Show TALL TALES sa As told to FRANK E HAGAN and ELMO SCOTT WATSON A splitting tale bacolo BEN EN SUTTON of colorado springs colo has an uncle jim who never splits an armload of kindling for his wife but that ho he thinks of the urn time over on the western slope when be he was working for a man splitting logs one morning he had an immense tree half way split open when 26 ute in deans surrounded him and their chief old holey moccasin told him he bed d have to go back to camp with them uncle jim knew darned well they intended to burn him at the stake but he said all right III go but first I 1 ve got to get this log split my boss will tire me if he finds ive I 1 ve gone off and left it undone now it if you want me to go very soon you ve just got to turn in and help me the chief agreed to help so uncle jim put 13 of the utes on one side of the log and 13 on the other now all of you get a deep holt bolt and pull he said take both hands and III drive the wedges in while you hold the split open the redskins did just as he directed and began pulling as hard as they could while uncle jim began tapping at the wedges but instead of driving them in he began loosening them suddenly he be knocked the wedges out one two three just like that the log snapped shut like a steel trap and there were ere the utes with their hands caught in it so uncle jim just took his maul and went up one side of the log and down the other tapping the indians on the he held heid id as he went then he left em lie to t know whether he just gave them a bad headache or killed them because he never saw any of those utes again little drops of water ROBERT OBERT H MOULTON author and marketing authority once lived am among edg the ald bridgi t runners of tennese 1 see lie ile likes to recall the hazards of those earlier dis when a man had to go out an I 1 get his meat before breakfast if he be expected to eat at all once I 1 was ras hunting squirrels in the cumberland mountains I 1 e recalls I 1 was using pappy s old muzzle load ing rifle and was making every shot count had a nice bag of squirrels and started home when I 1 discovers disco disc overe verel I 1 all my bullets were gone at that unfortunate moment a huge bear appeared on the trail and began to chase me so disturbed was I 1 that beads of perspiration rolled off my forehead luckily for me the weather turned cold very suddenly as I 1 headed into a cove the beads froze and by quick work I 1 was able to catch one of them r ram it into the muzzle of my gun and fire it into the head of the bear it probably would not have been a fatal injury to the bear but I 1 had no more than fired when the weather turned suddenly warm again the bear I 1 am happy to report immediate ly died with water on the brain I 1 A story full of interest U P AROUND spooner WIs it la v natural of course that spoon fish ing should be popular not only with tae the natives but with the tors who inhabit the region every sum mer at least that is the assertion of ered bred record of barrington III one of my friends fished a lake in the spooner region fifteen years ago but with indifferent success says record this man used a spoon but for some reason the lure of its whirl failed to attract the specimens wita which the lake abounded my friend was quitting in n disgust and leaned over the side of his boat at A 10 gold piece for in those days the possession of gold was no mis demeanor fell from his coclet pod et spun in the water and was seized and lowed by a fish which darte I 1 away rive years ago this friend and I 1 returned to the same lake again my companion s luck was poor but just at sundown he lie lande landel 1 an enormous pickerel which we took to camp for our dinner yon you can imagine the delight of my friend on cleaning the fish to discover a 10 gold piece in its belly the treasure was slightly tarnished it Is true but to offset this my friend also removed three 2 bills from the fish the 8 6 we figured out later represented 6 per cent interest on the gold piece for ten years it pleased us to learn that the amount was ex acely correct S 0 western newspaper union |