The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-02
FUN FOR THE BEAR, SURE.
a NATURAL HKSTORY E1FERI7EENT IN
THE KNOB COUNTRY.

EHE0OnFO VnN0 on tno lloyNNA MISUNDERSTOOD ~
Rruin-Hia Friend Ruts HIS IdeA Int
Practice On HEsettng n Besr-ERset on
the EFfond-UlttEato Ensct On Grssn.
MrLFoap. Pa, Sept All was more than
hall day before Jaybolt seemed TO get an ink
lin o what had been Roin' on" said the man
from the Knob country, !" and he sort q peeled
his ere MP to me and says:
yves there forty she bears come down out
o. the wilderness and smoto me hlp and thigh,
Dan1H' says he.
mo- says. and maybe Jaybolt wasn't no
kind Of q sight TO be laughed at; / had all 1
could do to keep from Dustin right out No.
1 says, there was only one bear. and he wasn't
q she one.' I says.
Then 1 didn't hoIer. go MP. old bald
head r. to any one7' says he.
mo 1 says. You didn't boiler nothin' Of
the kind. but II you should take q little stroll
around lest about now I says. somebody
mOwt boiler somethinI o. the sort to you. the
way that bear red you of considerable hair
says.
80 Jaybolt shet his eyes and thunk.
"Jaybolt was . rattlin' good Teller. az I told
you moron once before. but he had some queer
p'tnts. He was Of q trustin' and coufdin' build.
which mowt q went all right dow amongst the
Quakers, but want Jest cut and ftted to the
idees o'tho Knob country. Especially when he
come to try It on the rampaEin' works o. ma
ture there and thereabouts. 80. rattlin' good
Teller 90 he was. 1 got to setch q pitch that I
couldn't sec how I could hold in from telin'
him Jest what I thought o. him. IN account o
some o. his idees. and consekently, only the
day before his leadin' idee had been tried and
found wantin' I let out at him.
"'Jaybolt,' I says. for . Teller that knows 90
much as you do you're the durndest fool I ever
run ag'in.'
"'More'n likely says Jaybolt. Natural
born and In generalT r says he.
"'Well. no. I says. Il wouldn't want to 20
30 fur as to say natural born and in general /
says.
Jest as to somethin' pertic'lar. then, I q
IL ? says Jaybolt.
YES I saws, That hits it.
maybe It mowt be the idee I been layin'
down about en- says Jaybolt. Maybe you've
took to thinkin' that there mowt be somethin'
aleetle loose and shaky in the conk Of q Teller
that lays down setch an idee about EN- says he.
loose and shakyl' / says. We'll. / should
say sol Why. conSarn itP / says. You say
they won't 1ghtP
"'Not exactly. DanI.' says Jaybolt. 'Idont
say that, exactly. / say they won't fight unless
they have to. and my idee 10 that naturally
they're as chuck full O. fun as q clown in q cir
Gus. and would ruther work It of any time than
Tight says JaybolS. That's my idee. Dan1,'
says he.
"'Huhl' I says. and It was q grunt that made
Jaybolt jump. Has your experimentin' with
'em on your idee been considerable p I says.
at hain't been none. yit, says Jaybolt. I
hain't never met one Of 'em to try 1t on him and
prove It. But says he. I've read things about
EN-. and I've studied their pictur's. and in per-
tiolar I know what my friend Green told me.
30 I'm toler'bl0 certain that you folks's idee
that they don't do nothin' or carefor nothin' but
Goin' around snappin' and snarlin' and RAM
paRin' and lookin' for trouble ia as fur out O.
the way as the happy land o. Canaan Is from the
Knob country says Jaybolt. Your tdee that
whenever they make q show they Jest want
to pitch in and tear you to shoestrings,'
says he. is all wrong. They're only hankerin'
after fun. DAM. and want you to help 'em en-
says Jayboit. that Il you'd only wait and see,
sometime. you'd find out Not younever knoWd
that J ISI H. t t| AK; ' 1aas ,S ySSq1 /, ZEE s,S 2 SsS Sst II.
sQmethinr about 'em that1l be even moro than
A SJa 5s1e Go he smiled lied: Jest as il he felt sorry for
me 2 thinfip,t that way. which was so aggra-
show e sr SRe 81 E 'e% t Fas s sou9Ss T IRfiifR' 70 III It s0 Si No
0'ss99b1R anR Rsr ssss i sfbsSiii still a smiltn'. don't
i T3liE1yi man In sSsn amy my Old n ffien Sp GTeeni T T rSeq last
time 1 see him was only last month. over on
PS %i 2 y s%d I e6sa lIEdf hin q hS my i've Ssa S0S Re t teH' nnS
DanI; MET MsP se6 yo9a know Green 3 ? sayS dy1fydS SIti
GpTn t q an SITes sEes4 : says ka a9G I 1n give eo 9a @SoE
a look as much as to say that Il he couldn't
s kiesH IT than I thought he was But he only
'ie " sM1,s1 see seen ned tiokled to death over my
idee.' says he. aud said that It accounted for
somethln' that he remembered Of haPpenin' to
down there. and all Of q s1ddent he came slam
up aE'in q tremendous biz bear face to face;
fGnPe 9s' and 5dF S SR; Srf tSer sai lo;o KIN, at St SiR DuG GTes n
next minute. Green said he had the greatest
death and turn and run: but then It STRUCK him
that the bear was sctu,ly riIpnn n and looked
spread his face in a grin himself, He hadn't
never see a wild bear 6etore. and the more be
S mSGS t ne his sha m iGSfe s6a e tReT oH vans fRs mott Rothi RS
could make him believe that It wanted to pitch
.Shai ZEE 6el ~ IL Pun fGn you want, old eller."
says Green. and I'm just goin' to try you and
And what Dc you think Green done.
qlum, = trete and ketehed an eagle. / sRose!:
Jest laid down and rolled and kicked and most
lookin' as ifhe thought HIS friend Green mowt
stuck up his two fists and stepped lords the
bear. sparrin' away like q prize fighter. And
the bear he begun to bob HIS head backward
and forward and sideways. and put up his fore
drawed up closer and closer, till him and the
bear was fecin' each other. jest out 9, reach.
toed around for a spell. and then Green he see
sgood chance and he1et 60 and Socked his right
Green:
to the scratch as smilin' as the flowers in May.
Then i want long fore, he ketched Green
head that keeled him, over quicker'n q flash
and made everything Ting;, nav. er..n .tho+
the bear reached out for me Jest with the back
Of his paws"
It was only the fun O. the thing that the bear
was after: for 4 he had struck out with the nat
through Green. 'cordin' 10 what I've heerd as