Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-05-01

Charles, says, Dsar has Der
unshockin' our corn, an snatchin' of
the ears an scatterin' of 'em like
chaff,' I says. It'll take us two days
to gether 'em up ag'in!' I says.
....Not a bear!' says Charles. 'Yor
don't tell me it was bear!'
".A BEAR 1 says, as big an sassy
" locks, as ever that un was. thai
come down outen the wilderness an
snatched the boys baldheaded fe1
sass;n' old Father Lijah:' says.
"Charles leaned on his AK min
ute, an then he says:
.''Sizer,' he says, that bear amt
through yet. We can't work in tina:
cornfield with no weapon but that
old gum he says. We must borry .
rifle
$50 me and Charles went up to
Joe Gould's an borried his rifle an
a han'ful O buckshot fer our old
gun. Then we went back to the
cornfield to begin gctherin' up our
corn the pesky bear had scattered
simeon, there he stood!' The
bear! There he stood again slashin
away at the shocks o. corn, an
slethcrin' it around like chips often
p]anin' mill! .
flake that for your impudence!
I hollers, an turned the OF gun
loose on him with such belching
O. buckshot as never slid out of any
gun before nor since. Down went
the bear, an down went me, moren't
ten foot back'ards, into a corn shock,
the kickin' O the old gun was SO
hefty. The bear got up before l did
an went limpin' an howlin' away
borrowed rifle.
"'If the front end o. this old gun
vas as all-pervading as its hind end
Charles, I says, rubin my shout
der, that bear won't be alive morc'r
a few minutes to be uncomfortable
in says.
"'Looks to me as if you mowt be
right, Sizer,' says Charles, AN l con
slider that we kin stack our arms
now. an go getherin' up the corn,
says he, an he won't bother lis nc
more says Charles.
1.-The bear had gone on into the
woods an out o sight. Charles. he
took his gun an'walked over amongst
the corn shocks to look the ground
over, an ! got up an sot ON pile
o corn invcstigatin' my shoulder.
II guess it was mebbe ten minutes
fore 1 looked up. an when l looked
up I come as nigh faintin' as could
be an not do it. AS soon as l got
my wind and tongue, l began to yell
to Charles.
"'Charles!' I hollers. Come here
with your gun! The bears back!
Hes back, worse than cver!'
"'Cause there he stood, not 20 foot
away, leerin' at me round a shock o
corn! Charles started as soon 6s he
heerd me holler. I riz up to try an
load my old gun, an when the bear
heerd Charles comm amongst the
shocks, he got skeert, an he made a
dash to get away.
"As Charles was comm up in the rea
o the bear, the bear thought it'd be
safer to come my way than to &c
t'other way, an he run right on to me
bowled me over as if l was Il tenpir
an he was ball. an walked right over
me from one end o. me to t'Other. an
put in his best liclis for the woods. Just
then Charles came in sight Of him.
"'Lay still. Sizer!' he boilers. Lay
still, an i'll bore him like tappin a ma
pie tree! Lay still! Charles hollers.
II laid still, Simeon. an I couldn't
"a done nothin' else if I'd n wanted to-
the bear had stamped me so deep down
in the dust. So l laid still, an Charles
was as good as his word.
"He banged away an bored the bear
from end to end, an the bear didn't
take more han a dozen steps further.
He fell dead among the shocks.
"'Dut great Hickory Jackson.
Charles! says /. Who'd "a tlunk that
beard Il come back SO quick arter that
dose o. buckshot give him?' saysI.
Nobody says Charles.
"An' who would "a thunk it, Simeon?'
said sizer.
Lord almighty, Sizer!' exclaimed
Sim Bowers; nobody would!'
"'Of course they wouldn't, y jocks!"
said SiZer Slocum. 'Of course nobody
d "a thunk the bear would "a come
back like that! An'he didn't neither!'
"Sizer Slocum!" said Storekeeper
Bowers. Indignantly, Il got somethin'
else to do than sittin' here an, listenin'
to your trifin' yarns!"
Simeon" said SiZer, folks would a
had good reason not to think That the
bear would "a come back like that, an
they'd "a ben right, for the next day
arter Charles bored the bear, Joe
Gould's boy was goin' through the
woods, half a mile from that field of
our'n. an he comes onto a dead bear
LAWN in there, so riddled with buckshot
that it was most ready or mincemeat;
so it was plain enough that there
Want no ground at all for any one
a-thinkin' that the bear would a.
come back. Simeon"
"You don't mean to say, Sizer Slocum,
that"
II mean to say, Simeon. that the bear
Charles bored from end to end was an
other bear-an' it's tremendous queer
thing that nothin' about it hain't got
down here fore this! An he was such
a big Teller, too!"-N. Y. Sun.