Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-24
THOSE lNTERFERIN'
 BEARS A Tale of Cousin Dnsenberxy's
 Difficulties.


 tion as to his domicile is that it is over toward Pochuck, the flower of the Drowned Lands country, came ill after watching for awhile, with crit ica1 eye, operations around the station and railroad yard. Dropping into the big armchair, he said:
 .sIs that railroad out there up to the times and stuffed with ideas, or is it pig-headed and bound to stay in the rut?"
 The man from Pochuck paused for a reply. None came. Then, after awhile, he cracked his fingers, very loud, and remarked with, some em- phasis:
 "Well, all there is about it is, if that railroad out there is up to the times and has ideas it can hire Cousin Dusen- berry Cronk, but if it is pig-headed and bound to stay in rut it'll have to look further, for it cant git Cousin Dusenberryl And it wants to speak up pretty quick, or Cousin Dusen- berry II go somewheres else, by cats!"
 Baldy, the landlord, remarked to Farmer Bill Leonard, who lives oppo- site Goose Pond mountain, that it seemed as if we were going to have our summer just when fall ought to be coming on, and Farmer Leonard said yes, it did so. The alleged citizen of the Pochuck bailiwick made a swoop for a fly that insisted on tickling him on the nose. He caught it, tossed it out of the window, and observed:
 That's what it wants to do, by cats, or Cousin Dusenberry Cronk I'll go somewhere elsel Of course, you've k heerd that Cousin Dusenberry had quit lem on the U. H. and 0. N. road?
 If anyone had heard it he didn't ad- init it. The Pochuck man cracked another finger and said:
 ssThe U. H. and W. and o. N. was too pig-headed for Cousin Dusenberry."
 No one seemed to care.
 tsIt wasn't up to the times, and was bound to keep in the rut,' said the claimant of a residence over toward Pochuck, "so Cousin Dusenberry quits
 Farmer Leonard wondered whether the apple jack crop was going to run short this, fall, and Baldy, thel landlord, said he had heard so. A shade passed over the face of the Pochuck man, but he said:
 "Cousin Dusenberry says to Aunt Sally Beckendarter only yisterday Aunt Sally says he, if there ever was place where solitude of the dim-lit woods bumped itself and took the cake, it is over along the U. H. and Q. N., between Gas Tank junction and Peeled Hemlock'
 sYet Cousin Dusenberry says he liked | it first rate when he started in on the road-frst rate. He had always hankered to get close to natures heart, anyhow, Cousin Dusesnberry had, and there he was, he said, with his head pressed plumb on to it and hearin' of it thump -'cause there was only three stoppin' places on the whole 43 miles O the road betwixt Peeled Hemlock and Gas Tank junction. One was sawmill, one tannery and one an oil we'll. The rest of the line was woods. Cousin Dusenberry wouldn't "a asked for nothin' better if the road hadn't been so ding pig-headed and bound to keepin the rnt.
 "One day Cousin Dusenberry was boomin' along with heavy train O ] tanbark, lumber and oil, when about a hundred yards ahead of lem he see big bear come s1ouchin' out O the woods at one side O the track. When they had hummed along to within 1 few rods O the bear, what did that onmitigated bear do but step back on I the track, and, as it seemed to Cousin 1 Dusenberry, there 1t stood aeti'ly mak- in faces at lem,
 "Well, now, that jest more than made Cousin Dusenberry mad, and he | pulled his engine wide open, and went 1 for that bear at 35 miles an hour. l Now says he to his fireman, grit tim his teeth, watch the bear meat fly
 sThey went swoopin' down on the bear like a hurricane, and Cousin Dusenberry looked up and watched for the shower O bear meat he was ex- l pectin'. But it didn't shower, and he 1 says to his fireman that the bear must "a been smashed to mush on the cow catcher. So he crawled out on front jest to see how bad they had done that bear up. There sot the bear on the cowcatcher as cool as cucumber. He had reached up and took the lamp out O. the headlight, and there he was l pourin' the oil out of it all over him self, and rubbin' of it in as liniment.
 s.T give you my word, Aunt Sally so. Cousin Dusenberry says to Aunt Sally Beckendarter, only yesterday, I was su'prisedi'
 And Aunt Sally says, Ia sakes ] massy, Dusenberry Cronkl I should say soI' says she.