Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-08-17
Good FOR THE BLUES.

.'Where did all that happeni" asked a '
cynical lookining HoOsier.
"Happen! happened in Arkansaw; i
where else could it have happened, but
in the creation Sta,e-tAe finishing up
country; State where the sile runs 10
the center o: the 'arth. aud government
gives you title TO every inch Of it,
Then its airs, jus, breathe them, it will
make you snort like horse. It's Stale
without fault, il is
Excepting The mosquietoes," ," cried the
HOosier.
swell, stranger, excepting them, for
il are fact that they are rather enormous
aud do push themselves in somewhat
troublesome. But, stranger, they never
stick twice in the same place, and give
them fair chance fer few months, and
you will get as much sbovs them as an
alligator. They can't hurt my feelings
for they lay under the skin, and never
knew but one case Of injury resulting
from them, and that was Yankee: and
they iOke worse to foreigners anyhow,
than they do TO the natives. But the
way they used that fellow! first they
pinched him until lie sweled up aud bus
ted, then he sup-per.a.ted, as the doctor
called il, until he was raw as beef; then
he took the ager owing to warm
weather, and finally he took the steam.
boat aud left the country. He was the
only man that ever took mosquitoes TO
heart that know of, But musquiloes is
natur, and never find fault with her; if
they ar large, Arkansaw is large, her var
minis ar large, her rivers ace large and
small musqulO would be of no more use
10 Arkansaw, than preaching would be in
a canebrake
This knoCkdown argument in favor
Of mosquitoes used The hoOsier up; and
the logician started on a new track, to
explain how numerous bears were in his
"diggins," where he represented them to
be ''about as thick as backberries, and a
little plentiluller
Upon the utterance Of this assertion
timid little man near me enqured If the
bears ia Arkansas ever attacked the set
lers in numbers.
"No," said our hero warming, ono
stranger, for you see it arn't the natur o
blr 10 90 in droves, but the way they
squander about in pairs and single is ed
flying. Aud then The way ! hunt then
the old black rascals know the crack o.
my gun as we'll as they know pg's
sqUeaIing. They grow Thin in our paris
il frighlens them so-they do take the
noise dreadfulIy, poor things. That gun
ofmlne is a perfect epidemic among bar
ii not watched closely, Il will GO off as
quick on warm scent as my dog Bowie
knife will and then the, dog, whey! why
the fellow thinks the world is iull of bar
he finds them so easy. It's lucky he
don't know talk as we'll as think, for with
his natural modesiy, if he should sudden
" learn how much he is acknowledged
to be ahead Of other dogs in the universe
he would be aslsnshed to death in twt
minus"
"What season of the year do your hunt
take placer" enquired gentlemanly for
eiGuer, who from certain peculiariiies o
his baggage, suspected to be an English
man, on some hunting expedition, proba
bly, al the foot Of the Rocky Mountains
"The season for bar hunting, stranger
said the man Of Arknnsaw, "is general
the year round, aid the hunts take plac
about as regular. read in history tha
varrnints have their fat seasons, an
their lean seasons. That is not the cas-
in Arksnsaw, feeding as ;hey do upon tn
spontaneous productions Of the sle, the
have Que continued fat season the yea
roun-tbough in Tho winter, things !
this way are al,ille more greasy than il
summer, | must admit. For that reaso
bar runs with us in warm weather, bu |
winter they only waddIe, Fat, fat! il
an enemy to speed--it tames every thin
that has plenty Of il. have seen vii
turkes rlom lis influence as gentle a
chick ems. Run a bar in this fat cond
ton, aud the way il improves the critic
for eating is amazln; It so!ter mixes tn
ile up with the meat you can't tell tot
or from which. I've done this often.
recclIect one perty morning in pa
1icular, OF puiIlns an Ola he IeUoW OIL VI
stretch, aud considering the weight b
run we'll But Inc dogs soon tired biz
down, and when came mp with hin
was'nthe in beautiful sweat-l mgl
say Cever--and then TO see his lougu
sticking out Of hts mOuIh'a feet, auti III
bides sinking aud opening like a below
and HE cheeks so fat he counldn't lou
cross. In this FIX blnzed at him an
pitch me naked into briar patch It th
steam didn't come out Of the bullet hol
tsn foot in straight line. The fellow,
reckon, was made on the high pressul
synem, the lead sort Of burst his biler."
sI'hst column Of steam was ralhe
curDus, or else the bear must have bee
warm" observed the foreigner with
hH0h