Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-04-13
A PET BEAR
And Hts Peculiar Franks While hss
Alone on sunday.
A story OF Pioneer Days in whtaA
Bear and syrup are Badly
Mixed Up.

The old pioneer was beaiosod by tsos
children the other night who insisted
upon a bear story, aud after some show
Of Resistance he consented 10 tell Of . pet
be had when . soy In the pioneer dsyo
OF the West.
"l he'd bar myself, encs," said ho
"a little feller. Fathsr'n my big BROTH
ers brought him homo from q big hunt
they took ons tims, after they'd killed
the old mothor'n the other cub. He
vuE bout 81 big ez = big puppy, an
looked lots like one, Jest On fAt'a buvtsrs
with nice black shaggy hide'n tho fun
uiost face you ever saw, Hswuz oE cute
OF q kitten, an bout e7 misohevioua.
on's he got to know our ways he'd gss
into moro mischief than tn whole FAM
lily could keep him out nv, an II he
had at been so blamed comioal bed o
gone into tn meet barrel ez frosh meat
long before no did. Mother'd say q dos
on times n woek thet she'd enough ter
do 'thout wstchin' bar, an IL wouldn'a
be more'p an hour sfors she'd
be laughin at n pettin' him like tn rest
Nv us. He'd watch, n II ever she'd leRv'
the milk-house, SOS he could git ths
door open he'd pry roun' till he'd git in,
then he'd go for tn butter n lap ups
NuOle CROCK o knllh 'loTe you coulu SAY
Jack Robinson. N II she'd come AfteE
him n slap him over, he'd turn sur-
merset n come up right aide foremole
n paddle after her, 8 crytu' like . chuA
till she'd stop N pet him n ned Seem -
think ID wuz all right n 60 oil 8 hna
somethin' elas ter do. Then he'd So
down by th pond n watch tn young
ducks u geese till he'd optGh one n he'S
paw Il over n over n play with !s tilbs
tn old mother'd Jest raies th' biggsHs
kind o. rumpus n ty at 'un i'm q fury
That wus fun, n he'd never mind
10 till acme o. a. ID como dowE
n make him quit, n then he trot oily y
and aomsthln' else. BY the mex SUM"
msr Bruno, sH vo called i'm, got To bo
right smart bar, N more full o. mischief
n ever. One Sunday they was big
mestin' few miles Oh n We AL went
ahst Bruno up In th corn-orib q
thought he'd stay there all right, Ha
cried n whined whom he see Us all goIz'
& lssys him-hs liked company bsttsr'n
moat people n hstsd worsS'u pIEen . bo
Shet up We stayed ill 'inosi night n
when wa 20, home mother opened tR
docr--sho wuI ahead o. the rect Nv US
n isst stopped n held up her hsnda q
ssdi "Msroy on me Who's bin hersl$
n thsrs vus III Avfullest nss4
you svaE ssw. Looked like Ihsy4
bin tornado turned loose =
over n layin' evory whioh wsJ, p every
thin else n th' room vus mixed up a
soms Of Lhem. brokA, N all over tie
floor vul marks o. bars foet n the
the marks wus all sticky. One o. tn
vindows wur open, y all round 10 WA
marks o. bars feet They vent upstairA
too, u mother knowed in q miauts
whose feet he'd bin there n soon's ahs
got over her surpriss she begin tor gis
mad, n leat dew upstairs. Things there
wux bout eE they wu5 down stairs, bui
she didn't zee any Bruno, I'LL presently
abe heard kindly Eroan, n looked
roun', n nnally she see big bunch IN
ens o. lh' beds n turned down th' Govern
IN thars wuE Bruno, sure 'uough, teHt
plAstsrsd all over 18th maple slrup n
tookin' 10 shamsd and kindsT sorry 4
mother "a q laughed Z abe hAda't biR
go mad at tn stats ,Ehs found
thing, specially her best bed fer COM
pany. Il uE jest nacherly ruined, 'tTssa
IN mAple-s!rup n th' bar When We
some to oip her it all cot It uE plain 'noush.
TheI blamed b'sr'rd got o0t o. tn corn.
crib. Then be come moAeytn' round ts'
house q Ind somebody = play ith him,
n not dndin' nobody bed gon' down
suller & muse himself. He'd got : fosi-
In round tb' barrel O. maple syrup tiii
hs' got the faucet loose y n sirnp cons
s-pourin out Then he'd Jest put Ills
mouth v It m drunk I'LL he'd got plan
fall, m all the Hms he'd been q PAddlir'
In tn syrup a-runnin' out on tn aoes
I'll he'd 90 daubsd all over with Ia
Bimeby he'd got .iok 18th sc m uch sWsss-
MIN, ~ thea he'd climbed In through
Ihet open window Ter sympAthy,
n he'd pulled down bout sverythin' Ia
.h' house trytn' g And doctor. ~
" hen he couldnh and anybody he'd
nncherly gone up stairs 8 bed, Like any
In alid-hed tuksn many = nap IN
beds aloTe, n no amount o
" whippin' ever eursd him o. III trick
u 40 mother found him there, the sics-
eat bear you ever saw. We'll, that vuB
th' lsat o. Bruno. Th' rest o. tn farlilY
sed be made moat unoom mon good
satin, bein no nice n fat but 1 never
had tn heart = end out n 1 mover bad