Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-03-19

losin' O. his dog Socky, and while we
| was dom Of it Uncle ST suddenly hauled
up and banged away up the creek at
| somethin'.
I'VE heard howl, and then some
thin went snashin' and dashin' on up
the creek, though we couldn' : SEQ what
it was for tho thick laurels. Uncle 81
had just begun 10 tell 10 that IS WIS Q
bear, aad that he only sss cue Of its
eyes - tho bear Wa peePin' GOT o tie
brush, wheo some oao fCo0 Up that,
WY hollered:
"'Hi, down there! WAaA IN on0 HUI
yoa doin'? That Wa NJ b1r. anA I'vs
been fol}owtn' II mors'a tan mfaesa
What you jsmpaa' In end saeesfs' Il
sway furs'
"C3oao cato that AnleF4n' tha 0na
that made II eeme broakin' oat O. The
aAureas. II w>s Old joke, 4ad he was
madden than wiidcata. I sueus mebb.
there'd . boen quite sons hot sauab-
bin betwtxt him end Uneae 81 II jess
then 10 hadn't heerd two shots beyead
tho isureaa. AID We aA hnrsied on to 80
"hAt was up; al bit Joe, who ~dtsktv-
cred that ha had gone lame, and % no
had to turn and 60 back homo.
Beyond the laurels who should wo
come out on to but Gabe and josh,
holdin' their guns in their hands and
lookin' skeert.
"'Bears come a-tumblin' out O. them
taurels like bees out of a hive!' says
Gabe. They went over tho hill and
down into the holler yonder a skitin'.
I don't know how many me and Josh
filled with lead, but seen one of 'em
hump himself and sort O. fall behind
the rest and look tired
"Then Evander spoke up and said
that he'd be darned if he was goin' to
tag on behind a lot o. bears without
gittin' chance to have shot at 'em,
and so he'd go back home.
"'More'n likely that'll be good idea
for you. Evander,' says Uncle ST, for
the chances is that the bears have cir
eled round and gone back to the creek
ag'in.' he says, and you can't help but
run ag'in two or three Of 'em on your
way in,' he says.
$50 Evander said he didn't want to
take no setch advantage as that of a
party like our'n, and he stayed with us.
1--WE went down in the boiler and
SEARCHED and secuted and SEARCHED, but
we couldn't git track O that drove o.
bears, nowhow. By and by we heerd
some one hollerin' and yellin' for help,
off in little swamp. He wanted help
cause he was freed by bear, he hol
Tered, and all of us but Paley's Bob hur
ried over there to help him.
"Paley's Bob said he'd be consarned
if he hadn't lost his pocketbook COM
in down to the holler, and he must go
back and look for it. I guess he must
a had a hard time a findin' of it, cause
he hadn't got back yet when we left.
1.-THE Teller in the tree was young
Ike. A big bear was at the foot of the
tree, sure enough, but I see to once
that he was deader'n a milestone.
"'Him and another one came tearin'
in here says young Ike, comm down
on to- the tree, lookin' sheepish, and I
skinned up this tree. Tother bear
went on, but this I'm squatted right 1T
the foot o. the tree, and I thought he
was treein' me, and waitin' fer me to-
tumble out says young Ike.
old Jake swore up and down that;
the dead bear was the one he had
didn't make no difference whether
Jake had chased the bear ten mile Or
twenty, it was the bear he had sent his
rifle bullet into up in the laurels along
the creek, or it wouldn't be layin' there
dead like it was.
eli reckoned that the bear was one
that would be alive and well yet if
he hadn't sent that charge of lead into
it just after young Nose had shot the
bear dog Socky, and Gabe and Josh
wanted to bet all they was worth that
the bear was one that had bumped it.
self and got tired after Gabe and Josh
had banged away into the drove of
bears up on the hill.
mo tellin' what mawt a. happened
by and by if Big Jim, from Ball Hill,
hadn't come along with gun on his
shoulder.
"'You1l find a load O. buckshot in
that bears liver says he, and not an
other ounce O. Lead he says. The
buckshot slid out O. this here gun O"
mine about half an hour ago, over
yender in the swamp he says.
"That's what they found in the bear
"a big load o. buckshot in it's liver,
and nothin' else. Big Jim took the
bear, and we came home. 1t was con-
sider'ble O. bear hunt, but I've got IN
idea that Uncle ST didn't jedge Pete so
consarned hasty that mornin' after
all."-N. Y. Sun.
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