Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-03

got in-the cart. No wonder-the
steers-was scairt -
Steers and bear got to the top Of the
hill long way ahead of us, and then
the cart went rumbling down on the
other side.
When we reached the top they were
"streaking it" as Joe said, across the
sandy flat below us, and the bear was
still in the cart. |
"They'l haul him home !" exclaimed |
Ranse.
It seemed curious that the animal did |
not spring out but we could see him
lurching rom side to side and turn
ing round, apparently afraid to jump
off the cart.
Our house and barn were in plain
sight from the hill. We had left the
great door of the barn open that morn
ing, propped back, so that "Thenty"
could drive the sheep IN toward night.
She could shut the barn door, but could
not open it.
! She and little s'Sle" were standing
near the we'll sweep when we reached
the top of the hill. They soon heard
the cart coming. We saw them turn
and look moment, then they both ran
into the house, and in second mother
came to the door.
The steers turned into the yard at full
run. One wheel of the cart bumped
over big stone and struck against a
post that held the bars, breaking it with
crash that we heard away back where
we were coming down the hill.
But the bear still chung to the cart,
and when mother saw it and its occupant
tearing through the yard she ran into
the house and shut the door.
The steers, in their blind fright, dashed
on toward the barn, going over pile oe
stove-wood, smashing the saw-horse, and
knocking off the well-curb.
The barnyard gate was open. Bush
ing into it, they broke. with the nigh
wheel one Of the gate-posts short off at
the ground.
! We took the shortest cut across the
field, but as I jumped the fence J. saw
steers and cart go with the speed of a
locomotive into the barn OF the great
door. They knocked down or Jared
down the prop against the door, and it
slammed to after them.
"Now we've got una p exclaimed
Ranse; "they're all in there together 7"
In pen at the farther end of the
harm floor was an old Aog with litter
of ten little pigs, and in another tempo
rary pen, in the cattle "tie-up, were
two other hogs, which we were going to
kill in day or two.
The rest of our turkeys, thirty or more,
were shut up in one of the empty bins
of the "hay-bay."
We rushed to the barn. I never, in
all my life, heard such q roise as there
was inside! Boards were being smashed.
The old hogs were barking like wild
bears, and one of the little pigs was 60
ing rock-ok- ok-ok-ok the turkeys were
all flying and futtering and "quitting'
and "yeaping."
Mother and Thenty had ventured out,
pale as ghosts, wanting to know what,
"for mercy's sake, was the matter.
"Matter enough, I should think r
said Joe.
"Well, we must go in and get 'en
apart, somehow - exclaimed Ranse, ex
citedly.
, He got an ak, and I pulled open the
s small door Of the "tie-up."
I had no sooner got it half open wher
. out ran one Of the fatted hogs, followed
. by one of the pigs. A turkey came fly
a ing out over their backs. There wa
such dust that we actually couldn't SCI
f into the barn.
q "Shut it up!" cried Joe, cor tn
9 bearn be out in our faces!'
X 1ueu u0 duu hduSo gov IlC1L 3 I'LL
g ready, and threw open the great door
r All the turkeys came out at once.
AS soon as we could see through tn
o. dust, we found that one OF the steer
a was unyoked. He had broken throug
e the partition into the turkey-bay. Th
a other steer was threshing about over tn
cart tongue, and had knocked dow
both the pig pens. The little pigs wer
u rushing this way and that, under th
% cart and all over the barn.
10 But we could not sec the bear an.
IL where. We had supposed that /
81 would rush out. Ranse and Joe ha
their guns cooked, and was ready fl
u him with the ak.
i "Don't s'pose he's got out, do ye,
exclaimed Joe.
u We ventured into the barn ittl
- and, happening to look up to the roof,
saw his black hide away up on one
O. the "great beams" where he hi
y climbed to get out of the scrimmage.
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