The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1851-02-08
suoKINe \ GRIzzLY BEARS

. "Wh1t, you hs'c never seen live RriG-
zly -" exclaimed an Old oregoH gold digger,
with whom we were engaged in a "bar" con.
yersation one evening 90 jamestown bar
Never" said I in al seriousness, "it has
never been my good fortune 70 encounter
one Of the beautiful yarmin,",
..Nel- hoss. when YOU 10 rerhar, Il wont
he The pleasantsst mint you've ever bod, Tor
thar amt no yarmnt IN these bills, nor any
wear else Two ben, that kin kick wus other
round or sideways,than a full grown grissly"
But you can easily get out Of the way of
clumsy animal like that" said |, provoking
the old digger into yarn Of his experience
'iurcTart t0Erizziy'7'
"Well, when you kin git out Of thrr way
little icllor, gives YOU my advice to git out
,quickcftio for though they amt built raal bean
,ihl for runniui they lope awful smart when
thur ar;cr a humin crtter. | was desperate
gah 10 get away from one myself once, ." -
provoked him to the edge of haar sto-
", and knowing from his manner. that his
relation ef Anch an occurrence as getting =.
Eas -hram = grizzly w6uid- -hE interesting
tempted him on.
"whcrc did you SAY you fell in with him ,"
enquired l.
u didn't say fell in with him any whar,-
answered be- "tbe yarmint fell in with mo
l was over thar two miles tother side Of the
high ridge beyond Su'liyan's, looking artor
that rrey mule of uiine-and talkin' about
wicked things just puts me thinkIn' what
detsrminedly vicious sarpint that grey mule
was
Well I was hundn' her, and amer ramblin'
over the hills, shootin' down half dozen
guichcs. ] began 10 git out Of wind, and 6rt
down to bless TINT grey criticr for The many
tramps she had gin me--no larht 'ud hold
her, not iri warupade Of bull hide an inch
thick. hadn't sot more'n a mint, when
heord a snort, and a roar, aud growl, and
a right sprin<lin' OF fast tr1volin' all mixed
up together. Lookin' up parpendiekeiar
/ hill, right behind me, thar saw comm my
gycy mule putin in her best lieks,aud . few
+ yards -hthtna her was a gsisslyr nnt InG h
bigger than "yearItpg" g"--Many scrape
I that mule had takcn nc into afurc, bnt this
was rather the tightest place she ever did git
me into. ! hadn't q weapon 'bou, me, sept
one of those mean, one.barrelod auction pi,
tolls; aud that hadn't a consumed uite of .
/ load in il and hadn't nuthin to load it with,
and no time to load it in, ef l he'd.
! You he'd better believe, boys, that my skin
got moist, sudlint--thar warnt no dry dig
/ gins under my rcd shirt long aioro that griz-
/ zly got down the hill. The mule no sooner
seed ma than he jest wheeled round and put
me atween him aud the bar" and stood or
to see ef / wouldn't lick him about as easy as
/ l used to whale her when she got stubborn.
I Old grizzly drawed up, when he seed me aud
!, gin to rott his old barrel head about, ard
I grunt, as er was more'n he barRained for
and ia he1, iust given him that mule easy, TO
/ hev got OF squar.
commenced backin ont, and wanted 10
make it a draw game; but he kept shuflin
I up TO me and any fellar who had been close
to his head, would have gin his whole pile
just to get chance to cut ! considered
my ciIects--that pan, rocker, and crowbar--
4 just as good as rnnistered uponi and almost
felt the coroner sitting on my body. ] struck
my hands into my pockets, to sec If there
warnt knife about me, and palled out
\ haifa dozen boxes Of Lueyer Matches, that
had Just been bought that afternoon. dou't
know what put it into my head, but ! sot a
box a Biazin', and held il towards old grizzly
and reckin you haVn,t often seen two eyes
stick out wusscr thon his did then He drew
back at least ten yards, and, setting tho box
i down on the earth, l just moved OF about
twenty yards in tother direction. The bar
crept to the luciiers and leol a smell and ef
the muscles of my jaws hadn't been drawn so
e. tight with fear, I'll hoy busted into regular