Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-05-07
ga. From the Dollar Weekly
A Bear Hunt i'm the San Saba Hills.

From the Dollar Weekly
A Bear Hunt i'm the San Saba Hills.
4 SEVERAL years since, the accidents of wand
deriDg life brought me to Sal Antonio de Bexar.
then the extreme frontier post of Texas. On my
arrival found the company of reckless scamps,
who called themselves rangers. and ma lie this old
town their head quarters, in a very bad humor.-
What do YOU Conjecture was the cause! Simply
that they had no lighting to do Tor whole long
month! never heard spoiled belle complain
half so pa,hecally of a decayrg season and the
scarcity ofvicms, as did these peluent amateurs
of their late difficulties in the of raising fight
They seemed to imagine the whole world
conspi,ing against them: that a coalition inclu
ding not Mexicans and Indians only, but E.
ven His celestial highness the brother oflhe Sun,
had been formed for the express purpose Of kill
ing them off, through stagnaton of blood, super.
vening f. ON the horrible monoiony of an endless
peace! Rather than die so vile death, they
were JUS, vowng to rush into any alternative ex-
IRENE sack some village on the other side Of
the Rio Grande, or go up into the mountains and
burn an Indian town, aud see If that wouldn't STIR
the hornets and give them something TO do! AT
ter the deliberaIon due in dire strait, their
go0d-natured little capiain,oo much moved by the
tenderness of his sympathy, and the desire TO give
them full amends for all they had endured. de-
cided upon the latter of these alternatives. Either
of them was promising enough. but he as IN duty
bound, OF course selected that around which the
fullest fruiion ofpeS clustered in perspective -
To form some idea Of his accommodating temper
and their Unsuitable appetite, imagine a party of
eight white men and two Mexlcans trayeTsing an
almost desert prairie, two hundred miles in width,
TO reach the unoantanous region Lear the source
Of the San Saba siver, IN which lay the fastness of
those formidable tribes that scour the plains of
MexicO and Texas, with the purpose of pehetra.
ting them, aud destroying some one of the towns
hid away IN their gorges; aud with the pleasant
prospect ofhaving thousands ofinfurated warriors
bowling on their trail back The very square from
which they started. That is, if, contrary to all
probabilities, they did reach it aga If
you have a vivid imagination, after grasping all
that this view presents, you may form some faint
conception of what the Sc very moderate young
genllen Ell considered "spor 7"
n As for your narralor--he was in the full blow
of verdant "innocence" just then, and really tho't
it was merely a seasoned joke--beguiled as he
was by the extravaganza gusio with which they an
ticipatlvey reveed upon its enjuyments! And
what was more, being on very foolish terms with
himself and the world in general, he very sagely
hoped to ssdrop something" before he got back Ell
Their his peiulant morbdity of temper or few
pounds Of flesh at least. which would do as well.
For these ,reighfy reasons, he concluded without
any hesitation to join the party. Capt. Hays had
thrown out the HINT. by way of frightening the
incentive already offered, to any who might
be silly enough to hesitale--ihat ifhe had no, seen
= too many Indians by the time We reached the
foot ofihe San Saba ridge, that we would recre-
al a., L,if hon
reported to be wonderfully abundant and collec-
ting wild honey to drunk with the oil This last
meIliAulous argument proved too much for ro-
tund AMI doughty little Doctor like myself lately
from the States, who had been slightly afflicted
by some natural qualms of prudence; but now sin
fine phrensie rolling" his inner vlsuals were all
preoccupied and Inspired by the scenes round The
campfire HIMSELF with sleevs rolled up; the
sharp knife 10 his dumpy red hands, the fat steaks
falling off beneath his strokes. upon the napkin of
leaves; the steam, like rich distilled perfumes
that rose as they Kissed upon the spit before the
. cherry fire: then the brown honey in stately IL
uuid flow from the tin cups strewed over the ten
: DERBY crisDed flesh. On! it was too delicious
What cared he for Camanches after that rapt WIS.,
ison Yes, go he would, though there were
: thousands in his way to turn him from his bliss
But abe most amusing part of il was. we conldn't
get the Doctor TO realize that there would Re H.
dams TO fight after this, at all. demonstrate as
. we might, he could and would see nothing before
him but bear meat and honey and made no pro-
vision in his equipments for any other than secur-
ing these. He had got hold of something which
he called bear spear. which a wag mad quizzed
HIM into believing that was an infalIbe weapon
In hunting that animal, then singing small axe
10 his sadde-bow, to be used in cutting out the
honey, and pair Of huge holster pistols. ne De.
lclared HIMSELF with great viyaci.y, Ready boys!
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