The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-02-22
"CHAWED UP BY A BAR"

Yes, naber, she's been chawed up
by bar; that S the tainal critter hang
in up out thar. =
That is what he said to mo, when l
went over to his cabin one night in Ne
yada, where we were neighboring farm
ers. and hunters. s
''Scuse me, but I'm all broke up over
ii " said he{ astle sat by the great fire
place with the tears rolling down his
weather-beaten cheek. 81 could have
braced up under it if my poor Mary had
got sick and died at home with me
holdin' of her hand and consolin' her
as she was breakin' camp for the other
world; b9t to be chawed up by a tarnal'
par in the woods, and me noYhar
around to protect her-that S what gifts
me, naber.p rfr1
Tel me all about it" said /.
"Waal You see, was goin' over to
lruckee Meadows to sell thamslSins we
got on our last hunt, and Mary said she
reckoned she'd do up the months wash
mg down to the creek while was gone,
as 1t would keep her from bein' lone
some like; and the last thing | said, too,
was: "Look out for varmints. y
1.-The sun was about an hour high
when got back 70 the cabin, an | no
mary. l thought kin3erstrange of that
as she ought have been done her
Washln' before that; so | steps to the
uoor and gives my old whoop that she
knows Whenever she hears it, but no
answer, and, says J, thar s sumthin'
wrong, and shoulderin' my gun started
down to the creek, keepin' an eve omen
Tor any signs Of danger | hadn't cone
more n a hundred yards down the path
70 tte creek fore | see bar tracks, the
larnalest biggest bar tracks / ever sot
eyes on. Thar's one of his feet in the
corner corner did you ever see such paw?
+ " n.y. naber, my heart went down into
my boots when | saw them tracks. /
khew Just as well why Mary wasn't at
nome as II I'd seen that ar chawin'
ler UP ~ the creek; and when rot
pown thar and found the clothes gath
+ cIe9 up IN the tub, Just as il She was
isady To come home, and her apron on
Z .he ground covered with bio ID, ,the,story
was told Just as pla II as if il had all been
NJ, mIlv aownln book aMy poor, dear
mary was gone whar iwashin' and
ln soIAln and helpin' her husband to
make a llvin' was oil overs / knew that.
lor her, the toll and struggle for life was
,'a9he with, and knew that / was left
ail alone olt haar in these drearys hills
ana woods with nothin' more in this
VOL VOID to care for. What did do, ma
perF Why. Ipiclled up thatsbit of her
apron, all covered with blood, and kissed
IL and then straightened up and
l' Thar amt no time to be wastin'
ele III gittbat Internal b. ar if / fol-
3 low 10y. MN. Q the Pacific coast; and thar
~ ~ : nailed allied uplto the forked poles out
oS.,1., Thar warn't much trail5 but |
ayTqla ,S see wharhe'd been flraggin' her
l.ss,,Hspgl .s,sas the leaves and ten the trail
ca..s, ~'.sslost ON the rocks, so ia knew he'd
& Sal SlsIrief e ! her Body tos some casevwhar he
saa sss., lett i, fol. / oSer6auiei him about
siunaown coming froma different direc-
g,ssa; aSa; NO, i warn tmuch of a fight he
Was WAS suchatarhalt tough old critterRe died
natu; III aud fought for it some, too: he tore
tne s'eeve Of that coat and he calculated
he L;,i naa got the hug ON me. but / fetched
n,n nm with the knife. besides the bullet
mon bar Nt"t'p'N ens eosA'