The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-25
MO RYE CROP,
" BUT A BEAR CROP.
Lively Events at Wild Gander
Foretold to Mrs. Nix BY the
New Moon.

Il was so busy one day setting UP that
indispensable rural newspaper couplet
up jumped our devil in rage. and set
two lines to fill this page in order that
might get the outside of the Geepiiie Trum-
pct Binst Of Freedom to press, said the ex-
editor of that onetime influential chronicle
of things in the hemlock belt. that didn't
turn TO zee who it was that came into the
Office. and would perhaps, not have turned
TO sse until had got the couplet in type
and into the form if the person hadn't
spoken up after while and in a husky voice
said:
We'll mebbe YOU don't keer to have
these here -Wingin's from Wild Gander'
fer to put into your paper, them
The 'Wingings from Wild Gander de-
partment Of our local correspondence was
an important one, for we had seven sub
soribers a; Wild Gander and two of them
had paid for their papers So suspended
operations at once and welcomed the mes
senger from Wild Camden, whose patience
l had evidently tried.
"And now said I, what ia the news
you bring us from Wild Gander?'
| We'll said the messenger, TO make a
long story short when John Mix that lives
Jest at the hoof OF the barren seen the big
bear come out o the woods day afore yis-
terday and take down panel o fence as
slick as John could a done it hisself, and
begin to roll around in the rye. John jest
most lost his breath.
| "And 10 he ought to. cause the rye crop
was runnin' short onto him, and he needed
every spear there was in his field. bein q
az he had cold his crop to Sol Devers. and
/ Sol had paid fer the rye, and John had used
the money. SO he hollers to the bear
! -~Here!' he hollers Come out o
there! Don't you know that rye is sold?
And there amt half enough OF it TO make
Sol Devers good fer his moneys worth
as 1t is! Come out o there!" John hollers
But, instead o. comm out. the bear
rolled and tumbled around in the rye and
swatted big swaths of it down and pulled
| II up by the roots in great gobs.
| "Where was John? You SEQ Johns
woodshed roof had sprung a leak, and John
! was UP onto it fixin' OF it, nailin' down
shingles and setch, and he had his hammer
| riz to whack nail Jest az the bear come
| OUT ana ttRuU VI idnHdsc III VIC AyS' oiiN
| when he see that the bear wasn't goin' to
quit sp lin that rye crop, John says;
| ""Jest you wait till git this single
nailed onl" he says. an tend to your
carcase!" says no.
| "Then John fetched his hammer down
. strong enough to tumble bull, and itmissed
; the nail and took John full head onto his
thumb. and you'd "a thought that thumb
was a half pound o. putty that a steam
/ injine had run over
/ "John come a-tumblin' down often that
roof kerplunk, and went limPin' to the
house, holdn' his thumb. and hollerin'
| like an Injin. Hammer swadded 1t up in
, lot O. rags and campfire, and 50 you git a
.Wingin' from Wild Gander" that's worth
| while. Put It in somethin' like this here:
j .'Our genial and enterprisln' Teller citizen.
! John Mix, Esq. smashed his thumb like
| Sam Hill while maxim extensive improve
ments on his Gle arin at the hoof o the barren.
| There Is worse fellers than John. There
wasn't nobody to go fer a doctor. and John
: is rapidly improvin'.
. That's one "Wingin I've brung you
! in from Wild Camden said the messenger
from that bailiwick. and now mebbe kin
give you another one. When Hammer got
John Mix's thumb done up in rags and cam
phire, John says to Hammer:
! "'"Hanner," says he, where's my
double Filtered axe?"
"'"John," says Hammer lookin' at John
with eyes bigger'n seed onions. John.
says she, "somethin is goin' 10 happen.
told Melissa 30 only Yesterday. I seer
the moon over my left shoulder. John.
says Hammer, and somethin's goin' &c
happen" says she.
a'-There amt neither says John
There amt nothin' goin' to happen,
SAYS he, cause it 3 happenin' right now
Bear is harvestin' my rye crop. and if some
thin don't shet him Oh this MINUTE So
Devers won't have enough to make half q
bakin' o. bread. Where's my double
btted axe?" says John.
"."r knowed somethin' was goin' t.
happen" says Hammer. " told Melissa
40 Yesterday" says she. Cause I seer
the moon over my left shoulder, says she
John" says she, "your double bittet
axe is out on the back stoop." says she
.where was cuttin' turnips fer the COW
with it, says she. Il knowed somethin
was eon' to happen" says she, cause
seen the MOON
"'"Never mind what you SEEM" says
John. you Jest pike to Bill Jump rs
fast as your legsl carry YOU and tell Bill
to skite down here with his gun say
John.
Hammer legged it fer Bills which il
sompthin' like mile from Johns, and JOIN
got his double btted axe and went out il
the rye field The bear had swated anc
tumbled down every consumed spear o rye
there was, and there the impudent critte
stood al the fur side o. the field, actin
as If he was Jest about pleased to death.
John was so mad he couldn't hardl!
find words TO tell il, but he hollers to thu
bear;
"Stnnd right there. dingnation TAXI
YOU says he. That's what | want you
TO do" Gays he. Stand there, and II
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