The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-23

10 llmD, was q CdIdHOuuC-du dll.SldIuS
min tremendous big and ugly one-with
a little bear cub in each claw. glarin'
down at me and the bear.
1.-The catamount had stole the bears
cubs and skited up the tree with 'em. The
tree was too small for the bear to climb,
and the catamount didn't dast come
down, KNOWN that the bear d make
bear wanted me to rescue them young
uns O. her'n.
THAT was the hull sitiwation, as
figgered it out in jiffy. Ifergot all about
the ham, l was so fetched by the longin'
O. the poor mother bear, and SO allper-
vadin' mad at the kidnappin' catamount.
81 throwed of my coat. and up that
saplin' Skinned. l wasn't long gettin'
to where the catamount was crouchin',
glarin' at me as come, and spittin' and
growlin' enough to skeer a red Injin, but
holdin' on to the whinin' bear cubs like
grim death.
The varmint couldn't climb any
higher, an SEEM she couldn't skeer me
back, she thought she'd do better to take
the chances for jump than to git into
my clutch, and she aimed fer branch
OF tree OFT to one sioe o the one we was
in, and away she went. The Jump was
more than she could land, and down she
went, still clutchin' the cubs, kerplunk
on the ground.
Before l could git down out O. the
tree the old bear had shattered the cata-
mount into shoestrings, and was Jest
more than tckled over gittin' her cubs
back. s (
She didn't have to have the gift of
CAB to thank me. She looked it more
than words could tell it.
When got to the ground tkunk
about that ham was needin', and kin
see the sorrowin' look on that old bears
face now when l cussed the luck and
hollered.
"''I never kin ketch that wagon now!
Never! And l won't have nothin' to eat
fer a week."
81 steaked it for the turnpike, any
how, hopin' mowt ketch the wagon,
but when got there heered it rumblin'
down the road, half a mile beyond any
kind O. hearin.' l come back here mad
and tired and hungry and cussed bears
and catamounts all night.
Il was foolin' round in here this fore
noon, when heerd scratchin' sort of
knock come to the door. opened it, and
l most fell in a faint when see that old
she bear standin' there with that doe
over her shoulder.
LAS soon as she seen me she laid the
doe down, give me look that there
want no mistakin' and trotted off into
the woods. was fetched to the heart.
"Gratitude!" says l, "Sorrowin' be-
cause she had knocked me out O. gittin'
my meat and swellin' with gratitude
cause saved her cubs fer her. she has
gone and run down a nice fat doe and
brung it to me b 'arthstone!" says.
land drug the doe in and was mus
in on the tetchin' circumstance as
skinned it out, and now to think she stole
it! Me supposin' she had run it down
herself and brung it to me, and now to
think she stole it!
This is heart breakin'! Where do
you s'pose she stole it, Sam?'
"'Where do you s'pose she could a.
Dick? says Sam.
"The unblushin' critter!' says Dick.
She knows!' says he.
Yes says Sam. And jerry says he,
the thing fer you to do is to whisper IN
her ear that unless she Jugs that doe
back and hangs it on the peg where she
snaked it from, there'n be more than
kidnappin' catamounts prowlin' round
and pouncin' in these woods!' says he.
Then Sam and Dick went in the woods
to see how the signs fer game was keepin'
up, and when they got back to their cabin
along in the afternoon, 10 and behold
We! there the doe hung!
"'Dick, says Sam, what amazin
things bears does dol says he.
"Amazin' est kind! says Dick.
"And poor Jerry was weighted down
so under the heft o. woe that disapp1 INT
in she bear had give him that he thro~eo
up his peelin' contract and went to raft
in up on the headwaters. IN. Y. Sun.