The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-13
Gritty TEnDERFOOT.
How the Boys Tried to "Do Up" the
Nerves of a Young Englishmen.

Nerves of q Young Englishman.
From the Philadelphia Press.
1--WE done some bar hunting in my time,
1 reckon" sind Grizzly Bill, pulling his
shaggy red beard meditatively, ''and I've
laid out bout as many Of EN- as most; but
the bar hunt that we had right hero, less
Ave years ago, 'ud lay over any show ever
seen in the theayter in Frisco, and this was
how it wQs:
WED got a young Britisher just cum to
the valley that time who war death on
shootin' and carried huff guns and pistols
with him to kill every critter as cum out o.
the ark. He had good stuff in him some
wherer, reckon, for he Civ heap o. dol
lars to them sick folks down Fever Hollow
way and he could rough it without gruntin'
and growIin' at suthin' every minute
like some on 'eIn. But he did put on
airs, that's fact. To hear him talk you'd
thought the tallest shootin' in TIE Rockies
warn't in it along o his'n and at the last
the boys get mad at his CROWN and Inc
and two or three more lowed we'd show
him sport and see what he war made Of.
zone night Breakueek Ben cum in and
said he'd sighted bar trail on the hill
above our gulch, soNve sent off Scalpin Sam
full split to tell the Britisher.
wal, reckon that tenderfoot had grit
fool. Sam lowed the bar war biggeFn
BUTLER, but the Britisher warn't skeered a
bit. He just whipped up his rifle and came
running up the gulch for all he was worth,
aud him aud me and Bon and Sam
we all cot off together TO find the bar.
"As we went along says to Ben,
thoughtful like:
"'Ben, warn't Il right here as we found
that half-eaten Teller whose name nobody
ever knowedP
You bet, says Ben. He'd slipped
down atwixt two rocks and stuck fast so as
he couldn't git out again, and the wolves
they come around and gobbled oil the top
half of him, chunk by chunk, and when
we found him there warn't nuthin' left but
his legs, cause they couldn't git at them
Aud up yander. By that white stone.
chips In Sam, was whar the Dutchman fit
the grizzly. He'd let drop his gun down
the canon and had only his bowie to fight
with; 80 the bar got holt Of him and Civ
run the bowie plumb into the bars heart.
1t war an even game atwixt emil reckon,
and the honors war easy.
Aud 80 we went on, one worse'n tother !;
but, say what we liked, we didn't skeer the
tenderfoot worth q cent-he'd got grit in
him, make no mistake
wal, pretty soon We got into jest as
mean place as we COulC tnlnK OF 10 meet
bar in-a long, straight canon as deep as
mine, with rocks on each side that cata.
mount couldn't climb-and whatever you
met-no room to dodge or run-youd got to
stand squarely up and fight it out.
II was jest saying to Ben, 'Pard, if the
bar catches US here it'l be mighty rough on
some of US, when there came a snort and a
growl overhead and big bar cum tearin'
down the gully full gallow right at US. --s.
I'VE boys let strip, but we Eust ha' been
kind o. nervous, for we all missed. and fore
the Brfrishsr could fire l Gripped his arm
and said, Hold in till give the word. for if
you miss he'll 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 hollered, 'Upr and up got the
bar on his hind legs aud begun to dance q
hornpipe. You see it was a tame bar, as
we'd got from French Pete of Dogtown to
git the laugh on that Britisher, and Pete
himself cum along with it and let it loose
down the gully jist at the right minute
wal, il ever l seen a fellow look sick it
was that Brittisher jist then. Fact, he felt
so bad that we were kind o sorry for him
alter all, but Tore ne quit he killed three
genuine bar himself, and could laugh at
that trick same as we did"