The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-10-14

cornfeld with no weapon but that
old gum he says. we must borry a
rifle.
80 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 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
n planin' mill
Take that for your impudence!
1 hollers, an / turned the oil 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 kiekin' o. the old gun was so
hefty. The bear got up before | did,
an went limpin an howlin' away,
follered by bullet from Charles
borrowed rifle.
"If the front end o. this old gun
was MS all-pervading as it's hind end,
Charles, / says, rubin my shout
der that bear won't be alive more'n
few minutes to 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,
nONu an M uafharin, IN tho coru
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 corn shocks to look the ground
over, an l got up an sot on a pile
o. corn investigator my shoulder.
II guess it was mebbe ten minutes
fore l looked up, an when i looked
up come as nigh faintin' as could
be an not do it. AS soon as l got
my wind and tongue, 1 began to yell
to Charles.
"'Charles!' I hollers. Come here
with your gun! The bears back!
He's back, worse than ever!'
Cause there he stood, not 20 foot
away, leerin' at me round shock O.
corn! Charles start>1 as soon as he
heerd me holler | 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 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 if / 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.
LAY still, Sizer!' he hollers. Lay
still, an i'll bore him like tappin a ma
pie tree! Lay still!' Charles hollers.
81 laid still, Simeon, an l 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.
"'But great Hickory Jackson,
Charles!' says I. Who'd "a thunk that
beard a come back so quick arter that
dose o. buckshot give him?' says l.
Nobody says Charles.
"An' who would "a thunk it, Simeon p
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, II got somethin'
else to do than sittin' here an, listenin'
to your trifiin' 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 mile from that field of
our'n. an he comes onto a dead bear
layin' in there, so riddled with buckshot
that it was most ready for 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
big Teller, too!"-N. Y. Sun.
The Ubiquitous Scot.
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