The sun., 1903-08-30
LOW 1T LOOKS TO
III A MAN UP A TREE.
The Knob Country Citizen Hears a
Bear Story and Josh, Somehow,
He Heerd 1t, Too.

| LAcKAwAxEN, Pa, Aug. 28.--1What first
made me think it was JOSH said the mar
from the Knob country, was the way ne
snuck out othe back door when he see the
| New York Teller comm, and his not comm
/ back no more till the New York feller had
gone home. Ican't help but sort o keep on
| thnkin that way, not till Josh tells me
who was tellin' him.
mo, sir, l can't, cause after the New
York feller had gone, Josh comes in next
day, and he says
WHO do you s'pose could a-done itv
why, who was tellin your l says,
cause hadn't told nobody, and the New
York feller hadn't told nobody but me.
Why says, Josh, who was telin' your
SAYS
"'oh, says Josh, sort o keerless-like,
4 heerd IT, he says.
And that sot me to thinktn' more and
more that 1t was Josh, and somehow can't
help but keep on thinkin' so. not till Josh
tells me who was telin' him.
Josh had come in that day, and / see he
had been hurryin', cause he was all het
up and was breathin' hard, and so thought
I'd wait till he got sort o cooled down fore
asked him anything about It, While was
waitin' heerd scrapin' kind O noise out
in the road, and as looked out I see the
New York feller comm in his wagon, with
only three wheels on to 1t, the fourth one
bein' fence rail under the axle. And see
that he was rather mussed up little HIM
self
HelloH l says. Looks as If he mowt
.lor l,.,f L. ~. H. J,t1l l,,.tc
ru,ty" l says.
With that Josh glanced out o the winder,
and when he seen the New York feler COM
in he snuck out the back door and took to
the woods What he done it fur, of course,
didn't know, but got an idee by and by.
The New York feler got out of his wagon
slow and keerful, and come in a-limpin'
wuss than n spawned hoss. His clothes,
what there was onto him, was futterin' in
the wind, and under the rips and tears
see that he was scratched and gouged, and
had been sheddin' fair to middlin spirtin'
O blood
He sot down, and after moppin' him
self awhile, he says to me:
Il Jest been maxim feller-citizen o.
your n present O bear, he says.
II had sort o. been struck little dumb
by the unexpected natur Of his comm in,
and this remark O. his knocked me dumber
yit, and Consistently sot there like bump
on a log and didn't say nothin'.
Yes says he. 1T was the first bear
ever see,' he says, 'roamin wild and free
and obstreperous In its native bailiwick,'
he SAYS. I got it, he says, but l didn't
have no partic'lar use fer it. so give it to
a feller citizen O. your'n. But he says.
there's somethin l would have some use
fer-quite consider 'ble-if I could only
git my hands onto it, he says. It's
another feller-citizen O. your'n. don't
know who he is, but I'd have considerable
use fer him If could git my hands onto
him, though l don't mind tellin you,' he
says, that he wouldn't have much use fer
himself fer awhile after did git my hands
on to him, he says.
Il can't tell you fer why, but somehow
I suspicioned JOSH but | didn't say nothin'.
He had yaller whiskers and butternut
overhauls on says the New York felIer.
$50 did Josh, but that want no evidence
to make me suspicion him any the stronger
on There was more folks than Josh in
the Knob country with yaller whiskers
and butternut ov"rhauls on. But havin
got over my bein' knocked dumb, l says
to the New York feler who had been
yaCatin' round there fer two or three davs
with a hired hoss and wagon from the
Eddy and "A COnsarnca nice feller he was,
too: says TO him
How did il come 10 happen?' l says.
And the heft o what he told me was
that he was drivin along the road Some'rs
along the Knob when he heerd some one
l,,I l. u, nI do hnr.. hn
holer come from and see man in the top
of small maple tree. not more than twenty
five wards from the road. There was a
thick CROWN of underbrush betwixt it
and the road The New York feller stopped
his horse The man in the tree boilers to
him:
Hello he hollers. Come over here
and see what you kin do towards gittin'
a feler down outen' a tree, won't you? |
got ND into il derned easy he boilers, but
I've got to have some help fore I kin git
down ag'in'
What you doin up there, anyhow
the New York fcller hollers back to the man
up the tree,
'" 'Watin' to git down.! the man hollers
back Not another dern thing he hollers.
Kin you help me"
"The New York feller got out of his wagon
and made his way through the thick under
brush towards the maple tree, thinkin'
he had struck. He got through the brush
and come out into consider BILE Of an openin
he said, and in less than the shakin' of a
lambs tail he sees that the man up the
tree had nmazin' good reason fer sayin'
that he'd have TO have help in gittin' down
out of it.
"Ragn' and rompin and rampagin
around he foot of the tree, and plain enough
havin' it in deep fer the man. was a sockin
big bear. The New York feler stopped
raj her suddemt on the edge o. the brush,
fer he bear mt more han ten foot away
And the New York feller didn't stop 10 study
the natur' a. bears. but begun to back out o
there as fast as he could do it, and lot some
body else have the job Of helping he man
down out of the tree.
But he bear had got his eyes onto he
Teller, and lest made his mind up right on
the spot that he was mixed up in Sc me way
with the trouble betwiXt him and the man
up the tree, whatever that mowt "a heen,
and the bear turned and went after the
New York feller with setch a snappin' and
snarlin that even the man up the tree
clumb a little higher The New York feller
had a sevcn-shootin' pistol with him, and
he pulled it out and popped away at the
bear He socked five ball into the bear
before the ugly old critter had cleared the
open space betwiXt the tree and the edge ,
o the bushes. but the bear come right on.
Then he New York fellcr turned and legged
il fer his wagon as fast AZ he could lift his
feet and put EN- down ag'in, and the bear
crashed along after him. He'd n made
the wagon all right, but when the
hCss see the bear break out o the bushes
and come Snortin' along il was more than