Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-12-20


they will tell you. shot deer one day.
II fell. and he stepped up TO II TO cut
its throat. AS he was standing astride
the deer he supposed was dead II rose
suddenly and went bounding down the
ereek. with Sllas on its back. clasplng
its neck and vociferatIng loudly that
help would be welcome. Job Fenks
who was hunting along the creek. saw
the deer in its wild flight and emTfied
the contents OF his rife Into ~ He
not only killed the deer. but fored
silas Grub with his rife ball al well.
Not long after that a specter deer.
bestrode by n specter ridery appeared
ut intervals I'm the woods. dashIng
wildly down the creek until II reached
the spot where Fenk's rifle had done
It's fatal work. and theYe always van
ished. Then folks took TO calling the
creek Spook Run and the gully Spook
Run gully. and by and by a lumber
company put n big dam across the
creek and log shoot three miles long
through the deep. dark, crooked.
ghostly gully. down which the logs
were sent from the woods to the mill
dam as swift as the wind. and down
this shoot came dashing. astride log,
daredevil Bill Topson. having drunk
more thsn generously OF log driver
rum and wagered that he would make
the fen,rful ride. He made II, includ-
eng tbf Wild plunge from the mouth
or thS gully TO the pond. fifty feet be-
low. when he was taken from the
pontg after his awful ride and plunge.
his fhair. which had been black when
ne Atarted. was as white as snow.
rand It'd "a been queer II II hadn't
termed white" any Of the Passadanky
narrntors Will tell you. "He rid that
Iog them three miles In less than four
minutes"
But the reason this feat OF Bill Top
sons has particular place OF honor In
the chronicles OF Old Passadanky Is
because IL was the elimination OF the
career OF Old Beelzebub as a wonder
working bear. When that bear was
acss than year old. Jephtha Virgins.
the pelt gatherer. killed its father and
mother and chased the orphan cub for
days. with the hope Of adding It's pelt
90 the other two. but failed In his pur-
pose. After awhile that orphaned bear
returned 10 the vicinity Of It's old home,
aud. as everybody win tell you up
there. IL came back with grudgc
against Iephtha Virgins.
THAT bar came back" they win say.
"and III lie hadn't "a come. there'd
been more sheep and pigs along the
Ola Passadanky than there was for
the next three or four years. And he
was 30 oyerpowerin' full Of Satan that
folrs give him the name OF Old Beelze-
bub. And Jepthy Virgins bad good
reason 10 be- sorry he ever peltcd that
bears father and mother, for what
happened to him when he begun TO get
the orders for black sheep peltsf-or- .
ters that came I'm thick and fast. al 4
though nobody never knowed what In
The world made setch n call for black
sheep pelts. What happened thenl
Why. black sheep pelts got scarce.
should say they did! And what made
'em git scarce7 That bar with
erudge ag'in Jepthy Virgins! Ihat
yengeful bar Jest logged OF all the
black sheep there was in the district !
Not n smell Of white sheep did ne
fetch.
-8ut that maxim OF black sheep
skin famine In the district wasn't cir
cumstance TO what that schemin' bar
dole 10 layin out his plan OF vengeance
agIn. although Il was included In ~
lie wouldn't "a gone as fur as he did'
though. n he hadn't happened 20 see
Bin Topson shoot through Spook Run
gully on the log that day. He see Hll
shoot the gully and come plungin' out
OF that hole In the rocks down into the
pond. and he didn't fergit II. He re-
RENDERED Il. and Il give him the
chance 20 give Jepthy Virgins what