The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-03-30
A TOUGH STORY.
Old Jerry 0resning's 0crimmags
on Rattlesnske Creek.

Ue and Case had with bar over
long the Rattlesnake Creek ?" asked
old Jerry Greening. Is he piled the
logs ON the fire in his coy little cabin
near this village. Jerry is one Of the
best hunters in Pike county and his
"reminiscences are peculiarly interest
ing.
Ill tell ye all bout it tore Case
We know my son Case, don't ye?-
comes in. Wall. me an Case an that
ere ole yaller houn' of mine-he's
seventeen years old this comm spring
we stsrtei out after a bee tree.
Wall, We was walkin' long kinder
quiet like, when all To student that
eussed houn' of mine give the all.
fredeSt veil ever ] hear, an outen
the brush an scrub oaks come a
rrrmengu> black bar. I'll be hanged
If that bar wasn't ten foot long. Wall,
tho bar stood still i'm the path an
locked ~ me an Case. an Case an
me stood still an looked at the bar,
aud I'll he gosh hanged il 'twasn't SD
com cal ! just sot down ON the groun'
an lated Then Case he got up on
hi, ear 'c,,s We didn't have no gun no.
notnin with us 'cepiin an axe, an 80
wells To me. Reckon we'd b-tter'n get
up q tree. Mess We want ter get
chawed into mince meat. sen he. Jest
about that time Mr.. Bar made fur
Case an ! Skinned up tree.
wall, Case he went for the bar
with the axe, and all IT a su,l'lent the
81 concern few o,ien the handle 50
Case ne started tor ter climb tree a.
the bar come Tor him. Wall sir, to
see Case climbin that al tree with
that bar after EN- was morn ] could
stan, 80 jc>t bust ont latin a.in.
Then Case he got rel hot mad an the
way he -luhg the profanity roun' were
a caution. Jest about the time he
begin calm me all sorts er na hes the
bar reached one of his paws up and
pulled oH one Of Cases buieS. He
slid down the tree with the butte and
when he teched the .roGn' he struck
that ar butte Jest like that seventeen
wear or dog of mine wud rat. But
the butte didn't seem to satisfy him.
~ he elm the tree agin. Case saw
him comm, So he wells out, I'm u
soner. dad sen, Hold the fort All
give him to,her butte Jest then
Case saws, III iix the OF cuss."
wall, sir, that bar elm almost to
where Case were >ettin. when all to
oncc't | see Case maxim some motions
with his fingers. Sez !, he you n
6xin' him, ," Sez he, L be- Just then
the Of devil gave terrible roar an
let go the tree. ls'pose you'll hardly
b'lieve it. hut gosh hang me T that
bar didn't turn summerset in tn
air an light on his head. Yes. sir,
It's solem fac tibet tibet bar fell ON
hiz head 81 hard tibet he broks' hK
neck The whole thing were 50
cu>>ed com'cal tibet got latin an
tell clean of the limb was strad-
din ali nearly brok my neck. When !
Case com down outen the tree. sen l,
What made the bar tumble?' lie
lookeS at me minnit an then pulls out
"a pepper box. Wall. sir, that ar boy
i alters calls him boy, though he's |
thrrty-eight year Of comm haydn
;ime-had stole the oil woman's pep
per box. just to tant'lize her, an that's
what saved his life. He sprinkle,l
the pepper in the bars eyes an
nearly drove him frantic, 81 he drop /
ped. But the strangest part Of the
story il the dog. When me an Case
went back after the bar with boss
an wagon. III I've blasted il we didn't
find that OF Weller houn' up mother
tree yellin' like sin. Truth, sir, truth. |
Yes, sir, that ar dog he'd been 50
scarf that he list elm that tree 'thout |
thinkin. Mebbs you think Fun lynn
when l saw that bar weighed Eve
hundred an fifty pOun'. But it's
the truth, sir. | never lied yet. an
I'm ge.tin' too Of to learn, fur I'm
nigh seventy years o."