Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-12-31

ketched. It'd be states prison, sure as
cats. he says.
The bear that Simeon had ketched
asleep was layin' there by its pole, pre-
tendin' TO be snoozin. but when my
gran father spoke them words il opened
its eyes and looked up student and
queer Then il got up and took to
thinkin like, and KEEP turnin' its eyes on
Simeon, and gran father says to Simeon
gg'in 10 beware O. that bear; but Sim
con jest says: 'Poofl'
Next day. says the Squire, gran
father went away on three weeks
raftin' trip, and the day after that
young Steve, who lived next farm to Sim
con, got up early and found three Of
his sheep gone. But the thief had left
such trail that Steve follered 1t till
1t stopped, and then he almost kerr
fummixed, he was so astounded.
But he went right off, says the
Squire, and woke up the justice OF the
peace, and told him he wanted war
rant for the sheep thief; and when young
Steve told him who 1t was he most fell
in a fit. Then Steve routed out the con-
stable, 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
Steve's three sheep. And they were
skinned! Then they went to the barn
There laid the pelts 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, that he see the bear dancin'
around the pole, and huggin itself as If
ii 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 |
Jase how the upshot OF 1t all was that |
the day his grandfather got back from
his three weeks raftin' trip he went over
to Simons to see how him and the bear
was gittin' along, the Squire's GRANDPA
Their, of course, not hayin' heerd any
thing about Simeon bein' took up for
sheep stealth, and there was the bear
ayin' down by the pole, ponderin' like,
when along comes young Steve with the
news from the county seat, and he hol-
ers out:
Hooray! Simeon gifts three years in
all Hooray!'
With that says the Squire. the
'ear jumped up and danced and Rugged
tself, and almost hollered hooray, too
When the Squire's grandfather heerd
II about II, he up and says:
] warned himl I warned him ag'in
he bear, but he pooled at met The bear
tole them sheep and put it on to Simeon,
ure as gunsp
Then, says the Squire. the bear quit
uggin' itself, and laid down and looked
keert and sneakin' But there wouldn't
obody else believe that the bear had
one 1t, and the unfortunate man that
oofed at my ancestor, who knowed
ears from A to lizard, and that scoffed
Natur', not KNOWN she was SO won
erful In bears that a bear ketched .
sleep was bound to git even with its
eteher. even II It had to make him out
sheep thief-that unfortunate man had
} serve his time. Uncle Jase,' says the
luire, the best thing you can do is to
end Evander warnin'.'
Uncle Jase he sot a spell. and then he s
ays TO the Squire. sort o. as a clincher:
Squire he says, happens that u
lmeon was an ancestor o. mine, he says.
nd not so long back, neither, he says, / (
nd it's little queer. seems to me, he Fl
Iys, that never heerd of bear maxim
him out to be sheep thief says he.
" What says the Squire. Jest as IL :
, was s'prised more than he could say.
imeon an ancestor o. your'n2' he says. .
Vell-well-welll' he says. kin It be. .
ien,' says he, that the bear didn't steal .
ers sheep after all?' says he. =
"And says to the Squire then, and I'd
" II to him now:
" Squire. | says, you hadn't ought to
me it,
But the Squire he jest only grinned." (
N. Y. Sun.