Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-09-23

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Then says Uncle Jasper, you kir
settle t'other un,' he says. and your
have 'em both, and l am glad you com.
along he says, SOS to set me to thinkin
about wildcats, and SOS could sort O
locate these two fer you,' he says
Them two is all there is in these part.
to-day, 'cordin' to the signs he says.
That's the way Uncle Jasper laid ou-
! the programme fer me that day as tc
wildcats, and l follered it out and go,
'em both. A leadin' and valuable citi.
swat to the Knob country when he
passed away
cit was sOmethin' tough on him thai
he had to go, too, particly as he had tc
| leave setch a woman to be a wilder as
! Hammer was. Why, whenever remem.
| Der Hammer and them three bears al.
most have to set down and shed tears fol-
Uncle Jasper to think he had to go an6
leave setch a woman wilder.
Them three bears, the old she one
and the two spring cubs, they come down
into the corn patch at Jasper's clearin
jest about dusk one day, when the mill
was in the corn, and laid out to have a
high old feast on to it. They knowed
them bears did, jest as sure as you're
born, that Uncle Jasper was way back
O the Knob, havin' the gun with him
and wasn't comm home that night: but
they didn't know that Hammer had &C
many p'ints about her.
They had been rompin' around in the
in 0ff
good time generly, before Hammer dis
covered 'em. There want no gun in
the house, but Hammer didn't calc'late
to let that bear family harvest that corr
crop. gun or no gun
Uncle Jasper had both the dogs with
him. too, but the little yaller whiffet
was to home. So Hammer, she grabbed
pltchfork, and calm the whiffet start
ed fer the corn patch to attract the
bears
The bears didn't see her till the
whlffet begun to bristle up and bark,
out when they did look up and see what
was comm they only shifted, jest as if
they considered that here was more fun
than ever cut out fer 'em. But Hammers
dander was way up, and when the old
pear rIz on it's hind feet and made a
Dig shown O. teeth, Hammer marched
right on, and give the bear a jab with
the pitchfOrk that made it holler.
The whiffet attracted the bear in the
rear at the same time. and the three OF
EN- scrambled away and Skinned up
chestnut tree that stood in the patch.
II them bears had an idee that by
gltt1n out O the way O. the dog and the
pltchfork in this way they was goin' tc
nave the field all to themselves when
Hammer got tired O. waitin fer em tc
come down and went away, they was
terrible mistook. Ellis Sam lived only
mile from there, and Hammer could a
soon skited over and got him and his
gun. but she want Goin' to- take nc
chances on them bears gittin' away, sc
she plunked herself down at the foot O.
the tree and KEEP the bears from gittin |
down outen it, though they tried to do |
1t more than dozen times
Hammer knowed that Ellis Sam d be |
along by there early in the mornin', so |
there she sot and sot all night. jabbin' |
the pltchfork good and deep into the |
bears every time they'd think they had |
a chance to sneak down, and sendin' 'em |
back outen reach agin, hollerin' and
griffin their teeth.
A little after daylight next mornin'
Ell S Sam come along, on his way to his
chopin, and as luck would have it he
lad his gun with him. He heered some
'ne hOlerin' to him. and he see Hammer
'tandln in the corn beckonin' to him
with the pitchfork
What's the matter, Hammer? says
Ellis Sam.
There amt nothin' the natter
Hammer hollers back. But 1 got a crop
pears here, and | want you to helm
ne gether emf she hollers.
Then Ellis Sam. he see the bears in
he tree. and he ,trotted over there on
he double-quick and picked off all three
IL EN- as easy as turnin' pancakes.
A shame to leave setch woman as
tanner wilder? Should say so; and
eadln citizen and valuable to the Knob
ountry though he was, / wouldn't "a
hunS Uncle Jasper would "a done it.
But Hammer didn't stay wilder
ong. How could she? A lumber con-
ractor with considerable money res
ued her. and they tell me she's Twin at
ne county seat now. in a real board
rouse with shingles on to it, an hes a
ohlan 70 do her washin'' IN. Y SIM