Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-05
a GRITTY rENpERroor.
How the Boys Tried to "Do Up" the Nerves
Of . Young Englishmsn and Failed

How the Boys Tried to -Do Up" the Nerves
Of . Young Englishm.n and Failed
Prom the Philsdelphia Press.
I've done some bar hunting in my time,
reckon" said Grizzly Bill. pulling his shaggy
red beard meditatively and I've laid out bout
Is many Of 'em as most; but the b ar hunt that
we had right here. less i've years ago. nd lay
over any show as ever seen in the theayter in
Frisco. and this was how it was:
wed got young Britisher Just cum 10 the
valley that time who war death on shootin' and
carried nun guns and pistols with him to kill
every critter as cum out o the ark. He had
good stun In him somewheres, reckon for he
Civ heap o dollars to them sick folks down
Fever Hollow way, and he could rough II with
out gruntin' and growlin' at suthin' every
minute. Ike some ON EN-. But he did put ON
airs, that fact To hear HIM talk YOU d hey
though; the tallest shootin' in the Rockies
warn't in it along o his n, and at last the bows
got mad at his CROWN and me and two or three
more lowed we a show him some sport and see
what be war made of.
''One night Breakneck Ben cum in and said
he d sighted a bar trail on the hill above our
guieh, SO we sent of Scalpin Sam full split to
tell the Britisher
wal, l reckon that tenderfoot had grit in
him, though he war SIGH an etarnal fool. sam
lowed the b ar war bigger q butler, but the
up his rifle and came running up the gulch for
al lie war worth, and him and me and Ben and
Sam we all sot of together to ind the b ar
AS We went along l says to Ben, thoughtful
like:
ben. warn't ii right here as we found tina,
haif-eaten Teller whose name nobody ever
knowed?
You bet.' says Ben. He'd slipped down
| atwixt two rocks and stuck fast so rs ne
couidn git out agin. and the wolves they cum
around and gobbled up all the top half Of him,
chunk by chunk, and when We found him there
warnt nuthin' left but his legs. cause they
| couldn't git at them
And up yander, by that white stone chips
| In Sam, was whar the Dutchman lit the
grizzly. He'd let drop his gun down the
the bar got holt Of him and Civ him a hug
that bruck his back just he run the bowie
plumb into the bar heart Ii war even
game atwixt EN-, reckon, and the honors war
easy
| And so we went on, one worse'n tother:
tenderfoot worth q cent-he'd got grit in him.
| make no mistake
wal, pretty soon we got into Jest as mean q
place as you could think of to meet bar in
long. straight canon deep a mine, with
| rocks on each side that a catamount couldn'i
chmb-and whatever you met-no room 10
dodge or run-youd got to stand squarely up
| and fight it out.
Il was jest saying to Ben, Pard, if the bar
catches us here it'll be mighty rough on some
| OF u.s. when there came a snort and a growl
overhead and big bar cum tearin' down the
| gully full Sallow right at us.
We boys let strip, but We must ha' been
KIND o nervous, for We all missed, and fore
the Britisher could fire gripped his arm and
| said, Hold In till give the word, for If you
miss he ii lay out the hull lot of u.s.
The tenderfoot clinched his teeth and stood
| ready, and down cum the bar, But Just as he
got within ten yards held out my hand and
holered, Up! and up got the bar on his
hind legs and begun TO dance a hornpipe You
see 1t was a tame BAR, as wee got from French
Pete OF Dogtown to git the laugh on that Brit
! isher, and Pete himself cum along with If
and let 1t loose down the gully jist at the right
minute.
Wal, if ever l seen fellow look sick il was
that BritIsher jist then. Fact he felt so bad
that We were kind o sorry for him ter all,
put lore he quit he killed three genuine bar
himself and could laugh at that trick same az
We did"