Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-27

the CTllleT we were d-peekln lot. Ills
nose was p'inted towards us, his head
hangin' low and swingin', and his mouth
| full of the prettiest teeth ever l looked
at. The fool buggist was bendin' over
| the trail, and | reckon he would have
run plumb into t'other's mouth and dis
appeared forevermore if hadn't ketched
him by the part that was handiest and
yanked him back. There's your blame
chipmunk,' says l. Amt he just lovely?
Magnificent The Ursus horribilus
in his native wild. What a pictur to
show DR.. Dodo down eastp says the
perfesser. He uncinched his camery and
commenced to sneak up closer, sayin'
soothin' like, SO bear, good bear,' as he
preceded. Pretty quick old Eph skinned
his lip and commenced to cuss and rum
Bile down in, his insides, and 1 let out a
holler: Better take your fotygraf and
back water strong, cause there's goin'
to be strange doin's almost immediate,
mister l sings; and l hadn't got the
words out of my mouth before he gives
'woof AMI comes for US like steam
enjine. ! had been expectin' the same
all along, and the good Lord had caused
me to stop under limb that could
just jump up and grab handy; so up /
goes, and no sooner had ! got on the
grandstand than the procession passed
along.
First came the perfesser, and it was
amazin' to gaze upon the way that stub
legged dude could stampede when he
once got interested. Under the limb he
went so fast that could hear him whiz
his legs goin' like the drive-wheels of
Ioco,,,ot;ua ~, c1; AID
he went he was sayin' to himself, Run,
amt you, dang you like he was sort of
indin' fault with himself for somethin'.
81 yanked out my "A army as the bear
came snortin' by and let him have a
couple in the shoulder He went heels
over appetite, but was up in second
and fairly Dustin his suspenders to make
up for lost time Not havin' anything
pertickler to do, dropped down and
trailed along after them, thinkin' if |
could grab the bear by the tail mebby
could hold him back a couple of min
utes, by which time l fggered the per-
fesser would be back in Boston. But, |
though l straddled along uncommon ac-
tive, SEEM as how l have got SPAWN
and couple of ringbones, l soon seen
| was like mud turtle a-chasin' rab |
bit. Then l remembered when l was a |
kid at school l heard the teacher say
that the hypothermoose of something |
was the shortest distance between two |
p'ints, and, bearin' that in mind, cut
across lots, hgurin' on headin' them off.
'Well, made it and arrove first in a
clus finish. The little man was still goin'
as fast as former, puffin' and BLOWN
most tremendous. When he seen me |
look of genooine JOY perched on his fea-
lures, and he changed his course and |
come a-sailin' by within two feet, disap- |
pearin' with whistlin' sound. But at |
the same time the grizzly side-stepped, |
too, and come straight for me, ears laid |
back, mouth open, breathin' fire.
"Some fellers would have got right |
down on their Blenders and prayed, but
l only girded up my loins, and sayin |
deliver us from evil right earnest,
hoped over a tree trunk and skedad |
Next mint l hears somethin' go pop
and takes a peep over my shoulder, and
what do you suppose l seen? Nothin'
but old Eph stretched out deader'n a
herrin' and the little runt of a perfesser
settin' a-straddle of him and examinin'
his jaws. 'Genooine silver-tip grizzly |
he says, when come up. 'Pufick speci-
men, Then he looks up at me and says, |
Where was you goin'?
"'Nowhere much says I; Just trav-
elm around and admirin' the scenery
Unjust have seen lot, considerin' the |
time you was travelin,' he answers, with
a funny grin.
eyes, quite a chunk. How did you
do it?' l asks, full of wonder.
"'Oh, 1 just got behind tree and
shot him in the eye with my weppin
as he come along. SeeP He pinted at
the bears eye with his bean shooter, and
you can skin me and hang my pelt on
the cabin wall if he hadn't done it slick
and clean; somethin' no rnortil man ever
done before or since with such WEEP
pin and a bear goin' at full jump.
couldn't say a word, couldn't even cuss
-showin' how bad 1 felt l just set
down on log and weeped.
"But that wasn't the worst of it. That
night he developed his pictur and the
next day showed it to me. 1t was the
most hair-raisin' fotygraf of grizzly
a-comin' head on that was ever took by
a human bein'. That will tickle DR..
Dodo most to DEATH says the little bear
killer
"'Pardner,' says I, holdin' out my
hand, I hired out to you as guide, but
1 can't earn the money. Hereafter
will cook for you and wash your feet, |
but you are the guide, bear-fghter,
bronco-buster and roarin' bully of this |
outfit. When 1 go back to town | am
goin' to quit guidin' and learn fancy
sewin'."