The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-07-15
THE OLD SETTLER:
His Story OF the vengef1l Bear and
Unfortunate Putorbow.

His Story OF the vengenal Bear and
Unfortunate Putorbow.
eft takes a pooty durn cute Teller to
do wat Joe Ball done t'other day. over
back o. Pison Brook Holler," said the
Squire.
AN watts Joe been a-tloin' of that's
40 orful cutc?'' asked the Old Settler.
ssKetched a ycarlin' bar asleep, an
got rope around its gullet fore the
bar could wake up an clutch him. re-
piled the Squire. 49,
Joe done that?'' the Old Settler
queried.
That's wat he done, said the Squire.
''An more'n that. he drew the critter,
spite of itself, all the way to his clear
in; an he's got it tied to'a post, safe
an sound SO they tel. me-"
''Wull, an L got to say, then, is, that
Joe Ball better keep his eye peeled!'
exclaimed the Old Settler, with an omin-
Gus shake of his head. eff tha's anything
TINT bars won't never forgit nor for
give it's bein. l<etched an done fer
vile they'm asleep. If they'm took in
arter a squar' stan'-up-an'-take-dry-
knocks rumpus an rassc1, thcy'rn will
IN to so along an say no more about
it, cause they've had 4 fair chance an
1t were their own fault if they wa mt
up to the mark. But if ye- sneak on
Aaslcep, look out, bgosh! Then they've
got it in fer We, an they'll git even.
an make tia sorry day fer we wen We
took i'm in that way! Joe Ball wants
to keep his eye peeled. Squire:''
'Poofr' CIRCULATED the Squire, scorn-
fully.
cit may be poof, an it may be puff,
an it may be piffr' the Old Settler ex-
clnimed, but I know wat I know,
b'gosh! Poof! That's wat Simeon
Futerbow said touan anclster o mine
wunst, an mcbbe he didn't live to
see the day he were sorry fer it! SIM
con had snucl< up on 4 slccpin' ycarlin'
bar jist the same this here Joe Balls
ben an did, an he got rope on it an
drew it into his clearin' an tied it to a
pole.
Simeon says my ancistcr, 'yuv
run head fust ag'in the natur' O bars
by dom O this here says he. AN if yc
don put bah inter that bar an end
its future right hcrc,' says he, 'tha's
danger ahead O We, b'gosh. bigger'n n
stack o bog hay says he.
"An' Simeon turned up his nose an
says:
=: sPcof: says he.
'"An' my ancister shook his head and
went away, sorrcrin', we'll he movvt,
fer he know'd bars from A to lizard,
an he l<now'd tina were day o rcck-
cnin' comm fer Simeon if he didn't kill
that bar he had -snucl< up an l>etc1led
vile it were sleepin'. An bars IL be
bars to-day, jist the same CT they was
then. feel sorry fer Joe Ball, b'gosh
I do!'
We'll, major" said the squire, ag-
grava tingly, 'P'ison Brook Hollcr an
Sugar Swamp is differ'nt.''
''Differn't! should say So exclaimed
the Old Settler. can that's w'at'll
make it all the wuss fer Joe Ball. That
r. ia lin ,,rr1v, S;.<
he got ketched asleep; but gettin'
ketched asleep in setch Il deestric' az
Pison Brook Holler! Jec-whizz! That'll
make him SO much wuss that tina hain't
no tellin' wat he won't do to Joe wen
he gifts the chance. There's where Joe
wa mt smart. If he'd give it out that
he lzctched the bar in Sugar Swamp, the
par mowt felt grateful to him, an
1ncbbe let up On him a ]eetle, but to be
kctched-ssieep an then to hcv folks
5-:Inovv that be were ketched in the Pison
brook deestric; no bar that thinks any
out maxim things hum to git even. But
mebbe the bar don't know that you
come from P'ison Brook Holler. Squire
If he know'd that, mcbbe ne wouldn't
feel SO ugly, an wouldn't hev it in SO
bad fer Joe Ball. En- it is, though, I
know jist how that bar feels. Joe ortcr
know'd enough, b'gosh, to give it out
that he lketched the bar in Sugar
Swamp"
.. The Old Settler looked as if he felt
sorry for Joe's shortsightedncss in this
serious matter, and we waited for some
expression of the Squire's opinion on the
subject, but the Squire did not see m in
clined to give any, unless one remark
he made had some bearing upon it.
1--we alluz heerd,'' said he, ''that if
anybody were loolzin' fer agur an
idjits, he allu@ pinted straight for Sugar
Swamp. Tha's jist CT much agur there
ez tina ever were, but tha's one less
idjit. An he l,ain't dead, nuther."
The Old Settler pondered over this re-
mark of the Squirc's for some time, e-i-
IDENTIFY trying to think who it might be
that the Squire had in his mind. But
he apparently could not recall him, and
would not humor the Squire by asking
whom he meant, for he dropped the
subject and went back to Simeon Puter-
bow and his bear.
Simeon says my ancister, plug
that bar full o lead to vvunst,' says he,
or tha.1i come n time wen you'll set
down with sorrer,' says he, 'pervidin'
We kin set down at ALL says he. tho
chances bein' ag'in' it, Says he. That
bar were ketched asleep an it won't
fcrgit it, says he It's stuffed fuller O.
revenge than a grown hog is O. clover
SAYS he, AN ye want to knock that re-