Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-09-05

of a leetle to one side, an seed thet
performancesG I'd a laughed ter split
an, ef I hadn't ben quite SO cIost, I'd a
| done it as twas, but l reckoned as
'twouldn't be discreet-!east way I'd
better save it n few minn!ts. We navi-
gated DOWN that ar slope 'till struck
u big fiat rock that formed Il shelf,
leavin' a drop of about eight feet to the
next rock below.
''Soon's we got onto the first rcck the
,, grizzly clawed a halt. Lack war on
my side, fer when 1 stopped rollin', l
war on my stomach-side, ready to
jump.
''The sun came down bilin'-hot, in
| the open space, an it pcarl like the old
chap had just had his breakfast. an
war about to take his mornin' nup
| when / disturbed him. an, now that
the sunshine made him sleepy, he
warn't goin' ter be cheated out ov it.
So he loped down side O me. an went
ter sleep, or ruther bout ez | had con-
| cluded thet he war asleep, he'd roll up
one eye. much CT ter say: %, I'm
| watchin' ye!' Ez these cat maps
seemed ter grow longer, made up my
mind that the time had come to try my
leetie game.
Il waited till both the hGute's eyes
| war shut, an then began - crawl fur
, the edge of the rock. 1t war mighty
slow work, an | hadn't got morn
! three feet away when he rplled up the
lid ter one eye, reached out his old paw.
with the claws run out full; length, an
hauled me back.
1T had ben bad move. an, besides,
l didn't know how much n,ere NV that
LIZ ~ Il rlSr IL
stand without gettin' rilcd. SO | Jest
! laid on my back till l llnowed I'd spilr
my compleXshun an make the ground
tired. That wouldn't do. so l rolle',
over: one: two! three!-I can tell yn
my heart thumped purity lively when
rolled over that third time-an' it could
afford to, fer the old brute snatched mo
up by the claws of one fore paw. e.:
handy ez thct thar cat picked up that
mouse n minnit ago. 1t didn't prick
none. Oh. no!
''Ef it didn't feel like cz though had
a pot hook run under my back bone.
an was being jerlled around by it.
then don't know how it did feel But
! the old ruttian war obleegin' enough to
land me face down. an, from the time
lay with my nose agin thet rock. it
must have looked like CT tho | war
mighty interested in its geography.
''Howsonever, I concluded it war q
mighty good place ter leace, This time
I waited til the bar got well under
way with his nap, then jumped to my
feet. leaped to the lower rock an 10 ado
fur the tree as fast as it war 'petlitc
to run in thet kentry. l could hear.
an nigh-a-most feel the old fury n
tarin' a'ter me like cyclone. When L
got ter the tree l made IA jump fer the
lowest limb, caugh. it, an swung up
jest in time ter let his claws zip under
me-
II never saw man cr beast half so
crazy ez thet bar war when he could
see me up thar in that tree, an couldn t
git me! You'd thot he'd a-eat his
self up--an' howl.--you could a hecrd
him fer two miles,
The other boys heerd the Jacket
an knoyved what was up. They crept
up on the old chap while he was
chawin' an clawin' away at my roost-
in tree. an sent five balls inside his
hide, an he went to sleep so sound that
he wouldn't a woke up If the whole
mountain bed turned over.
NO, thank'e. don't care ter play
monsp Ter 8 gslzsly agin!"
EoRBEsy GeEssRy.