The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-06-28

ind turned and run, and he followed
&luS behind
And YOU outran him, Of course?"
was asked as the old man paused and
looked sheepish.
II was skippin' ahead O. the critter,"
he slowly replied, when cum to that
nit. Befo' the Lawd, but was SO rat
tied I dun forgot all about it, and the
fust thing I knowed broke through.
The fail nigh broke my neck, and
mehbe il was ten minits befo' knoWed
Whar WAS.
"Ihen I looked up, to find that old
bar lookin' down, and if he wasn't
ree'larly laughin' then may never eat
another YAM. Why. sab, his sides was
slakin, and his mouth went crar back
to his ears. and when I realized how he
must feel almost laughed with him.
He hung around fur half an hour,
smilin' and chucklin', and then disap-
reared. and it was an hour later when
I cot out O. the pit and got home. [
was the maddest man in all this world.
but had to make the best OF it. That
bar had cot the joke On me, and |
knowed he was bound to cum out
ahead every time
"And YOU have other instances"
"Well, sab, I might tell yo' about the
bar who hid in the cabin we're about
five vars ago.
"The varmint had bin hangin' around
the place fur two or three months, but
I couldn't never git a shot at him, nor
would he put his foot into a trap. He
was jest full O tricks, and two or
three times when I was sittin' on the
steps and my rifle wasn't handy he'd
show up and cock his eye and put on a
grin.
'I tried to pizen him, but he left the
meat fur the foxes. I got dawgs arter
him, but he only played with 'em. l
had seven traps sot around the house
one night, but the varmint cum and
tipped over the rain bar'l and got away
all right One day the old woman
went visitin', and six men O us got to-
gether and beat up the woods fur that
bar. We sighted him twice and then
lost him, and when night cum we had
to give it up. Me and the old woman
was talkin' about it at supper, and l
says:
"T've started in fur bar, and I'll
have that critter if I have to hunt the
hull state over
"'No use,' says she. All his actions
30 to show that he's a funny bar. and
he'll be suah to cum out top O the
heap
carter supper I went around back
O. the cabin to tinker a hoop on &
bar'l, and the old woman sot down on
the doahstep with her pipe. Purity soon
she gin an awful yell, and as I looked
around she was tumblin' head over
heels. Befo' the Lawd, sab, if that old
bar wasn't standin' right in the doah,
grinuin' and chucklin', and it was all
of three minits befo' he took a stroll
fur the woods and stepped off as cool
and calm as yo' please
But how did he come to be in the
doorway" was asked.
"Why, sab, when we was huntin'
him on the mountains he jest walked
into the house, the old woman bein'
out, and got under the bed and didn't
cum out till he got good and ready.
The fust thing the old woman knowed
o. him was when he touched the back
O. her neck with his cold nose. Yes,
sab, he hid in this cabin fur above
three hours, and then skeert the old
woman and laughed at me, and drat
my hide if he didn't make me laugh
in stock all over the country.
"I'm sayin' and contendin' that bars
are chuck full O fun, and I'm almost
believin' that if they had proper COM
pany fur six months yo'd h'ar 'em tell
in jokes to each other and laughin'
like human bein's." NJ. QUAD.