Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-29
ARkINsAW WONDERS.


| were ought of sight, and SO big, that
! it would take week 10 walk round
'em. A fellow started once to walk
through one that was hollow. lie
didn't take any yittles with him, and
starved on the way.
q was goin' up the Nlisslssip
onct in one of them little up-country
boats, when we meta big Arkinsaw
cypress floating down. j tell you,
stranger, it was a whopper. The
Capen run in his boat long side, and
fastened the, rope to it. OFF she
started, ,snort:n and puffia but didn't
bndge a peg. The Capen ripped
aroun aud followed out, Sire up be-
low there, you lubberly rascal" ."
The wheels elattered away, and the
blaze rolled from the chimney, but
that log was actilly carrying US down
stream. '@f,A
..Dreckly up comes a feller in a
red shirt, and says he, 'Capen, you
are straiuin', the engine mitly.' "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 clear outer the water.
We run a little ways, but the ingine>
was faly so exhausted, that we had
Just to stop. Next day there come
along a fine big steamer; We hailed
her. got aboard, and there was that
same log hiiohed along side. We
wooded O. that c, press all the way to
Memphis.
.tBlack bars are bigger, plentier,
and more eunnin 10 Arkinsaw than
anywhere else. The hes have way
O. staudin' On their hind legs and
maxim a mark with their paws on
the bark Of some certain trees,
generally sassafras. It's a kinder
reckurd they keep, and I s'pose it's
a great satisfaction to an old be bar
to have the highest mark. on the
tree. | was a layin hid one day
cleste 70 a tree whar the bar wur IN
the habit Of maxim their mark, wai-
tin for one of 'em to come along,
for Itell you. ! was nifty hungry Tor
bar meat. Dreckly ] heard noise
close to me, and lookin' aroun, dod
burn me, stranger, if there wash t a,
small bar walkin straight on his hind
legs, with big chunk in his arms
| could a shot him easy, but was
nifty curious to see what he was
goin' to do with that chunk. lie
carried it fright to the tree Whar the
marks were, stood it on eend against
it. aud then gittin on top OF Il,
yeiched way up the tree, and made
A big mark. afoot above the. highest,
He then got down, moved the chunk
+ way off from the tree and you peyer
seen such eaperin as be cut up
He would look. up at his mark, and
then he would lay down and yroH
ever in the leaves laughin' outright,
Just like a person; no doubs tickled
at The way somebody would be foel-
ed. There was something SO human
aboutit that | actilly hadn't the
heart to shoot him. - ,es
Just to show you how cunnin,
bars are III tell you circumstance
happened to me up iu Arkansaw. =
/ You see ene.faH, before | gathered
my corn, i kept missin' it outer the
/ 6eId...and knew the bars were ta'
kin IT,. forI could see their tracks
Butwllat seemed nifty curious,
never could find whar they eat it
nary cob nowiaar about. One NOR.
min arly, / happened aroun tpe ilele
and there ] saw an old she and i've
! cubs just come outer the patcn
| walkin eff with their arms fnll o.
corn. | vas now determined to lind
out what they did with SO muck cora
and follered along after 'em without
maxim any noise. Well, after go,
in nearly a mile saw 'em stop; and
stranger, what do you think
! thar was pen foil 0 hogs. and the
bars were feedin' EN-. You see
that fab the hogs were SO poor, on
account Of having no mast, that the
bars had actilly buiIta rail pen. pu'
/ hogs in it, and were fatteb'n ea
with my corn. bod burn me, nf'
amt a fact