Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-05-22


Old gum he says. we must borry
rifle
so me and Charles went up to
Joe GOuld's an borried his rifle an
han'ful o. buckshot fer our old
gun. Then we went back TO the
cornfeld to begin getherin' 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
sletherin' it around like chips often
a planin' mill!
Take that for your impudenee!
I boilers, an / turned the OF gun
loose on him with such a 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 ] did,
an went limpin' an howlin' away,
follered by a bullet from Charles
borrowed rifle.
II tic ANbnN tln - ItAlN Ath w
was as all-peryading as its hind end,
Charles, | says, rubin my shout
der, that bear won't be alive more'n
a few minutes 10 be uncomfortable
in ] says.
Looks to me as If you mowt be
right, Sizer,' says Charles, AN / con-
slider that we kin stack our arms,
now, an 60 getherin' up the corn
says he, an he won't bother us no
more says Charles.
THE bear had gone on into the
woods an out O. sight. Charles, he
took his gun an walked over amongst
the cora shocks TO look the ground
over, an / got up an sot on a pile
O. corn investigator my shoulder.
Il guess it was mebbe ten minutes
fore / looked up an when ! looked
up come as nigh faintin' as could
be an not do it, As soon as ] got
my wind and tongue, began TO yell
to Charles.
"'Charlesi I hollers. Come here
with your gum The bears back!
He's back, worse than eyer!'
"'Cause there he stood, not 90 foot
away. leerin' at me round a shock O.
cornl Charles started as soon as he
heerd me holler. ! riz up 70 try an
load my old gun, an when the bear
heerd Charles comm amongst the
shocks. he got skeert, an he made
dash 10 get away.
GAS Charles was comm up in the rear
o. the bear the bear thought it'd be
safer to come my way than to go
t'other way, an he run right on TO me,
bowled me over as IL was a tenpin
an he was ball, an walked right over
me from one end o me TO t'other, an
put in his best ticks for the woods. Just
then Charles came in sight Of him.
clay still, Sizer! he hollers. Lay
still. an i'll bore him like tappin ma
pie treel Lay still!' Charles hollers.
81 laid still. Simeon. an / couldn't
"a done nothin' else If I'd "a wanted to,
the bear had stamped me SO deep down
in the dust So 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.
"sBut great Hickory Jackson,
CharIes!' saws /. Who'd "a thunk that
beard come back so quick arter that
dose q buckshot give himY says |.
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 jocksl"
said Sizer Slocum. "Of course nobody
d "a thunk the bear would "a come
back like thatl An he didn't neither!"
"Sizer Slocuml" 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
hear would "a come back like that, an
they'd "a ben right. for the next day
after Charles bored the bear, Joe
Gould's boy was goln through the
woods. half mile from that field Of
our'n. an he comes onto dead bear
LAWN in there, so riddled with buckshot
that 1t was most ready for mineemeat;
so it was plain enough that there
want no ground at all for any one
a-thinkin' that the bear would
come back. Simeon"
'You don't mean to say, Sizer Slocum,
that"
~ 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 1t hain't got
down here fore thisl An he was such
a big Teller, too!"-N, y, sun.
The Ubiquitous Scot.
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