The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-10-09
SIMEON, THE BEAR
AND THE SHEEP &
Case of q Man Who Insisted or
Running Against Nature.

"TNCLE JASE sot minute" said
1.-The man from the Knob country,
land then he says to the Squire sort Of
as clincher:
esquire says he, happens that ST.
neon was an ancestor o mine, he
says, and not so long back, ether, he
says, and it's a leetle queer, seems to
me- he says, that / never heerd or
bear maxim him out TO be a sheep
thief he says.
First place, I says to the Squire then,
and I'd say it to him now:
esquire says, you hadn't ought to
done it! S'pose you have got ldees
about Uncle Jase? / says. 'S'pose one
o them idees is that no matter what
folks thinks as to the leetle statement
Paul made in his haste about mankind
In gineral, they don't hesitate minute
to say that if it don't hit Uncle Jase
plumb as a shot in the bullseye, then the
lightnin' never hit a barn? | says.
There's such a thing as goin lettle 100
fur, Squire l says, and you hadn {
ought to done it, says.
But the Squire he jest only grinned.
deestrict, and he's a feller-citlZen that
most folks has toler'ble strong 1dees
about, particularly the Squire, and
Uncle Jase had come in this time and
told about Evander havin' snuck up
onto a bear that was asleep and got a
rope around it before it could wake up
and clutch him; and, more than that,
had yanked the critter, in spite OF It
self. all the way into his clearln I,
where he had it tied to pole, safe and
sound, that very minute. Then the
Squire had said to Uncle Jase, jest as
If he didn't have no more doubt about
that bear than he did that he was set
tin there, that Evander had run his
head slam ag'in natur', and he'd better
keep his eye peeled.
eff there's one thing that bear won't
never forgive nor fergit,' says the Squire.
shakin' his head solemn at Uncle Jase,
and lookin' fer all the world as II this
doin's of Evander was worryin' him
like all-possessed, it's bein' ketched
and done fer while it's asleep, cause
then you're runnin' slam ag'in natur',
he says. 'Natur' is wonderful he says,
and you can't beat her. And there
ain't nothin' she's so wonderful in as she
is in BEARS he says.
IF YOU sneak on to bear when it's
asleep and git the best of it, says the
Squire. look out! You're tryin' to beat
natur', and natur' won't have it, he
says. IF you ketch bear in that way,
It's bound to have it in for you and git
even. and to make it sorry day for
Won when you done it. There amt
nothin' natur' is SO wonderful in as she
is in bears, and Evander wants to keep
his eye peeled says the Squire.
saThen Uncle Jase sticks up his nose
and says: 'Poof.'
"Jest ezacly what poor onfortunit
Simeon up and says to my gran'father!'
saws the Squire, holdin' up his hands.
.And rather calc'late he lived to see the
day he was sorry, poor feller!' says he.
simeon had snuck up onto sleepin'
hear lest like Evander has been doin',
ard got a rope onto it and yanked it
home and tied it to pole.
MY gran father says to Simeon,
saws the squire, that he had run his
head slam ag'in natur', so he had, and
that if he didn't 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 sawmiu;