then mr maness and grandpa made a smudge out of ras ras and proceeded to take the honey out while the rest of bf us atoo erool I 1 oft off about a dundr A d yar yarda ds respectfully looking on oil after awhile I 1 took courage ond and lail down by grandpa and soon boon the others began to draw nearer when we ic ie turned with our rich spoils we found elders elder 3 jensen and peterson Po terson waiting for u As soon as supper was wag over we took the lit 1 intern ax if and old major and started out for a possum hunt we bad not gone gona jar ar before major had bad one treed we cut the tree down clown but no do possum vai ai there then mr surginer said eaid maj told a lie that time and that is something I 1 never knew him do belore before it long before maj treed another one of us ua cut the tree down another held the don dog while the others located lix aled themselves round where tue tree was i going to fall ab sun ua tle tree fell frill I 1 the dag was turned loose and soon nad the possum with willi a death grip 1 grabbed I 1 tho the possum by the tail and mr stir giner caught maj by tile the throat the text next be cne beme me vi i ai ab a choking process which maj had to undergo g bufore before he would let go the next time major tred ed a possum down a hole mr suriner got a hickory fifick stick and twisted it in the po possums hair bair ile he brought him to the edge of the hole several times before he brought him out we hunted until twelve and caught ove live possums A possum is ia a southern luxury nl ill though lie he is not a bit inciting to a westerner We Bierner their average weight weicht is about ten its color is greyish grayish gre and it has a slick tail the head is somewhat like a badgers altogether the they look more like a muskrat than anything I 1 know of I 1 am anjos enjoying log good health although the chills and fever has caught a good miny many of 0 the elders or oi this conference the work of god is progressing prejudice and error are gradually loreing ground and truth and reason are taking their place 0 II fl ALLEY Mag magnella nolla INI barengo la rengo arengo co ala oct 23 |