The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-25

gritted Ills teeth and sot down to wait fer
Bill to come with his gun.
Hammer she got to Bills rs quick as
which was Bill wife. Melissa was out on
the hack stoop sortin' fresh laid eggs and
countin' EN- into a basket to be took to
market, and the old hound was snoozin'
nigh. n ~ .n,,.
tell you Yesterday somethin' was goin'
my left shoulder"
Lord. Hammer" Melissa hol$ers hack
to Hammer, so you did. You don't mean TO
tell me, Hammer Mix" says she, -that your
mother il dead7' she hollers.
NO" hollers Hammer TO Melissa
but seen the moon over my left shoulder
only t'other night she hollers, "and now
somethin' has happened sure enough.
she hollers.
Goodness land. Hammer hollers
Melissa, its your house on fire, that's
what !, is and i 5 shame she hollers' y; =.
amt our house on fire. Somethin' has
happened. though. but who'd a thunk
it'd a been bear she hollers.
-Hanner!" hollers Melissa. Bears ha 9
ct up your John, you poor lone creatur'
you
ner how tremendous sorry she was for her,
and she sot her foot square on. TO the old
hounds tail The old hound he lifts hisse elf
| UP with an all-pervadin' howl, and throws
hisself ag'in the basket Of eggs and sends
it fiyin ofIen the stoop, and twelve dozen
o. fresh-laid eggs want never scrambled
so quick nor so complete as them twelve
| dozen was.
"Asa" Wingin from Wild Camden have
an idea that there couldn't be a better one
brung in than that un. Sort O string it
out SOS it'll read that "owin to circum-
stances he didn't have no hold on TO / ill
Jump, knowed from the headwaters TO
Gander, suddenly and without warm
lost twelve dozen of IA good eggs as ever
| sot hen. Now is the time TO turn in and
vote fer Bill Jump fer constable. He needs
, the lift"
'Them's the kind O. news Wild Gander
sends in! And you mowt add to them
"Wingin's" this here one. It's another good
| un:
! Melissa Ann, the amiable wife o. Bill
| Jump's bosom, and mother OF his nine childr' a,
| kin bow a tin dinner horn so S 1t kin b.. heerd
by Bill clean to the back medder. and when
! Bill hears it he comes
| THAT'S -Wingin" that'll jest tickle
folks in Wild Gander up to the top notch.
and John Mix's wife Hammer kin back 1t up
fer bein' Twin fact.
| Hammer" says Melissa, jest afore she
, scrunched the old hound into scramblin
the twelve dozen O. fresh-lai eggs Bears
has ct up your John, you poor lone creatur
your
-I,eastways, they hadn't when come away
saws she. But they're harvestin' our
| rye, and-oh, Melissa" she saws, Il most
forgot John wants Bill to skite down to
our place with his gun and help him" she
says.
, l., al, ,,ol,Iar ,,,u,;p, N.iSsa she orabbaH
, the dinner horn and give II a toot that'd
made Gabriel gulp fer more wind. and in
less than minute Bill and Jim come tearin'
| to the house and guess you don't want no
better backin' up than that fer the Wing
, i'm about Bills wife Melissa Ann. do you!
And I've brung you i'll another good
I'm from Wild Gander. Soon as Bill come
rlnnin' in at the sound o the dinner horn
! Melissa SAYS:
; bill" she says. Hammer seen the
, moon over her left shoulder and she knowed
to wunst that somethin' was goin, to hap
F.. has happened" says she. but bears! So
grab your gun and skite down to John and
| helm him to unhappen EN-" says she.
"''Bl he grabbed his gun. and his boy
| John grabbed a pitchfork, and away they
skited to help John. who was settin' by the
| fer some one to come, and Hammer and
Melissa follered along. ,,
When they got there John says to Bill
that as he had gun he better 90 IN the
| swamp and put bullet IN the bear and
end him then and there. Bill he went in,
| but he come out ag in pooty quick. WIN the
| bear close behind him.
Bill run across the field toward little
knoll where Hammer and Melissa was
standin. Hammer and Melissa they
screeched like Iniins, and the boy jim run
up with his pi,chfork; and John run up
with his doube-bitted axe, but Bill he
kr ,' E risht on a runn'n' 'aS'n '"e gu"
The bear turned and went back in
the swamp, and when it had got all IN and
out O sight, Bill stopped and fired both
ga 'ai que guess You'll find him in there dead
enough now" says Bill. but he stayed back
in the field ~
saws John Mix But he'll be dead after
| git through hewin' of him down. says
John, and he went in the swamp with his
double bitted axe. and Hammer screecheu
and holered
4'"I'll be wilder! I'll be a wilder
Mother was wilder in less than month
after she see the moon over her left shoulder.
I knowed somethin' was goin' TO happen,
says Hammer, but I didn't think 1t was
gon' TO be me a widder" she says.
John Re went in the swamp, and they
heerd him Cuttin' and slashin' and cussin
considerable and then by and by he come
out, wipin' his forehead.
"'"Bill," says he, you and Jim 60 If
and fetch him out. He's hewed down.
4'And so he was. and Bill and Jim drug
him out So you kin add this here "Wingin'
to this weeks Wild Camden doin's:
1.-The rye crop that solomon ,Dever'
dickered with John MiN fer bein n total failur,
on the Mix f"rtyl" acres at the ,hoof O. tht
barren mat accommodation follsr citizen
has compromised with John and took 30,
pounds O. bear, countn' the hide. instead
o the rye,
81 guess that's all the -Wingin,'s from
Wild (iander" I brung in this trip. bu
they'm good uns. and if you string EN- on
all right in the Trumpet Blast they'll give
your paper tremendous bunch in the Wild
Gander country.
They did Bill Jump and his wife,
folks were the two paying subscribers
had at Wild Camden They both stopped
their papers the very next week
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