Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-15
For the SPEcrAToR.
A Juvenile Bruin.

neighbor, illiterate, who sometimes made
| the word to suit the occasion Some OF
them were so expressive, we thought Web
ster might go farther and fare worse thar
to use some of them. sOnrestless" was
one, and young bear-aye, or an old one
either-is an active, live, expressive EN-.
bodiment of the word. We have some
times wondered what that venerable ances-
tor of ours did with the pair he had in that
''big rain we read of. As the old gentle
man was of an inventive turn, we have
thought that he fixed up small tread-mill
power that pleased Bruin all to pieces. as
he never once suspected when he and his
better half, side and side, were doing that
tall walking, they we're at the same time
doing all the washing, grinding all the cof-
fee, operating all the sewing machines, and
rocking all the cradles, for the old patri-
arch's big family. So much for introduc-
ton.
The traveller on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway, as he goes towards Goochland in
one direction, or Staunton in the other, if
he will cast his eye to the right or left, as
he approaches or passes the depot at Fish
ersytlle, will see 'young Bruin'' on his cir
cult few yards from the road. The young
gentleman has history. 1t was some
time about Christmas, some one coming
through the Blue Ridge in the direction Of
the Cremora mines, in a smart snow, came
upon an old feminine with three cubs, and
the poor old brute did not show fight, nor
did she stand ON the order of her going,
but went at once. Well. the poor fellow
didn't exactly have white elephant on 8
hands, but it amounted to much the same
thing, and whilst he regarded each one as
equivalent to a clear five, he was for mo-
ment non-plussed as to how to manage
them. We may suppose he thought it most
too much of q good thing, as with gun,
snow, brush to dodge, and all three in his
arms at once, if they had no teeth, would
have been hard to manage. He hied away
as rapidly as he could to Cremora, got help,
and soon bagged them all, as the old mother
thought discretion, &c. OF course, the
captor had them for sale. On reaching the
works, the keen black eyes of certain
party fairly danced, as will be discovered
presently and his five passed into the cap
tors purse Immediately. This gentleman
is we'll known to many of your readers, is
deservedly favorite, and whilst having
mining successfully, fre-damp,
dynamite, and all that sort of thing, didn't
harmonic with castles he was building, not
in the air, but on terra frma. as we will
show. For months past his young friends
have been twitting him about disposition
to swap Mr.. McCutchen Off for MIR. Pres
ton, and of being found singing away in the
choir occasionally, not only with the spirit
and understanding, but the way his black
eyes would sparkle, as if there was real in
splration. But the matter eliminated the
other day, when the county papers an
the purchase on the part of a GER
tain young man, of a well known farm, and
all concluded MIR. McCutchen was decidedly
in the vocative, and Mr.. Preston had not
only secured another liberal, public spirited
parishioner, but most admirable acquisi- |
tion to his choir.
Yet all concurred that before the under
ground arrangement to the top of terra
trina was decided upon, there were nnmis-
taxable symptoms Of his casting an anchor
to windward. He had determined on Sc
curing that indispensable prerequisite, some
one to preside, to pour out the coffee and
to darn the stockings. He showed himself
a very captain i'll management, in finesse,
in strategy. In management in securing
the aid, cooperation, and skill of junior
member, to operate on the intended, and
whisper good word in her ear-well, the
Juvenile Bruin'' might be regarded as a
very singular, very unusual sort of pres-
ent. Exactly, he considered that, and for
that very reason, saw it's efficiency. The
donee, if you plaase-he
could see would be elated at being the
recipient of specimen of zoology that
would at once make her the envy of all her
associates.
Yet, Mr.. Editor, you and your readers
will all, with one voice, affirm that our
young friend deserved success, whether
he attains it or not, at the ing enious and
handsome manner in which Bruin passed
from him, the donor, to tie fair donee. 1t
was after this wise. We have said that it |
was about Christmas; so that beside resi-
dent specimen Of the esculapian art, a
young man, belonging to the village in
which oar hero lives, there was another, |
much younger, at home on visit, yet whose
mother knew he was out and belonging
to the hea ing art also. Oar hero professed
to have business at the next station. in the
of Stau, ton, and with neat lit
tie chain around little Bruins neck, per- |
suaded our young friends to accompany |
him. They reached the station. Our |
youthful son of Esculapius, Jealous to aid
his friend, though a stranger to the fair
ones in q';estion, takes young Bruin in his |
arms, doubling the chain in his hand, and |
all marched up boldly to the gate leading |
into the premises. The senior M. D., it
was acquainted, and the young
ladies', and perhaps some of their friends,
who NAV have had an inkling of what was
to transpire, were all on the porch on the |
qui rjce, and, we can well suppose, inter-
ested spectators of the scene. Being very
much at home, as we may well suppose, he
let his friends precede him and enter the
gate, when he plead a most pressing and
unexpected engagement up in the village,
and incontinently and most unceremoni-
ously left.
Reader, the "Good Book" says some-
where, all flesh is grass. There was about
that moment, just inside OF that gate, un-
der the fire of from half dozen to a
dozen mischievous eyes, pair of youths |
that thought they were dudes, and looked
about in alarm for fear some of the bovines
might eat them. We will let the curtain
drop, but you will concur in the belief that
Young Br,lin has a. HISTORY.
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