The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1903-02-19
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80 H. said he was mighty glad he
III didn't have any gun. or he'd
felt all his life as IL the mark Of Cain
was branded onto his brow. So he told
me-" said the man from the mol
country to New York Sun man. "Thr
way it came about, Gil had been talltn
considerable for quite a spell, and up
and says, after while:
"'Gil' says, 'ain't there quite pas
sill o. lynn done about bears up your
wayY' says.
"'Cause Gil lives nigh the headwn-
tiers. and US folks don't git to so that
part o. the Knob country very often
Consequence is that the things we hear
from there every now and then, per.
tickly when Gil comes down and drops
In on us over to the Eddy. pears 60 me
runs pretty nigh TO bein' amazin'. So
] says 10 Gil:
"'Ain't there quite "A passil O. lyin
done about bears up your wayT says
81 guess mebbe you'd think so
says Gil, IL you'd ever hear Jehicl or old
Jorum, or even Ellis Sam git TO goin'
about 'em some fine day, says Gil
Lynn ! should say sol And it's
! shame. tool There amt no sort o.
need o. YIN about bears Gays he.
"'Bears is toler'ble smart some
times, though, up your way. amt
they?' says T.
"a trife,' says Gil, sort o careless
like. Jest trifIe, take s. says he.
"Then I didn't say no more. but
turned to Reuben and says that thing
was lec,le backward this spring
wasn't they? Just ms IL | didn't care
anything more about Gil or his hdnd-
waters bears. AMI was goin' to argue
/ things more substantial. krowin' ihat
Gil wasn't never goin' Ia let me ofr thai
way, though. Jest ms well ms Lnuwed
he was settin' there on the sboe box
chnwin' borried tobacco
"Reuben was gitiln' all ready to gay
somethin' about things bcin hack
wardcr this spring illanhc haf kuowed
EN- To be in 40 year. and then mcniion
few springs that come toler'hlc nigh
bcin' ne backward as this IN. when Gil
he shovcs his hat TO the back ~ his
head aud says:
SMART he says. Headwaters
bears smart? Whyl' he says don't
Won mind that un that played IT so
smart on me last spring? Don't you
mind that I'M Dan'll says lie
"Rcuhen wigglcd So over bein' sot
back In his backward springn' that
Thought at first that he WIS aimin' 10
take GIL by The neck and shel him and
hi hear ~ right on the start hut he
didn't re only lest snarlel little
and yciled hack onto his cheer and tilt
ed il neln the counter.
"'Doni you mind that un, nanl@
say Gil
81 hunk a minute. md then asked
al II II was the one that had stole he
nine cords o. bark from Him aud run
It over aud piled it up onto Gideon's
sliicway,
"'Was that I'm the one. Clip I snys,
and lN eats Gil never winked or
blnkcd or booked surprised
"'No,' he says as unmitigated as
could be- NO. nan'l that nm amt the
one. he says. 4 sarcumvonted that nm.
don't you mind. and made him run the
hull nine cord a. bark hack and put II
where he found IT, says Gil; and Pen.
ben then did everlasin'ly snort. and
thought sure he was boun' TO choke
Gil and his bear right of hand, hut he
didn't.
Last spring says Gil, not waitin'
TO ask or to be asked any more ques-
tions, 4 rolled bari o. pork into my
cabin, up along the headwaterg. git
tin ready for bark-peelin'. The har'l
was chuck full o. nice hunks % PORK,
clear TO the chimes, and when opened
Il to git out some o. the pork, week
or so afterward. dingbusted II as much
as quarter Of II wasn't gone.
Some consumed thief or other had
sneaked into the cabin. opened HE
barl took out the pork and pgeed II
away, after headin' the BARI mp ag'ln
as tight and snug AS it was when
rolled il in. Dan1. | was so 'tarnal
mad that the way ripped ana tore
bet you could cut chunks O wGyhin
blue out O. the air around that cabin.
"'After while sot down 10 tfy to
think up who II could be that was
stealth my pork so sly and cunnin'.
And who do you s'pose | thunk ~ ms
more'n likely bein' the one, DanI?'
says Gil,
"'Not your pap. GIN says, was Il p
and Reuben snorted right ont 'causr
ever5 body kuoweg that folks said that
when things turned pp mis'in' alnra
the headwators the fret thing fots
done was 10 go see II them things
hadn't sort o. follered Gl's ola man