The St. Landry whig., 1844-09-05

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varied extent of the brightest or dsarls; .aaa,;as
but q due mixture Of hight an
to afford US pleasWes$E
sAfLoR,s TOUGH YARN.
sThat story puts me in mind,o said Venus
Raynor, ssabout what I've heerd tell On Ebe
nezer Smith. at the time hS went down to the
north pole on d WalenAsuyage."
sNowllaelear for q screamer,o laughed out
PssIor Rock, %reflling his pipe. 'Stand by,
Mr.. Cypress. to let the sheet go.''
lis thetta; anything iiaiGofilmon about tltat yarn,
venus?'
! nOncommonl well, Iexpecti it's putty smart and
uncommon for a man to 60 to sea with a bear,
anralone, on a bare cake Office. Capt. Smiths
Lac used to say she couldn't bear think ont.
the whole Of that, yAss :, sri Med;
sHqFeffsesEae ties. MiaeaaE4E az A9fsfingol of
it, although Peter has his doubts."
81 caii't tellit as we'll as Zoph' can, but Eve
no ']jections to tell it my way, no how. So here
I goes-tEpt's great brandy, Mr.. Cypress" KThere
running. LII
3Wel, they vas.down into Badin' lay, or
some other o. them cold Norwegen haKs nj the.
North, where the rain freezes us 1t nj down,
and'stands up in the air, oil wiuter m~iornens, like
great mountains o ice, all in ~strealss. Well,th
schooner was layen at anchor, and I'LL the hands
was out into the small boats, looken for wales /;
all 'ceptthe capting, who said he want very
well that day. Well, he was walken up and
down, on deck, smoker and thinker, I expect,
mostly, when allofa sudden he reckoned he see
one o. them big white bears-polar bears, you
know--big as thander--with long teeth. He
reckonel he see one on EN- sclumpen along on
a great cake o. Ice, that lay. on the howard side
of the bay, up agin the bank. The old chap
wanted to Iill one O them yarmits most wonder
fll, but he never tucked to get a chance. Now
them he thought, the time had come for him to
walk into ono on Tenn at last, and fix his mutton
for hin right. So he run forrad, and lay hold
onto a small skifF, that was laying near Tie fore.
'atal, and rim herout and laUnchea her. Then
he TUX a drink, and-heress Iuck@and put ia d
s%titfload ofpuwder, a couple ofballs, and jump.
edin, and pulled away forthe loo.
'at want long fore he got cross the bay
for il was anhrrow piece n water--not more
] than half a mile wide-4apd then he GOT out OF
i the ices 1t was d smart and large cake, ant
| the bear was way down to The tother end on il
] BIZ the edgeso d tho water. So, he walked fus
I, strut along, and then when he got putty cloast
I he walked round tscofnered-like,-iike ifht
was driven for aplain plover-so that the beai
E wouldn't think he was comm after him, and hi
,f dragged himself long on his hands andknees
i low down, mostly. Well, the bear didn't seen
d to mind him none, and ne got up within abou
. fifty yards oil him, aisd thefi hd Iook6ds so savag
and blythe bear did---that the captiii stopped
and rested on his knee, and put up his gun, dill
he was a goinS to shoot. But just then the hea
turned round and sffufIed up the captin,-just a
!. one Of Lifts hounds shuiis up an old buck, MI
i CypressAzandb begun III walk towards him, SLOW
y like. He come along, the captin said, cltfiiF
e clump, very slow, and made the ice bend an
a crack agin under him, sd that the water come u
and putty much kiYered it all over. We'll, ther
the captin was alIthe time squat on his knee
6 with his gun pinted, waiten for the varment
6 come up, and hisknees and legs was most might
i cold BY means Of the water that the bear ri
Il on the ice as 1 was nientioner. Az last Til
bear seemedt to fsake up his mind to see how tn
L captin would taste, and SO he LETT off wake
4 slow, and started off q smart and swift trot, rigl
towards the old man, with his mouth wide opel
roarel, and his tail sticken out stiff. The caI
tin kept still, looken out oil the tirie putty sharl
l should say, till the beast got within about te
yards on him and then he etshim have il. II
Y aimed RIGHT dt tire heshy part Of bis heart, b.
the bear lodged at the flash, and rared up, en-
the balls went into his two hind legs, iist by til
le jynt, one into each, and broke the thigh bone
h smack off, so that he Welt right down Mt, on I'll
ice, thudp, on bis hind quarters, with nothe
standen but his fore legs and his head riz Up,
a growlen at the captin. When the old man SC
II him down, and tryen TO slide along the ice to g
e his revenge, likely, thinks he 10 hirself thi1i
he, Imight as well get upland 60 and cut TIL
Ie ere cretsrs throat. So he TUX out bs knife al
b, opcnedft. But when he started to get up, !
e found, to his establishment, that be was truz "a
to the ice. DOM laugh, it's a fact; there an
Is no doubt. The water, 4ou see, had been rUrf
i, him, a smart and long while, whilst he was wa
ID ten for the bear, and its Wonderful cold in the
Y, segens. as ] Yves sayen, aud You'll freeze u
BIT mint il you don't keep movsn about s~inaftlF
So the captin he strained first one les, and ths
T. he strained t6thers int be couldn't move y
none. they was both fruz fast into the &c
j about an inch and a half deer, from knes 10 10
d tight as a Jersey oyster pefryauger on q mi
ii fsat at loSS Water. So he laiddown his gap, A.
lacked 1T the bear and doubled up his fistss-
Come OF, you bloody varmint,' says the old ma
q the bear swalloped along on his hinder cen