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and give de yell. Dat yell make me turn cold, ‘cause it sound jes‘ like a man screamin‘ . Den dat ~ cat dug a shallow hole. I eases out my old su-n, takes careful aim eiid ~en says, ‘Thank you., old man,~ and. he turns to look at me and I shoots him right ‘tween he eyes. After ‘while, dat cat‘s T~ate and. cub come runnin ‚ ‚ ‚ cause he yell for dem, ~r~d I kilt dem, too.

	“1~other time, I seed. de panther a—draggin‘ a white nanoff and I slips up jes‘ as de cat seizes him and shoots dat cat. Us have to ran dat man down and .cotch him, tcause he scared stiff when dat dead cat fall on him.

	“Some time after dat I works for a nian what freights supplies ‘round J~ustin end I~s one de drivers. Ue~ start i~ September with sev‘ra]. six-~wheel wagons, ‘nough to l~z‘ a toi~n de year,and not git back to~ tustintill January.

S~xnetimes de i~ud so b~d it take six oxen to pull ~e wagon out.

	“One t i!tle US movin‘ and st~mped1n‘ de bunch cat tle an me arid my brother sits los‘ frś de reat and was los‘S ~three days and nights. All us eat am ~řarched corn. De grass nearly waist high to a man arid us scoop out de hole in de gro~ind 8nd cut off tots de grass and. weeds .ax~d make de fire, Den us drap de corn on de fire and parch it. De wooc~s full wild animals axid panthers and wolves • De wolves de worst . Dey si ip u~p on us t o git de chicken us has with us. it ls~.st us come to a ho~ase and. finds us folks.












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