Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-10-29

ARKINsAw WONDERS.

putty wimmen, and big timber. Stranger,
I've seen trees there so high that it would
take man a week to walk round 'em. A
fellow started once to walk through one that
was hollow: He didn't take any yittles with
him, and starved on the way.
was goin' up the Mississippi once, in
one them little up country boats, when we
met big Arkiusaw cypress floating down
I tell you, stranger, it was whopper. The
Capen run in his boat long side, and fas-
tened the rope to- it. OFF she started, snort
in and putin, but didn't bulge peg
The Capen ripped aroun' and followed out
{" fire up below there, you lubberly rascals." :"
The wheel clattered away, and the blaze roll
ed out of the chimney, but that log was ac-
tilly carryin' US down stream.
Dreckly up comes feller in red shirt
and says he, "Capen you are strainin' the
engine nifty "Cut loose and let her 60,
then," says the Capen. When they cut the
ropes, dod burn me stranger, if the boat
didn't jump clean outer water. We run
little ways, but the engine was rally so ex-
hausted, that we had just to stop. Nearly
day, there comes along fine steamer, we
hailed her, got aboard, and there was that
same log hitched along side. We wooded
off % that cypress all the way to Memphis.
Black bars are bigger, plentier, and more
cunnin' in Arkinsaw, than anywhere else
The he's have way O. standin' on their
bind legs and maxim mark with their paws
on the bark of some certain trees, generally
sassafras. lisa kinder reckord' they keep,
and 1 'spose it's great satisfaction to an
old he bar to have the highest mark on the
tree. was layin' hid one day close to a
tree whar the bar wur in the habit of maxim
their mark, waitin' for one of 'em to come a.
long, for I tell you, I was nifty hungry for
bar meat Drestly I heard noise clost to
me, and lookiu' aroun', dod burn me, stran-
ger, if there wasn't small bar walkin'
straight on his hind legs, with a big chunk
in his arms. I could "a shot him easy, but |
was nifty curious to see what he was goin' to
do with that chunk He carried it right to
the tree whar the marks were, stood it on
end against it, and then gitten' on top of it,
reached away up the tree, and made big
mark of foot above the highest. He then
got down, moved the chunk way off from
the tree, and you never seen such caperin'
as he cut up. He looked up at his mark,
and then he would lay down and roll over in
the leaves laughin' outright, just like per-
son; no doubt tickled at the way somebody
would be fooled. There was somethin' so
human about it that Iactily hadn't the heart
to shoot him. .
Just 10 show you how cunnin' bars are,
I'll tell you circumstance happened to me
up in Arkinsaw. You see, one fall before |
gathered my corn, kept missip' it outer
the field, and knew the bars were taken
it, for I could see their tracks. But what
seemed nifty curious, I never could find whar
they eat it--nary cob nowhar about. One
morning 'arly, l happened arouu' the field,
and their saw an old she and two cubsjust
come outer the patch, walkin' off with their
arms full o corn. I was now determined to
find out what they did with so much corn,
and follered along after 'em without making
any noise. Well, after goin' nearly mile
I saw 'em stop, and-stranger, what do you
think-thar was pen full o hogs aud the
bars were feedin' 'em., You see, that fall the
hogs were so poor, on account of havin' no
mast, that the bars had actily built rail
pen, put hogs in it and were fattenin' 'cm
with my corn. bod burn me, if it amt a
fact. ."-Porter's Spirit