The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1901-12-18

they will tell you, shot n deer one day.
1t fell, and he stepped up to II TO cut
its throat As he was standing astride
the deer he supposed was deade / ro8s
creek. with Si2fs' Oh lis back. clasplng
its neck and yocifcgating loudly that
help would be welcome. job Fenk,
who was hunting along the creek, saw
the deer IN it's Wild flight aud cmFtied
the contents Of his rifle into It. lie
not only killed tie deer, but bored
Silas GYubh with his ride bail as well.
Not long ufter that spccter deer
bestrode by specter rider, appeared
at intervals Ia the woods. dashing
wildly down the creek until it reached
tie spot where Eent' $ rife had done
It's fatal work and there always van
ishcd Then foi,as took TO calling the
creek SpoOk Run aad the gully Spook
Run gully. aad by and by lumber
company pat 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, astrlde log,
daredevil Bill Topson. having drunk
more than generously of log driver
rum and wagcrcd that he would make
the fearful ride lie made 1t, fnclud-
ing the wild plunge from the mouth
of the gully 10 the pond, nifty feet be
low. When he Was taken from the
pond, after his awful ride and plunge,
his hair which had been black when
he started. was rs white Us snow.
"And it'd IA been queer II ii hadn't
turned white" any Of the Passadanky
narators will tell You. He rid that
log 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 1t was the elimination Of the
career of Old Beelzebub as a wonder
working bear. When that bear was
less than year old, Jephtha Virgins,
the pelt gatheIer killed It's father and
mother and chased the orphan cub for
days, with the hope Of adding its pelt
| TO the other two, but failed In his pur-
| pose. After awhile that orphaned bear
returned to the vicinity Of its old home,
and, as everybody will tell you up
there Il came back with n grudge
against Jephtha Virgins
'"That bar came back" they viii say,
"and II he hadn't "a come, thered a
been more sheep and pigs along the
| Old Passadanky than there was for
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was SO overpowerin' full of Satan that
folks give him the namc Of Old Belize
bub. And Jcpihy Virgins had good
reason to be sorry he ever pelted that
bears father and mother. for what
happened 10 him when lie begun TO get
the orders for black sheep pelts?-or-
ders that came In thick and fast, al
though nobody never knowed what In
the world made setch call for black
sheep pelts. What happened then
Why, black sheep pelts got scarce.
should say they did And what made
'em git scarce? That bar with a
grudge agin Jepthy Virgins! That
vengeful bar jest lugged or all the
black sheep there was in tie district.
Not smell Of white sheep did he
tet1 H.
But that maxim Ct n black sheep
skin famine In the district wasn't a cir
cumstanee to what that schemin' ban
done In layin' out bis plan Of vengeance
ag'ln, although II was included IN II
He wouldn't a gone as fur as he did
though II he hadn't happened TO SEE
Bill TopsoD shoot through Spook Run
gully ON the log hat day He see Bill
shoot the gully and come plungin' ou'
of that hole In the rocks down into tbs
pond, and he didn't fergit it, He re
membered II. and 1t give him the
chance TO give Jepthy Virgins wha