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Identifier: shadowofgun00merr (find matches)
Title: The shadow of a gun
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Merritt, Henry Clay, 1831-
Subjects: Hunting Game and game-birds
Publisher: Chicago, The F.T. Peterson company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ther man killedover one hundred birds in Orange County, New<York, on the Drowned Lands in one day, which isfar less than the number we took in. I left theFirefly at this time, but the boys run it about twoyears more. Before going I had quite a catastrophe nearwhere the boat was tied up. In the picture youwill see a house and some outbuildings on the rightunder the trees. Most of the trees between thehouse and our boat are now cut off and you couldnot then see that house. I went over there every dayor two to get some milk and I felt quite at home.They were pleasant people and they showed meevery courtesy. The night following our last huntI went over there as usual. Ponto followed mealong entirely of his own free will, and as I reachedthe house there was a cat sitting in the doorway,which however I did not notice. The dog wascoming up, and the cat seeing him as I opened thedoor, slipped in the door beside me. I closed thedoor, the woman halloed out, Scat there, and A CATASTROPHE. 175
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176 A CAT-ASTROPHE. started to drive her out. The floor was nicelypolished and a little declining and as she made aspring toward me and the door her feet slipped andshe came down square on her spankers. Therewas a flutter of skirts and white robes only for aninstant, when she was on her feet again and thewrath of Pelee shot out from her countenance. Pur-ple lines stole down the roadway of the eyes andlodged in the corners of her mouth. The melo-drama commenced. Just a little to the right as Ientered there was a wooden bench used to holdthe water pail and sometimes do the family wash-ing, and above it the window. The cat, frightenedat the confusion, started for the window and thewoman a close second, and in its haste the cat land-ed first on the bench, on which was spread three orfour sheets of fly paper. It stopped there and theconsternation that cat expressed was beyond allcomputation. At first she swung her tail in whipfashion, like the drivers play their horses on ourbeer wagons, o

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