Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-01-11
UNCLE IKE'S STORY.
How a Generous Bear Rewarded
His Friend and BenefaCtor.

How Generous Bear HeWaTueo
His Friend and Benefactor.
Speaking bout bahs," said Georgia
Munchausen in the presence OF Savannah
News man, ''you nevah hearn tell OF my
Uncle Ike a-teilin OF a story that want
rock bottom flck. He wuz in the HARRISON
fresh, and got out cypress ovah on Bah erik
when tho fresh it come. What mo didnt
know about bahs tho bahs didn't know
themselves He could tell whah Tho biggest
bahs used by the mawks on the trees,
and the young bahs by TIE little mawks.
Lohd, wouldn't this fresh We knocked him
all out OF jint He thought that wes big
food, aud he used TO tell US boys, 'Pshaw,
you young bucks don't know when thar's q
big rise in the rivah You oughten for tn
have seen the HARRISON fresh But that
amt comm TO my Uncle lko's bah story.
My Uncle Ike he was acuttin' Of cypress
ovah on Bah erik, and his shanty was pom
high knoll, and the watah had kivered every
thing in two states 'cepting that knoll One
night along about the turn OF tho night thar
come knock On the doh, and my Uncle Ike
SCI: Come in and who should step in but
big black bah. A light was blazn' from
pine knot in the chimley, and Uncle Ike riz
up in bed to see who mout come in on him,
and thar was the bah end the teahs was
runnin' down his eyes. My Uncle Ike was
about TO reach for his gun. bat when he seed
the teahs streamin' down he hadn't the
heart to shoot, and the 'pealin' look was too
much for Uncle Ike.
Drowned out, by thundah,' Baid my
Uncle Ike.
1.-THE bah nodded his head.
Hungry as bah, too said my Uncle
Ike.
''The bah nodded his head
IAN you'd "a soon lunch on mep said
my Uncle Ike, and this time he rocn for his
shootin' iron.
1.-THE bah shook his head and began To cry.
81 won't play a low down trick on that
bah, by thundahr said my Uncle Ike, If he
snakes me out. Thar's pot Of hominy ovah
by the JAM says my Uncle Ike TO the bah
help yourself
TIE bah went over and took the clap
boahds off the pot and went down in it with
his nose and eat half OF the mess.
go the who.e hog, says my Uncle Ike.
III have another mess inside OF It in the
mawnin' il ] amt inside Of you.
well sch, gentlemans, my Uncle Ike
says the bah eat the whole mess, and laid
down on the puncheons by the side OF the
bunk with 2 grunt The next mawnin' the
watah "; = a1p'n' the doh step aud w on
a stand. ana for fob days tue bah and my
! Tnc'e Ike 81 o ten thu same not On the
! fifth day the bah lcfj early IN thu mawnin'
| an that gu, - Ii; H. after the moon riz,
! w Tile nv Uncle IKE wac scttiny Nv he fire
| light spOk Il his corncob pipe AMI wonder
| in what had become of his cypress raft ana
| the bah. there comes the Same ran at the
| doh. aud who should come in but he iden-
! ukkle bah, not b. in his eyes, but his
! leetle back eyes rhone 'ltc a bed AMI he
lays down who e Los right by the side OF
my Uncle Ike.
"'Hog and hominy, by thun1ahp SAYS nv
| Uncle Ike Well, sab, the bah kept my
| Uncle Ike in hog and hominy until h tooG
the raft down the Savannah"
I'm somewhat Of a liar myself said one
gentleman, "Dut III not tell my a.gator
story on this trip and the Disguised la i've
bid 8 good night
"Now, thar's a man admitin' hos a lar
himself" said the man who tod the bear
story, land YOU couldn't expect him to be
lieve another man s story, but everybody
who knew my Uncle Ike nevoc hearn OF him
telling story that want "a rock bottom
| fack.n