Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-06-02
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Bears Will Do
Uncle Jsss settles the Question
Witha Tale Of Uncle Spitxsr.

, ssr LIS Sam got up 90 student frol
the shoebox where he had bee
settln' that he almost knocked Uncl
, Jase out o. the three-legged cheer wher
he sot, and he says, sort O. as II he wa
mad, and sort o as II he was goin' =
take Uncle Jase by the neck:
"T've always believed they'd do 1t
says he, and I've always stuck to 1t an
argyfed the strongest kind that they
do it, says he, but | see now that the.
won't, and take It all back!' says he.
Il had always stood up ag'in ELS San
sayin' that they would do 1t. cause
thought I knowed 'em bout as well a
the next Teller, havin' trapped 'em ant
shot 'em and had rough and tumblei
with 'em, up hill and down dale, heltel
SHELTER through the scrub, and ker'
sploshity-splosh knee deep across thu
swamps, fer more than 40 year, and
they hadn't never done 1t to me, and
never knowed o. their dom 1t to any.
one else, 90 always stood up ag'in ELS
Sam on his pint that they would do 1t,
but he stuck to It like a woodtick to
| yaller coon dog. And he was dom
Of It this time, over to the Eddy, settin'
on the shoebox and layin' Of his argy-
fyin' down fer sartin.
"'Do It? says he. Why, sure as pow
der they'll do 1t! Every time they git the
chance. Bears don't like nothin' better
than to chaw man fer dinner. bears
don't says he. DO it?' says he. %
course they'll do IT.
"'Pish!' says I. Bears won't do It!
Bears won't eat man no more than !
Wilt says I.
"'They won't, hey?' says Uncle Jase.
Well, says he, takin' somethin' outen
his pocket and holdin' 1t up betwixt his
fingers. Here's somethin' that says
they WILL Danl,' says he. 'Tain't nothin'
but a button-a shiny brass button
but it's primy flshy evidence that they'll
do IT, says he.
"Elrs Sam he frightened up and
looked at me as II he was sorry fer
me, and he says:
"'Aha!' says he How did you come
10 git 1t, Uncle Jase? says he.
"'That button says Uncle Jase, was
on the sojer coat O my old pap's Uncle
Splitter when he come over here with
the Britishers to fight ag'in US fellers
time O. the revolution. Uncle Splitter
was always sorry he At on tother side,
and he said he'd never a. done 1t II he'd
only had an inklin' o. what nice folks
we was over here, and SO when he came
up after the war and settled In the Knob
country folks took sech likin' to him
that they never said nothin' agfn his
wearin' that sojer coat O. his'n with the
brass buttons on 1t. And this here is
one O. EN-
"Uncie Jase had been talking slower
and slower and lower and lower, all the
time a wigglin' and keepin' his eyes onto
Simon, and then he shet up student and
with a snap. Then me and Ellis Sam
looked over to Simon. and we see he had
got I'D and was fastenin' the kiver down
On the pail O. loose chawin' that al
ways sets on the counter, and It looked
% us as II he had remembered that Uncle
Tase always got sort O. absent minded
when he begun, to make history, and
eemed to forgit that the terbacker
wasn't there. like almanacs. to help his
elf to. II
$50 when we see Simon fastenin' Of
he kiver on to the pail o loose chawin' |
70 knowed that Uncle Jase d be dis
outraged, and that the history O. that
ojer button d more than likely be lost
Is fer me, didn't care so much, fer
wasn't lookin' fer no evidence ag'in
ny argyfyin' that bears wouldn't do It,
ut ELS Sam he was disappInted. and
Q hauls out his new plug o. sweet ter |
acker and hands 1t to Uncle Jase and
avs:
"Have a chaw, Uncle Jase? |,
"Uncle Jase bein' particularly fond O.
weet plug, he cheered up like the bun {
omin' from behind cloud, took an a
mazin' chaw often ELS Sans plug, and 3
arted right In to make history ag'in. b
hen, o. course, his absent mindedness r
,ok holt on him. and he stuck Eli Sans q
lug into his pocket b
ayes, yes!' says he, when Uncle b
pitzer come up after the war and set 1,
ed in the Knob country, folks took 4
'ch q likin' to him that they never said y
othin' ag'in his wearin' that British q
; sojer coat o. his'n with the brass q
lttons on II. Particularly they didn't o
ter he fetched in the wildcat and the
Z. one day. Il
ale wasn't out after wildcat nor "
x, neither. He was Jest trampin' the I
Gods with his eye peeled fer bear. but j
ar didn't seem to care to have him
his eye on to EN-, and they laid low. I,
, he sot down on TO log and lit his :,
pc, and was smokin' away, GRIMM
think how skeert all the bears was Of n
m. and yit mad to know that they q
u, when a big red fox come trottin'
Il o. the bushes and went slitin' past \,
ncle Splitter like q streak o. grease. ~
'Thlnkin' that he mowt as well take \,
fox skin home II be couldn't do no m,
tier, Uncle Splitter hauled up to put
bullet into that one when the fox gnt | AZ.