CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1906-10-18

nose was plnteu towards us, MS mead
hangin' low and swingin', and his mouth
| full of the prettiest teeth ever | looked
at. The fool buggist was bendin' over
the trail, and reckon he would have
run plumb into tother's mouth and dis
| him by the part that was handiest and
yanked him back. There's your blame
clipmunk,' says l. Amt he just lovely?
Magnificent The Ursus horribilus
in his native wild. What 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
perceeded. Pretty quick old Eph skinned
his lip and commenced to cuss and rum
Bile down in his insides, and let out
holler: Better take your fotygraf and
back water strong, cause there's goln'
to be strange doin's almost immediate,
mister l sings; and 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
lust Jump up and grab handy; SO up !
goes, and no sooner had ! got on the
erandstand than the percession passed
along,
First came the perfesser, and 1t was
anazin' to gaze upon the way that stub
once got interested Under the limb he
went so fast that could hear him whiz,
his legs goin like the drive-wheels of
locomotive on slippery track And as
he went he was sayin' to himself, Run,
you little fool Now you've done it,
amt you, dang youH like he was sort of
lindin' fault with himself for somethin'
q yanked out my A army as the bear
came snortin' by and let him have a
couple in the shoulder He went heels
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 couple of min
utes, by which time | iggered the per-
fesser would be back in Boston. But,
though / straddled along uncommon ac-
tive, seein' as how l have got a spawn
and a couple of ringbones, | soon seen
was like a mud turtle a-chasin rab-
bit Then | remembered when | was a
kid at school / 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, fgurin' on headin' them off.
"Well, ! made it and arrove first in a
clus finish, The little man was still goin
as fast as former, putin and blowin
most tremendous. When he seen me a
look of genooine joy perched on his fea-
lures, and he changed his course and
come a-saiin' by within two feet, disap
pearin' with whistin' 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 benders and prayed, but
] only girded up my loins and sayin',
deliver us from evil right earnest,
hoped over tree trunk and skedad-
died down the hill somethin' wonderful.
Next mint I hears somethin' go pop
and takes peep over my shoulder, and
what do you suppose ] seenf Nothin'
but old Eph stretched out deader'n a
herrin' and the little funt Of perfesser
settin' a-stradde Of him and examinin'
his jaws. 'Genaoine silver-tip grizzly
he says, when ! come up. 'Puffiek speci-
men, Then he looks up at me and says,
Where was you goin'F
"'Nowhere much says u lust trav-
elm around and admirin' the scenery
"'Must have seen lot, considerin' the
time you was travelin,' he answers, with
a funny grin.
"Yes, quite chunk. How did you
do it?' | asks, full of wonder.
"'Oh. just got behind tree and
shot him in the eve with nv weODin
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 il he hadn't done it slick
and clean; somethin no mortil man ever
done before or since with such wep-
pin and bear goin' at full jump, |
couldn't say word, couldn't even cuss
-showin' how bad | felt. ] 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 !, holdin' out my
hand, hired out to you as guide, but
can't earn the money. Hereafter II
will cook for you and wash your feet,
hut you are the guide, bear-hghter,
BRONCO buster and roarin' bully OF this
outfit, When ] go back to town ] am
gnin' to quit guidin' and learn fancy
sewin'."
Hank stirred up the pot with pine
stick. "Pull up your rockin' cheers, fel-