The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-24
81 IopER'S AMAZING BEAR.
,rDENcE AND SHARPNESS
Us sToNIsHED PASsADANKY.

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If Andrew jackson Bly's
.Io action Old Army Muslet.
from the New York Sun.
lines in the history of old Passa-
.~ry items Of news calculated 70 MAKE
Cam. had been brought in from the back
'''. t.,,+ if had been long time since
con- t,+elIigence had livened up things
any ,ba announcement which Noah
the mail carrier made one day as
i'.'. oo his horse and came into the old
tavern -. G, roner,s
bar .IIaoroyr they shouted. That's
prime" ~ 80 wanting
,on,nit himself to a positive statement
o,s.r,ys got bar, an from the way it'd
sctt they think it must be 81 Lo-
matter of fact, though, it wasn't
r.. 7,,er,s bear any more than it was
1oybojy elso's. It was called 81 Lopers
,..r because it had first made it's ap-
..rrooce at Sis clearing about three
before and tried to carry off Sis
.- while the pig was alive, and. being
,.5 had insisted on acquiring the pig
-s,.r if was dead. That bear had been
Mn, down by unanimous public opinion as
t,iDr not only the most impudent ana
t.,sis-en.. but also the very smartest
If which the annals of old Passa-
s,,iv had any record. Which was
,',,ar.3ble conclusion Tor that district TO
70 where there were chronicles OF
tg,,otpcs of bears so smart that any one
~ ,b.-7 might have been entitled to wear
,5s n3lm as an ursine Admirable erich
8, tonar and his wife lived four miles
,, IN tra woods from old Passadanky,
nr,r tb1 older still waters. 81 was
aver vcodsman and a fearless bear
",. lie would never hesitate to fol-
5,,.s b5grs tran persistently, day in and
dow out for six days in the week, oul
~ +,r seven. There was one day in the
YAK or which bears were perfectly safe
.,r, I.auer because that day was Satur-
AK and carry in life ST had firmly made
., riud that Saturday was the proper
,. n 1e.o as the Sabbath and he al
,r.rs Kent II with a strictness that would
tsya permitted a drove of bears to come
,rg and rum over him without his rails
ng4 tlnaer TO stay them But they want
e3 10 remember and look out for them
selves on Sunday.
Asf3s been said. this alleged bear of 81
Toners about which Noah Cronk had
brought the news in, had three weeks be-
fore that been hanging around Sis clear
ing for several days, and 81 had his eyes
nm H. And here is where the amazing
srartness of that bear was manifested.
Sb2da fat young pig that he intended to
4 bnteSer soon and it was this that the bear
was proWling around after. The bear
4 had made no positive attempt to get the
mg though. until a Saturday came. Then
he calculating old pig stealer walked
4 coolly and boldly out of the woods, made
ne wav leisurely towards Sis pig pen and
3 began deliberate preparations for taking
the pig away If you should ask any one
al old Passadanky why the bear came out
in broad daylight and proceeded confident
y and without concern on its plundering,
you would be stared at with surprise for
your stupidity, and would receive for re-
ply:
whats the reason fer that astoUndin'
bar actin that way? Why, he knowed
thatit was Saturday, O. course, an that 81
Lopez wasn't no more danger to bars on
Saturday than a springs lamb would be.
That bar know'd that he could go to Sis
ceern' Saturday an carry off the hull
caOoodle O. pigs an calves an sheep if he
wanted to- an 81 wouldn't as much as
go outen the house an boiler Shoe! at
him. That's what that amazin' bar
knowdm
As 81 Lopez looked up from the pages
Of a devotional book he was reading, and
saw through the window the coming of the
bear upon it's looting errand, he had to
10 icra IN iartriT1 ftG
sagacity, but he also had to smile, for he
felt that the bear had not builded quite
so wisely as it thought it knew. Smart as
that smart old bear was to have thus fig
ured out 81 Loper's conscientious scru-
pies against doing things on the seventh
day Of the week, it was fatally at fault
because it had not at the same time fig
ured out Sam Dingley and the way he felt
about Saturday.
Sam Dingley lived at old PassadanlIy.
He was Sis brother-in-law. He had gone
up to Sis Friday night to spend a few
days with him. This fact the cute old
oear did not know. When ST saw the bear
coming so confidently and aggravatingly
mpudent out of the woods, intent on car
Tlng OFF the pig. Sam Dingley was taking
nap on the settee.
Sam said 81, quietly waking Sam up,
you hain't got no pertickler conscience
4 Ve?
Me" replied Sam. mot durn bit.
nor on Sunday, nuther."
Look out of the winder, Sam" said
~ SUI quietly, "an' see If tha's anything
neadn fer my pig PEN
sam looked out of the window.
Sam.
Is that gun see hangin out YEN
oer N the kitchen, Sam?" said 81, still
It was a gun. and Sam found it, and
hurried out to use it on the bear. Bruins
ssaTpIlse al seeing a man with a gun at
- Lopers on a Saturday is described as
having been sight to see, and il left for
He woods on the double-quick, followed
W all the lead there was in the gun. And
Tla' was the start of the hunt for ST
aopers bear. Sam Dingley stood guard
SYer eIs pig pen the best part of Satur-
SSay night, and 1t was well that he did,
,,a ~. tAe pear came back four times to try
10 lucA with the pig, anyhow.
.Ae next day being Sunday, 81 took
stlual cognizance of the bear, and said
way oy the way he heard the bear was
rI.''s the only thing to do to save his
ms was IN kill 1t forthwith, which he
elu sam did. After they had killed the
ps ana dressed it, and hung the carcass
w 70 cool, they went into the house 10
~ Ihey had not been there more thar
ri ,4 an nour when Sis wife came RIM
'"t'h mo the house SCREAMING.