Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-09

down there to see how the trap an the
bear had made it he most dropped
dead when he see that the bear had
been in the trap, but that findin' that
he couldn't git loose frcn 1t, he had
picked up trap, clog an all, SO Uncle
Eb read the signs, an lugged EN- OF
into the depths o. Big Tamarack,
where mortal man had never yit sot
foot.
can there it Isl groaned Uncle Eb
when he came home that day, way
down in the dumps. An there it'll
stay says he,' till the Judgment day
rolls round
when Sans Aaron heerd about
Uncle Eb losin' his bear trap he come
over to console him, but more pertic'-
lar to see Lily. Sans Aaron was the
principal reason why Lily said she
wouldn't marry young Jonas, cause
she had her heart sot on marryin
Sans Aaron, in spite O. young Jonas
big clearin' that Uncle Eb and Aunt
Sabra was pinin' to have in the fam
lily, though everybody knowed that
the way the most O. that clearin' was
got by Jonas pap was setch that be
ought to dled in jail std of in bed. An
everybody knewed. too, that young
Jonas was SKINNER an scheminer yit
than his pop afore him, an that the
chances was that if he didn't look out
he mowt pass over Jurdan in the place
where folks said his pap had ought
to passed over from. Yit Uncle Eb
and Aunt Sabra-nice folks they were.
ttoo-had their eyes on that big clearln
10 Jonas an was bound to have it in
the family. Sans Aaron he consoled
with Uncle Eb, an told him to cheer
up. ~ Att
"Pap kin make you another trap
lest as good as that un was,' says he.
with that Uncle Eb f1ared up an
swore that there never was nor never
could be another trap like that us.
can there amt no use fer yer to
come here no more on account O
Lily says he, fer now that I've lost
nv trap an that forty-dollar bear
SAYS he, that clearin' o Jonas's is
wanted in the family more'n ever, he
says.
Young Jonas he come over to con-
sole with Uncle Eb, too, an felt so bad
over Uncle Eds losin' of the trap that
even Lily couldn't help but feel sort
O. kind towards him. though she KEEP
sayin' to herself that she'd never mar
nv him, never! But the night young
Jonas come over, two weeks after the
trap was lost, an knocked, Uncle Eb
mos into fits by sayin' that he had
found the trap, was the end O Lily
holdin' out. Jonas asked fer her
square out an out, an Uncle Ed and
Aunt Sabra settled the hull business fer
her, there an then. That was the cap
sheaf Lily had to say yes, but she
went upstairs an bellered her eyes
most out to think that here was Jonas
with all his big clearin to set agin
poor Aaron, an now he must go ar
find the bear trap, too!
THAT day Crpps's boy Mosey was
II, Is,
an Jonas comm along an seeing him,
took him by the ear an booted him
clear to the road.
I'll Farm you to gether chestnuts on
my land.' says Jonas, givin' Mosey an
other kick.
Then Mosey, when he got out into
the road, yells back at Jonas an says:
/ "'All right, you Jonas! l seen the
forty-dollar bear carry Uncle Eds trap
inter the swamp
with that Mosey took to his heels
and peeled it fer home. leavin' Jonas
standin' with his jaw a-droppin' an
his eyes a-starin' BY an by he says:
"'Consarn that boy. guess better
git to Uncle Eds before he takes no.
ton to- says he.
An that night was the night Jonas
went to Uncle EDS an told EN- he had
found the bear trap.
81 found IL this afternoon says he,
"layin in the laurels way off on the
east edge O. Big Tammarack, with the
half of a bears claw in it. There's
where the bear must "a carried it an
tore loose, says he.
Uncle Eb actly Rugged Jonas, he
| was so glad to hear that his trap was
| found.
"T'n send it over to-morrur,' says
Jonas II took it home to git the rust
often it,
AN arter that Lily had ter give in,
cause there want no help fer it.
while this was goin on at Uncle
EDS Sam Aaron was on his way home
| from hard days work on chopin
| job in the pine woods. an as he come
| past the edge o. Jonas's clearin' he
shook his fist at it an swore tre-
mendous, so he said afterwards; an
he said afterwards, too, that he had Mt