The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-27
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! Heaps Of Fun for a Bear. :
THAT IS IT WAS UNTIL MRS. PM :
LEY BREATHED HARD.
IT WAS spending day last fall with

John Gilbert, the travelling groceryman,
land had Just sat down 10 dinner when
a stub-and-twist of a boy, about ten
years old, with very moist and much
turned-up nose, came in, shifted, ran his
nose over the whole length of his sleeve,
and piped out:
"'Aunt Thankful - now - mother
wants to know if you won't-now-lend
her one o your-now-milk pans till
pap kin-now-go to town an git her
one
'Then the boy shifted again and
swabbed his nose once more with his
sleeve
lone O. my milk pans!' said Aunt
Thankful. 'Sakes, alive, Benny!
What's come O. your mammy's?"
''Snff, swab. by the boy, and then:
"'What's come of it? Well, l won
der if the bear didn't scrunch it? (Sniff,
swab.) An mothers got to have milk
pan till pap kin-now-go to town an
git her one
The bear scrunched itn
"'Huh, huh,' said Benny, and went
out of the door, shifting and swabbing.
Aunt Thankful gazed at the door, still
dazed, when it opened again, and in
came Benny.
can you ought to see how he serum
bled the bees!lip. GOSH
Then he went out and didn't come
{ back. Aunt Thankful returned to her
place at the table by and by, but still
not at her ease.
"'Drat that boy!' said she. What's
he drivin' at, anyhow?
"'Drivin' att? said Uncle Potts, who
hadn't lost second during all this con-
Versation between his wife and Benny,
but had kept right on with his dinner
without apparently hearing either of
them. 'Drivin' at? Why nothin' par
tic'lar, except that s'pose there's been
bear havin' some fun with 'em down
at Pimley's an has sort o. mummixed
things a little
THAT was the end of the incident for
the time, but after dinner was through
and Uncle Potts had lit his pipe and
walked out to the barn and back a
couple of times, he said:
Come on, John. Wen go down 10
Pimley's and see how good a time the
bear actu'ly had with 'em. Pimley an
his folks amt used to bear, an it
wouldn't s'pr-se me none if bruin had
been havin' a regular Fourth O. July
celebration with EN-
80 we went down to Pimley's, mile
distant Pimley was home-a thin
gawky, stoop-shouldered man with the
inevitable hemlock belt yellow whis-
kers.
Hullo, Pim!' shouted Uncle Potts 4
don't see nothin' of your beeskip. What
you done with it?'
PIN raised himself up on his toes,
cfaned his long neck and gazed off
toward a field that stretched away be-
low the house. Then he got off his toes
and turned to Uncle Potts.
"'Git up on the fence an you kin
see it, said he. It's kind o. skittered
about some, though. Down yender in
the turnip patch
DO you think that's a better place
for it than up here in the yard?'
"'The bear 'peared to think So, re-
IiiNb L liil' L hlull llSiN Z ~ say dDoul
il, not in particular
"'Bear?' said Uncle Potts, as if sur
prised.
"'Potts,' said PIN, there's been the
consarndest connection on these prem
ises durin' the past few days that
there's been anywhere sence Pharaohs
hosts was swamped in the Red sea. My
wife is mebbe the peacefulest woman
there is in the hull ZENITH an breadth
o. the belt; consistently, she wasn't
'spectin' trouble when she took her
tablecloth to the back door to shake it
t'other day; but there it was. Least
ways, she had an idee that it was, for
it was a smollicliin' big bear, an it was
swaggerin' right t'ord her from the
lane yender, 'twixt the house an the
turnip field. My wife's the politest
woman there is anywhere in the belt,
but she was just onpolite enough to
slam the door almost plum in that
bears face an run to the front door
on t'other side O. the house yender an
holler to me, Benny bein' to school. My
wife's got the best lungs of any woman
'twixt here an Little Kittle, an con-
sekently | heard her holler, though
was in the buckwhit field, clean on
t'other side O. them woods yender.
''''It's either the house atire or
lightnin' rod peddlers," 1 says to my
self, cor Samantha wouldn't never open
up like that" an so / struck it lively
for home. l never thunk O. bear, cause
l only come here last year, an hadn't
no idea that the country was so fer
lyle in bear. l wasn't long in gittin
home. | could hear Samantha yelpin
every foot of the way, but the fust thing
/ see when l hove in sight was a bear
standin' 'twiXt them two apple trees
yender, sniflin' at the beeskip, which
was standin' on a bench there at that
time, he havin' changed his mind about
calm on Samantha after she was so
onpolite as to bang the door in his face.
The bees was buZzin' about him an dip
pin him, but he jest seemed to like it.
My wife's the sensiblest woman there
is from Pine Creek to the Sinnamahone
and consistently when she see me com
in she quit strainin' her lungs. didn't
know then how the bear had come on
the premises, but as | had reasons for
fhinl-in' I hnl - haitian. 81 ~, m, = ~,