Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-07-09

/ the house, stick his neau ous w
an begin to growl mighty biggety.
Then Cuff would come up to the hole
an begin to scratch and growl wuss'n
whole passed. o. the Tige breed O. aogs,
| tel Betsey, tired o. the music, Wouiu
take a big pine knot often the mantify
shelf. an go out an beat MIN
on the head tel he begged; tnen
she'd git q halter an tie him 10
the grindstone an let him stan
| thar tel Swan come down after him.
and though Swan allus come down win
her daddy early and got his supper, ne
never was knowed TO onte Gun Al
take him home tel after midnight.
Things went on this way Tor more
year, aud people said that Swan gar
rlson and Betsey Jarbo'd shore make
match, I'M l low they would ell MT
hadn't ben fer little counter-hopper,
down at the stow. After Betsey had
toted her aigs thar several times to sell,
and had found how he could bow an
scrape an compliment, she tod her
| daddy that the next time old Gun came
thar a-chasin' by old Tlge she aimed TO
tie a tin kittIe 10 his tail and SEND swan
home without his supper. This made
! old Jarbo a little mad and be told Bet
sew he had an idee she had tuck up long
with the little counter-hopper down al
the stow. SEE he, SCI he comes a.iooi'n
round here I'll set Tige on hlm. l
haint a-goin to have no son-in-laW wnat
never killed no bar.
Daddy" sed Miss Betsey, that's
easy done. Til jest git him to come
here an kill Cuff"
aye better not" sed old Jaroo, 10y
gee, hit would make Swan mighty
mad"
The gal lated heap at that and SEQ,
"Wall, never ye min, daddy, nobody
bain't a-goin' TO Kill Cuff fer awhile Yit,
ennyhow. l war jest a-iokin'."
Old Jarbo steddied heap about Bet
say's wltchment after Johnny, an hnai-
" made up his min to give him an In.
vite ND To the mountain TO XIII oar, al
then lose him in the woods. er sKeer
him SO bad he'd run clean outen AT
kanSaw.
Not long after this Johnny Gibson
came ridin' up TO old JarbO's cabin on
q fine bay boss, sho1 all round with new
shoes. He had a double-barPd shot
gun, a big howie-knife an two navy re.
yolvers. he had a quart bottle o
whisky; that was for the old man. ne
had nice gold ring wetn two golu
hearts both stuck on one arrar, hlt was
fer Miss Betsey.
The next day old man Jarbo an Tige
in company with Johnny Gibson ana his
big gun, sharp knife, an two navles'
went round in the woods, huntln' Ter
bar. The old man made Johnny go
through all the thickets O. bresn opur-
nus TO tar his fine close. He made him
walk slippery logs o'purpus TO make MIN
fall into the creek an wet his gun, an
onct in a while he'd git pore little John
nv tn climb q tree an look fer clerin',
to scratch his white han'san purity lace
all over.
About o'clock in the afternoon,
when Johnny was plum tuckered out,
as they was crossin' muddy place In
an old road, Jarbo stopped suddenly an
began to look down In the mud.
"I,ookJ thar" sezee, "see them thar
prints" YES" SEE Johnny what air
| they?" Bar says Jarbo, in power
fui skeoSy voice, "an' master big one
al that" Then he called Tige, an the
miuIt the crltter put his nose to the
track he begun to whine, an his har riz
aud stood up like porkypine qullls.
Sick him. sed Jarbo. Then Tlge
opened on the trail, and old Jaroo
told Johnny to come on; then
they run over logs an fallen
timber an stumps o'trees tel they come
to a bald spot on the side Of the noun
tain. Johnny was plum tuckered out.
"Looky thar" sed Jarbo, "d'Ye see
that thar cow trail by the treeP" YES"
seq Johnny. "Well, that's the track
my cows take when they 90 home. Ef
We get lost just take down that trail
an ye'll get to old Jarbo's cabin all
right. Listen TO Tlge, will ye?
he's comm this way" Shore
huff Tige was maxim the
woods and hills fairly ring. Old Jarbo
cooked his gun and got behind a tree,
an Johnny cooked his gun an got be-
hind Jarbo, an thar they stood, old
man a-lookin' like hawk a-sweepin'
down on a chicken, young I'm a-lookin'
like a chicken about to be sweep down
on by err hawk, They didn't have long
| Ter wall, ltI uIcChiJ hSlO SOmV AiBe,
but no bar. Hit war cold trail.
Old Jarbo caught Tige and tied a
string around his neck. "Lookey here,
Johnny" sozee, ~ know whar that bar
is. Hits in a narrer cave abont nifty
Yards up that hollir-hit will have to be
smoked out. You just take these
matches aud go up to the mouth
OF the cave and kindle q fire
OF dry leaves an sticks and he'll
come a-tearin' out dreckly. I'll stan here
an when he comes past I'll jest set
Tlge on him an we'll have bear
fight" Eyes, SIR" seq Johnny, "but
when l kindle fire at the mouth OF
the cave and the bear comes tearing out,
how am to get away"
"Git away" SEE Jarbo, "why, ye don't
need to git away-all you got TO do is
to lay down an let the bar jump over
you"
"Ef hit suits you jest ez well, Mr..
Jarbo, l druther hold Tige, and let you
make that thar fire." SEE Johnny, ser
I'm plum tuckered out"
"All right.p SEE Jarbo. So Johnny
| tuck hold o. the string, and
! old Jarbo went up to the cave
and in about three shakes OF a
sleeps tail here come the bar. The
minute Tige seed him and he seed TIge
he backed up agn a tree an begin 10
box. Then Johnny forgot everything