The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-09

ez don't know that jist mentionin' Sile
CHESS name II skeer him inter connip
tions," says, AN their bloodll be or
my HANS" says.
80, says Bill. I put him outen his
Misty an kim home feelin' that il
want me ez killed the bar, but that il
were you, major. an that's the way ye
saved my lifer says Bill.
"Wull, Solomon said the Old Set.
tier, smiling blandly, after moments
pause, do you gether from this that
the bars know me. or don't yep
"Wull, / should say sou was the
landlords reply, somewhat non-com'
initial, but hearty. did you ever see
bars fight painters, major?'
''Humph! Acres on emf exclaimed
the Old Settler.
Does bars ever fight b'ars?"
''Tremenjus! Gosh. Sol! What bar
| fights I've see 'twixt bars and bars
II don't s'pose snakes an bars ever
fights one another, though, major.
| Course not
They don't! Who were teliin' We
they didn't, Solomon? Oh, no! Snakes
an bars never fights! Gosh, no! Ye
mowt ez we'll 'spect to see GELS an
mully steers fight ez snakes an bars!
| To be sure."
And the Old Settler shifted con-
temptuously.
| Course We didn't never see snake
an a bar fight, major" said the Ian
| lord,
| 81 didn't" snorted the Old Settler.
81 didn't. Say, Sol, if the squire were
| here, an it were him ez said that std
| O. you, I'd give him setch 4 settin' out
ez ID make him wish that he'd ben
born hundred years ago, b'gosh, SOS
| he couldn't lived to see the day!
didn't never see a snake an bar
fight, hey? Why, say, Sol! The liveli-
| est circus / ever see in the wild wilder
ness O Sugar Swamp, an one that
had wind-up so onmerciful an start
lin that it makes me shedder all down
the spine O my back ev'ry time think
about it. were a nip-an-tucS settc fer
blood an hair twixt a permisc'ous pas
sci o snakes an bar that were a
leetle slow O ketchin' holt o the sitti-
walton, but that grabbed holt on it at
both eends when he did ketch it. II I
should live to be ez old ez Methusalum
hisself, Sol, l wouldn't want TO see an
other scrimmage setch ez that IN
were! No, sir! Not fer a barl O rum
an two acres O tauZy!"
'If you had leetle speciment O.
them decoctions, major" limited Sol,
''mebbe We could recomember the
p'ints in that tussil sumpin' better, an
give us his'ry OF it."
THAT mowt make it STAN out more"
said the Old settler.
He tried it, anyhow. and 'throwed
his mem'ry back"
''If We don't know it, Sol, ye'd orter,"
said he, that when snakes hunks in
fer winterin' over they hain't p'tic'lar
what each others names is or whar
they come from. Snakes that's pi'son
an snakes that's unpi'son all turns in
together like lovin' brethren, though
durin' the summer the pi'son fellers
an the unpi'son fellers has an ugly
grudge ag'in one another, enough to
make human bein' weep. But when
cold weather comes along an the
snakes begins to hunt fer their Gens
all O. them grudges seems to be
dropped an rattlesnakes, an black
snakes, an milk snakes, an BLOWN
adders, an garter snakes, an copper
heads, an hoop snakes, an all kinds O
that'll kill bull, an them that's ez
harmless ez suckin' doves. holes in to-
gether, an twists their sells inter big
balls ez lovin' an tender ez pieces o
ribbon tied inter true lovers knot.
I've see punches O snakes, b'gosh. tied
up bigger'n bushel basket, layin' out
in front O. their dens on nice sunny Oc-
tober days, an I've thrashed enough
rattlesnakcs outen them heaps to make
bar'l of oil!
''One October, long to'ards the latter
eend O the month, l were takin'
leetle jog through the woods in the
Sugar Swamp deestric', not p'tic'lar
lookin' fer bar, but not by no means
ca'c'latin', if did see one, to shet my
eyes an hold my breath till he passed
by. The day were warm, an about
noon / ruther wished I'd "a shouldered
my fail Std o my gun, fer l know'd
where l could go an gether in big
crop o snake oil. kinder logged over
to the spot, anyhow, an ez / were
DRAWN nigh the den in the rocks,
see pooty good-sized bar, lookin' the
rocks over in slow an easy way, an
/ kpow'd to wunst that he were pickiu'
hisset out place to hole mp in the
comm winter, .--ough it want time
fer him to bunk in yit, not fer a good
while. / stopped an watched the bar
& spell, an pooty soon what does he do
but slide hisself inter big hole in the
rocks without takin' the trouble to
knock or nothin'.
MIR. Bar says I, poorly nigh
larfn' right ont, IL the interestin' fam
'ly that ginerly rents them premises is
occupyin' of it now, an is to home
says i. I've a sort o. notion that vel
git a welcome in there thstll be apt TO
be s'prise party TO We; leastways,'
says l, If l know snakes We will"
Il hadn't hardly got through whis-
perrin o that when / heerd the sort o
snort that bar gifts rid Of when he
wants it to be understood, b'gosh, that
he hain't pleased durn bit, an the
mex second the bar come outen the
hole back ards, an lcavin' no doubt
that he were comm out in a big hurry.
he want long a gittin' ont, an he
were the anazinest lookin' beiu' ever
sot eyes on Hanrin' TO MS nose were
an all slsmuin' big rattlesnake, an
an other IN were danglin' from one o
the bars ears A biacksuake, that
must "a ben nore'n ten foot long,
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