Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-24
Playing Horse With u Bear.

Once there was man whose liie had
been spent in 'sgoing vest His father
and mother moved from New England to
Michigan when he was baby, and settled
six miles from any neighbor. But before
the farm was all cleared, other settlers
came, and the family moved on. don't
want to be crowded." the old man said;
"heard a rifle and an ak that wasn't mine.
yesterday And he went further and
further west every year, till by the time
the little boy I'm telling you Of was a
grown up man, they had got clear to the
west part of Oregon, on the Pacific coast.
And as the old man couldn't move west
any father, without getting into the ocean,
and neighbors had moved within two
miles of him, he gave it up, went to bed
sick and died. "Tain't no rlse," he said,
s'they're bound to crowd an old man out
of the world. can't a-bear to tech ell
bows with folks, nohow." And so he died
with his nearest neighbor two miles away
But am gong to tell you of his sons
escape with the bear. They built their
first log house at the foot ola hill; but it
was SO low and damp that james, for
bigger one higher up, half a mile off,
near mountain brook, with grand old
trees around the spot, and fine view of
the country. He took off the two front
wheels of the old emigrant wagon, that
they had crossed the great plains in. and
made him good strong two wheeled cart,
with box on it. And in this he drew
back and forth his carpenter tools, and
his dinner, and chips for the fire.. over a
rough road that ne had cut through the
woods.
He used to take little nap after his
MONDAY meal; and one day he was sleep
ing on splendid bed Of evergreen
boughs that he had fixed near the tim
bers he was at work on, when he was
awakened by loud rafting of the tin
dishes in his cart. He looked around
quickly, and what do you suppose he saw?
A big black bear paving over the lun-
chcon he had left and smacking his chops
over piece of wild honey and some
corn cake that James hadn't eaten up.
This is a pretty fix said James to
himself quick as flash. My rifle and ak
are both in the cart, and that ugly beast
would claw me to pieces before I could
get them out" He was afraid the bear
would chase him if he ran and corner
him if he stayed, and so he set his wits
to work to find way out of the scrape
Good bright wits are zoo much for bear, or
hard lesson, or touch job of any sort, if,
they are only kept at work, with no
Cant or {" don't want to-" or Oh!
DEAR" to hinder them. It didn't take
James wits so long as I have been tel
ling it to you to make plan for him.
He jumped to his feet quick as flash
grabbed the tong ue of the cart before the
bear could say "Jack Robinson"-if he
had known how, and started on fast
run down the hill, drawing the cart and
the bear in it after him.
SWELL, 'sposc there never was bear
so astontshed since the pair saved from
the flood stepped out Of Noah's ark and
found the whole world drowned. He had
never had ride before, and didn't want
one now. But the cart vas going SO fast
that he daren't jump out; and SO he Just
chung on, and looked from one side to the
other, and fairly howled as the cart
bumped over the roots and stones James
had been to the city once and seen the
street cars, and when he found he had
the bear caught, the fun Of the thing
made him laugh.
When the bt az roared once he halloed
back: ':All full inside. take the next
car! And when the bear gave terrific
growl, he said, "Move upin front, please,
and don't grumble. This is a through car.
Git up there! = and he buckled down to
it and ran just the way the car-drivers
make the horses go, when they are late,
and pretended trey don't see little boy
crooking his fingers for em to stop on the
crossing. The tin dishes in the bottom
of the cart ratified like a peddler's wag-
On on the pavement; the ak and gun
bounded on to the bears toes, and he
looked as ifhe didn't know which was
the worst---hls mad or his scare.
Down the steep hill James ran, straight
for the corner Of his log house. He had
his plans all made, and as he turned the
corner he ran the cart against log, and
tipped it right over, bottom side up, with
Mister Bear on the other side. His other