The Irish standard., 1904-06-25
Amazing Things
! Bears Will Do 4

T WASN'T very big Zoe, said the
man from the Knob county," but
it was dead, and Sam and Dick knowed it
couldn't "a walked away from their
cabin, consistently it must a been took,
so they meandered out to see if they
couldn't git some kind of trail that d
throw some light on to it's disappearin'.
Sam, he hadn't said word about
meanderin' in that direction, neither
had Dick, but somehow or other they
both headed to'rd Jerry's cabin. When
they got there Jerry was home, and he
was skinnin' out the doe.
Clocks to me jerry says Sam, as
If it'd have to go back
Jerry he looks up, jest as if he hadn't
never been SO surprised in all his born
days, and he says:
"'Why, what'll have to go back, SAM
says he
The doe says Sam.
"'The doe! says Jerry, seemin'ly more
su'priseder than ever. Why, what fer
Sam?' says he.
"'It was took says Sam.
"Tooll!' says Jerry. painful like.
SAM, says he, not stole! You don't
mean to say you've an idee she stole it,
have you?' says he.
"Sam and Dick they looked as if they
didn't exactly understand Jerry, but
potty soon Sam says:
est was took says he. And looks to
me as if it'd have to go back says he.
"Then Jerry he wilted down on the
bench, throwed his hands up'ards and
most bust out sobbin'.
"This is heart breakin'!' says he.
TO think that she'd "a stole it! And me
a-praisin' her and a-thinkin' her. sup
posin' O course that she had run it down
her own self and brung it to me! And
now to think that she'd a stole it! This
is heart-breakin Do you think you got
the right idee SAM says Jerry.
Sam and Dick looked as if they didn't
understand Jerry any better than they
did before, but pooty soon Sam says:
1T was took, says he, and looks to
me as if it'd have to so back, he says:
GERRY he shook his head sorrowful,
and lifted sigh like anybody mowt that
had got a terrible blow, and he says:
81 dunno how under the blue canopy
o the archin' skies ever let myself run
so shy O meat says he, but Yesterday
afternoon l see that | didn't have a
smitch, so | cut sticks fer the turnpike,
seem that had jest about time to ketch
the tannery bark wagon soin' in, so as
l could tell the driver to fetch me i'll q
ham from the store when he come in next
mornin', and leave if fer ME in the hem
lock stub so as could go down an git it.
81 had about mile an half to go
yit, when | come siam up as in bear in
an openin in the woods, and the bear
stood still and seemed like it was waitin
fer me. | didn't have no gun, and was
in hurry, fer if didn't hurry Id miss
the bark wagon, and then couldn' I
get no ham fer two days, and | didn t
have no time to so huntin' fer meat,
With that bark-peelin' contract on my
hands, SO bears WASH jest the thing fer
NE to stop and fool with jest then.
81 SHE'D off to one side to pass the
bear, but as was goin' by her l ketched
her eye, and it struck me that there was a
queer look in it. stopped, and the bear
luIueu THAT queer looh Oh NE LUZ tllI
and then looked over to'rd saplin' that
stood off by itself about 20 foot away.
"'Then she looked back at me ag'in
and then at the tree. didn't see nothin
in the performance, though, to make 1t
worth while fer me to miss gittin' that
ham, and | started ON.
"'Then the bear give me the look gin
walked tord the saplin', lookin' bach
over her shoulder at me as she went, jest
as if she was asifr me to foller her.
when she got to the foot o the sap
lin she stopped and throwed her eyes III
into it. | looked up, too, and then SEE
what it all meant.
Nigh the top O the saplin' clingin