Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-10
Daddy. SOIany. and YeIIer
Hound.
PhIladephia Times.


Philadelphia Times.
Ever heerd bout T. e scrim-
mage me and Case had with a bar
over long The Rattlesnake Creek?'
asked old Jerry Greening, as he
piled the logs on the fire i'm his
coy little cabin near this village.
Jerry is one Of the best hunters In
Pike county and his reminiscent
ces are peculiarly interesting.
"I'll tell We all bout it fore Case
we know my son Case, don't We?
- comes in. Wall, me an Case
an that 'ere old yeller houn' of
mine-he's II year old this comm
spring-we started out after bee
tree. Wall, we was a walkin'
long kinder quiet like, when all to
Student that cussed houn' Of
mine give the all-firedest yell
ever / heaf, an outer the brush
an scrub oaks come a tremenjus
blac< bar. 1'll be hanged if that
bar wasn't ten foot long. Wall,
the bar stood still in the path an
lOOhtNi az HIT an Sdott al Vase
an me stood still an looked at the
bar, an I'll be gosh-hanged if
'twasn't so com'ca i just sot down
on the groun' an laffed. Then
Case he got up on his ear, COS we
didn't have no gun nor nothin'
with us, 'ceptin' a make, and SO he
yells to me: "Reckon ye'd bet
tern get up tree, 'nless We want
ter git chawed into mince-meat,'
seq he. Jest about that time Mr..
Bar made fur Case, an Skinned
up tree.
Wall, Case he went fur the bar
with the axe, and all of student
the oil concern flew often the
handle so Case he started fur ter
climb tree as the bar come fur
him. Wall, sir, to see Case a
climbin' that ar tree with that
bar after m was morn'n / could
stan so l just bust out laffin' agin.
Then Case ha got red-hot mad, an
the way he slung the profanity
roun' were caution. Jest about
the time he begin calm me all
sorts err names that bar reached
one of his paws up an pulled off
Que of Cases butes. lie slid dowd
the tree with the butte. and when
he fetched the groun' he struck
that ar butte jest like that seven
teen-year-oP dog of mine wud a
rat. But the butte didn't seem to
satisfy him, so he elm the tree
agin. Case saw him a comm, so
he yell out, I'm a goner, dad /
SEE, Hold the fort an give him
t'other bute' Jest then Case seq,
I'll fix the oil cuss'
"Wall, sir, that bar elm Almost
to where Case were settin', when
all TO once't l see Case maxim
some motions with his fingers.
SEE ], BE you a fixin' him? Sez
he, Il be- Jest then the OF devil
gave a terrible roar an let go the
tree. l s'pose you'll hardly b'lieve
it. but gosh hang me f that bar
didn't turn a summerset in tn air
an light on his head. Yes. sir,
it's a solemn fac thet bar fell on
hiz head so hard thet he broke hiz
neck. The whole thing were so
cussed com'cal tibet l got laffin'
an fell clean off the limb | was
straddlin' an nearly broke my
neck. When Case came down
outen the tree, sell: what made
the bar tumble p He looks at me
a minnit an then pulls out pep
per-box. Wall, sir, that ar boy
I alters calls him boy, though he's
3S year OF comm haydn time
had the OF woman's pepper-box,
| just to tant'lize her, am that's
what saved his life. He sprinkled
the pepper in the bars eyes an
nearly drove him frantic, so he
dropped. But the stangest part
of the story is the dog. When me
an Case went back after the bar
with a boss an wagon, I'll be
blasted If we didn't fin that OF
yeller houn' up mother tree yelin'
like sin Truth, sir, truth. Yes,
sir tibet ar dog he'd been so scarf
that he just CHM that tree 'thout
thinkin'. Mebbe you think I'm
lynn when l say that bar weighed
five hundred an fifty poun'. But
it's the truth, sir. | never lied
yet, an I'm gettin' too ol' to learn,
fur Pm nigh 20 years el'."
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