The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-06-24

reckoning . said |. THE bar said he.--
sWhat for 4 said /. Cant TELL said he,
bai SO /, is, the bar bite The bark and
wood ,co. at the highest point lTom the
ground they can reach, and you can tell by
The marks said he, 'ihe length Of the bar
to an iuch.' Enough, said !, = I've learn,
cd something here already, aud III putt IN
practice Well, stranger, Just one month
from that time | Killed bar, and told lis
exact length before | measured It by those
very marks-and when dld that ! swel,ed
up most considerable We heeu a plouder
man ever since. So | went on, laraIng
something every day, until we reckoned d
buster, aud allowed to be decidedly the best
bar hunter in my district and that is
reputation as much harder 10 earn than 10
DO reckoned first man IN Congress, as on
ron ram rod is harder than a toad.slool.-
Did the varmints grow over Cunoing, by
being fooled with by green horn hunters,
and BY this means get troublesome ! they
send for mc us mater os course, and thus
4 | do my own hunting, and mos, Of my
Iueighbofs.' | walk into the yaimints
though, and Il has become about as much
lho same 10 the as drinking. !, IS tod ~
kil'od. The thing Is somewhat mono'ou
Gus now know lost hos much they vii
run, where they wti, tire, how much they
4 wi. groWi, aud what laundering tine
viii have IN getting them homc. could
give you this history Of tho chase with all
the particulars at Tie commencement /
know the signs SO vel. Stranger, N
certain. GAGE | me; with a match though,
ana vii tell YOU aLaui d fgr conmon
hunt wo.lJ not be wGsta rylUur.
"Ona tiue fall Gay, long time ego, was
trailing about for bar, and what should /
see aui isesh marks on the sassafras trees,
about olsJ, inches above any 70 tie forests
hat knew Of, Says /, lem marks il o
hoax, or i, indicates the d-' tar that
vas ever grown. Ia fact, stranger, |
couidu', believe u was real, and | aeui or
Again saw the same m4ta-, al tie samc
hcGh, and fkae,a ne ding l.re}. TINT
conviction came home 10 NV s1ul Ike an
earthquake Says | here is something d.
purpose for me--tha. bar IS nine, or | give
Up the hunting business. The very mex,
morning hat should | zee .at ada1er d
huz2lrds lowering over NV corn teld.-
f The rascal has been lheye said for thut
sign IS cett4tu and, surr enough, on exam
ming, | found the tones Of ha, had been ~
beautiful a hoa The day befre, as We ever
raised by a Buck eve. THIN tracked
the cui,er out Of he field to tie woods, and
an tie marks he lei! behind, showed me
ihai be was NE Far.
Wei, stronger, the frs, fir chase
ever rad with that biz criler, | saw bin
90 less than three dls.lac, times at dis
lance, tHe dogs rya um over eighteen
mics and broke down, ny horse gave out,
and ! was as nearly used up as a nan con
be, made On my principle, wbich il pafeai.
Before this adventure, such thugs ~ere
unknown 70 me as possible but strange as
II was, The bar 90. the Used TO II, before !
+ was done giih him,-fur he 60. so at last,
that he would leave the on long chase
quite casg. flo. he did il, never could
understand. That bar runs OF all, IS pUz
z'Iag but bow thus one could tire down, and
bust ~ d pack Of hoCads aud a h1n., that
we're used 70 osefhauIln4 every tbing thcy
started after IN no tune, yes pasi mv undo,
s'audjuE. Wei, stranger, that ba. iiaalh
cot so SISSY, that he assd 10 help himself to
ho- OF my premt wherever be aantcd
one ;.-tbs L-szlrls Tossed after Mat be
VIZ, and 80 between b5r and J.-lrd, I
rather think was oU If PORK. We'll,
missing that bar 50 olten, took hold oi ms
'la.s and | wasted away The thlae had
bee1 citaed TOO Gar, AL i reduced me 10
flesh 1asgrtba1 an agcr would zee it8'
bar 10 esefy thing ! dtd,--is hunted nc
and ,aa:, Too, ike d st.., saIch | acg5u a.
!bink be- vas Wide "a this tx, madc
preparations % give hlta list brush, a.a
Do done @i.ii n Having coup'@eI every
thing 70 my satisfaction, started 1t son
rise, aud to my great iIy, discovered
irom the eay the dogs run, that they were
near -aadlGs hss tfall pas nothing,
inr that lad become as Tlla ~ ;Bg pacG a7
a turnpike road. On sc vest, ard com
ing 20 sn open country, what shanid see
JH tie bar very lei,urely ascending a hiil,
and the dogs close a, hts heels, either @
match for him this llme 10 speed, Or else
he did not care TO % out Of their way
I5n'l knne which. B4t, wasn't he q beau
ly though loved BIN Ike btoihcr.-
On be vert, cnlil coming 10 tree, the
limbs Of which formed crotch about six
feet from tie ground INTO This crotch be
got aud seated himself, the dogs ycl!.ns
oil around n-and there ho sat cycsuc
them, as quiet as pond 10 low water i
grecn-horn friend Of nine, 10 company,
reached shooting distance before me, and
b'azed away, hitting the cril,er 10 tho cen
,fe OF hi3 lofcagai Tho bar shook his
HPHu ~ ta1 Dali struck q, and then ~
walked down from tho tree as ecntly az o
lady would iron n carriage. Twas q
beautiful sight to see him Do that, --he waa
IN such rage, that he seemed 10 be q NJ
iIe AFRAID u The dogs, as If tbey had been
sucking pigs; aud the dogs wafu't slag ,p