Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-05
THOSE iNTERFERIN'
BEARS
A Taie of Cousin Dusenberryss
Difftculties.

ton as to his domicile is that 1T
IS over toward Pochuck, the flower of
the Drowned Lands country, came in
after watching for awhile, with a crit
zeal eye, operations around the station
and railroad yard. Dropping into the
big armchair, he said:
as that railroad ont there up to the
times and stuffed with ideas, or is it
pig-headed and bound to stay in the
Tut?"
The man from Pochuck paused for
a reply. None came. Then, after
awhile. he cracked his fingers, very
loud. and remarked with some em-
hhasis:
well all there Is about II is If that
railroad our there is up to the times
and has ideas it can hire Cousin Dusen-
berry Cronk, but III is pig-headed and
! bound TO STAY in n rut it'll have to
look further, for il can't git Cousin
Dusenberryl And it wants to speak
up pretty quick, or Cousin Dusen-
berry II 60 somewheres else, by eats!"
Badly the landlord, remarked to
Farmer Bill Leonard, who lives oppo-
site Goose Pond mountain, that it
seemed as if we were going to have our
summer Just when fall ought to be
coming on, and Farmer Leonard said
YES, il did so. The alleged citizen of
the Pochuck bailiwick made q swoop
for a fly that insisted on tickling him
on the nose. He caught it, tossed it
out Of the window, and observed:
sThat's what it wants 10 do by cats,
or Cousin Dusenberry Cronk II go
somewhere else! OF course. you've
heerd that Cousin Dusenberry had quit
'em on the L. H. and O. \. road?'
II anyone had heard it he didn't adj
NIT it, The Pochuek man cracked
another finger and said:
"The L. Il and ". and O. \. was too
pig-headed for Cousin Dusenberry"
No one seemed to care.
1T wasn't up to the times and was
bound to keep in the rut," said the
claimant of residence over toward
Pochuck, so Cousin Dusenberry quit"
Farmer Leonard wondered whether
the apple jack crop was going to run
short this fall and Badly, the landlord,
said he had heard so. A shade passed
over the face of the Pochnck man. but
he said.
cousin Dusenberry says to Aunt |
Sally Beckendarter only Yesterday
Aunt Sally says he, If there ever was
place where solitude Of the dim-lit |
woods bumped itself and took the cake, |
it is over along the L. II. and Q. ~. |
between Gas Tank junction and Peeled
Hemlock
Yet Cousin Dusenberry says he liked |
II first rate when he started in on the |
road-frst rate. He had always |
hankered to get close to natures heart. |
anyhow. Cousin Dusesnberry had. and |
there he was. he said with his head |
pressed plumb on TO il and hearin' Of |
It thump-'cause there was only three
stoppin' places on the whole 43 miles
o. the road betwixt Peeled Hemlock
and Gas Tank junction. One was
a sawmill, one a tannery and one an
oil we'll The rest of the line was
woods Cousin Dusenberry wouldn't
"a asked for nothin' better II the road
hadn't been so ding pig-headed and
bound to keep in the rut.
zone day Cousin Dusenberry was
boomin' along with a heavy train o.
tanbarls, lumber and oil. when about
a hundred yards ahead of 'em he see
a big hear come slouchin' out o. the
woods at one side o. the track When
they had hummed along to within a
few rods o. the bear. what did that
bear do but step back on
the track, and. as IL seemed 10 Cousin
there it stood aeti1y maxi
In faces at 'em.
"Well, now, that jest more than
made Cousin Dusenberry mad, and he
pulled his engine wide open, and went
for that bear az IS miles an hour.
snow. says lie TO his fireman. grit
tim his teeth, watch the bear meat
fy.'
They went svoopin' down Jon the
bear ike a hurricane. and Cousin
Dusenberry looked up and watched for
he shower o. bear meat he was ex-
peetin' But il dida't shower. and he
says 90 his fireman chat the bear must
a. been smashed to mush on The cow
catcher. So he cra,led out ON front
Jest to see how bad they had done that
bear up. There sot the bear on the
as cool as q cucumber. He
rad reached up and took the lamp out
o. the headlight, and there he was
pourin' the oil out Of Il an over him /
self, and rubbin' Of It in as liniment. ,
give you my word. Aunt Sally ,
70 Cousin Dusenberry says 10 Aunt ,
sally Beekendarter, only yesterday, I 4,
vas su'prisedi'
and Aunt sally says. la sakes a
nassy, Dusenberry Cronki should
iay SOL saws she.
"When the bear looked mp and seen
,ousin Dusenberry hechuekedt the lamp a
It him, and only missed his head bv In
lot more than a little bit, and swung
ITSELF of to the side O. the track as 4
lick as could be and praneed away 7
INTO the woods, and Cousin Dusenberry
avs TO his fireman.