Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-07-06
! Amazing Things
\ Bears Will Do 4

man from the Knob county" but
1t 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 thew
couldn't git some kind of a trail that d
throw some light on to it's disappearin'.
sam, he hadn't said a word about
neanderin' in that direction, neither
lad Dick, but somehow or other they
both headed to'rd Jerry's cabin. When
Chey got there Jerry was home, and he
was skinnin' out the doe.
Looks to me Jerry, says Sam, as
# it'd have to go back
Jerry he looks up, jest as if he hadn't
never been so surprised in all his born
lays, and he says:
says he.
The doe says Sam.
The doe!' says Jerry, seemin'ly more
Iupriseder than ever. Why, what fer,
Sam?' says he.
1T was took says Sam
Took says Jerry, painful like.
SAM says he, not stole! You don't
mean to say you've an idee she stole it,
/ have your says he.
Sam and Dick they looked as if they
didn't exactly understand Jerry, but
potty soon Sam says:
I" 1t 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 a 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 go back he says:
Jerry he shook his head sorrowful,
and lifted a sigh like anybody mowt that
tad got a terrible blow, and he says:
1 dunno how under the blue canopy
o. the archin' skies | ever let myself run
30 shy o meat, says he, but yesterday
afternoon | see that l didn't have a
smitch, so | cut sticks fer the turnpike,
seem that l had jest about time to ketch
the tannery bark wagon goin' in, so as
could tell the driver to fetch me in
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.
+" i had about a mile an a half to go
git, when l come slam up ag' in bear in
an openin' in the woods, and the bear
stood still and seemed like it was waitin'
fer me. l didn't have no gun, and was
IN a hurry, fer if l didn't hurry I'd miss
the bark wagon, and then l couldn't
get no ham fer two days. and didn't
have no time to go huntin' fer meat,
with that bark-peelin' contract on my
hands, so bears wasn't jest the thing fer
me to stop and fool with jest then.
81 SHE'D off to one side to pass the
bear, but as was goin' by her ketched
her eye, and it struck me that there was
queer look in it. | stopped, and the bear
turned that queer look on me full tilt.
and then looked over to'rd a saplin that
stood OF 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 it
worth while fer me to miss gittin' that
aam, and l started on.
Then the bear give me the look ag'in,
and fell onto her knees. She got up and
walked to'rd the saplin', lookin' back
over her shoulder at me as she went, jest
as IL she was askin' me to foller her
. When she got to the foot o. the sap
lin she stopped and throwed her eyes up
into it. looked up, too, and then l see
what It all meant
Nigh the top O. the saplin', clingin'
to limb, was catamount-an all-slam-
min tremendous big and ugly one-with
1 little bear cub in each claw. glarin'
down at me and the bear.
The catamount had stole the bears
cubs and skfted up the tree with EN-. The
tree was too small for the bear to climb.
and the catamount didn't dast come
down. KNOWN that the bear ID make
short work Of It-and the poor mother