The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-02-01
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An Incident OF Legal Experience III
North Carolina,

An Incident OF Legal Experience ia
North carolina.
HANGING in front Of a downtown eat
.na house a day or two ago was che car
.sass Of good sized bear, to he 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
er, was passing the carcass, and the sight
oft brought out the following:
81 am not fond of bear meat myself"
said the North Carolinian, .'but down in
North Carslina some years ago there
lived an old and eccentric reconstruction
Judge who relished a juicy hear steak
more than a two-vear- old babe would
relish Inolasses candy. 1t WAS Judge
Mcloud Of Salisbury. The Judge would
ride twenty miles any day in the rough
est kind of weather to get n taste OF
il. 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 hat his
landlord had no bar meat for dinner,
as he usually had a fat bear about Court
time, especi lily FOR the benefit of the
Jedge.' Judge McLoUd was nervous
and fretful 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 some
geese which annoyed HIM with their in
cessant cackliDg. Several times he or.
they kept coming back until, wearied
=. vrfa nj rottnnno of Loot 1Nn pallnl tho
Sheriff and said sharply: Sheriff, 90
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 b hill was presented him for nine
teen dead geese-tkilled by order of his
Honor.
THE Judge stared on the bill in
am cement, but paid IL, remarking to
the Sheriff, That if he did order the
geese killed, he didn't think that the
Sheriff wa darned fool enough to do it,
Two or three of lis lawyers we're fined
for contempt for laughing at the Judge
It leakedsout that the sheriff had fooled
the judge, and the latter was wratljy.
In order to appease the Judge, the sher-
iii senta messenger some thirty miles
away to get q bear that q huntsman had
billed on the Tennessee line, and when
the Judge received the news a smile lit
up his features. and he began to dis
patch business i'll a hurry. Yum, vum!n
he was heard to say as he snnffed 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 were about twenty of his lawyers
who sat at tho table with the Judge, but
It was not known that any one but the
Judge McLoud rubbed his hands
and smaked his lips lis he took his seat
at the head ofthe table. for in front OF
him in a huge dish, smoking hot, was q
piece from the body of old Brnin almost
rs large as a tombstone in front of 4
country ~chnrchyard. The Judge reached
over and wllacked the steak about Ii e
middle and transferred the larger por-
ton to his plate, aud began to attack il
witflla vidity with kuife and teeth. He
didn't ask any one else to have any.
One Of the lawyers, q -bony-cheeked
confederate colonel. remarked that lie
believed 'that he would try a piece OF
the steak" whereupon he reached over
and whacked, eff about one.fourth OF
what was left on the dish of the bear
meat and transferred it to his plate.
Judge Mcleod dropped his knife anu
looked Indignantly and inquiringly at
the lawyer who had dared trespass on
his ~favorite dish, and, after a few mo-
ments, solemnly and scornfully re-
marked: "You'd better take It all"
The Judge muet already have mastica-
ted q couple of pounds. The poo old
man is dead now-gone where he will
have no more use for bar meat.D-N
Y. Tribune.