Daily globe., 1883-05-13

ever tie them curl. together. Ben
took t'other curl from behind his ear.
"'Fotch me bar, said he, and the
gals your'n. An don't you come fool
in round yer agin' till you do fotch the
bar nuther. Now gitP
Panama started for home, but he
hadn't gone out of hearing when Curly
called him back.
Looly YER said he, 'ye un'erstan',
O course, that it's to be live b'ar,
don't yep
GA live BAR gasped Panama.
It's to be q live bar. A live, wild
bar. They amt goin' to be no buyin'
O. some secon' han carcass O bar an
workin' of it off onter me fur the gal
A live bar, ye understand"
"Bully for Curly Bob!" said the old
settler, as the County Clerk paused to
light his pipe. "Oh, this yer yarn is
suthin like. Listen to dead facs, Shurf,
an arter this try an stick to 'em."
panama said he understood" con-
tinued the old settler as he returned
to his shingle-splitting with his heart
in his boots. He felt that Curly had
told him in delicate way that any con-
nection between the Teeter and Stop
pensifter families was not to be thought
of.
"There had been an unusual fall of
snow that winter, and an awful heavy
crust had formed on it. One day
Panama was up in the mountain, five
miles from the Hollow, hunting shingle
trees. Over on the east edge of Burnt
hill he found some good ones, and while
he was marking 'em with his ak big
bear jumped out of a hollow place in
tree just at his side. Mechanically, in
his fright he whacked away at the bear
with his AK, and the next minute the AK
was flying through the air, and he and
the bear were having little hugging
match. The crust was so slippery that
neither of 'em could keep his feet, lucky
for Panama, and the first thing that he
knew both he and the bear were
whizzing down that mountain like a
streak of chain lightning. Burnt
hill is more than thousand feet high,
and on the east side is one straight
slope from top to bottom, at an angle
of about forty-fve degrees. Well, sir,
Panama afterward said that they went
so fast that neither him nor the bear
could change his position nor do any
fighting. The bear was in under, on
his back, and Panama was laying in its
hug. At the foot of the mountain a
road that was cut to snake logs and
wood down to the settlement branched
off to the east. It was all the way down
hill from the mountain, and terrible
steep at that. When the bear and
Panama struck this road they kept right
on down, with no slackening of speed.
They kept the road for four miles,
where it made sharp turn to the left,
Of course they couldn't make the turn
and away they went straight ahead for
a quarter of a mile through the brush,
and their speed was so high that when
they struck the foot of ridge that runs
across the country there, a hundred
feet or more high, it never stopped
them, but they shot up that ridge as if
they were being pulled up by steam
engine, slid over the top of it in a jiffy,
and in less than three seconds were
tearing down the other side faster than
ever"
The smile had gradually left the old
settlers face. He had ceased to beam,
and was clutching his cane nervously.
"Suddenly," continued the County
Clerk, when Panama had made up his
mind they'd never stop much this side
of sunrise, they struck something. The
next thing Panama knew he was crawl
ing out from under the roof of a house
that had fallen on him. The bear was
crawling out on one side of him, and on
the other, from among a lot of logs,
shingles and household furniture of
various kinds, came Curly Ben Tee
ter, the most astonished and worst
tore-up looking man that ever trod the
foot-stool. AS soon as he could get his
breath, he exclaimed:
"'What under the gol durn canopy
has dropped on us? Be we struck by
ightnin', OF be we ratified up by an
arthquake?'
Panama took it all in at once. The
bear had got out by this time, and was
ready to begin the fight all over again.
It's only me, just got in with that
bar We we're so durn anxious fur to git,
said Panama. I wanted to s'prise ye,
so I come right in without knockin'.
Thar's yer bar, and I'm justa reckonin'
that me an Ketu is goanter buckle