The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-03-28


nowt say, just about 'midships lie
ketchod it with them horns, zip! an
the wolf WAS laid open like yc mowt
cut Watermelon, half an half
II want we'll fer month artcr that,
but the steer didn't seem to mind the
scrimmagc u bit. 1t seemed to wake
him up to an idee that life had sumpin'
IN it that he hadn't lnowcd afore IIo
wouldn't STAN it no moro to be shct up
IN his shed, but was bound to be left
out in the yard. So let him have his
way. One mornin' found seven dead
wolves strewed in the yard an outside
the fence. Mother mornin' 1 found
nine, an they was ripped an stomped
uncommon awful! AFTER that, wolves
give that clcarin' o. mine the go-by, /
tell yc, an was sorry, fer the steer
Jist pined an pinned, an one night
jumped the fence an went away.
couldn't find him to git him back, but
l hcerd on him now an then. He was
spcndin' his time in the woods huntin
wolves, an when the last wolf that
was left in the InjiE creek deestric' got
Lonesome an dug out tonrds the set
tin sun, l think that steer follered his
trail, cause l never hecrd o him nor
the wolf ag'in
Zone night woke up, down yonder
on the clearin, an hccrcd my two pirs
q squcalin', an my COW an the oxen
bcllcrin' an thumpin' in the barn like
rs if they'd kick it down.
Susan says TO the old woman,
'thas most onhccrd of rumpus goin'
on out there among the critters saws.
Seems 50, Job says she. Cit up
she says, AN go see what's a-stirrin' of
'cn up.
$50 got up an slid my clothes on,
an hustled out to see what the fuss
was all about. The moon was shinin'
most like day, an as / trotted over
toard the pig pen / see what the
trouble was Two big bears was in the
pen worllin' their very pooticst to hist
one o my pigs out over the side o. the
pen, which was only Il sort OF a square
concern, laid up with logs four foot
high.
" Pork is porll!' 1 says. Il hain't ben
n-fecdin' them pigs up to this notch o.
heft for bears to come in an lug off, L
says
$50 run back to the cabin an got
my gun. If the gun had had sumpin'
in it with more business to it than pi-
geon shot, the hull trouble would ben
settled consarncd quick. Pigeon shot
was all it had in, though, an if Susan
herself hadn't been loaded fer bear, I
dunno know how things would come
out When l run back fer the gun,
says:
"'s Susan says 1, bears! Thcy'm
talin' away our porll!"
" BE thcy?' says Susan, gittin' up an
griffin her teeth Most astoundin'
woman, Susan was DO they?' says
she. We'll see about that!'
Susan didn't even stop to put her
stockin's on. She grabbed n double
bittcd AK. an hollcrin' fer me to come
on with the gun rushed out to hev u
little argument with them bears.
The bears was still strugglin' to git
the squealin' pig over the fence, an the
cattle was thumpin an kicl1in an bel
lerin', sympathizin' with the pigs, an
tryin' to sl1eer the bears away. Me an
Susan got to the pen, an I rested my.
gun on the top log O. the fence an
blazcd away. The end O the gun bar'l
want two feet away from one O. the
bears, but my nerves must a ben
leetle upset, for instead o. borin' hole
clean through the bears head I only
jis t shot away his fore paw. That was
sumpin' the bear wouldn't stand with
out findin' fault. If I'd a-borcd hole
through his head he wouldn't n said q
word. But to hev his usefulness
knocked inter cooked hat by the
BLOWN off o one o his paws was too
much, an he lifted up his voice an
made the woods ring and my hair raise
at the same time. An he come fer me.
So did t'othcr bear
'Good-by, Susan, says I. 'Ill see
you ag'in when Gabriel blows
cause thought my time had come.
Yell see me at brcakfastn saws
Susan. an she riz her ak an sunk it
clean to the handle in the we'll bears
brain. The bear dropped back into
the pen an never said another word,
but the ak was sot SO deep in it's head
that Susan couldn't yanl1 it out, an as
the bear fell back it wrenched the han
die outen her hands. The wounded
bear came right on. My gun didn't
hev no load in it, an Susan's weepon
bein' stuck in t'other bears head inside
the pen, we was in pooty ticlSlish quar-
ters, an was SO dumfuddled that 1
guess I'd squatted right down an let
the bear chaw me up, but Susan was
there.
JOB says she, 'scootn
AN scooted an she scooted. We
scooted fer the house, the darn ugly
bear limpin' artcr us on three feet. We
got in the house jist in time to shet the
door in the bears face Great Jem-
ina! how he did howl an roar an
scrape! He was bound to git in an
hev it out with us l jist wilted down
an bellered. 1 say it now. That's