Show DOUSED But not Which They Mite of Been Been We We Refer to fa Hank Dewberry Dewberry Dew Dew- b berry rry Hod Slocomb Who Went Fishing in Pond Pont on a Sunday and Nearly Got Their one Hank Hanl Dewberry one of our most townsmen also Hod Slocomb who aint much betters Hank had a from death last Sunday and what they went through will cluster in Hanks Hank's and Hods Hod's memories for some time to come or we miss our guess If what they went through will make them take life more serious and induce them to live better existences then everybody in this town will be glad that what happened did happen There was a powerful moral in the lesson they ey learnt and we trust Hank and Hod will profit by it Early last Sunday morning instead of Hank and Hod getting up betimes and making to attend the morning services at 10 a. a m m. in the Bingville church they both made prep- prep to go o over the Gootchie Pond and to spend the day there fish fish- ing N Now ow aint that a nice nice way for two citizens of this town to act on a I Well Hank and Hod left Bingville about 8 S a. a m. m accompanied by their fishing poles lunch and a gal jug of old hard cider eider which Hod had purchased offen Brad Hinsley the night before for a quarter Hod says he can git more fun a quarter by spending spending spending spend spend- ing it for hard for hard cider than he can for peanuts or popcorn Hank and Hod at Pond about 10 and borrowing the lend of Bill Snyders old flat-bottomed flat boat who lives tives on the shore of I they both started out Up to this time me they hadn't the hard cider being as they wanted to keep it until they got to fishing but as soon as they I got their lines in in the water they begin I to hit up the hard cider in the jug It appears that Hank was afeard that I Hod would get more than his share of the cider and Hod he felt the same way so they passed the jug from one to tooter until they drained the jug in five minutes There wasn't a drop left in inthe inthe inthe the jug but both Hod and H Hank had a half gal inside each which soon begin to take and it wasn't long until they become very hilarious and j joyful The cider seemed to Hod more than it did Hank leastways Hod he hc made the most noise He sung all the songs he could sing and he cant can't sing anyhow Hod when he goes to sing has a voice on him like a calf belle ring cuz its it's to deth Hank he tried to get Hod to keep quiet but Hod didn't pay no more to Hank if he hadn't been in the boat at all Bye and bye Hod he had a bite and he pulled his line the water but there v.-a v. wasn't nt nothing on it and when he be went to throw it back in inthe inthe inthe the line went around Hanks Hank's neck and th the hook went right through the lobe of Hanks Hank's left err crr Hank he out with his knife and cut the line off close dose to the hook and then had to break the hook before he got it out but Hod was wasso wasso wasso so intoxicated that he never even missed the hook offen his line and went wenton on fishing without no hook at all and wondered why in the fish didn't bite Bye and bye Hod he got I fishing and his pole into the I II I worter Then Hod couldn't think of anything else to do so he begin to rock the thc boat just to keer Hank and it did Hank tumble Hank belt helt onto the boat with both hands and told Hod to I for goo goodness ness sakes stop that or they would both lose their lifes in a watery grave being as the lake where they was must of been over 25 ft deep Hod he h jest and kept on rocking the boat for dear life Finally Hank grabbed a oar and he says to Hod Cuss you anyhow anyhow anyhow any any- how if you dont don't stop this boat Il Ill hit you a wallop over the head Go ahead and wallop says Hod I aint of you Hank he be meant what he said so he be stood up in the boat and struck at Hod with a oar but missed hitting him and Hank lost his balance and over he went into the worter Hank he cant can't swim scarcely at all and when he come up coffing coffing coffing cof- cof fing and spluttering he happened to be right alongside the boat so he grabbed it Hod was fit to bust Hank had fell in and when Hank he tried to crawl back into the boat it tipped i and out went Hod also Then both of 1 I them them was in the water hanging onto the I boat for dear life I When Hod went in it sobered him up upa a good eal being as he begin to realize I the gravity of his Hank says sars he reckons he tried to climb on the boat j which was bottom side up moren a hundred hundred huni hun- hun i dred times but every time it would turn with him and back into the worter ker ker- plunk he would go They hollered for help but no person heerd them and being being being be be- ing as they was vas too far from shore to swim and the water was too deep to wade they just hung on and waited for forthe the tb end Hank says that Hod got ble and offered up a prayer and that he took a pledge that if bis is worthless life was spared he would never again tetch a drop of hard cider as long as ashe ashe ashe he lived but Hod denies this Well Vell to make a long story short and end the agony as you might say the wind finally drifted the overturned boat with the two men hanging to it near to shore so that they could wade out which they done and pulled the boat after them The lunch they had took along had been lost and they was hungrier than a couple of bears Hank was mad at Hod and have anything to do with him After cussing each other for awhile they both started to walk back to Bingville Bing by separate routes being as they hated each other too much to keep together As we go to press Hank Hod is still bad friends and they will probably remain so for quite a aspell aspell spell to come |