Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-06-05
WILMINGTON. N. c., FRIDAY JUNE s. 1916
A CAPITAL STORY.

CAIl AL . UNI.
The Spirit of the Times has an admira-
BILE story called Big Bear of Arkansas.
We take fragment showing that small
mosquitoes would be Of 'no use in Arkan-
sas,' and setting forth the merits of q GER
tain dog.
where did all that happen!' asked a
cynical looking Hoosier.
Happen happened in Arkansaw.
where else could it have happened, but in
the creation State-the finishing up coun-
try; State where the SHE runs in the CEN
tire of the 'arth, and government gives you
title to every inch of it. Then its airs,
just breathe them, they will make you
snort like horse. It's State, without a
fault, it is
Excepting musquitoes,' cried the Hoo
sier.'
'Well, stranger, except them, for it ar
fact that they are rather enormous, and do
push themselves in somewhat troublesome.
But, stranger, they never stick twice in the
same place, and give them fair chance
for 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
Yankee; they take worse to foreigners
any how, than they do on the natives:-
But the way they used that fellow first
they pinched him until he sweled and
bursted-then he -per-a-ted, as the doc
tor called it. until he was raw as beef; then
he took the ager, owing TO the warm wealth
err. and finally he took steamboat and
/ left the, country. He was the only man
that ever took mosquitoes to heart that
know of. But mosquitoes is natur. aud !
2 never find fault with her; if they ar large,
: Arkansaw is large, her varmints and her
rivers ar large, and small mosquitoes would
be of no more use in Arkansaw than preach
ing would be in cane-brake.'
This knock down argument in favor of
mosquitoes, used the hoosier up, and the
]logician started on new track, to explain
how numerous bears were in his dig
; gins" where he represented them to be
about as plenty as blackberries, little
plentifuller.'
Upon the utterance of this assertion, a
: timid little man near me inquired If the
bears in Arkansas ever attacked the settlers
| in numbers.
5 NO said our hero, warming, 'no,
stranger, for you see it amt the nature OF
bar TO 60 in droves but the way they
squander about in pairs and single is edi-
flying And then the way | hunt them
: the old black rascals know the crack of my
gun as we'll as they know pigs squeal-
ing. They grow thin in our parts, il
, frightens them so they do take the noise
# dreadfuIIy, poor things. That gun of mine
is perfect epidemic among bar-if not
watched closely, it will GO off as quick on
warm scent as my dog Bowieknife will
u and then the dog. whew why the fellow
> thinks the world is full of bar, he finds
y them so easy. It's lucky he don't talk as
b we'll as think, for with his natural modes
+ ty, if he shonld suddenly learn how mucl
he is acknowledged to be ahead Of all 9th
/. er dogs in the universe, he would be as
S tonished to death in two minutes
:, We have only room for another extract
which gives his account of the fairness Q
X the Arkansas bear, and Of the soil of tn
l'creation State
y .What season of the year do the hunt
- take placer enquired genllemanly for
lie Ieigner, who, from certain peculiari.ies Q
he his baggage, suspected to be an English
9. man on some hunting expedition, probabl
5. at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
i'll sThe season for hunting, stranger, sal
&c the man of Arkansas, : is generally all tn
wear round, and the hunts take place abol
regular. | read in history that yarmint
have their fat season and their lean season
That is not the case in Arkansaw, feedin
as they do upon the spontaneous produ'
u, tions of the sile. they have one continue
fat season the year round-though in I'll
winter, things in this way is little MOI
greasy than in summer, must admit
For that reason, bars run with us in war;
weather, but in winter they only waddI'
Fat! fat! It's an enemy TO speed-it tame
- every thing that has plenty of it. ha'
seen wild turkeys from its influences ;
gentle as chickens. Run bar iii this f
condition, and the way it improves ii
cri,ter for eating is amazin, it sorter mike
= the lie up with the meat, until you can
tell totller from which. I've lone tn
S, often.
m i recollect one perty morning in partI
~ ep ular, of putting an old he fellow on tn
stretch, and considering the weight be ca
= red. he run well. But the dogs soon tire
him down and when came up with hin