Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19
A Good Deal of
a Bear Hunt ~
The Man From the Knob Country
Tells What Happened.

Twas considerable Of a bear hunt, -
said the man from the Knob
country, 'but I've an idea that Uncle
ST didn't jedge Pete SO consumed
hasty, after all.
I'VE hadn't gone two mile up the
creek when Joe met Pete comm down
along it like hurricane. He hadn' t
no hat on, and he was lookin' wild.
We had all we could do to head him
off and stop him, so as we could find
out what was the matter.
The woods is full and runnin' over
with en- Pete hollers, as soon as he
could git some wind. 4 stood and
counted II old seekers passin' given
pint, and then natur' give way. I
couldn't stand it no longer. I broke
and run. How many more than II
there was I couldn't stop to git the
fggers on!' he hollers.
"Pete was a Teller that tarried con-
side'ble at the appleiack, and he had
been tarryin' consid'bler than usual
at it O. late, and Uncle ST knowed it,
SO when Pete got through hollerin'
about the sight he had seen in the woods
Uncle 81 fishes his pint bottle out O.
his pocket and hands it over to Pete.
and Pete takes a swig that was amaz-
in.
"'Now Peter says Uncle ST, do you
see 'em now?' Cause Uncle ST had his
idee about the state o. Peters nerves.
See 'em now?' says Pete and there
was water runnin' out O. his eyes Wit
from the bite O. Uncle Sis recuperator.
No. he says. 1T was mile up the
creek, yonder, that I see EN- he says.
"'Did they seem like they was rat
TIERS says Uncle ST, or did they look
like only jest ordinary everyday sar-
pents?' says he.
Sarpents!' says Pete. Great Hick-
DRY Jackson he says, 4 hain't been
seem sarpents. It's bear I been see
in! Eleven old seekers passin' a given
pint, and I don't know how many
more follerin' EN- he says.
"'Worse and worse!' says Uncle ST.
when a Teller gifts to seem bears rum
MIN in droves, Peter, it's gettin' along
to'rd time that he took an all-pervadin'
swear-off, and
''Uncle ST didn't say no more, cause
jest then there come a snort from up
the bank on one side o. the creek, and
a snort from up the bank on t'ether
side O the creek, and the snorts came
from two slammin' big bears that was
stickin' their heads through the laurels,
where they had been listenin' to the
hull confab betwixt Uncle ST and Pete
TO he cr;v
down the creek jest like he was tearin'
when we headed him off, and before
me or Uncle ST or any of US could
whang away at either O the bears they
was gone. I looked at Uncle ST., and
Uncle ST looked at me.
"''Pears like as if I mowt "a been
jedgin' Peter a leetle hasty,' says he.
ayes says. 1T looks that way. I
guess he seen EN- I says.
"Then Simon's Abe got afeared that
his Amy was goin' to give him a spell,
and he started back toler'ble fast, so
as to git there before the spell ketched
him. That left only me and Uncle ST
and Joe and Sam and Eli and young
. Nose and Evander and Patsy's Bob, and
we marched on.
" "Uncle ST sent young Nose and Eli
up in the laurels, one on one side O. the
creek and one on t'other, while the rest
of us follered along below. We hadn't
marched fur before young Nose heerd
a rustlin' in the thick brush, and he
whangs away at it. Kerthumpy-te-
thump down the bank, out O. the brush,
rolls Ellis bear dog socky, that Eli
wouldn't "a took no fifty dollars fur,
and he lands in the creek, deader than
if he'd been pizened week.
"'Mose.' says Eli, most a-cryin',
sthere'll be mournin' to my house to-
night, worse'n when the daughters o.
Bab'lon hung their harps on the will
lers!' says he.
",Cause the dog Socky was as good
at runnin' the churnin' machine as he
was at runnin' bear, and Ellis OF wom-
an was always peppery when Eli took
him huntin'.
81 don't know what young Nose was
5goin' to answer back, for before he had
1 q chance to answer anything, two bears
came tearin' out o the brush jest be-
yond Eli and pitched and rolled down
the bank. Eli banged away after 'em,
but the bears got away in the laurels
at the bottom. A bunch O. fur and a
few spatterin's o. blood showed that
Eli had hit one of 'efn.
.ssThen Sam he remembered that he
was goin' to have company for dinner,
and he had to hurry back home. We all
sot ia to sort c' console Ri Tor the