The sun., 1903-09-27
TREASURE TROVE
l UNCLE JASON MISSED.
II He Gould Only Have Known
It When Riding on Bear in
Knob County Cave.


Knob County Cave.
LAcKAwAxEN, Pa, Sept. 25-"In the frs
place, said the man from the Knob country
II the Injin from Canady or some'rs hadn'
come nosin' round and gone to scramblin
and pokin' about 'mongst them rocks
folks wouldn't took to gittin' excited owe
1t and talkin' about 1t ag'in, like they hadn'
been doin'. not in fifty years and better
maxim sure that the Injin was back will
an inklin O. where the openin' to that cav'
was, where them big riches is stored tha
his ancestors knowed all about, but lef
the country without tellin' nobody how tt
git at EN-.
But the Injin had come In from some
where's or other, and his nosin' and hii
pokin' and his soramblin' had stirred folk.
up, and they was all excited and talkin
about it, and watchin' the goin' 8 and comm,
OF the Injin. and swearin' up and dowr
that II he found that openin' there'd be
a neckin of him as'd make him holler
and setch sharin' O. wealth in the Knot
country and parts outlyin' as'd make the
Vanderbilts and setch wish they WASH,
Twin.
And 80 they was talkin' about it al
Simon's store over to the Eddy. lot oi
'em. and Akin 1t up as to what they was
goin' to do with their share O. that big
1njin treasure when they got 1t, and was
gittin' toler BILE tired Of It, and to kind o
turn things in another direction I says tc
Uncle Jase, who sot on the mackeral kit-bul
wouldn't a done it If I'd "a knowed he d
a had to put hisself through setch hail
raisin' tribulations, and then to have EN-
end up SO terrible disapp'intin' to him
after all, says to him:
'Consarn it all, Uncle Jase, l says
it's more than coon's age sence We took
your word fer some facts about bear,
says. Can't you give us few, as long
as you're here, and amt partic'lar busy
! says.
Uncle Jase hitched hisseH half of o
the mackeral kit, with his eye fixed on the
pail loose chawin that sot on the counter
cause the minute Uncle Jase gifts started
on maxim history he don't waste much
time gittia' up to the terbacker pail and
takin' cheerin' chaw, and putin chaw
or two in his pocket fer future reference
cause then he considers he's part O the
COINS on at Simon's. and has jest as many
rights as other feller. And as he sot there
half hitched OF O. the mackeral kit, and his
eye dxed ON to the terbacker pail, true as
the needle to the pole, he says:
I didn't sleep wink last night, Danl,
says he, but jest tossted and tumbled on
my piller and what do you think done it ?
says he.
'Cramps?' says I; but Uncle Jase only
shook his head. and hitchin' hlsself the
rest o the way OF O. the mackeral kit
stepped to the terbacker pail. took an
amazin' chaw, and, Simon bein' in the
back O. the store drawin' quart O. 'lasses
put considerable more than usual in his
pocket. Then he got on to the mackeral
kit ag'in, and shakin his head, says:
1T was bears that done IT, says he
And not bears SO much. neither, as it was
me bein' setch a dingnation fool, says he
and only tiudin' of it out after fifty year.!
says he.
II knowed to wuIlst that II history hadn't
never been writ before it was in fer bein
done now, sure enough. Jonas scowled
all over his face, and was fer drowndin
Uncle Jase out. and turnin' the talk back
on to the Injin treasure, he bein' fuller
of 1t than roasted goose with stuffin'
but Uncle Jase chawed and chawed most
edifyin', and riz his voice and drownded
Jonas out. Jonas was madder than Sam
Hill, but Uncle Jase he didn't seem TO care.
Fifty year ago. says Uncle Jase, seems
to me bears was more impudenter and had
more grit than they've got nowadays,
leastways the partic lar bears that makes
memory ha mt NE SO tremendous was some
thin to make the bears run ag'in in these
here times seem nothin more than coons.
Dan'l, nothin' more than coons.
"I hadn't been troubln' Of EN- none
I either. knowed they was hangin round
Shoholy mountains, lookin' fer TO have a
little fun with somebody, and had my
eye on TO 'em, but wasn't ready yit fer
to accommodate 'em. So guess they got
sorter tired O. waitin' fer me an that
they'd start he circus themselves. Any
how, they started 1t.
~ was out one day fer nothin else but
TO look natur' over. and I was lookin' her
over from the top Of big rock that stuck
out o. the ledge more than hundred foot
above the creek, which was runnin' roarin
food. There wasn't ding thing betwixt
that rock and the creek but air, except a
shelvin' rock that laid jest about on level
with the water down there.
~ was standin' clean out on the tip o.
that hangin' rock, viewin' the prospect
Ger, when all of sudden felt it begin to
teeter, and pooty soon I see it was goin'
to tumble, sure as cats. The stone was
movin of with me, and T give you my
word, Danl, ! was as nigh TO gittin skeert
as ever was in my life. If 1t hadn't been
that big oak rec growed at the back
end o the rock, and that one Of its branches
stuck out over the rock, I do believe Twould
"a been skeert fer sar'n.
But there was that tree, and as the
stone tumDled from under me I throwed my
hands up and grabbed the limb. Away
went the stone, and when II struck the
creek it throwed the water most UP to me
and then the ragin' torrent swallered il out
o. sight. And there / hung, Dan'l, with
nothin' but wind betwixt me and the shell
vim rock below.
"'"Natur' is han'some." says I, -but
she kin act up dingnation queer when she
feels like it," says, and begun to hitch
the trunk o the tree. along the limb. BY
and by I turned my head to see how fur
7 had to go yit, and not 'spectn' to see what
I did see, I come toler'ble nigh to lettin'
10 that limb and startin down TO jine the
rock that had left ME there without no
footin'.
AT the butt end o. the limb. Dan'l
se,tin' with his back ag In the trunk, was
one o them big bears was telling you about
He sot there with setch an aggravatin'
grin on his face that I knowed to wunst
/ hat he had more than likely give that rock