The Republican journal., 1871-03-16
About Bears.

taYOrite animal. and nine out OF ten will
cast their free suffrage in favor of Bruin.
There is something about the bear that fas-
cinatcs boy The little tour-year- old,
climbing upon Your knee, will call for Il
story about bears. and after hearing the
thrilling recital he will get down behind
Il chair and act the part. to the mute
amusement of his little sister
This interest in the clumsy creature
seems to be as instructive as our horror OF
snakes My earliest adventure, that had
consequences of sufficient Importance to
procure me patcrnal thrashing, and
leave a life long remembrance, came of
an attempt 10 play bear Surreptitiously
possessing mySelt of hair rug that or
cmalily graced the hall, pulled ii over
my back and head and hid behind the
gatc. where II beautiful hawthorn hedge
afforded superb concealments, and sol
cmnlV determined to .'scare some one in
to fits That ''some one' happened to
be old Uncle Shack's horse Gunpowdcr,
80 called from the difficulty experienced
in getting him to 90 Off
Now this Uncle Shack was an American
citizen Of African descent. a sort of com
misSary attached to our family headquar-
tcrS. lie had become superannuated at
the age OF forty and devoted the remain
der OF his colored existence to Il light pur-
suit of vegetables At the time | pro-
posed to make his aged horse acquainted
with bears. Uncle Shack was about sixty,
@ray-haircd blear-eved and with well
settled convictions, the most prominent of
which was that boys, rs Il general thing
ought to be killed. On this occasion,
having gathered an assortment of ycgcta-
bes, he stood up in hiscrazy vehicle, such
only as Il negro can devise and drove
slowly to his doom His horse had trad-
tions attached to him that at one time in
his past life he had been a spirited animal.
Wild stories were atloat Of deeds on the
road that were positively incredible to the
observer. He was, ut the time referred
to, a living hat-racll with nothing left OF
his former activity but IN eccentric move
ment in his right hind LEG, that came ol
the string halt. and while the animal
seemed to be moving with the solemnity
of Il funeral, this leo continued the fam
ous old trot OF the road.
When directly opposite my ambush
moved out, with head covered, on my
hand, and knees, growing in approved
hear-iashion. GunpoWder at first seemed
lost in amaZement. He stopped abrupt
ly. stared, and then, as approached max
inc hidcous noises, he gave a fierce snort,
and actually broke into a gallop. Uncle
Shack attempted to arrest this by wild
orders OF 'Whoa, whoa.' and drafts up
ON the rcins These last We're old and
decaycd; in the midst Of the effort they
snapped. and the African came down in q
sitting position upon his vegetables.
lhp tatpS then took command. From
lhe gaze To pfluSe peioW lile llllll INC
road was uescehaihg' Along thlS saw
ana hearM me doomed Venlcle fo!l aho
rattle ne race was not SWllt' put IL was
portentouS IN MS noise ana grave IN us
consequences. Inc Wliu morse OF tht
Negelahle gafueh' unguloea' missed inc
wooden Slroc,ure' ana saw wagon fider
horse ana an disappear II, down + a !, areadlu
'i,NSS oi SIX ieet' 1heh lolloWeu
silence le;triui LII us contrast 10 lie lai'
nproar. ne wagon hofse' ana man. Sc
lulI OF vigorous me, ana SENSE seemed ''
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PROOF '''nti,, 'e "'u''0eo ',i'' hto oCei
@uIi'y "l s'i'S outrage on pears ana A'il
cans out ! was subsequently lhrashea Oh
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inc NeniEui,i t"iECnie,ee vel loI 'es5ela
''leS "'s l'1'le'' o'''' me horse o,eo sool
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"'il'o hont;nnod his ,no,1 n ta,n sooon5
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tbo Near and he edoed forward If orair
,no pe1l l", ,' AVA ND ha rosontoJ ~l th ndS,
;tp n,,' r"nmi i' I'VE tb;r5 t;,nn ba ts,.na
f,,;a'sl,, and bno9ed tho saw Tban .
nt"st ~, 'DS Sons,aJ t6at was rorv l;valu h,,
ool'eesI ynoodo alv br;ef AT tbc end the nodos I"
sawver descended to find a remnant o
h;s 'S1T 3inner and considerable bear-meat
Ms ma; "r'' wn ,'iu wern assnred that the com
mon 9-,r,, wav Of killino bears in Hardin for
l',t" ta Wv wy 70 s,snanj . Ioo Inv y yrana-r;n,
70 . hce-trcc ha, Buin Who is passionate
W. tond Of honey in ascendino thc ire,
W Myonld ,II knock the loo aside with his naw
Tbe .1 loo rnt,,rnino would hit and infnriatf
,ha hoar md a contest arisino between