Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-10-24
The Boys bedtime Stories.
BY UNCLE ZACK

"IlS the 'chlIdrens hOur, pspt, saiu
the elder of the little span Of boys, who
never forget the customs that please
them however lorgetful they may be
about coming straight home from
school," and being prompt at meals, and
going TO bed when the hour comes. RS
wonderful how boys remember what they
want, and what they like. and what .
"good lorgetery" they have about things
that are no, so pleasant.
"a story y?"-says the father-"lel me
read you one from ChaterJ0r."
mo" said beth the waiting little chaps
a, once-"printed stories amt half so
good. Tell US one of your make-ups."
well, what shall II be abouI?"
"Oh-about bear and hunter.-or 6
lion and rhinoceros. Only have it kind
o. funny. and have the hunter lick. or
the lion"
Well, once there was an old hunter,
who lived all alone in the woods, in a
snug little log house that he had built
Aud be spent all his time shooting deer
and bears and things, and catching beav-
ers and minks in his traps. One day in
The summer he got very tired oil eating
nothing but meat and pancakes, and he
thought he'd 90 and get some honey.
So be took down little vial OF some
sweet smelling stuff, and went and rub.
bed some on logi and the bees liked
the smell, and came down 10 get some,
as be knew they wou.d. Then he chased
and chased them until he saw them crawl
into a great big dead tree. where their
home was. So he climbed the tree and
drove some plugs into the holes, so tho
bees couldn't get out, aud then he took
bis sharp hatchet aud cut big hole far
Their up, and reached in bis arm ami took
cut FIVE or six large cakes of honey, and
put 'em in pail he had brought with
him on purpose. Then he crawled down,
and covered up his honey with cloth,
and put his pail By his gun, and went
back toa brook TO get some water.
When he came back, what do you sup
pose he saw
(Two II don't-knows.D
Well, he saw zig brown bear sitting
on his hind legs, and just going tor thai
honey lie had the second cake in his
fore paws, and was eating as fast as he
could, with the honey all streaming down
his breast, and all over him. That made
the hunter awful mad, because he could
not get bis gun. So be thought mir
ute, and then lust climbed that tree in q
hurry. and pulled the plugs out, and the
bees came buzz;ng and swarming out
madder than hop-.oads. And they smell
ed the honey quick, and knew II was
theirs. and they just went for that bear
lively. More'n a thousand Of them lit on
his head and back and all over him, and
begun 10 sting. And the way he drop
ped that honey and commenced TO howl
and paw his head and roll over just made
the old hunter laugh till he cried. The
more he paved the more they stung, and
the more they stung the more he how!ed {;
"E-r-r-ah ?" Vow :" And the bears
head sweled up so he couldn't see, and
the hunter got his rifle and shot him
dead and at night when the bees had
gone to bed he came back and got all
the bears meat and more'n twenty
pounds OF honey.
And the next morning when lie was
eating honey on his pancakes he laughed
all 10 himself as he said; "Guess I'll get
q swarm OF bees and take 'em along with
me 10 hunt bears with