The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-10-13
WOULDN'T KILL TIPSY BEARS.
VENGEANCE or THE MAN WHOSE
APPLE CROP THEY ATE.
re live In hack Of Iac&a~acA. and Knew
How They would Feel when the Eject
Of the AppieJack Disappeared So Tie
let Them Oct sober - y Punishment.

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4. Flston, Secretary Of the Horse show
Association Of Orange county. ex-Po-t-
master u Port !er'is. and proprietor 81 a
good-sizd coriIer Of Pike county. Pa,
was In Goshen a f.w days this week getting
things ready for the annual horse show
and Tredo display Since he got to be
owner OF that Pike county BALL Col.
Piston can talk bear Just a. well as I've can
talk hor~e. No one In Goshen has 'albed
hear since the man from Rundell's Curve
came hack and began 10 use Wood Pitts
as a ceiling buster and a floor mon.
The reason the man fIom RuDdell's Curve
came hack vas this. lie was In Goshen
ora day. and he was waiting for n train
TO take him home. and the train vas an hour
late. Rundells Curve II ~. the far sloIe
. Of tho ~Shawangunk Mountain, and tho
native ~ that domain - rock and wildwood
was loiesume. They never like to $50
people lonerofne la Goshen The moment
they -e n stranger In town and fnd nut
that he isn't n man who IL thinking OF
icing a candidate for simnthing and u
consequently there t. $50 Buss Rob Hook
and learn whether there will he any use Of
his keeping OF thinking 40. they b.gin
TO think up how they can ente rtain him.
n the stranger In town IL thinkirg - being
p candidate. Bos- Hook will attend TO the
entertaining himself. and no ole el-s need
worry. So the dav the man from Rundcll's
Curve stood waiting FOR his train. II wasn't
long bfo~ \ Goshen Good Samaritan
diScoverrt that he vas lonesome and wasn't
n candidate for anything. and he approached
IN" man from Rundell'- Curve and said,
while you are waiting. Why don, you
60 over and -e- Wood Pitts'- ~l~at7-
Wood Pitts's lear Was . direct descendant
81 a pair ~ l-sars that Als Van niIer used
to sav n, caught IN the ic- cave Ia III" depths
~ Sans Point, In lister county Thu
KEY To it. pen wa the same key which
Ate locked It's parents w With, years ago,
aud Goshen citizens had daily borrowed
IL and forgotten 10 fetch II back vii such
annoyirg regularity that when strangers
who were tot candidates came 20 Goshen
any tim" for ten ycart OF more, and we're
curious To 49, the alleged shaggy lsa~t
tho KEY imprisoned, they had to run all
over town To find ont la Who's possession
tho HOY Wa.
The man from Rundel's Curve said he
would like to 500 the bear, and the Goshen
good Samaritan told him 70 20 right over
10 the hotel across the street and ask Wood
PIES for he kew to tn" pen. The man went
Wood PittS looked behind the Tar t. get
th. kew Ne didn't find ~
There said he Jack Moore has got
that key again Seems as II nobody can
fetch that kew back
The man from Bundel's Curve looked dis
appointed ,
Pitts. you can e. and ask jack for !
He1l give II TO YOU Jack Moore. the
Postmaster. jus; up III" street a few
doors
tn. man from Rundel'- Curv. went
hriskly 10 the Post Once and told Jack
Moore what he wanted
Thunder and Mars said Jack Didn't
Hillv Tsggar' bring that key back Billy
Tageart's got that key Up 10 the County
Clerks onfoe Far end Of he park Near
tho rac~irack. Opposite the Court House,
You ant mis- It Billy'- got the key
~ the mar from Rundel's Curve hurried
way up 90 the County Clerks ONCE. half a
mile, 20 get the key 20 the bear zen.
why said Count Clerk Taggart. Dick
Tuthill got that kew from me Supervisor
Dick 1bIthill. from t'other side a. the county.
Can't TO- hat Dick has gone and lugg"d
that kew all the wav home with him, can
~ That's just what he's done. I'll bet a
!. farm
The man from Rund-l's Curve seemed
. disappointed all through when he came
, hack and told wood Pitts about the mis-
adventure ~ the key 20 the hear ron
Never mind said Pitts III 60 out
/ and pry on the hasp and give you a look
, al the hear any way
= He went out bu, came back In a hurry
= The soaI's gone h" shouted Dich
!, Tuthill or Jack Moore or -nmehpdy lei'
wv tHA NfHlI uialffhflt alNA NaN" ''eA ~"
/ got out and skipped
/, Their The man from Rundel's Curve
looked n little quvor out ~ hi ewes, ana !
/ seemed a. n he was going 4" tain OUT lohd
hut Just then the good Samaritan anne m
A., Your train il here. n%eighbpr, -atd he
r 'snd about ready 10 ~. Did you SO TIT
lear1"
III | didn't have 20 gi tat train, SAID
, N" man from RundcGs Curve. I'd stay
I awhile and tell var But III H. doNt
here a week from Saturday Then II som,
, a. YOU fe''erS don't want 10 49, me- make
, mon- fur fly than ther, ~ ou a ton o t"Ar-
YOU wat To find IA" key 20 that uTaf PEI
, and lock yair-elves IN u
The man from Rundrls CurV" got nv
train. aud the hoys never laughed 80 iouI
a. they did a. lac went out aud slammed
!. tie door He had promised 10 "omn tAIS
bat nobody thought b" would hu' NJ
hid come hack a week from SATURDAY. anc
tho way he reached over and lf'ed Wo"c
Pitts outside IN, har and t"gan Co sNeTI
dust on the ceiling and mop w cigar hu't,'
"a the foor with him was n caution I'd VIM
lying In Wait 10 entertain other luhcsonr"
strangers. interfcred and rescued Wood
Nhilc II vas yet time tn" man ron
Rundcl's Curve ss-'ir"d satisfied ahd a.
he went on, Dc said Co Mood
f. Wien I some down agiu VI ts'ch alnne
f, a carload ~ rabbit 20 feed tn that iEai
- ~yCur'n'-
But he never came again Thai va
four wears ago and NOR. and no one ha'
talked hear N Goshen since not UNI
n col Els,on cam" down last week 20 ~
things In shap-' Cor the hor~e show and 'h'
Tuxedo display
.Somehody has started the rimor.
, said he, that b'ar an" running >horl OF
:. thr Pike Cuunty CinCui' but don't ht any
hndy fool YOU into believing II Then
!. ,us, a. many hear up there a. there t\c'
y was Particularly IN Pack OF iackAwack
- - -. .a.IN an toward The egffNMQ