The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-20
THE FARMERS WARNING
HIS EAR TOLD Hun THAT DAN
GER WAS NEAR.
us Buckles on His Armor and Goes Out
for Gamo-IIc Meets Big lear
They Fight and He Nearly
LoseA His Ear.

Possessed gin. sad Farmer George
slemming OF Clyde Hill. Pa. to New
FORK Sun correspondent IAN so I'll
sakc my gun with me out to the back
Or sh 10. Tor always see bear or
lw Id cat or coOr or fox or
,urip.n' o that sort when my right
oar smarts this way"
Then the furincr told about the two
bears three wild cats and half a
do en- 70 ,es he has killed in the past
.en years.
IAN Id never killed one OF 'em. "
20 sad II IL hadn't been for that
eight ear o mine warn.n' me by
,mariin'. They can. get away from
;aa. ear It's sure sign"
30 lurmer leming TOOK his gun.
aich only has one barrel and somo
powder some bdcxshot. some duck
shot some bird shot and some fro
hot
Il can't K l. bear W III fine shot T"
~, SAID al ! don't want 10 tear u
u;rlcl or II RI )pit all Ia pieces with
Jacli shot IN then II it's IA wild
luck or Il croN I'm ii cd for them.
mink it : bear though. the way that
ight ear q mine doe; cyeriast ngly
,.,...,t.
Thea he welt away OF toward the
,t-,k brash lot. An hour or so later
! SHOT wps heard coming family from
Ina direct on,
II athers slhartin' ear hain't fooled
Am none j guess " remarked Mrs
armer Fleming as she said alter
ward, when telling about it, 'ic )
!ctchin' sumpin down, sure
In the coarse Of IA lew minute,
there was another shot; then ter
another interval Il third shot and
then n fourth. after which there wa
silence
Father must n run ag'in II hull
school o sumpin' rcmarkel the farm
er's wife. Ills rignt car must N
ben smartn uncommon powerful this
time"
An hour passed away and the sound
Of no more shots came from the back
brush lot
II was just on tho pint O sayin'
that guessed father had laid 'em all
out" says the farmers wife AN
was sort o. regrettin' OF it fearin' that
he was stockin' us with too much
meat an it'd moron likely Spite.
when l looked out an seen some one
limpin along to'ards the house as
II he was pc Serful tired. His clothes
as all torn to tatters so. an he looked
so kind O. mussy that kind O. thought
he was pesky tramp an / went in
an got the hot. water kettle SOS to be
ready for him II he gimme any O. his
nonsense He had one hand clapped
up to one side OF his head. an never
seen till he got most up TO the door
that 1t wasn't no tramp at all. but that
it was father an all l could say was.
La suzz George Flemin. what struk
youp"
That's who it was-Farmer Flem-
ing. He stopped at the kitchen door
and sank down on the step.
I'm Twin. mother" he said.
"but that sure-pop smartin' ear o.
mine was leetle too smart this time
an guess its disfgured some"
The farmer took his hand away
from the side of his head and the ear
he had been propping up Topped
down pretty near to his shoulder. 1t
retained Its hold on his head by the
simple tenure OF trifling strip OF
skin.
why. your ear is OFF, exclaimed
the farmers wife"
Il was thinkin' mebby it was as
was comm in" said the farmer
Guess you better shore it up little.
mother till ye kin slip down an git
the Doctor"
So the farmers wife bound the ear
In its place and hurried over to the
village for the DOCTOR who lost no
time in coming and doing his best for
the badly split member. Then the
farmer explained matters
when l got over to the brush lot
seen hawk. an chucked in
load O. duck shot Fore | could get
u whang at him he few out o range,
an along kim a red squirrel I
wormed the duck shot out o. the gun
an rammed down load OF fine shot
but the squirrel got away. Then l
seen a fox hide in brush pile an l
wormed the fine shot out o. the gun
an put back the duck shot Jist as l
was a goin' to let the fox have IL he
dove out o. sight somewhere. an
while ! was loohin' for him up pop
ped a gray squirrel into tree 1
twisted the duck shot out again an
rammed in the fine shot, but when /
kim to look for the squirrel he was
gone. All the time that right ear o.
mine KEEP a-smartin' worse an worse
an / know'd sumpin' was bound to
drop fore went home"
while was peekin' around fer
the squirrel heerd noise, an turn.
in round / seen bear about five rod
away. / never stopped to think that
/ only had fine shot in my gun, but
up an blazed away. The fine shot
just peppered the bear enough to
make him mad. an he come a-rippin'
to- ards ME like bresh fire. 1 run
round an round a big tree. loadin' as
run. but what did do but ketch up
bird shot an put 1t in the gun. was
so kinder rufIled up. / whanged the
bird shot at the bear but o. course
that didn't stop him. ! KEEP on run
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