The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20

But he didn't He felt he'd been
worsted. and he wanted to git even.
Thar was a heap of loose wire on the
ground, and bimeby he goes fur 1t and
was all tangled up and fightin- fur his
life in mint. 1 never heard SIGH
growlin' in all my life and when he bit
at that wire it made the cold chillS run
up our backs. L could have got the rife
and loaded it. but didn't want to miss
any of the fun. The row went on fur
fifteen minits. and then the bar was all
tuckered out and discouraged. He'd got
holt of sunthin' to beat him, and he had
to own up to it hisseIf
Can't he see that he hain't fitten?
asks the old woman as he begun to
back off.
" He kim says L but he's sot in his
ways, and hates to give in. He's all
chawed to pieces by them barbs, but
he'll shorely try it agin.'
And he did. Five minits later he
made rush fur that fence and begun
to hug and bite and wrastle and he
was so powerful mad this time that he
pushed down three or four rods of il.
1t wasn't no use, however. He was
licked bar, and the mo- he Rugged and
bit the mo- he knowed he was licked.
Bimeby he jest lay still and whined and
thar war tears in his eyes. When he
got sorter rested he sot up and looked
at US. but it wasn't a squar' look-not
sich an honest look as a bar orter give
man on his own land. He 'peared to
be thinkin fur a mint and then he
lfmps over to that chestnut tree and
begins to climb up. He was mighty
slow about it, but bimeby he got up
to that big limb, and arter a sOrter
farewell look around he let's go and falls
kerchunk to the airth. He lit on the
grindstun', which was standin' under
the tree. and busted it all to flinders
And then he made off, of course?"
was suggested.
No, sab. he didn't. That bar had an
objick when he climbed that tree His
ebjick was to kill hisself bekase he'd
bin whopped. He jest cum down head
fust on purpose to break his neck, and
he dun it. Yes, sab; killed as dead as
a doah-nail right thar befo our eyes.
He had tackled a barbed-wire fence
and bin licked. and he couldn't abide
to live on. We counted up the hurts
on him and found over two hundred. 1
have allus felt bit sorry fur that var
mint. He'd bin sIoshin' around in the
bresh all MS life Hckin' everything he
cum across, and how was he to know
wire fence from a pumpkin vine?
Havin' got mad about it he was bound
to fight. and havin fout he was bound
to be whopped. A wire fence amt
Twin thing, yo' know"
Then you think he had feelings?'
was asked.
Most sartinly he had, sab F'eelin's?
Why, bar is chuck full o feelin's,
and I've allus felt ashamed that this
this one didn't have a SQuar' deal. He
might have tackled a landslide and
cum out on top. but what show did he
have agin 500 feet of baTbed-wire fence
which was achin' fur a row with an ele-
phant?"
And you really believe he commit
ted suicide on account of being humili-
ated?"
.'Of co'se I do. That's whar' people
don't understand things. They argy
that nobody but human bein's hev
pride, whereas bars and SIGH hev their
proper show of it. 1 once tackled a
and fur a week afterwards I felt like
hangin' myself. That bar had allus
got away with everything that cum
along till he struck that wire. and it
not only hurt his body but his feelins-
He couldn't go back among other bars
and brag ard swell around, and he jest
made up his mind to git off the airth
He shoreIy did. sab, and I'm a thinkin'
a heap mo- of him fur dom that same.
OF co'se it was suicide-of co'se.'-
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