Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-08-24
A CAPITAL STORY.

The Spirit Of the Times has an admira-
bic story called " The Big Bear of Ar
kansas. We take a small Fragment show
lag that small mosquitoes wouIdbc of "no
use in Arkansaw," and setting forth the
merits Of a certain dog.
Where did all that happen?" asked
cynical looking Hoosicr.
Happen! happened in Arkansaw;
where else could it have happened, but in
the creation Statc-the finishing up coun-
try; State where the Sile runs in the cen
tire of the 'airth, and government gives you
title TO every inch Of it. Then its airs,
just breathe .hem, and they will make you
snort like horse. It's State without
fault, it is"
Excepting musquitoes," cried the Hoo
sier.
Well, stranger, except them, for it ar
a fact that they are rather enormous, and
do push themselves in somewhat trouble
some. But, stranger, they never stick
twice in the same place, and give them
fair chance for a few months, and you will
get as much above 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 u Yankee: and they take worse TO
foreigners anyhow than they do TO the ma
tives. But the way they used that fellow
first they punched him until he swclId up
and busted, then he -per-a-ted, as the
doctor called it, until he was as raw as
beef; then he took the ager, owing to the
warm weather, and finally he took steam
boat and left the country. He was the on
~ man that ever took mosquitoes TO heart
that know Of. But mosquitoes is natur.
and | never find fault with her; if they ar
large, Arkansaw is large, her varmints ar
large, her rivers ar large, and small mus
qultoe would be Of no more use in Arkan-
saw, than preaching would be in q cane
brake.
This knock down argument in favor of
mosquitoes, used the hoosier up, and the
logcan started on a new track, TO explain
how numerous bears were in his g Dig
gings," where he represented them to be
" about as plenty as blackberries, q little
plcntiluller."
Upon the utterance of this assertion, a
timld little man near me enqured if the
bears in Arkansaw ever attacked the set
tiers in numbers.
"No," said our hero, warming. "no
stranger, for you see it arn't the natur of
bar 10 go in droves, but the way they
squander about in pairs and single, is edi-
Tying And then the way | hunt them
the old black rascals know the crack Of
my gun as well as they know pigs squca-
ling. They grow thin in our parts, it
Frightens them so they do take the noise
drcadluly, poor things. That gun of mine
is perfect epidemic among bar-if no,
watched closely, it will 60 off as quick on
u warm scent as my dog Bowieknre will;
aud then the dog, wh3w! why the fellow
thinks the world is full OF bar, he fnds
them so easily. It's lucky he don't talk
as we'll as think, for with his natural mo-
desty, if he should suddenly learn how
much he is acknowledged to be ahead Of
all other dogs in the universe, he would
be astonished to death in two minutes.
We have only room COR another extract
which gives his account of the fairness Of
the Arkansas bear, and Of the soil of the
creation state where planting is DANCE
rous.'
"What season of the year DO your
hunts take placcF enquired a gentlemanv
foreigner, who, from certain peculiarities
of his baggage, | suspected to be an En-.
glishman, on some hunting expedition,
probably TO the Rocky Mountains.
1.-The season forbar hunting, stranger"
said the man Of Arkansaw, sis generally
all the year round, and the hunts take
alace about as regular. | read in history
/ that varmints have their fat season, and
their lean season. This is not the case in
Arkansaw, feeding as they do uron the
spontaneous productions of the sile, they
have one continued fat season the wear
round-though in the winter things in this
way is little more greasy than in sum-
mcr, must admit. For that reason, bar
runs with US IN warm weather, but in win
ter they only wadde. Fat, fat! IFS an
enemy to speed-it tamcs every thing that
has plenty of it. have seen wild turkies
from IFS Influences rs gentle as chickens.
Run bar i'll this fat condition, and the
way it improves the critter for eating is
amaZln, 1t sorter mixes the lie up with the
meat until you can'ttcll tother from which.
I've done this often.
| recoIlcct one perty morning in partc-
uar, of putting an old he fellow on the
stretch, and considerngth the weight he car
ricd, he run we'll. Butthe dogs soon tired
him down, and when came up 10 him,
wasn't he in beautiful sweat might