The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-12-15

their shoulder lookin' for some fool
knock it,
''Wiltthey eat you 2" Some one INQUIRED.
for there WIS ring of spectators around the
performers by this time.
''As iksly rs not, if they are sharp-set
and You 81 yourself out to be eaten, but it
haint thsts habit to go for human flesh.
Roots nuts berries, bugs and any small
game they can pick up, satisfies their hum
BILE "ppetites as general thing"
The one-eyed hostler leaned against the
lost, stroked Pomps fur affectionately, and
continued somewhat in this style:-
Bears are particularly fond of fat, juicy
pigs; and once give em taste of human
desh-why, I should not want my children
to be playin' in the woods within a good
many miles of their cen! Which reminds
me of old Two Claws, o. they used to cal!
him, bear that plagued the folks over in
Ridgetown, where was brought up-well,
as much as forty years ago.
"He got his name FROM the peculiar shape
81 his foot, and he got that froa: triflin:
with gun trip. You know what that is
it's loaded gun set in snch a way that q
bear or any game that's curious about it
must come up to the way it pints; bait is
hung before the muzzle and the string runs
from that to the trigger.
''He was cunning fellow, and he put ont
nm investigatin' paw at the piece Of pork before
trying his jaws on it; so instead of gettin'
bullet in the head, he merely had bit of
his paw shot of. There were but two claws
left on TINT foot, as the bloody tracks showed
HE got of; but his experience seemed to
have soured his disposition. He owed
spite to the settlement.
Zone night great row was heard in my
uncle's pig-pen. He and the boys rushed
out with pitchforks, gun and lantern.
They knew what tie trouble was, or soon
found out.
"a huge black bear had broken down the
side of tho pen; he seized a fat porker, and
was actually Juggling him off in his arms! The
pig was kicking and squealing but the bear
lad him fast. He did not seem at all in
clined to give up his prey even when at
tacked. Hc looked sullen and ugly; but
few jabs fronrAa pitchfork and shot in the
shoulder convinced him that he was maxim.
q mistake.
''He dropped the pig and ran away before
my uncle could load up for another shot.
The next morning they examined his tracks
It was old Two Claws.
''But what split him for being quiet
reighbor was something that happened
year after that.
'sThere was rowing family of Indians en-
camped near the settlement; hunting, fishing,
md making moccasins and baskets, which
hey traded with the whites. One afternoon
ne Red-Sky-of-the-mornin wife of the
Water-Snake-w e-with-the-Lons-T Tail, came over
to the settlement with some of their truck
sor sale. She had papoose on her back
strapped on board; another squaw travel
cd with her, carrying an empty jug.
''Almost in sight of Gorman's grocery,
Red Sky took off her papoose and hung it
Oh q tree. The fellows around the store had
made fun of it when she was there once be-
fore, so she preferred to leave it in the woods
rather than expose it to the coarse joke of
the boys. The little thing was used to such
treatment. Whether carried or hung up,
papoosey never cried.
'The squaws traded off their truck, and
bought, with other luxuries of civilization
gallon of whisley. They drank out of the
Jug, and then looked at more goods. Then
they drank again, and from being shy and
SILENT as at first, they giggled ard chatted
ike couple of silly white girls. They
spent good deal more time and money at
Gormon's than they would if it hadn't been
for the whiskey, but finally they started to
20 back through the woods
''They went chattering and giggling to
he tree where the papoose had been left.
There was no papoose there.
''This discovery sobcred them. They
thought ut first that the fellows around tie
store had played them trick by taking it
away; but by-and-by the Red-SlSy -of-the-
Morning set up shrek. She had found
,he board not far off. but no papoose strap
ped to it, only something that told the story
Of what had happened.
There were bear tracks around the spot.
One of the prints showed only two claws.
'sThc-Red- Sky of the Morning went to the
lamp with the news; the other squaw fol-
owed with the jug.
s'When the Water -Snake-with-th he-Long-
ro;l l,onrd TINT hi 6 nan0Osa had been eaten