The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1895-04-20
Bunk In a Tight Place.


pay them visit, the Deacon embrace
the opportunity, last week to fulfill the
promise and just as the sun was setting
reached the foot ofthe gulch in which
their cabin was built. Bunk seen hin
coming, and with a nHarrayn thai
showed his lungs to be in good condi.
ton, and the heartiness of which wa;
evidence ofthe Deacon's welcome, came
running to meet him and in a few min
utes, with the support of Bunk's power
full arm the Deacon had gained the
shelter ofthe cabin and received an
equally hearty welcome from Bunk's
partner.
In few minutes supper was an
nounced and the pare mountain air
and the exertion of the climb caused
the Deacon to do ample Justice to the
bacon and beans and other "grub"
which was provided in abundance.
After supper, while sitting around
the fire, the Deacon asked Bunk what
was the worst scrape he had ever gotten
into.
"Well," replied B unk, "I sceercely
know. rve been in SO many burned
scrapes and each one seemed WISER
than tother that it's hard for me TO say
which wur the worst. Howsumdever, |
got into one onct when wur kid that
think wur about as clost a place as
wur ever in and l reckon when | tell
you, that you'll say had a rayther
tight squeeze of it.
when wur a youngster bout ten
year old | wur sup ,,osed to kinder keep
tally on the hens and gather up the
aigs, and every eYenin' me and my
little sister ust to 60 a-nosn' round in
every possible and impossible place
about the barn and straw stack, think
in mebbe some ole hen had made a
new nest.
''Pa had a ole SOW runnin' loose
round the barn and in her spare time
she had undertook to run a tunnel I'M
der the straw stack and had got about
twenty feet of it done aud one night
happened to think that mebbe the hens
had made nest in there. So | tells
my little sister to watch outside and
not let the ole SOW come in while l wur
in there never thinkin that mebbe the
ole brute wur already there, but she
Wur.
81 started in and had got more'n
half way to the eend when the ole SOW
Eeerd me a-comin and she concluded to
Mat wur a-tryin to jump her claim
and she'd get out. heerd her in there
and concluded to back out and leave
her in possession but the durn fool hog
wouldn't wait 3nt here she come and
tried to pass me. The consequence wur
we both got stuck, for the hole wurn't
more than big enough to accommodate
one of US at time, and when the ole
fool SOW found she wur stuck, hoglike,
she got ali the more determined to get
apast me.
"Well, yelled and tried to back out
and the ole SOW she squeeled and tried
to get by mo and atween us we raised
sech din that my little sister turned
in to yellin' too, thinkin' that would {
help us out spose. The ole SOW had {
me pinned up agin the side of the wall
till could sceercely breathe and wur i
shore she'd break every bone in my (
body sfore she'd get by me. To make
it little wusser, the ole SOW, just afore
she had crawled into the stack, had
taken bath in the dirtiest hole she
could find in the hull barn yard and i
Iimburger cheese wurn't nowhere to l
the way she smelt. O
"She finally got a-past me and with a a
waugh" jumped out'n the hole jest as Ii
my little sister had squatted down to
peek in to see how the scrimmage wur il
a-commin' on, upsettin' her heels over e
1ead, and with another "waughn she n
uu ronnd the corner of the barn. Il
packed out,n the hole without buntin' b
or aigs and wenttothe house but didn't I
20 in. ! got my ma to hand ms pan IL
i water and another pair of pants III
trough the winder and went out to the 81
arm and washed myself and changed q
ny pants. p'
THAT, Deacon, wur about the closlest :
lace | war ever in and that squeegin' "
Iur the reason growed up kinder lank o.
nd fiat. / think the ole SOW must 20
ave misplaced come of my in'ards, Il
But reckon yore tired, Deacon, so w
'st roll into my bunk there whenever VIZ
ou get ready and me and my pardner Oh
i'll double m for to-niohtU