Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1841-08-05

lrgbtcnS them So--lDey 10 take the NOISE
dreadfully, poor things. That gun of mine
is perfect epidemic among bar--if not
watched closely, il viii 90 off as quick on
a warm scent as my dog Bowieknlle will;
and then the dog, whew! why the fellow
thinks the world is full of bar, he finds
them so easy. lis lucky he don't talk as
well as think, for with his natural modesty,
If lie should suddenly learn how much he
is acknowledged to be ahead Of all other
dogs in the universe, he would be aston
ished TO death in two minus"
Wha, season Of the year do your
hunts take place 7" enquired gentleman
iy foreigner, who, from certain peculiari-
ties OF his baggage, ! suspected to be an
Englishmen, on some hunting expedition,
probably at the foot Of the Rocky Noun
tains.
1.-The season for bar hunting, stranger, !"
said the man of Arkansaw, is generally
all the year round, and the hunts take
place as regular. read in history that
varmints have their fat season, and their
lean season. That is not the case in Ar
kansaw, feeding as they do upon the
spontaneous productions OF the slle, they
have one continued fat season the year
round though in the winter things in this
way is little more greasy than in sum-
mer, must admit. For that reason, bar
runs with US in warm weather, but in win.
ter they only waddle. Fat, fat IFS an
enemy to speed-il tames every thing that
has plenty of it. have seen wild turkies
from its influences as gentle as chickens.
Run bar in this condition, and the way
it improves the critter for eatin is amazin,
it sorter mixes the lie up with the meal,
until you can't tell t'other from which.
I've done this often.
recollect one perty morning in partic-
ular, of putting an old he fellow on the
stretch, and considering the weight he car
RED, he run well. But the dogs soon tired
him down, and when came up with him,
wasn't he in a beautiful sweat might
say fever-and then TO see his tongue
sticking out Of his mouth feet, and his
sides sinking and opening like bellows,
and his cheeks SO fat he couldn't look
cross. In this fix blazed at HIM, and
pitch me naked into briar path if the
steam didn't come out of the bullet hole
ten feet in a straight line. The fellow, |
reckon, was made on the high pressure
system, the lead sort Of burst his bler.'
That column Of steam was rather Gu
rious, or else the bear must have been
varm," observed the foreigner with a
laugh.
"Stranger, as you observe, that bar
was warm, and the blowing off Of the
steam showed it, and also how hard the
animal had been run. | have no doubt
if he had kept on two miles further his in-
sides would have been stewed and ex-
pect to meet u yarmint yet OF extra bot.
tom, who will run himself into skin full
of bars grease; and much onlikelier
things have happened"
Whereabouts are these bears so abun-
dant 7" enquired the foreigner with in
creasng interest.
"Why, stranger, they inhablt the neigh
borhood of my settlement, one Of the per-
test places in Old Mississippi--a perlecs
location and no mistake--a place that had
some defects until the river made the
" cut off," at the "Shirt-tail bend" and
that remediod the evil. as it brought my
cabin on the edge OF the rivera great
advantage in wet weather | assure you,
as YOU can roll barrel of whskey INTO
my yard in high water, from bout, as
easy as falling off log it's a great I'M
provement, as iotiDg it by land IN a Jug,
as used to do, evaparated 1t too last,
and it became expensive. Just stop with
me, stranger, a month or Two, or year
if you like, and You will appreciate. my
place. can give you plenty TO eat, Tor
beside hog and hominy, you can have bar
ham, and bar suasages, and a mattress oil
bar skins 10 sleep on, and wild cat skin,
pulled Off hull, stuffed with corn-shucks
for a pillow. That bed would put you 70
sleep if you had the rheumatics in every
Joint in your body. call that bed qai.
eiils. Then look at my land, the govern
ment arn't got such another place to dis
pose Of. Such timber and such bottom
land, why you can't preserve anything
natural you plant in it, unless you pick 1t
young, things thar will grow out of shape
so quick. | once planted in those diggings
q lew potatoes hud DtGtS. thtJ toOh "a SLuIk,
and alter that an OK team couldn't have
kept them from growing. About that
time went to old Kentuck on business,
and did not hear from them things in three
months, when | accidentally stumbled on
fellow who had stopped at my place
with an idea of buying me out. How
did you like things !" said |. "Pretty
WELL" said he, "the cabin is convenient,
and the timber land is good, but that bot
tom land is not worth the first red cent"
" Why Z" said |. "Cause," said he,
Cause what 2" said |. "Cause it's full
of cedar stumps and Indian mounds" said
he, "and ii caai be cleared" La"
said SAID, "them ar cedar slumps is beets,
and them ar Indian mounds is later hills"
AS expected, the crop was overgrown
and useless the sile is too rich, and
planting in Arkansas is dangerous. lhad
good sized SOW killed in that same bot
tom land the old thief stole an ear Of corn
and took it down where she slept at night
TO eat well, she left grain or two on
ground, and lay down on them; before
morning the corn shot up, and the percus.
sion killed her dead. don't plant any
more na,ur intended Arkansaw for