The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-25
BETTER TAKE TIP
An Incident of Legal Experience N.
North Oarolina.

Hanging in front Of a downtown eat
ing house a day or two ago was the car
cass of a good sized bear, to be served
up in steaks for all lovers of that sort of
food. A resident Of the old Tar-Heel
State, in company with tribune report
err, was passing the carcass, and the sight
of it brought out the following:
81 am not fond of bear meat myself"
said the North Carolinian, ''but down in
North Car slina some years ago there
lived an old and eccentric reconstruction
Judge who relished a juicy bear steak
more than q i~wo-vear.old babe would
relish molasses candy. 1t was Judge
McLoud OF Salisbury. The Judge would
ride twenty miles any day in the rough
est kind of weather to get a taste 81
bear meat. as he called
it. His Honor was holding
court at Franklin, in Haywood county,
among the mountains OF western North
Carolina, one day, and was much dis
appointed when he learned that his
landlord had no sba'r meat for dinner,
as he usually had q fat bear about Court
time, especi lily 'for the benefit Of the
Jedge., Judge McLoud was nervous
and ffatful for the first two or three days
Of Court, and caused some merriment
by ordering the Sheriff to drive away
from in front of the Court House come
geese which annoyed him with their in
ccssunt cucniiug. several times no Or
dered the geese to be driven away, but
they kept coming back until, wearied
Iut Of patience, at last he called the
Sheriff and said sharply: Sheriff, 60
out thar and order every ore of them
thar darned geese killed. and send the
bill to me- The Sheriff penned them
up; but imagine the Judges surprise
when a bill was presented him for nine
teen dead gee~se-'killed by order of his
Honor
1.-THE Judge stared on the bill in
am cement, but paid ii, remarklng to
the Sheriff, That If he did order the
geese killed, he didn't think that the
Sheriff was darned fool enough to do it,
Two or three of us lawyers were fined
for contempt for laughing at the Judge.
1t leaked out that the eheriff had fooled
the judge, and the latter was wrathy.
In order to appease the Judge, the sher-
iH sent a messenger some thirty miles
away to get q bear that a huntsman had
killed on the Tennessee line, and when
the Judge received the news a smile lit
up his features, and he began to dis
patch business In a hurry. Yum, vum.'
he was heard to say as he snulfed the air
redolent with the perfume of broiling
bear steak. The Judge could not con-
tain himself, and ordered q recess an
hour before usual time for dinner.
There yere about twenty of his lawyers
who sat at the table with the Judge, but
it was moi known that any one but the
Judge cared a fig for bar meat
Judge McI4ond rubbed his hands
and smaked his lips as he took his seat
at the head of the table. for in front oil
him in y huge dish, smoking hot, was a
piece from the body Of old Bruin almost
as large as q tombstone in front OF a
country churchyard. The Judge reached
over and whacked the steak about Ii e
middle and transferred the larger por
ton to his plate, aud began to attack ii
with avidity with klife and teeth. He
didn't ask any one else to have any.
One OF the lawyers, a b6rF-ehatke
confederate colonel. remarked that he
believed ''tI at he would try a piece OF
the steak" whereupon he reached over
and wliacked IF shout one-fourth OF
what was lett on the dish of tile bSar
meat and transferred it to his plate.
JUICE Mcleod dropped his knife anu
looked Indignantly and inquiringly at
the lawyer who had dared trespass on
his f~ayerite dish, and, after a lew mo-
meDts, solemnly and srornfully re-
marked: You'd better take it all"
The Judge murt already have mast:ra
ted a coupe of pounds. The poor oil.
mar is dead ~now-gone where lie will
have no more 6 for bar msat."--N
Y. Tribune.