The Crittenden record., 1905-03-31
WHY JoBWAs ANGRY.


consarn him! says JOB.
1T was leetle inconsid 'rit in that bear,
that's So" said the man from the Knob
country, cause in the first place, bears
had KEEP shet o that distric' for moren
tive year, and folks wasn't countiH' on
bears as bein' part an parcel O. things
amongst EN-, but sort o. depended on job
to keep EN- on their taps. So / said then,
and | say now, that it was leetle incon-
od'rit in that bear, and skeercely fair to
job, for it to come mixin' in things the
way it did.
Simeon come in one day, lookin' as if he
was chief mourner 70 funeral, and says
to him:
Some o your folks dead? says.
"No,' he says That black shoat O.
mine turned up missin' this mornin',' he
says.
Well l says, why doh't you go up to
Jobs and git it?' says
/" i been up to Jobs, Be says. I jest come
from Jobs, he says.
"'Why didn't you bring the shoat back
with you them says.
job didn'. have H. says Simeon
JOB didn't have itT / says, thinkir'
that | hadn't heerd Simeon right. Job
tNdh nave lt'' j says.
No. says simeon. He didn't have il.
Leastways, says he, Job don't think he's
| got it,
That jest knocked me criss cross Here
was a shoat missin'. and job didn't have
it! Job lived somethin' like four miles
back on the ridge, and, bears havin' KEEP
shet o that ridge detstric for five year and
better, folks sort o depended on job TO
keep 'em on their taps.
They didn't never come right out and
cay that Job'd walk off with things. but
they sort o limited that things somehow
bad a way o dickin to him or follerin'
him. Whenever somebody's sheep or
chickens or pigs was missin' from the
premises where they'd by rights maturity
ought to belong why the owner Of EN-
jest went up to Jobs and brung 'em back.
So, when Simeon says to me that he been
TO Jobs to git his missin' shoat and Job.
didn't have il, | was jest knocked crisS
cross and all ! could say was:
Simeon, you don't mean to say it,
And Simeon said he did.
" Leastways, says be, JOB don't think
he's got it,
"And after had gos|enough breath to
make it worth while for me TO begin.
SAYS:
Simeon says, Heil me why.
"'Danl, .ays ne. i, was this way As
soon "a. J missed my pig this mornin'. says
he, I vas put out tremendous, cause |
mas busy a, bees and hatel 10 spend tho
time to hook up and drive ID jobs to bring
the pig back. But we was '.pectin' TO kill
in n Jay or -o and o. we needed the pork,
! didn't see no way out eoin' 20 JOYS
So hooked mp and drove 10 his plIte on
the ridge.
job was home and says 10 him that
had come after my black ,Soat, and that
as il vas a pesky contrary critte.io crIyet
! .ays to job that I'D have TO ask '.iIn 90
help me nome with IT, Job he scfatea,d
his head a minute, Eod looked as il be wl@
uyin' like all pos,eSaehto think O. some
'D,a ~. E.ays sa, lat,:ly 5i5st .aoai o. s'ss
- lays 10 him HAT he must have the
shoat and he says 90 me THAT he Ike to
know what made me- think so, and / says
TO MIN that be must have it cause il wasn't
70 nome. N
''Why,is that So" .ays job. and he
thunk some more, pucLern' his forehead
al sorts, and scratcnin' his head. and lookin
up TO the sky as ii he wa, tryin' TO get thirgs
straight. Then he shook bis head and .ays
to me that he'd be dafned II he heremembered
The 'hoat iollerin OF 'im IN, but he'd 20 an
look.
"'>o We wen. over to Jobs pigpen but
the ,hoai wasn't tnere We looked high
aud low ai. over tic premises, but not q
ign OF black shoaI wa anywhere 10 be
'een.
Incn ] had an idea. and ] .ays 90 Job,
uyitg Co jog His memory. that maybe
he BAD run tbe ,Ioa over The ridge. down
INTO ih" Purouo country. and sold him there.
job ,crai' ,' r' acr u' looked more gum
HidNt aaH cyer 'll hv and hy fe -ays 20
re tH1t ~ mo'l y do9e i'. hut it didn't
'.rin 90 hr1. l' 'aN' o.. fe0 had time %
fo % f1d 30 BACH "me. .e oilers 10
ne we ali t-he. t'' . @ b.arl >Hoai naa
i'iierfd tim home .''. re and 20 on over
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