Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-06-05

but the way they squander about in
pairs and single ones, is edifying. And
then the way hunt them-the old black
rascals know the crack of my gun as
well as they know pigs squealing.
They grow thin in our parts, it freigh.
tens them so, and they do hate the
noise dreadfully, poor things. That gun
of mine is a perfect epidemic among
bar--if not watched. closely, it will go
off as quick on warm scent as my dog
Bowie-knife will; and then the dog,
whew why the fellow thinks the world
is full of bar, he finds them so easy. It's
lucky he don't talk as well as think, for
with his natural modesty, ifhe should
suddenly learn how much he is acknow-
lodged to be ahead of all other dogs in
the universe, he wonld be astonished to
death in two minutes.
What season of the year do your
hunts take placer inquired a gentle
manly foreigner who, from some pc
culiarities of his baggage, suspected
to be an Englishman, on some hunting
expedition, probably, at the foot Of the
Rocky Mountains.
The season for bar hunting, stran-
ger, said the man of Arkansaw, is gen.
orally all the year round, and the hunts
take place about as regular. | read in
history that varmints have their fat sea-
son, and their lean, season. That is not
the case in ArkaSaw, feeding as they
do upon the spontenacious productions
of the sile, they have one continued fat
season the year round-though in wins
ter things in this way is little more
| greasy than in summer, | must admit
For that reason bar run with us in warm
weather, but in winter they only wad-
die. Fat, fat it's an enemy to speed
it tames every thing that has plenty of
it. | have seen wild turkeys, from its
influence. as gentle as chickens. Run
a bar in this fat condition, and the wav
it improves the critter for eating is a.
mazin; it sorter mixes the lie up with
the meat until you cant tell t'othe from
which. Eve done this often. recol.
lect one perty morning in particular, Of
putting an old he fellow on the stretch
and considering the weight he carried
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 hi.
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 blazeC
at him, and pitch me naked into brian
path if the steam didn't come out of the
bullet hole ten foot in a straight line
The fellow, reckon, was made on the
high pressure system, and the lead sor
of bust his bilcr.'
That column of steam was rathc,
curious, or else the bear must have beer
warm observed the foreigner with ;
laugh.
; stranger, as you observe, that ba
, was warm, and the blowing off Of th'
steam showed it, and also how hard tn,
varmint had been run. | have no doub
if he had kept on two miles further hi
insides would have been stewed; and
, expect TO meet with a varmint yet o
extra bottom. who will run himself int
a skin full of bars grease: it is posi-
, BILE, much onlikelier things have hap
pened.'
Where abouts are these bear so a
, bundant' inquired the foreigner wit
increasing interest.
why, stranger, they inhabit tn
: neighborhood of my settlement, one Q
= the prettiest palaces of Old Mississippi
e "a perfect location, and no mistake
: place that had some defects until tn
e river made the cut off, at 'Shirt-tail
C bend,' and that remedied the evil, as
d brought my cabin on the ed ge of tn
e rivera great advantage in wet wea
It ther, assure you. as you can roll a bal
] rel OF whiskey into my yard in hig
d water. from a boat, as easy as fallin
e off log; it's a great Improvement, a
IS toting il by land in jug, as l used t
s do, evaporated il too fast, and it becam
d expensive. Just stop with me a mont
n or two, or year if you like, and yo
will appreciate my place. can Civ
n you plenty to eat, for beside hog an
p, hominy, you can have bar ham, and ba
<, sausages, and mattrass of bar skins
IN steep on, and wild cat skin, pulled o
ID hull, stuffed with corn-shucks for a pi
r low. That bed would put you TO see
if you had the rheumatics in every joi
n, in your body. call that ar bed qr
if etus. Then look at my land, the G