The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-07

! Hammer she got to Bits as quick
i as she could, and bounced in on MeHs-
sa, which was Bills wife. Melissa was
| out on the back stoop sortin' fresh laid
eggs and countfn' 'em into basket TO
| be took TO market, and the old hound
was snoozin' nigh.
Melissa Hammer holIers, Didn't
1 tell you Yesterday somethin was go
in to happen cause 1 seen the moon
over my left shoulder"
Lord, Hammer" Melissa hollers
back to Hammer, so you did. You
don't mean to tell me, Hammer Mix"
says she, that your mother is dead %
she hollers.
No." hollers Hammer to Melissa,
but seen the moon over my left Shout
der only t'other night" she holIers.
''and now somethin' has happened sure
enough" she hollers.
Goodness land. Hammer" hollers
Melissa, it's your house on fire, that's
what it is, and it's a shame she hol-
lers.
mo, Melissa hollers Hammer. lit
amt our house on fire. Somethfn' has
happened though, but who'd "a thunk
it'd "a been a bear she hollers
Hammer hollers Melissa, Bears
has ct up your John. you poor lone
creatur' you
So Melissa she jumps up to show
Hammer how tremendous sorry she was
for her, and she sot her foot square
on to the old hounds tail. The old
hound he lifts hisself up with an all
pervadin' howl, and throws hisself
ag in the basket of eggs and sends it
flynn often the stoop, and twelve doz-
en- o fresh-laid eggs want never
scrambled SO quick nor so complete as
them twelve dozen was.
AS a "Wingin' from Wild Camden
/ have an idea that there couldn't be
better one brung in than that I'm.
Sort o string it out SOS it'll read that
''owin to circumstances he didn't have
no hold on to Bill Jump, knowed from
the headwaters to B'ilin' Pot Eddy as
a leadin' citizen O. Wild Gander, sud-
IDENTIFY and without warnin' lost twelve
dozen of as good eggs as ever sot a
hen. Now is the time to turn in and
vote fer Bill Jump fer constable. He
needs the lift" r
'Them's the kind o. news Wild Gan
der sends in. And you mowt add to
them "Wingin's'' this here one. It's
another good un:
IS Melissa Ann, the amiable wife o.
Bill Jumps bosom, and mother of his
nine children, kin blow a tin dinner :
horn SOS it kin be heerd by Bill clean
to the back medder, and when Bill
hears it he comes.
That's a "Wingin'' that'n jest {
tickle folks in Wild Gander up to the
.op notch, and John Mix's wife Hammer
Kin back it up fer bein' Twin fact.
Hammer says Melissa, jest afore
she scrunched the old hound into '
,cramblin' the twelve dozen o. fresh ,
aid eggs, Bears has ct up your John,
,ou poor lone creatur' your
&c "No. they hain'tH says Hammer. {
'Leastways, they hadn't when 1 come ! I
away" says she. But they're har- c
,estin' our rye, and-oh, Melissa" she q
ays, 81 most forgot! John wants Bill Q
o skite down to our place with his
run and help him. she says. !:
:" Bill and their boy I'm was way in !:
he back medder mowin'. Melissa she ::
.rabbed the dinner horn and give it ::
cot that'd made Gabriel gulp fer more :
Wind, and in less than a minute Bill :
nd Jim came tearin' to the house-and :
guess you don't want better ::
ackin' up than that fer the "Wingin' +" :
bout Bits wife Melissa Ann, do you? ::
And I've brung you in another
God un from Wild Camden. Soon as
he dinner horn, Melissa says: Il
:" BILL" she says, Hammer seen the Il
noon over her left shoulder and she n
moved to wunst that somethin' was e
DIN to happen, says she. And what j
o you think has happened" says she, S
but bears! So grab your gun and Il
kite down to Johns and help him to 81
nhappen 'em!" says she. o.
:" Bill he grabbed his gun, and his
oy John grabbed a pitchfork. and fl
way they skited to help John, who OF
ras settin' by the swamp with his W
axe, waitin' fer some one Il
come, and Hammer and Melissa fol- "
red along. %
When they got there John says A
, Bill that as he had a gun he better w
o in the swamp and put a bullet in A
lie bear and end him then and there bt
ill he went in, but he come out ag'in OF
ooty quick, with the bear close be- bt
ind him. m
!" Bill run across the field towards
tile knoll where Hammer and Melissa
as standin' Hammer and Melissa
ley screeched like Injins, and the boy
m run up with his pitchfork. and
,hn run up with his double-bitted axe,
1t Bill he KEEP right on runnin', takin'
e gun with him.
s' The bear turned and went back in III
lie swamp, and when it had got all
and out o. sight, Bill stopped and al
ed both bar'ls after him. la
"''I guess you'n find him in there m
lad enough now!" says Bill, but he tn
aged back in the field. W
g Hes jest about as dead as you ga
=" saws John Mix. But he'll be dead Oh
ter I get through hewin' of him di
,wn!'' says John and he went in the
ramp with his double-bitted axe, and tie
amer screeched and hollered. ne
50 I'm be a widderi I'll be a widder!
other was a wilder in less than tn
onth after she see the moon over sic
r. left shoulder, I knowed some sh
in was goin' to happen" says Han re
think ernin z