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Show all Jales As told fo: I ELMO FRANK E. ..d SCOTT HAGAN WATSON Little Drops of Water ROBERT II. MOULTON, author and marketing authority, once Jived among the ridge runners of Tennessee, He like., to recall the hazards of those early days when a man had to go out and get his meat before brenkfast If he expected expect-ed to eat at nil. "Once I was hunting squirrels In the Cumberland mountains," he recalls. "I was using pappy'a old muzzle-loading rifle and was making mak-ing every shot count. Had a nice bag of squirrels and started home when I discovered all uiy bullets were gone. "At Hint unfortunate moment a huge hear appeared on the trail and began to clinse me. So disturbed was I that bead., of perspiration rolled ofT my forehead. "Luckily for me, the weather turned cold very suddenly as I headed Into the cove. The beads froze and by quick work I was able to catch one of them, ram it Into the muzzle of ray gun and fire It Into the head of the bear. "It probably would not have been a fatal Injury to the hear, but I had no more than flred when the weather turned suddenly warm again. The hear, I am happy to report, re-port, Immediately died with water on the. brain!" Wjtern Xwppr Union. |