Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-01-21
Smoking a Grizzly.

CnSdScu Ill -Udl ConVeFSPtlOn
one evening on jamestown Bar.
Never said |, in all SERIOUSNESS,
Sit has never been my good fodtune
to encounter one OF the beautiful
varmints.'
well, boss, when you, do, per-
haps it won't b e the pIeasantest
mint you've eve + had; for thar amt
no varmint in tn csc hills, ner any
where else Eve ben, that kin kick
wuss, either round or sideways,
than a full grown grizzly
But you can easily get out Of
the way Of clumsy made ami
NAL like that,' said |, provoking the
old digger into yarn of his expert
eLce.in regard TO grizzlies.
We'll, when you kin get out Of
thur way, little fellar, gives you
my advice to git out quicker. for
tho they ant built raal beautiful for
runnin, they lope awful smart when
thur arter humin critter. was
desperate glad TO get away from
one myself once
had provoked him to the edge
of a sbar' story, and knowing from
his manner that his relating such
an occu renee as getting away from
a grizzly would be interesting, |
tempted him on.
where did you say you fell in
with hiin inquired |.
Il didn't say fell in with him
any wharf, a hswered he; scuss the
varmint, he fell in with me, and I'd
la leetle rather hey fell in with the
devil jus, at that mint. was
over thar two miles tother side of
the high ridge beyond Sullivan's,
lookin' ar,er that gray mule of mine
and talkin' about wicked things,
/ jest put me thinkin' what a detar-
minedly vicious sarpint that gray
mule was. Well, was huntin'
her, an d arter ramblin' over the
| hills. shootin' down half a dozen
gulehes, l began to git out of wind,
and set down to bless that gray
critter for the many tramps she had
gin me -I'll swar no lariat 'ud hold
her, not, If it war made Of bull hide
an inch thick. hadn't sot mdre'n
a minnit when heerd snort, and
a roar and a growl, and tight
sprinklin' of fast travelin', all mix
ed UP together Lookin' up per-
pendickelar hill, right behind me,
| saw comm my gray mule, pu tim
in her best ticks, and a few y ards
behind her was grizzly, not n ouch
bigger than syeallinp Many Infer
nal scrapes that mule had takiq me
into fore, but this was rather the
Etlghtest place she ever did git me
into. | hadn't weepon about me,
'cept one Of these mean, one bar
relied auction pistols, and that hadn't
a consarned mite of a load in, and
| hadn't nuthin' to load it with, and
no time to load it in eff | had, and
eff it b d been loaded it wouldn't
hey been worth cuss.
You had better believe, boys,
that my skin got moist suddi ht-
thar want no dry diggins u hdef
my red shirt, long atore that griz>
Fly got down the hill. The infer
nal mule no sooner seed me than
she jest wheeled round and put me
atween her and the bar, and sto Cd
off to see eff wouldn't lick him
about as easy as l used to whale
her W hen she got stubborn. Old
grizzly draw ed up nhen he seed
me, and gin to roll his old barrel
head about, and grunt, as eff | W as
more b he bargined for; and I'd hev
jest given him that mule easy, to
hev got off squar. As the fellers
say at monte, he was a layout 1
didn't want to bet on. com
menced backin' out and wanted to
make it draw 6 Jane, but he kept
shufflin' up to me, and any fellar
who had ben close to his head,
would have gin his whole pile jest to
get chance to cut. | considered
my effects-that pan, rocker, and
cowar d-jest as good as ministered
upon, and almost felt the coroner
sittin' on my body. | stuck my |
hands into my pockets,to see ifthere
want a knife about me, and | pulled |
out half a dozen boxes of lucifer
that had jest been bot
that afternoon. ! don't know
what put it into my head, but | sot
a box blazin', and held it towards
old grizzly, and ! reckin you hay
ant often seen two eyes stick out
wusser than his did then. He drew
back at least ten wards. and sittin'