The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-06-13

upon the utterance of this assertion, a timid
little man near me inquired if the bears in Ar
kansas ever attacked the settlers in numbers.
mo- said our hero, warning, "no, stranger.
Tor you see It Amt the natur Of bars 10 90 in
d%rovesi but the way they squance about in
pairs and single is e%difying. And then the way
hunt them--the old black rascals know the
crack Of my gun, as well as they know a pigs
squealing, They grow thin in our parts, it
trlghtens them so; they do take the noise dread
fully, poor things. That gun Of mine is a per
feet epidemic among bars,if not watched close
", it will go of as quick on a warm scent as
my dog Bowieknife 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 n atural
mode sly, ifhe should certainly learn how mucn
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 for another extract
which gives his account Of the fatness Of the
Arkansas bear, and Of the soil Of the creation
State," where planting is dangerous"
"What season Of the year do your hunts
tfke placer enquired a gontlemanly foreigner,
who, from certain peculiarities Of his baggage,
suspected to be an EngIishman on some hum
ting expedition, probably at the foot Of the
Rocky Mountains.
The season for hunting, stranger said the
man Of Arkansaw, sis generally all the year
round, and the hunts take place about as regu-
lar. read in history that varmints have their
fat season and lean season. That is not the
case in Arkansaw, feeding as they do upon
the spontaneous productions Of the sile, they
have one continued fat season the year round
though in he winter, things in this way is q
little more greasy than in sumner, | must ad-
nit. For that reason, bars run with us In warm
weather, but in winter they only waddle.
Fat! fat! it's an %enemyito sport-ittames every
thing that has plenty Of it. / have seen wild
turkeys from its influence, as gentle as chick
ems. Run a bar in this fat condition. and the
way itimproves the critter for eating, is anna
zin', it sorter mixes the lie up with the meat,
and you can't tell rother from which-I've
done this often.
II recoHect one pretty morning in particular
ofputting 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,he wasin a beautiful sweat, /
might say fever, and then to see his tongue
sticking out of his mouth a feet, and his cheeks
SO fat that he couldn't look cross. In this fix
l blazed away at him, and pitch me naked into
a briar patch, if the steam didn't come out Of
the bullet-hole, about ten feet. in a straight
line. The fellow | reckon, was made on the
high pressure system, the lead sort Of burst his
biler."
"The column of steam was rather curious or
else Che bear must have been wurm," observed
the foreigner with a laugh"
stranger, as you observe, that bar was
warm, and the blowing off Of the steam show
ed it, and also, how hard the varmint had been
run. l have no doubt if he had kept on two
miles further, his insides would have been
stewed; and | expect TO meet a varmint yet, Of
extra bottom, who will run himself into a skin
full Of bars grease; much unlikeIier things have
happened
where abouts are these bears SO abundant?
enquired the foreigner with increasing interest
'Why, stranger, they inhabit the neighbor
hood of my settlement, one of the prettiesl
places on Old Mississippi-a perfect location
and no mistake-a place that had some defects
until the river made a 'cat-of' Of the shirt
tail bend,' and that remedied the evil, as il
brought my cabin on the edge of the rivera
great advantage in wet weather, as you car
roll a barrel of whiskey into my yard in high
water, as easy as falling off a log; it's a great
improvement, as toting it by hand in a jug, al
l used to do, evaporated it too fast, and it be.
came expensive. Just stop with me, stranger
a month or two, or a year if you like, and you
will appreciate my place. lean give you plen-
ty to eat-for besides hog and hominy, you car
have bar ham and bar sausages-ond a muttrasI
Of bar skins to sleep on, and wild cat-skin pull
ledof hull and stuffed with corn shucks for Q
pillow. That bed would put you to sleep, il
you had the rumatics in every joint in you
body; l call that ar bed a Quietus. Then look
at my land, the government amt got another
such piece Of land as this to dispose of, Such
timber, and such bottom land, why you cant
preserve any thing natural you plantin it, un'
less you pluck it young, things thar will grow
out of shape so quick. | once planted in these
diggins arfew potatoes and beets, and after thai
an OK team couldn't have kept them from grow
ing. About that time, | went off to Old Ken
tuck on business, and did not hear from things
for three months, when ] stumbled on a fellow
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