The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16

ag'in Natur.' so he had, and that if he didn
put ball into the bear and end it's future
right there, he'd find sorrow and tribulation
ahead OF him worse than rassalin' with
sawmill; but Simeon only jest turned up his
nose and says "Poofl'
My gran'father,' says the Squire,
showed bears from A to lizard, and how
wonderful Natur' was into EN-, and he went
away scrrowin,' cause he knowed there
was day o reckonin' for Simeon IL he didn't
kill that bear he had snuck up and ketched
when 1t was sleepin' And Natur' is Natur'
now. and bears is bears. jest the same as they
was then, says the Squire. I feel sorry
for Evander, he says
Then Uncle Jase he says POOR agin,
as scornful as Sam Eli; and the Squire he
shook his head and says, Too bad! Too
badv
GAS fer Simeon, says the Squire, he
want partic'l lar pop lar in the deestric' +.
that's 30, but he hadn't never done nothin'
wrong as anybody knowed on. Yit he
had ways. and folks didn't care much
fer him. Then along about that time some
one took to stealth Sheep around there
most tremendous, Who was dom of 1t
nobody couldn't git no idee.
Zone day says the Squire, my gran
father was talkin' to Simeon, and he says
to Simeon that it'd go hard with the sheep
stea!ers II they was ever ketched. It'd
be States prison, sure as cats, he says.
The bear that Simeon had ketched
asleep was layin' there by its pole, pretend
IN to be snoozin, but when my gran
father spoke them words it opened its
eyes and looked up student and queer.
Then 1t got up and took to thnkin' like,
and KEEP turnin' its eyes on Simeon, and
grandfather says to Simeon ag in to beware
o that bear; but Simeon jest says "Poofr'
Next day says the Squire, gran father
went away on three weeks raftin' trip,
n nj I'M a bat GfnUa yhD
lived next farm to Simeon, got up early and
found three of his sheep gone. But the
thief had left snh trail that Steve folered
1t till II stopped. and then he almost kerl
6ummixed, he was 30 astounded,
But he went right of, says the Squire
and woke UP the Jestice O the Peace, and
told him he wanted warrant for the sheep
thief; and when young Steve told him
who 1t was he most fell in a ft Then
Steve routed out the constable, and where
do you think he led him? Straight to
Simeon'sl
First. says the Squire, they went to
the milk house. There hung young Stoves
three sheep. And they We're skinned Then
they went to the barn. There laid the
pelfs Off O them sheep, on the barn floor.
THAT was all they wanted They got
Simeon up, served the warrant and marched
| him of in spite Of all he could say. Young
Steve said afterward,' says the Squire
'tnab ne see Une Dear uHUClI lut
| pole, and huggn' itself az If It was jest
| about Dustin with Joy or somethin', but
Steve didn't think nothin' about it, bears
bein' queer.
"The Squire went on and told Uncle
.Iase how the upshot of ii all was that the
day his grandfather got back from his
three weeks raftin' trip he went over tc
| Simeon's TO see how him and the bear was
gittin' along, the Squirrels grandfather, Of
course, not havin' heerd anything about
Simeon bein' took up for sheep stealth,
| and there was the Dear layin' down by tho
pole, ponderin' like, when along comes
young Steve with the news from the county
! seat, and he hollers out:
Hooray! Simeon gifts three years II
jail Hoorayp
with that says the Squire, the beal
Jumped up and danced and Rugged itself
and almost hollered hooray, too.
when the Squire's grandfather heert
all about It, he up and says:
IT warned himl / warned him ag'ii
, the bear, but he pooled at me! The bea
stole them sheep and put 1t on to Simeon
sure az guns' ...
Then says the Squire. the bear 9ui
| huggin itself, and laid down and looked
skeert and sneakin. But there wouldn'
nobody else believe that the bear hac
done II, and the unfortunate man tina
pooled at my ancestor. who knowed bear
from A to lizard, and that scoffed at Natur