Show SWAPPING LIES of ivban cm can dowhen io they try not long ago ago I fell in with t a crowd of old timers if there isom thing above another which a forty niner is is imbres impressed ed with it is the su all wl perio io rity of the old over tho the new now you can very seldom get a r calbie one out of it modern liar but whai what it solemnly impresses our ancient joaner with an occurrence fresh it in his E is mind wind as if it had happened but raad yesterday esterday A young fellow who nad just got backal from rom Cohut ah tat arin springs remarked tan talk about fishing gentlemen nicest fisl fishing ling you you ever sair while I was gone telf you a fact those mountain trout lire tire the smartest fish out come down I the cataract like dikea a telegram tu no air sir you cant stop them with bug and minnows only thin thing that catches them on tb the fly isa id a lively humming bumming bird for bait I the fellow attempted to fin sh ish i the lie r when lion a big bit bluffer held up his hand changed wonderfully since I first came to this country then we ile never v er brou trou troubled bled with any but gamo game f fish in those days and the ci birek were so full that there any rc room ioni for energy cud and when then we t took ook ft it fotion for fish we always went to the mountains I remember one day ay when uncle josh and me went up to a little creek in in the mountains the water was awful rapid and you could just see the speckled trout mr Ec rambling ambling along worsen a crow crowd d of school boys playing leapfrog leap frog I could sic see that there was something wrong so wo we went down tho ilia creek to where it run through a rocky ledge that made a sort of narrow gap and what do you ou reckon well sir they had just got hitched in there and they ju just at como come down so fast and banked up against the ledge till they cou in t wiggle blamed if the they just dammed up tho the crex creek with solid fish and the fellow actually wanted to prove it when an old man indicated that ho he could tell a story which lie would vouch for as a fact and when all eyes had bad burred to him ho lie said I could tell yer or some pretty rough yarns toys boys bout the settlement seti rement of this country but ill tell yer bout a squirrel hunt and t I hein was good days for squirrels too ono evenin I got ray my diflo and went out in a little bottom just back of my cl earin like and just as a I got over thi th i fence a b big fox squirrel come down a beach tree about forty feet from t the he ground sorter movin movi down gradual gradual like I blazed away and flown down he lie come I commenced leadin right in my tracks and when I got through something was wrong with my flint and I took it out to fix it and happening to lock up was another squirrel el comin down that treo just as the other one had and fearing that it would get away from me I walked over un under er the tree to stop it till I could get my flint back in the lock well sir when I got nearly under the tree was a rattlesnake looking up at the bequir rel W with ath his head raised up about two to feet off tho the ground and the squirrel birrel comin right along just a as it war g oin to a picnic disbot I shot the snake and killed it when the tho squirrel ran back up the tree and it war such a whopper that I got me some bark and tied around its tail and commenced to drag it home allen a 11 aluir squirrel rel run out ari mouth outa I cut it open en and was two more that ip it t had swallowed tho tree was full of squirrels and it was just charmin them to wholesale destruction it was ten feet long and aind tho boys gave such a whoop that the old inan man refused to finish tile yarn when an old gins ins ing hunter remarked that was not liin more curious than thad the powers of the roots and gerbs of this country as understood by tha the people forty vears year ago sago said he be I war or adin 11 on the banks of a deer lick one da day when I saw a rattlesnake about as big aa my iny leg lying coiled up and watching about uneasy like and I sot down and commenced to watch when directly a monster black snake borac up cloae and went to about as if it war with ita its companion directly the tile rattlesnake nake struck out an tin awful blow and as he lie did eo so the black snake took breeches hold on him winding around him two or three times but the rattlesnake got in his work biting the black snake on the tail when it uncoiled i itself and with a powerful bound flung itself itsel fout out of the rattlesnakes reach when the it went back the way it had bad command come and rea re achin ebina a bunch commenced to cat the leaves and lie lick k its wound then it came back a aaen ain g goin in tl through rough with the same jad oad fight h t and when it was bit goin back cato to the and after a half dozen rounds the rattlesnake caught such a hold that it could not get away when it commenced to wind around it its enemy powerful pert like and ther they both died there together butas but as long on as it could get its medicine it tsee seemed me to take a delight in fighting the purt iest st fight though gent gentlemen lerne D I remar remarked ked a an n old stager is between a deer and a it rattlesnake I was one day hunting some pigs in the range le when I saw a deer come to a sudden stop on a trail and turn and gallop olf off through tho ilia woods directly it came ca back followed by a powerful buck and when it got up in about twenty feet of whar it had stopped before it stopped stop again till the old buck came a alongside of it then they both came back about tw twenty enty feet and aud took a start and an when tho the foremost one got to a certain point eho phe gave a snort and jumped jun aped clear over or tho the place and the old buck followed in tho same way they kept this up fur for several minutes when the buck commenced to como come down on the spot with his fore feet when they had iad got through I went up and ani was a rattlesnake as big as a fence rail all mashed up amalin how they had bad worked their little game they choy first got the snake so mad that ho lie would strike at a i Eb adder then the first would go over and when the snake had struck at him the old buck would come along before it would coil up again and get in bis his hoof work it war the tb c purt iest st fight you everean ever evere saw aw |