Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-04-14
Heaps Of Fun for a Bear.
THAT IS IT WAS UNTIL MRS. PM
LEY BREATHED HARD.
I'll WAS spending day last faIl with

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the Pennsylvania hemlock belt. and
Uncle Potts and his jolly old WIFE," said
John Gilbert. the travelling groceryman,
"and had just sat down 10 dinner when
stub-and1twist of a boy, about Ten
years old. with very moist and much
turued-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 II 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.
".One O. my milk pans.' said Aunt
Thankful. 'Sakes. alive, Benny!
What's come o your mammy's?"
"Sniff. swab. by the boy. and then:
"'Whats come of IL? Well. Won
der If the bear didn't scrunch it? (Sniff.
swab.) An mothers got 10 have milk
pan till pap lin-now-go to town an
git her one
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"sHuh. huh said Benny. and went
out of the door. shifting and swabbing.
Aunt Thankful gazed at the door. still
daxed. when it opened again. and in
came Benny.
San you ought to see how he serum
bled the beeskip. GOSH
"Then he went out and didu'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. Whats
he drivin' at. anyhow?
"eDrivin' at?' 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 I s'pose there's been
bear havin' some fun with 'em down
at Pimley's nm has sort o mummixed
things 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
couple of times, he said:
"'Come on, John. Well go down to
Pimley's and see how good time the
bear actu'ly had with 'em. Pimley an
his folks amt used to bear, an It
wouldn't s'prise me none If bruin had
been havin' a regular Fourth o. July
celebration with EN-
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distant. Pimley was home-a thin.
gawky, stoop-shouldered man with the
inevitable hemlock belt yellow whis-
kers.
"'Hullo, Pint shouted Uncle Potts. Il
don't see nothin' of your beeskip. What
you done with it?'
''Pim raised himself up on his toes,
craned his long neck and gazed off
toward 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 better place
for it than up here in the yard"
"'The bear 'peared to think So re-
piled PIN. i didn't have no say about
it, not in particular
. "'Bear?' said Uncle Potts, as if sur
prised.
POTTS. said PIN, there's been the
consarndest commotion on these prem
Uses durin' the past few days that
there's been anywhere sence Pharaoh's
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
il was a smollickin 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 onpoiite 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 boiler, though
was in the buckwhit field. clean on
t'other side o. them woods gender.
"."It's either the house afire or
lightnin' rod peddlers," says to my
self. "or Samantha wouldn't never open
up like that!" an so struck it lively
for home. | 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. | wasn't long in gittin'
home. could hear Samantha yelpin'
every foot of the way, but the fust thing
l see when | hove in sight was bear
standin' 'twixt them two apple trees
yender, snifiin' at the beeskip, which
was standin' on bench there at that
time. he havin' changed his mind about