The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-06-24
Old Jerry Greening,s Big Bear.

Old Jerry Greening,s Big Bear.
g Ever heerd bout the scrimmage me
and Case had with q bar over long
Rattlesnake creek Z" asked old Jerry
Greening, as he piled the logs on the
fire in his cozy little cabin near this VII
lage..
Jerry is one o. the best hunters in
Pike county, Pa, and his "reminiscences
are peculiarly interesting.
I'll tell ye all bout it fore Case
ye know my son Case, don't ye? comes
in. Wall, me an Case an that ere ole
yaller houn' OF mine hes II year old
this comm spring we started out arter
bee tree. Wall, we was walkin'
long kinder quiet like, when all to q
suddent that cussed houn' of mine give
I the all-fredest yell ever i heerd, an
outen the brush an scrub oaks came q
tremenjus black bar. I'll be hanged
if that bar wasn't ten foot long. Wall.
the bar stood still In the path, an
looked at me an Case, an Case an me
stood still an looked at the bar, an
I'll be gosh hanged If 'twasn't so COM
lcal just sot down on the groun' an
LATED. Then Case he got up on his ear
COS we didn't have no gun nor nothin'
with us, 'ceptin' max, an so he yells
to me:
!" Reckon ye'd better git up tree,
Mess ye want ter git chdwed into mince
meat. SEE he.
Jest about tibet time Mr.. Bar made
fur Case, an I Skinned up tree.
Wall, Case he went fur the bar with
the ak, an all Of suddent the ole con-
Germ 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
i'm was more'n I could stan, so I jest
bust out latin agin. Then Case he got
red-hot mad, an the way he slung the
profanity roun' were a caution. Jest
about the time he begin calli1' me all
sort er names, that bar reached one Of
his paws up an pulled off one of Cases
butes. He slid down the tree with the
butte, and when he fetched the groun' he
struck that ar butte Jest like that IT.
year-old 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 yells out, I'm goner,
dad! I sez, Hold the fort, an give
lu Otuer Dute. jest IQen case SEE,
sI'll fix the ole cuss.
"Wall, sir, that bar CHM Almost to
where Case were a-settin', when all at
once't I see Case maxim some motions
with his fingers. SEE I, BE you o.
fixin' him p SEE he, Il be- Jest then
the ole devil gave terrible roar an let
go the tree. I s'pose you'll hardly
blieve it, but gosh hang me if that bar
didn't turn summerset in the air an
light on his head. Yes, sir, it's solem'
fac tibet thet bar fell on biz head SO
hard tibet he broke hiz neck. The whole
thing were SO cussed com'cal tibet got
a-lafin' an fell clean off the limb I was
straddlin' and nearly broke my neck.
When Case come down outen the tree.
SEE I, What made the bar tumble 2
He looks at me minnit, an then pulls
out pepper-box. Wall, sir, that ar
boy-I alters calls him boy, though he's
3S year ole comm haydn time had
stole the Gle woman's pepper-box just
to tant'hze her, an thet's what saved his
life. He sprinkled the pepper in the
bars eyes, an nearly drove him frantic,
SO he dropped. But the strangest part
Of the story is the dog. When me an
Case went back after the bar with q
boss an wagon, I'll be blasted if we
didn't fin that ole yaller. houn' up
mother tree, yellin' like sin. Truth,
sir, truth. Yes, sir, that ar dog he'd
been so scarf that he Just CHM that tree
'tho1lt thinkin'. Mebbe you think Tn
lynn when I say that bar weighed $50
poun'. But it's the truth, sir. I never
lied vet. an I'm gettin' too ole to learn
fur I'm nigh 10 years OLE"