The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-01-16

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 The colonel relieved the negro from time to time, and when the tree was about ready to tall, Bensly took the axe and said: "Rogers, call the dogs and hold them until the tree falls. Gansett take hold of that laJge dog. Don't be afraid of him. He won't bite you. All ready7 Here we go."
 The coloael dealt a few more blows with the axe. Screak, snap, boom The small dogs rushed into the waving lap J of the fallen tree. The large dogs howled and attempted to break away.
 "Great Ce ar l" exclaimed the colonel, spripging on to the stump, "turn loose the big dogsl It's bear l" Len turned loose his dog and took to his heels, but, soon regaining his presence of mind, and, ashamed of his flight, he returned.
 Rogers" cried the colonel, "run to the house and bring my gun. He'll kill all the dogs'
 The bear had been wounded by the fall, and although unable to defend him self with those cool and summary move ments of destruction SO well known to canine prowlers of the cane-brake, yet in a very few minutes he had killed two of the dogs and had taught the others to keep healtbful if not a respectful dis tance. Rogers soon returned with the gun.
 Do yeu want to Kill Aim, GAnsett ?" tho colonel asked.
 "No, believe not"
 What, wouldn't you like to say that you had killed bear?
 "Not wounded one"
 "Well, he has to dis," said the colonel as he cooked the gun. "lt is impractic. able if not impossible to give him liberty and, upon this hypothesis he deserves de4th. Here he goes"
 The bear rolled over and the dogs, knowing that all danger was past, rushed upon the fallen monster and then tough, among themselves.
 Rogers," said tho colonel, "l forgot to tell you to bring butcher knife."
 "l fotch one, sah."
 "Au right. You'd better stick the old gentleman and then get the mules and drag him to the house. It's the first bear l ever saw in this neighborhood, Gan sett. Guess he came out of the bottoms on foiaging expedition. Well, suppose we go to breakfast"
 Immediately after breakfast Len set out, as his grandfather had requested, to summon the neighbors to the log rolling Every one was willing to come. Sum- moning a man to log rolling is appeal ing to his honor. The most shiftless man in the neigh borhood. the man who cares not to work for himself and the seat of whose jsaas trousers are thread bare, is generally the best maa at a log rolling. Luxemburg was feeble and sleepy in q calm, but in battle his eyes flashed and his bearing became august. In every day affairs the leader of log rolling is zy and his words are uttered with weak and peevish accent, but when he steps upon the ground where he handspikes are in readiness, his as- oect undergoes an ennobling change His voice is clear and ringing, and, with ! mathem atical eye, he sees the weak point of every log. Braley, whom Mrs. Iansett had said was as "pore' as usual, vas this sort of a man. Had he not been in the invitation, he would nave been grieviously offended. In cold weather he was nearly always out of wood, and during sleet or snow storm, the | near neighbors could hear the reluctant strokes of his axe as he attacked saplings which grew within easy reach of his house. His boys wore clothes too large Eor them, and 1t seemed that his girls al- ways wore winter dresses in the summer and summer dresses in the winter.
 Braley's house. built of round logs, was sasy enough to find, not because 1t was built on an eminence, for it was not but because if any one should be near, the ~hooping and yelling of the children would attract his attention and guide him 10 the place. When Len dismounted from his h ,rse and entered the yard, sew eral boys and girls, catching sight of him, uttered exclamations not unlike the sounds made by hegs when taken by sur prise, and scampered away. Some of them broke for the stable and others unable to chamber over the fence, crawled under the house. A gaunt man came out