Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-23
UNCLE lkEs STORY.
low Generous Bear Rewarded His
Friend and Ranefncfnr

How Generous Bear Rewarded His
Friend and BenefActor.
speaking bout bahs," said a Georgi2
Munchausen in the presence of Savannah
Nctos man, syou nevah hearr tell of my
Uncle Ike a-tellin' of story that want q
rock-bottom fack He wuz in the Har'son
fresh, and got out cypress ovah on Bah
erik when the fresh it come. What he
didn't know about bahs the bahs didn't
know themselves. He could tell whah the
biggest bahs used by the mawks on the
trees, and the young bahs by the little
mRwks. Lohd, wouldn't this fresh'ye
knocked him all out Of jint. He thought
that was big food, and he used to tell US
boys, 'Pshaw, you young bucks don't know
when thar's big rise In the rivah. You
oughten Tor 30 have seen the Har'Bon fresh
Bat that amt comm to my Uncle Ike's bah
story. Ny Uncle Ike no was a-cuttin' of
cypress ovah on Bah erik and his shanty
was 'pon high knoll, and the watah had
kivered every thing in two States 'cept-
ing that knoll. One night along about
the turn Of the night thar come q
knock on the doh, and my Uncle Ike sez:
Come in, and who should step in but big
black bah. A light was blazin' 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, and the teahs was runnin'
down his eyes, Ny Uncle Ike was about to
reach Tor his gun, but when he seed the
teahs streamin' down he hadn't the heart
TO shoot, and the 'pealin' look was too much
for Uncle Ike
"'Drownded out, by thundah,' said my
Uncle Ike.
"The bah nodded his head.
Hungry as bah, too,' said my Uncle
Ike.
"The bah nodded his head
"' An you'd as soon lunch on mef said
my Uncle Ike, and this time he rech for his
shootin' iron
"The bah shook his head and began to
cry.
"I won't play 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
"The bah went over and took the clap
boahds of the pot and went down in it with
his nose and eat half of the mess
"'Go the whole hog,' says my Uncle Ike.
'pn have another mess inside Of it in the
mawnin' if l amt inside of you.'
"Well, sab, gentlemans, my Uncle Ike
says the bah eat the whole mess, and laid
down on the puncheons by the side of the
bunk with grunt. The next mawnin' the
wetah was lappin' the doh-step and was on
Uncle Ike ct outen the same pot. On the
fifth day the bah left early in the mawnin',
and that night, little after the moon riz
while my Uncle Ike was setting by the fire
light smokin' his corn-cob pipe and won-
derfn' what had besome Of his cypress raft
md the bah, there comes the same rap at
the doh, and who should come in but the
ideutikkle bah, not . teah in his eyes, but
his ieetlO black eyes shone like bead, and
he lays down whole hog right by the side
Of my Uncle Ike.
"'Hoa snd hominy, by tAundah' says my
Uncle Ike. Well, sab, the bah kept my
Uncle Ike n hog md hominy until he took
the raft down the Savannah"
'Tm somewhat Of liar myself said one
gentleman, ''but rll not tell my alligator
story on tins trip, and the Disguised native
bid us good night.
'Now, thsr's man admittfn' he's liar
himself" said the man who told the bear
story, 'tend you cOaidn't expect him to be-
ieve another mans story, but every body
who knew my Uncle Ike never hearn Of him
telling 9 story that wasn't rock k-bottom
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