The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-03-27
quiet neighbor was something that hap
pened about year after that.

pened about year after that.
"There was rowing family OF Indiana
encamped near the settlement; hunting
fishing and making moccasins and bask
cts, which they traded with the whites
Gone afternoon the Red Sky -of-the.
Morning, wife of the Water.Snake,
with-the- Long Tail, came over to the
settlement with some of their truck fol-
sale. She had a papoose on her back
strapped on board y another squaW
travelled with her, carrying an empty
jug.
"Almost within sight of Gorman's
grocery, Red-Sky took off her papoose
and hung it on tree. The fellows
around the store had made fun of it
when she was there once before, so she
preferred to leave it in the woods rather
than expose it to the coarse Jokes of the
boys. The little thing was used to such
treatment. Whether carried or hung
up, papoosey never cried.
1.-THE squaws traded off this truck,
and bought, with other luxuries of
civilization, gallon of whisky. They
drank out of the Jug, and then looked at
more goods. Then they drank again,
and from being shy and silent, as at
first, they giggled and chatted like a
couple of silly white girls. They spent
a good deal more time and money at
Germans than they would if it hadn't
been for the whisky, but finally they
started to 60 back through the woods.
"They went cbattering and gigglng
to the tree where the papoose had been
left. There was no papoose there
"This discovery sobered them. They
thought at first the fellows around the
store had played them trick by taking
it away; but by -and-by the Red-Sky-of-
the Morning set up shrek.
"She had found the board not far of,
but no papoose strapped to it, only
something that told the story of what
had happened.
"There were bear tracks. around the
spot. One of the prints showed only
two claws.
"Tke Red-Sky f-the- Morning went
back 20 the camp with the news; the
other sauaw followed with the jug. D..
"When tho Wate- Snake-with the
Long Tail heard th, t his papoose had
been eaten by bear. he felt, I suppose,
val much as any white father would have
felt under the circumstances. He vowed
vengeance against Old Two Claws, but
consoled himself with drink of the
fire, water before starting on the hunt.
1.-The braves with him followed his
example, It wasn't in Indian nature to
start until they had emptied the jug, 80
it happened that Old Two Claws got of
again. Tipsy braves can't follow trail
worth cent.
"Not very long after that a woman in
neighboring settlement heard her
children scream one day in the woods
near the house. She rushed out, and
actually saw a bear Juggling off her
oAeS sile vas siokly, fsebis sort Or w0:
man but such a sight was enough to
give her the strength and courage of a
man. She ran and caught up an axe.
Luckily she had big dog. The two
went at the bear.
"The old fellow had no notion of los.
ing his dinner Just for woman and a
mongrel cur. But she struck him a
tremendous blow on the back; at the
sane time the pup got him by the leg.
He dropped the young one to defend
himself. She caught it up and ran,
leaving the two beasts to have it out
together.
"The bear made short work with the
cur; but instead of following the woman
and child, he skulked off into the woods.
"Ihe settlers got together for a grand
hunt: but Old Two Olaws-for the
tracks showed that he was the scoundrel
ESCAPED into the mountains, and lived
to make more trouble smother day.
"The child2 Oh, the child was
scarcely hurt. It had got squeezed and
scratched little in the final tussle; that
was ell.
GAS to the bear, he was next heard Of
in our settlement"
The bostler hesitated, winked his one
eve with an odd expression, put fresh
auid into his cheek, and finally resumed: !:
GA brother.in- law of my uncle, man
of the name of Rush, was one day chop
ping in the woods about half mile from
his house, when his wife went out to
carrv him his luncheon.
"She left two children at home, boy
about five years old, and baby just big
enough to toddle around.
1.-The boy had often been told that If
he strayed into the woods with his
brother q bear might carry them of,
and she charged him again that forenoon
not to 90 away from the house; but he
was an enterprising little fellow, and
when the sun shone so pleasant and the
woods looked so inviting, he wasn't one
to be afraid of bears.
"The woman stopped to see her hus-
band fell big beech he was cutting,
and then went back to the house; but
lust before she got there, she saw the
oldest boy coming out of the woods on
the other side. He was alone. He was
white as sheet, end 80 frightened at
first that he couldn't speak.
"'Johnny,' says she, catching hold
of him, what is the matter?'
"sA bear he gasped out at last.
"sWhere is your little brother p was
her next question.
"sI don't know said he, too much
frightened to know anything just then
"Where did you leave him ? says
she.
"Then he seemed to have gotten hi:
wits together a little. "A bear tool
hiln!' said he.
"You can guess what sort of an agony
the mother was in.
"Oh, Johnny, tell me true Think
Where was it ?
"sIn the woods he said. 'Bea,
come along.-I r1,D.'
"She caught him up and hurried
with him into the woods. She begget